The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-06 00:00:00

MAY 6, 1850.

tine Stakes, and the Receipt filly the Mostyn. Stakes,
Mr. Merryman or Louis Napoleon filling the second
place.

For the Cup from thirty to thirty-four probibly
run, to Le selected from the following:—
yrs. at. lb. yrs. st. lb.
Collingwood .... a 9 2 Mounseer
Cossack
Peep-o'-Dayßoy 6 9 0 Grief
Dough 5 8 5 Keleshea 6 6 6
John Cosser 5 8 5 Gaffer Green ... a 6 3
Ellerdale
Essedarius
Priestess 5` S'
Glauca 4 7 5 The Miner
Woolwich
Westow
Fogleman
Osterley
Miss Ann 4 7 0 Captain Grant... 3 5 0
Woodlark
Rhesus 4 612 St. George
Cockermouth 5 610 Sprite Lilly
Chantrey
I consider those who will have an thing to do with
the result will te Coiling wood, Cossack, E.lertiale, Esse-
&trios, Osterley, Chantrey, Glauca, Gulliver, Captain
Grant, St. George, and Cockermouth; and silting them
should plact—
OSTERLEY or CHANTREY 1
ELLERDALE
COSSACK . . 3
ESSEDARIUS
Collingwood and the rest of my front division being
well up.
Bee-hunter will win the Dea Stakes, Cantab second ;
Mickleton or Sir Philip the Cestican; and Pirouette or
Anchorite the Wirrall Stakes. .„

I am, Sire yours, Sce.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

May 6, 18501

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Wednesday Ist May, the Landlord and
Tenant Bill was read a second time. The object of
this Bill appears to be, to encourage cultivation by
enabling owners for life in certain cases to make
agreements with the tenants wt..lich shall be binding
on successors. One danger manifestly attending, is
that owners for life should make away with the inte-
rests of their successors. It is possible to imagine an
owner for life saying to the tenants, Give me five
shillings more per acre, and I will sign anything you
can propose under the Act.
This danger apart, it is probable that the whole
effect of the Bill will not be much, except affording
considerable cover for country solicitors. If a land-
lord sets, up one claim under the Bill, it does not ap-
pear difficult for the tenant to set up another; so that
the tendency will probably be, for landlords and
tenants to counteract each other.
In the Benefices in Plurality Bill, the Member fur
Montrose moved to stop at the Nord " Benefices,"
leaving otit the "unless" and all that followed. This
may be very well as a joke; like the Frenchmen who
voted the indivisibility of their heads from their
bodies. 'But in practice, bt fore a thing is enacted, it
is necesAtiiy to show the way bow. It is clearly not
the seriotti 'object of anybody, to settle by a vote in
Committee, that parishes of incomes insufficient to
support a clerical teacher shall have none. There
may be those who would make a sweep of the whole
Establishment ; but, even fur them, this is not the
way to go to work. Leaving then the sweeping
question to wait its own time, the present question is,
what is to be done with parishes baying revenues only
sufficient to support the third or the fourth part of a
clergyman. One way that may suggest itself may
be, to put three or four such together. But sup-
pose they are not there. Suppose the case is, of a
parish able to support only the fractional part, but
having no other case of the same kind near it, and
bordered only by rich parishes supporting incumbents
it may be in wealth and splendour. Unless the time is
come for a general re-organization of the whole
(which is not to be done by a vote in Committee), the
Committee must make the best provision it can fur
the poor parish having somebody to marry and buiy
its inmates at all. And this there seems to be no why
of doing in the case described, except by allowing the
poor parish to cohere to a rich one, under certain
provisions with respect to distance. To which point
the proceedings of the Committee, as far as they have
gone, appear to have tended.
On Thursday the Bill for repealing the Attorneys'
and Solicitors' annual Certificate Duty was carried
against the Government by 155 to 136. It would
seem to be a very ordinary piece of policy, fur a
Government to find out when public opinion has prac-
tically concentrated itself against a tax to the extent
implied in such a parliamentary majority, and avoid the
contest. The argument set up and supported by the
minority, was that there were other taxes which in the
opinion of individual Members more wanted removing.
Which may be quite true, and still it may be a ques-
tion whether it was wisdom in Members zealous to
diminish' taxation, to vote for maintaining a bad tax
which theie was a great present probability of re-
moving, because they could point out a worse tax,
which there was no present probability of removing
at all.
On Friday Sir George Grey gave notice of his
Amendment and Clauses to be proposed in Committee
on the Factories Bill. The marginal descriptions of
them are as follow :
" No young person or female to be employed before six
A.M. or after ►ix P.M. or on Saturdays atter two P.N."
"Provisions of 7 and 8 Vic. c. 15, requiring notices
of times of beginning and ending work, to be hung up,
repealed."
" Meal times to be taken between half•past seven A.M.
and six P.M."
"Young persons or females not to be employed in re-
covering lost time (under 7 and 8 Vie. c. 15, § 33),. after
seven P.M."

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
N OLD REFORMER.
London, 6th May, 1850.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The following bulletin of her Majesty's health was
issued on Saturday :
" Buckingham Palace, May 4, Nine A.M.
" The Queen has had another good night.
" Her Majesty and the infant Prince continue well.
" JAMES CLARK, M.D,
" CHARLES Lococx,
" ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D.."
The next bulletin will be issued on Monday.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
visited the Queen on Saturday, at Buckingham
Palace.

Her Royal Highnes the Duchess of Kent visited
her Majesty on Saturday afternoon.
His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen
paid a visit to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, on
Saturday, at Buckingham Palace.
Yesterday, her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent visited the Queen.

The nobility and gentry called on Saturday, at
Buckingham Palace, to read the bulletin.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, with their
Royal Highnesses the Prince of IVales, Prince Al-
fred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice,
attended by Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gor-
don and Mr. Birch, honoured the Colosseum with a
visit on Saturday morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, hor Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness
the Prince of Leiningen, the ladies and gentlemen cf
Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine
service yesterday morning in the private chapel of
Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald
Wellesley officiated.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess
Alice, the Princess Helena, and the Princess Louisa,
took their usual exercise yesterday.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and his
Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen went to
Frogmore on Saturday, returning to Clarence House,
St. James's, in the afternoon.
His Royal Ilighness the Duke of Cambridge at-
tended Divine service yesterday morning in the chapel
of the Lock Hospital.
His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen and
his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar
honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre
on Saturday evening with their presence.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge vi•
sited her Royal Highness the;Duchess of Gloucester
on Saturday, at Gloucester House.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
Foreign-office. It was attended by the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey.
Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hob-
house, the Earl of Carlisle, the Right Hon. 11. La-
bouchere, and the Right Hon. Fox Maule. The
Council sat one hour and a half.

Lord John Russell was prevented by indisposition
from attending the Council.
Governor lligginson had an interview with Earl
Grey on Saturday, at the Colonial-office.
Dispatches were received on Saturday at the Colo-
nial•office from the Governors of the -West India
colonies. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleugb and
family arrived at their town residence, Montagu-
house, on Saturday, from Northamptonshire.
The Marquis of Anglesey and the Duchess of St.
Alban's attended the early service yesterday in the
Chapel Royal, St. James's.

Fox Cm:Tu.—The members of the Fox Club met
on Saturday evening at Brookes's. There were present the
Right Hon. Earl of Zetland, Right lion. Lord de Mauley,
Viscount Ebrington, M.P., Right Hon. Sir Robert Adair,
Viscount Anson, M.P., Mr. Edward Ayshford Sanford, Sir
Robert Heron, Bart., Right Hon. Earl of Gosford, Right
iNr.
de
An,,o lisdie. ,
lion. Viscount Cremorne, Hon. E. L. Moityn, 111,p., Right
lion. Lord Marcus Hill, N.Y., Hon. Hamilton Duncan, Mr.
Rowland Alston, Mr. 11. F. Stephenson, Ith
Fitzpatrick, M.P., Hon. R. S. Carew,
Colonel
Elliceo Anion,
Bnpr o , Mr. .
A Lord.
K. Stephenson,
SayFredericke
aDn ud n
sd
Colonela so e, ,
Right Colonel
Hon.HnFo er.gEuGdseowonrar,g
Ai.gp. t, Hon.
Right
. G .
lion.W.
AI
r.
M.P., Mr.
Edward Ellice, jun., M.P., Right lion. Earl of Strafford.
and the Right lion. Viscount Enfield, 11. P. '

REPRESENTATION OF EAST KENT.--We have only
space this week to direct our readers, attention to a curious
series of addresses on this subject which; appears in cur ad-
vertising columns this day, the contending parties being the
brother Protectionists, J. P. Plumptre, Esq., M.P., Sir
Edward Cholmsly Deering, and Sir Brook Bridges, Baronets.
—Kent Hera'd.

The Nottinghamshire Guardian states that Mr.
Tanner, of Buckholt, has lost nearly 200 sheep which had
eaten sprouted corn, the seeds of which had been steeped in
a solution of arsenic.

TIIE
NEW
MAIL CONTRACTS FOR BRAZILS AND
THE WEST INDIES.—The Lords of the Treasury have just
sanctioned the contract with the Royal West India Mail
Packet Company for the conveyance of the Brazilian mails,
and a new mail route scheme for the West India mails. The
Brazilian mail route scheme is as follows: Steamers are to
run between Southampton and Rio de Janeiro, touching at
the Cape de Verd Islands and, Pernambuco. Branch mail
steamers are to run between Rio de Janeiro and the River
Plate. According to the terms of the new West India Mail
route scheme steamers are to run twice a month between
Southampton and Chagres, calling at Madeira and St.
Thomas. These steamers are to return by the same route
they
St. Thomas is to be the foreign packet station at which th
inter-colonial mails are to be deposited, and from which _et),
are to be distributed. These arrangements are to come into
operation as soon as the necessary ships are complete.
The Hibernia, Captain Lang, sailed frtm Liver-
pool on Saturday, for Halifax and Boston.
COURT OF ALDERMEN.—A C
Court wa s
Council held
odudrThursday immediately before the Common
as-
sembled, for the purpose of voting an t% s, to (queen,
congratulating her Majestyty
upon h birth of the
the infant
Peter Laurie, seconded by
and attachment to
Prince. The address, which abounded, aswe are given to
understand, with expressions of loyalty
Aldermanher blajes tadopted by the unanimous vote (~f
the Court.
FINE Eiso.—A few days ago a net was put into the
3, Musgrove,."'a moved
and by
Ouse, at Bletsoe, and at one haul six pike were taken, which
i weg
lied together upwards of 801b8.—Northampton Herald.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

APPOINTMENTS.

Paymaster and Purser—W. Hamilton (1829), for
merly of the Thunderbolt, steam-sloop, and the author
of a clever pamphlet on the navigation-laws, has been
appointed to the Indefatigable, 50, squadron of exer-
cise, vice Brenton, deceased.
Naval Cadets—Charles Hotham and Elliot Colvin,
to the Victory, flag-ship Portsmouth ;L. C. Keppel,
to the Fisgard, flagaship, Woolwich.
Carpenter—William Pollyblank, to the Imaum,
depot-ship, Port Royal.
THE LOSE OF TILE AVENGER--The Avenger com-
mittee at Portsmouth paid their final monthly in
stalment to the widows, orphans, and relatives of her
lost crew, on Saturday last. There is still a little
money in hand, which, we understand, will be appor-
tioned between some orphans that have been placed
at school,
amongs and sometthewido widows. The
the m
closed
Tbem.
it,iuyos! t i
we necessitoussh3,,n)f
ate n
abstract
rar
ais
charity
will be ntirely
statement of the receipts (amounting to about 3,0000
with an account of the exuenditure, will be probably
published in the leading journals.
ATTEMPT TO REGAIN reSSESSION OF A SLAVER.—
The following additional particulars of the attempt to
recapture a prize of the Cyclops stuain-fligate, has
been brought home by the Sealark :—" On the 27th
of January the Cyclops, when off the south-coais,
captured a fine Brazilian brig, with 433 slaves on
board, having shipped them at Benguela. Lieutenant
Hodgkinson was put in as prize-master, and took her
to St. Helena. On her passage an attempt was made
by some of the slaver's crew and the slaves to recover
the ship from the prize crew, but they were speedily
put down, a few of them being shot in the affray,
while others . jumped overboard and were drowned.
Neither the captain nor the officers of the slaver par-
ticipated in the attempt. The facts are as follows:
the slaves, in number, 100, headed by the cook of the
prize and two or three Portuguese, most of whom
were armed with knives or billets of wood, made a fu-
ous onset on Mr. Vimson, acting mate, who instantly
gave the alarm, when Lieutenant Hodgkinson, who
was below, hastened to assist in the melee, which was
maintained with great spirit by the slaves and party,
until they saw their leader, the cook, fall by a
musket-ball, after which they gave in. The quarter•
master, one marine, and a krooman belonging to the
Cyclops, were wounded with knives, the former very
seriously. An ordinary seaman was struck by a
piece of wood, and while insensible was thrown over-
board, but by a fortunate chance some of the run-
ning-gear caught his arm, and he was towed for
nearly half an hour, by which time the poor fellow
recovered his presence of mind, and was enabled to
haul himself on board his vessel, where he was at-
tended to and soon restored to health. Nine of the
slaves and party were killed-or drowned. The cook,
who headed them, is now in hospital at St. Helena.
Dauntless is to be tried, with all her weights on
board, early in the week, at Portsmouth. She has
nearly all her stores on board, but floats still very
buoyantly, and will require to be brought a foot
deper into the water.
Daedalus, 20, Captain Wellesley., was at Valpa-
raiso, March 1. She bad a very good passage out,
remaining three weeks at Rio, then touching at
Monte Video and the Falkland Islands, where she re-
mained a week. The latter islands are said by the
officers to be, without exception, the most wretched
place they ever were at ; however, they got plenty of
snipe shooting there. The most interesting part of
the voyage of the Daedalus was when she approached
the Horo. She went through the Straits of Le
Maire, and then anchored twice to the southward of
Terra del Fuego, passing through on New Year's-
day. She arrived at Valparaiso 14th January, and
was waiting to be relieved by the Meander. All were
well on board. The only exchange that has been
made is between Messrs. Brine and Bridge, the latter
first lieutenant of the Champion.
The Devastation steam-sloop, at Portsmouth, was
removed from the basin on Saturday, alongside the
Blake hulk ; she is all ready for hoisting the pendant;
her sea stores are on board.

The Stromboli, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Lord
A. Beauclerk, having under convoy the iron steam-
frigate, Simoon, jury-rigged, arrived on Friday night
at Spithead, from Greenock. Soon after sailing from
that port on Wednesday last, the Simoon came in
contact with the merchant schooner, Hetty Clifton,
and from the effects of the collision the latter vessel
soon after sank ; but the crew were all saved. On
Saturday morning the Simoon came into harbour, and
has gone, for the present, alongside one of the hulks.
She is a handsome looking vessel, especially about the
bow, but is very much by the stern. She is painted
frigate fashion, with a broad light yellow streak, and
appears to have a great distance between her main-
deck ports. The Stromboli is at Spithead waiting
orders; it is supposed she will return to Greenock
to convoy the Greenock iron steam frigate to Ply-
mouth.

SQUADRON or EXERCISE.—The Prince Regent,
92, Commodore Martin ; the Hogue, 60, Captain
APDougall ; the Leander, 50, Captain S. C. Dacres ;
the Indefatigable' 50, Captain Smart, K.H. ; the
Arethusa, 50, Captain Symonds ; the Phaeton, 50,
Captain George Elliot ; the Arrogant, 46, Captain
Robinson ; the Thetis, 36, Captain Codrington, C.B. ;
the Encounter, 14, Captain Gordon ; the Conflict, 8,
Commander Drake ; and the Lily, 14, Commader
Bedford, were all in the Tagus on the 29th ult., the
latter refitting for prosecuting her passage to the
coast of Africa station, with the mails. The Terrible,
steam-ship, 21, Capt. Adams, was detached from the
squadron to join that of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker,
G.C.8., on the 23d ult. Commodore Martin was
about starting the four 50-gun frigates on a trial
cruise. Mr. Brenton, paymaster and purser of her
Majesty's ship Indefatigable, died on the 17th, and
was interred ashore with all the honours of the fleet.
He was succeeded by Mr. Jennings, senior clerk of
the Price Regent. All well in the squadron.
Her Britannic Majesty's steamer Gorgon arrived
at Valparaiso on the 18th of February from Panama,
with the English mails of the 17th of December; she
sailed again on the 26th for the Straits of Magellan,
to tow through the vessels sent in search of Sir John
Franklin. The Daedalus, 20, Commander Welles-
ley, 44 days from Monte Video, arrived on the 12th
of January, and was in Valparaiso Bay when the
packet sailed. The Dutch brig of war Koesin, 18,
70 days from San Francisco, arrived on the 23d of
January.
Her Majesty's brig Swift, 6, 35 days from Wel-
lington, New Zealand, arrived on the 7th 'of February,
and sailed on the 14th for the Sandwich Islands. The
sloop Daphne, 20, Commander Fanshaw, sailed from
Valparaiso on the 23d of January for Canoe;
thence
she was to proceed to the coast of Honduras, where
the Asia, 80, flag of Rear-Admiral Hornby, was
ss
at
ltei odnoe
nd
theb by
140
tuhr
olfals,te
barcucaoruyn
forts .
Peiru'heandCPhaainnaprnioall.
The Dutch corvette Courier, 18, sailed on the 14th
socfhlo'oebnerur aNry for Rio
D Jiro o an
,eir4,
Cod Rotterdam.
schooner The
schooner Nancy Dawson, 4, Commander Aile, ar-
rived on the 27th of February from Mazatlan, and,
with the French frigate L'Algerie, remained at Val-
paraiso. The French ship-of-war Thisbe, 32 guns,
arrived on the 7th from Rio Janeiro, and departed on
the 12th for Otaheite.
The Pacific steamer Peru reached Valparaiso on
the 24th of February, with the mails from the north-
ward and specie of the value of 280,000 dolls. The
American steamer Tennessee, from the United States,
had arrived and sailed again for San Prancisco on the
27th of February. The British steamer Sarah Sands
arrived the same day, and was to leave on the sth of
March for California.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY s.—The Simoom steam-
frigate came into harbour yesterday. On her pus-
sage hither she ran down and sank a schooner on
Wednesday morning ; crew saved.
The „Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord
Amtlius Beauclerk, will return to the Clyde in a
day or two and take charge of the Greenock iron
steam-frigate to Devonport.
The Ajax, GO, Captain Quin, will lAvf.,?nl" comple-
ment for temporary service of only `..)YO Itie n, ='°f
_
whom will be Marine artillerymen. Her cop3yl3 be e•
l
will be adjusted to-morrow, and she will probably
at Spithead during the present week.
to the station
Rear-Admiral Austin had not Arrived
_. ,
B the acting
at that date. Commodore Plumri.d (.;
We have letrere from China to the 9th of March.
ury, with his red pennant y
commander-in-chief, was at Singapore
fl)
i3l4l°Villcoz.
Sbionarggead'potLee at
_t_ha,t date,
Com-
mander (since Captain •.
The Hastings,
and ' •
Bate • the hospital receiving-
6, Commander Ba ,
Alligator; and the troop ship
CCapatatianinbTlorrogwank;idthge,Rowyasalisat't
ships Minden and
Hongkong.
were at i:on2:
24, p
ApTohlleo,Amazon,
Penang.
i into
Farquhar,t h e
The Albatross, 12, was at Malacca. Commodore
Plumridge has promoted his flag-lieutenant, IL M.
Etpromoted bymand othe
Admiralty.
The Reynard, 11, Commander Cracroft, was on
her
lltibote t, Aflbtabtreo, Cambrian,
vice
e
passage from Poo-chow-Poo to Hongkong.
The Mariner, 12, Commander Matheson, was at
Amoy.

Ttie Pilot, 12, Commander Ince, was at Shanghai.
The West India and Pacific mail has brought us
letters from the latter station, and one from Mazat-
lan, dated March 8, of which the following is the
substance :—" The Inconstant, 36, Captain Sheppard,
is here. She arrived at St. Blas on the 18th of
February. On the 21st the Amphitrite, 24, Captain
Walker (acting), made her appearance there from
Mazatlan. The Inconstant left St. Bias on the 22d,
and arrived at Mazatlan on the 24th, where she found
the Cockatrice schooner, and on the 27th dispatched
her to Guyamas to look for freight. The Amphitrite
was to take in about 1,000,000 dolls. at St. Blas, and
then call at Mazanilla (about 150 or 200 miles to the
southward), where they expected about 250,000 dolls.
more—if they embark this they will carry home
about 1,500,000 dolls.