The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 18GS,

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ORDINARY Linitisao AND STOCKS,

1 I I Closing Business
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LAW INTb:LLIGENCE.-71118 DAY.

VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT.
(Before Vice Chancellor Giffard.)

THE EDMUNDS SCANDAL CASE .-ATTORNEY- GENERAL

V. EDMUNDS.

The Attorney-General stated this was au infor-
mation, in which it was prayed that an account may
be taken of all fees and moneys received by the de-
fendant, or any person on his behalf, as Clerk of
the Patents, since the date of his appointment, and
also of all moneys received by him from the Trea-
sury as expenses of the office. It was also prayed that
in taking the accounts the defendant ought to ac-
count for all profits made by the purchase and re-
s de of cert.-tin statuus, and that no deductions for
the parchments used should be made.

The information having been received in its
entirey, the answer of Mr. Edmunds was then
read, in which he contended that the Cuurt of
Chancery was the proper court in which the ques-
tion ought to be argued.. The document concluded
with a summary of the claims and allowances to
which he (Mr. Edmunds) considered himself
entitle], it was as follows Over payinaits
to the Exchequer on the 12.10 account for 1833 to
1814 inclusive, £2,837 7s. 101 ; due on the gene-
ral account £299 ls. 103. ; for moneys paid in mis-
take were over £l3O 17s. 2d. ; ditto on the accounts
with the Treasuay from 1852 to 1861, £6 Bs. 3d. ;
amount of discount allowances oa the sum of
£183,222 15s. 6d. ; cash receipts and pay-
ments at 2- per cent., £4,580, making a
total of £7,846 15s. ld. lie also claimed to be
paid proper interest on any balances which may
be found due to him on taking such accounts as
prayed for. Mr. Edmunds states that during 31
years he held the office he was responsible for the
receipt of £1,600,000.

It was also contended on the part of the defend-
ant that the purchase of stamps was a great benefit
to the public, and that they were not bought out
of the public monies, and that instead of a misap-
propriation on the part of the defendant, all the
transactions now in question were right and proper.
The case will last for some days.

THE COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
LLOYD V. BURRUP AND ANOTHER.

This was an action brought by the Rev. Mr.
Lloyd, incumbent of St. Mark's, Kennington,
against the defendants, who are the churchwardens
of that parish. One of the defendants allowed
judgment to go by default.
Many of our readers have no doubt been aware
that for some time past and since Mr. Lloyd's
appointment a series of contentions have arisen be-
tween himself and the parishioners in consequence
of his having introduced certain practices in the
performance of public worship which are repugnant
to the feeling of the congregation, who are principally
of the 1.43 W Church party. The stipend of the
plaintiff was to be paid from the rents of the pews,
and any surplus that might remain was to be em-
ployed towards the repairing, lighting, and main-
taining the church. The defendant and his col-
league had received different small sums, a portion
of which he laid out in the repairing, &c., of the
foundation, leaving a deficiency in the amount of
the plaintiff's stipend. He contended that the
whole
to him should be paid
before
amount
itt duo
should be applied to any
h Witnesses having been examined
oter
purpose.a of
farthing the
on both sides, the counsel for the defendant de-
murred to the pleadings, and, after a long argu-
ment, a verdict was entered for the plaintiff on one
count and the defendant on the other, with leave to

move.
Under these circumstances the point raised wi'
come on for argument before the full court.

POLICE .IIVTELLIGENCE.—TaIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGII-STREEr.

ASSAULT.--ALLEGED VIOLENCE OF TIIE POLICE.
—John Rook, a young man, Was charged with
assaulting police-constables Brown, 157 C, and
Gray, 53 F.
Brown said that on the previous afternoon he
saw the prisoner ejected from the King's Arms,
Moor-street, St. Martin's4ane, by the barns in, and
th,-! prisoner then. tried to re-enter the house, but
was prevented. He told the prisoner to go
away, but he refused, and a crowd of persons col-
lected, upon which the prisoner s Lid, " You fool,
the crowd are laughing at you." Finding he could
not get rid of the prisoner he took him into cus-
tody, and on the way to the station be kicked
threw him down, and then kicked him on the shoul-
der. With the assistance of three other constables
the prisoner was
got to the station, behaving with
violence all the way.
In answer to Mr. Knox, the constable said the
prisoner was drunk.

The prisoner said that he was standing at the
corner of the street when the constable came up
and told him to
go away, aud, because he did not,
he took him into custody, and when the police took
him into Compton-street they pulled him about and
handled him roughly,
and the people called out
6' Ehame I" and his arm seemed if it was broken.
Gray said that he went to the assistance of the
first witness, when the prisoner behaved very vio-
lently and struck him (Gray).
Mr. Knox asked the prisoner whether he meant
to persist in the statement he had made, and on his
saying that he did, Alr. Knox said that he would
not take upon himself to decide the case, but would
send it before a jury.
James llarvey, barman at the King's Arms, was
then sent for, and he stated that he ejected the pri-
soner, who was drunk, from the house, because he
made use of abusive and disgusting language to
two females, and the prisoner afterwards, because
be was not allowed to re-enter, tried to break a pane
of glass. The constable then came up, and told the
prisoner to go away,
and as he would not the con-
stable took him away.
In answer to the prisoner, all the witnesses
Shame."
stated that they did not hear any one cry out

The prisoner said that he had witnesses, and Mr.
Knox ordered theta to be called, but they did not
answer.

Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for trial, and
stated that the prisoner would have an opportu-
nity of calling these or any witnesses he thought
proper.

IMPERIAL BARLIAIVIEM:'

HOUSE OF LORDS—LAST EVENING.
The LORD CuANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

THE LABOURERS AND ARTIZANS PETITION

BILL.

Lord PORTMAN presented a petition against this bill,
and appealed to his noble and learned friend opposite
(Lord Chelmsford) to press for a select committee.
Lord CHELMSFORD, in presenting a counter petition
from the inhabit Ants of BloomsbUry, hoped that his noble
friend would not press for a select committee, but that it
should come before the whele house.
Lord MALMESBURY said that his noble and learned
friend must know that the bill was a very complicated
one, and could not be easily discussed. lie hord that he
would allow it to be taken upstairs, and although he could
not attend, still that the noble and IL.,:trn at lord on the
woolsack probably could.

Aftvr a few mot%) mntrlcs the sn',j,et Ilropp , Inr.l
r)RTISLIN intintatht; that he shoul'l divi k against the

CON-30LIDATED (CI7,000,000) FUND BILL.
This bill was reads second time.
The I/n(l.mA Sawuls Bill was road a third till) and

select committee via: appointed to iave.stigaLi the
Deer l'or,st Bill.
The house then adjourned.

lIOUSE OF COAIIONS—LAsr EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at 4 o'cluck.
MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.
An HON. MEMBER gave notice th:tt in committee on
he Irish Church (Suspensory). Bill he should movo an

amendment to the second clause to the effact that any par-
son Using appointed to Maynooth CoHess should hold th 3
appointment subject to the decision of Parliament.

EX-GOVERNOR EYRE.
Mr. LIMONT gave notice of hi 3 intention to ask her
Majesty's Government whether they intendod to d3fray
the expenses ex-GovernorEyre had been pat to in defend-
ing hims3lf against a malignant prosecution. (laonmso

Leering.)
PARTY PROCESSIONS ACT (IRELAND).
In reply to Sir F. lIETGATE,

The E►rl of MAYO said thorn was no intention at pro-

sent to repeal the Party Processions Act, as there was no
doubt about the actual bearing of the law on tha subject.

WEST INDIA MAILS.
Mr. GILPIN ailcod th 3 Secretary to the Treasury if

any decision had been arrived at as to th i substitution of
another island for that of St. Thomes, as the harbour and
&pot of the West India. and Pacific mails; and, if he
would consent that no changa or renewal of the ex-
isting contract shall be sanctioned by the Government
till the whole subject had boon submitted to the
examination of a committee of that house, with power to

take evidence.
Mr. BOOTH said th, present contract had been ex-
tended for a limited period, but that a port instead of that
of St. Thomas was being thought of. To refer the matter
to a committee would not facilitate the proceeding.
THE ASHTON RIOTS.

Mr. MAGUIRE asked the Secrotary of State
for the Home Department whether his attention
had been seriously called •to the frequent in-
stances of riot and disturbance, injury to person
and destruction of property, caused in certain
districts of this country by the addresses of a person
named Murphy, and his colleagues ; and whether he could
give any assurance to the house that the delivery of such
addresses could be prevented for the future ? The hon.
morrber referred at some length to the riots that inva-
riably followed the appear,mco of Mr. Murphy, and
such a state of things occurred that it was a disgrace to a
Christian country. That person hal stated that there could
bo no tranquillity for Ireland until every Catholic priest
was hanged, and ho could net, in sufficiently strong terms
denounce tho use of such language as that. Alrealy
110 shops, two chapels, a school, and two priests' houses
had been destroyed, and he wanted to know what the Go-
vernment proposed to do, as that person had announced
his intention of doing all in his power to inflame the reli-
gious passions of the people in Manchester and other
places. His discourses were most objectionable, and he
for one would ask his (Mr. Maguire's) countrymen
to take no notice of what Murphy said, but he knew that
was asking more than human nature could withstand. He
had now to ask the Government in the name of 200 me-
morialists to investigate the cause of the late riots at
Ashton.

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Mr. HARDY said every ode must fool how disgraceful
these riots in the north had boon, and ho could not suffi-
ciently deprecate the disgraceful scenes that had taken
place at Ashton. He thought the magistrates had done
their duty on the occasion. The origin of the riot an loubted ly
was the delivery of a lecture by a person of the name of
Murphy. He had bean asked whether it was the iuton-
'lon of tho Government to prevent such scenes for the
uture, but the manner in which such persons gave the
ectures prevented to a groat degree any interference with
They usually took a ro ►:u, or els) they put up au

!tern.

;traction th'y earriod with thvu, dun th 3 a .Iruis6ioa
was by tielwt, tikirofora it wzs nit al 00:1 air moi:tin4,,,

and therefore the law wts not contravene I, b 33.11133 there
.vas no law which p:oventad the d ;livery of clatraversid
kctures. No po-sou was compelled to hear the ;a lectures,
therefore the law ',VAS not contravened. ' If, however,
Ituguage of a soditioui or bltsphemou3 IIaILICO Was Ili)

that the law was quite equal to take eigitizattee of, but ho
was not ab:e to suppress noee of a controvcrsi tl elptrae-
ter ; but he might sty it WAS opal to the local autlteri.ios
to swear a i information that a brea,:h of tho pane was in-
tended, and proper steps wouli at once be taken to preserve

it. When he first row:yea the info:mation of what was
going on ho imm:diately tel,:graphod back offering mili-
tary assistance, but that was declined. He thought
if for the future the requisite information was
sworr, and special constables swora in, enough
would he done to preserve the public peace.' If
not, ho hal taken care to lot it be generally known that
Government was quite ready to give the utmost assistance
wherever it was required. He did not think after what
he had stated that it would be necessary to issue a com-
mission, especially as there were a great many persons
who would have to take their trial, and he cause of the
disturbance would come oat during the course of the
trials. Ile had again, therefore, to say, that the Govern-
ment were quite ready to give every support to local
authority.
Mr. M. GIBSON defended the magistrates at Ashton.
He said that they had, in his opinion, acted most dis-
creetly, and a great deal of good would doubtless result if
the supporters of Orange toa partios—(laughter)—ware to
moderate their ardour. (Laughter.)
Mr. WHALLEY said he thought Mr. Murphy most
honest, truthful, and careful in his statena?uts—(loud
cries of " Oh, oh")—and a great deal of what had been
said against him was quite opposed to the fact.

Mr. MA.GUIRE rose to order. Ho wished to know
whether it was parliamentary for ono member to delibaratAy
insinuate that auother clamber had uttered a lie. (Laughter
and cheers.)
The SPEAKER—Certainly not.
Mr. WHALLEY contrived to address the hone,, but
eventually resumed his seat by stating he was quite will-
ing to answer for every statement of Murphy.
Sir G. BOWYER said it was quite tine that these meet-
ings should be put au end to. (Hoar, hear.) lie bad boon
present at one held at Chelmsford, when language
was held there of the most exciting description.
The honourable baronet said the lecturer assorted that
all Raman Catholics in England ought to be burned, and
he further excited the people to go and burn down the
neighbouring convent at Newhall. He thought the Sec-
retary of State was bound to interfere, because it appeared
quite clear that those meetings wore not for discussion, bat
for outrage and crime.
NEWDEGATE rejoiced at the answer the Home
Secretary had given. He did not think that all bla.nc was
on one side, because on ono occasion two or three persons
were knocked down before Mr. Murphy had
opened his mouth. He believed the book the
" Confessional Unonsked" was an immoral book, and
therefore it ought not to be allowed to circulate. But
what was to be said when this book was introdu:ced into
a family by the relative of a priest. (Oh, oh.) Ho did
not believe the Protestants were the first aggressors in
Birmingham or in Ashton. It the hon. member for Cork
again brought the matter forward he hoped he would
give proper notice of his intention of doing so. (Oh, oh.)
Mr. PAULL thought the present occasion most incon-
venient for the discussion.
The subject then dropped.
THE CONVICT BARRETT.

Mr. BRIGHT rose with extreme pain and under great
responsibility to ask the intention of the Government with
respect to the convict Barrett. Two respites had already
taken place in order that certain matters might be in-
quired into at GI tsgow with a view of ascertaining
the truth in the matter, which was one of life or
death. Ho had been told that . the Chief Justice
had considered the case, and that the twilit of such con-
sideration was against the prisoner. Ile had boon told by
persons of authority that the conviction of Barrett could not
be sustained by the evidence, and that it was in the power of
the Secretary of State to have the man retried on another
charge of murder, and if such a course was adopted it was
a matter that would give satisfaction to the . public mind.
He begged to ask the right hon. gentleman the clurso he
intended to pursue ?
Mr. HARDY said ho hal not to complain of the manner
in which this momentous subject had been brought for-
ward. An alibi had been set up by the prisoner, but it
had failed. A memorial had also boon presented to him, and
he had sent the necessary documents to the learned judges
who tried the case, and they had both come to the con-
clusion that the verdict was sustained by the evidence'
and he (Mr. Hardy) had no doubt in his own mind that
the man was guilty of the charge made against him.
THE SCOTCH REFORM BILL.

The House` then went into Committee on the Scotch
Reform Bill, and the first business was to reverse the vuto
on Mr. Bouverie's amendment, which led to asudden stop-
page of the 1411 It* Monday,
.Pr WU( moved for

the purpose by the Lord Advocate, and accepted by Mr.
Moncroiff on behalf of the Scotch Liberal membeis. It
underwent some discussion, and was-amended in one or
two particulars ; and as ultimately agreed to it provides
that no man shall vote who, within the preceding 12
3nonths, has been exempted from payment of poor-rates on
Account of poverty, who has not, ou the 20th of July, paid
all the rates payable by him up to the preceding May 15,
or who has been within the preceding 12 mouths in the
receipt of Parochial relief. Clause 3, which regulates the
borough franchise, was then agreed to.
Clause 4, the county ownership franchise, was agreed
to after a slight amendment, a proposal by Sir E. Cole-
brooke to restrict the franchise to persons occupying a
residence within the county being rejected. in clause 5,
thil county occupation franchi.e was changed from £l2
rateable value to £ll gross annull value, and the ratepay-
bag r.quirements were amended so as to correspond with
the alterations in the borough franchise clause.
Clause 6, which provides that the third member given
to Glasgow shall be elected on the minority principle,"
ivas pea' ponid, and clause 7 was al-reed tor.
On Cl lase B—the first of the Rodistriba i 0:3113!S —a
m.,t:ou I y Mr. Lrwther to postpone this hart of the MI
led to a revival of the d.tbi)t3 on Mr. Baxt,e3 instruction.
in in eking it Mx Lowther spoke very strongly against an
increase in tho present nrinotonons Scotch representation,
and cdvisA the house bebre stlyertioning the mcm'iers to
ascert. tin hos tunny it w.tnitl have at its disposal.

Too motion for aljntrutuent was suppoi.i.ed b 1 Sir L.
Palk, M. Beresford Hope, Mr. G. Bruce, who o',jected to
increasing, the-number of Scotch members at the expense
of England ; by Mr. Smollett, who insisted that the redis-
tribution schedules required to be reruo lelieJ ; by Colonel
French, who advocated the c.ins:)l:dation of Scotch coun-
ties; by Mr. Hayter, Mr. H. Bailli r, and Mr. Harvey. Mr.
Baxter opposed postponement, and
Mr. GLADSTONE strongly deprecated reviving a dis-
cussion already settled.

R•ssponding to urgent appeals from Mr. Sandford, Mr
Baillie, and Mr. Moncreiff,

Mr. DISRAELI explained the views of the Govern-
ment, premising that he could not consent to any post-
ponement, and urging the house to push on with the bill,
so as to facilitate an early dissolution. The original plan
of the Government contemplated giving Scotland Seven
members by an addition to the numbers of the house,
but this substraction of seven from the English mem-
bers he pointed out inido a difference of 14 on the bal-
ance between the two countries. Still he was willing to
abide by his original proposal to give seven members to
Scotland, and to adopt the principle of Mr. Baxter's in-
structiou—disagreeable as it was to him—as far as was
necessary for that purpose. These seven members he
would thus dispose of. An additional member would ba
given to the counties of Ayr, Aberdeen, and Lanark, and
to the cities of Glasgow and Dandee. The four Scotch
Universities would get two members between thorn, and
a member would be obtained for a group of border boroughs
by consolidating the counties of Peebles and Selkirk. Be-
yound this he urged the Committee seriously not to go,
looking to the expediency of effecting a settlement in the
shortest possible time.
. . .

Mr. GLADSTONE expressed his intention to support
the more extended scheme of ➢lr. Baxter, and
Mr. BRIGHT took the same view, protesting against
the idea of treating England and Scotland as two separate
countries, and urging the Conservatives to permit their
leader to settle the question on a liberal and lasting basis.

Mr. WALPOLE held that the house was bound to ad-
here to the settlement of last year, of which ho contended
an essential part was that no borough should be disfran-
chised, and that the just increase to the numbers of Scotch
members should be made by an iucreaso to tho numbers
of the house.

Mr. BOUVERIE asked for some time to consider the
new plan of the Government, which he admitted to be
superior to the first ; but the opinion of the committee was
so strongly opposed to delay that he did not press it, and
after some further conversation, Mr. Lowther withdrew
his motion for postponement.

Mr. BAXTER then proposed his counter-scheme of re-
distribution by which he disposes of ten members. Iu its
original form it gave an additional member to the counties
of Lanark, Ayr, Aberdeen, and Perth, to the cities of Edin-
burgh, Aberdeen, and Dundee, two additional members to
Glasgow and one member to the four Universities. But
after some conversation he agreed, on the suggestion of
of Mr. G. Duff, to give two members to the Universities,
and this change was effected at the expense of the county
of Perth, which was deprived of its promised addition.

There was a long conversation, turning more on the
manner of putting tho question than on its merits. Ulti-
mately the division was taken technically on the question
whether Glasgow shall have three members, as the Go-
vernment propose, or four, as Mr. Baxter's plan suggests
and the result was a majority of 39 in favour of tho Go-
vernment —261 to 222.

Upon this, Mr. Disraeli rose and suggested that, with a
view to expedite the hill, the committee, after this decisive
decision, should at once adopt the Government plan.
Mr. Moncreiff, however, supported by Mr. Gladstone
and Mr. Bouverie, objected to going on, and moved to re-
port progress; but a very strong indisposition was mani-
fested by the committee to pausing at this point, and Mr.
Baxter intimated that after the vote just given he would
not per,:eve o further with his plan. Tic new redistribu-
tion scheme of the Goverumueut, giving in additional mem-
ber each to Ayrshire, Lanarkshiro, Aberdeenshire, Glas-
gow, aad Dundee, and two of the Siotch Universities,
was thou embodied in clause 8. Mr. M'Larcu and Colo-
nel Sykes made an uaavailing ell'o:t to olotaiu an addi-
tional member for E liuburgh ant A kned,on, but received
no encouragement to go to a, divisiva. The propisal to
grow; the counties of Seikirkstaire and Peebles-shire fur
the s d:uof a group of Border borou.;lis was postponed.
Sir L. PALI next moved his proviso, that nothing in
the bill shall reduce the representation of England and
Irauld. He maintained that there was a bargain last
year that the English schema of redistribution should be
ti all, and he recommended that the ten seats obtained by
Mr. Baxter's instruction should be gives to English coun-
ties and largo towns.

Mr. DISItAELI, though sympathizing with Sir L.
Palli's object, objected to the proviso on practical grounds,
pointing out that it would reopen the Eng Hill bill.
On a division the proviso was rejected by 262 to 95.
Clause 8 was agreed to, an I the further progress of the
bill was adjourned until Thursday.
The Electric Telegraphs Bill was fixed for June 9, at a
morning sitting.

Some other orders wera forwarded a stage, and the
house adjourned at 25 minutes after 1 o'clock.

THE I lIENCII DERBY.

PARIS, Sunday.

Prix de Dangu, 5,000 f, for horses of four years
and upwards ; entree 300 f., h ft, half the entries
to the second ; distance 4,000 metres value £230;
four starters. Comte de Lagrange's Auguste, first ;
Comte de Lagrange's Moutgoubert, second. 6to
4on Auguste ;3 to 1 agst Normandie. Prix de
L'Oise, 2,000 f, for horses of three years and up-
wards ; entree 50f ; each horse m be claimed
for 3,000 f ; distance 2,400 metres ; value £94 ;
five starters. M. de la Charme's Succursale,
first ; M. Lirtnel's 'Cromwell, second. 2 to 1 agst
Colere ; 4 to 1 agst Succursale ; 4 to 1 agst Crom-
well. Prix do l'Etnpereur, handicap, 2,000 f, given
by the Emperor, for horses of thrce years and up.
wards ; entree 501; forfeit 25f if declared 23d May ;
distance 2,100 metres; value £149 ; fifteen starters.
Major Fridolin's Geophobe, first ; M. A. Fould's
Milton 11., second ; 4 to 1 agst Dictateur, 7 to
1 agst Turenne, Bto 1 agst Turco. Prix du
Jokey Club (Derby), 23,0001, for three-year-old
colts and fillies ; entree, I,ooof ; forfeit 600 f, or
200 f if declared 21st May ; 2,000 f to the second ;
distance 2,400 metres ; value £2,580 ; nine starters.
Schickler's Suzerain, first; Comte de La-
grange's Gondolier, second ; Due de Fitz-James'
Pietro, third. Betting-6 to 4 agst Gouvernail,
.2 to 1 agst the winner, 5 to 1 agst Pietro.
The race was never in doubt. The Duke of
Hamilton's horse cut up so early in the race that
there is nothing to say about him ; he died,
and made no sign. They were a pretty bad lot, too.
We had a dead heat, which was won by Succursale;
and then the Prix des Etampes, 2,0001., for horses
of three years and upwards ; entree 100 f. ; half
forfeit, the entries to the second ; each horse may
be claimed far 20,0001. ; distance 2,000 metres ;
value £BO ; seven starters. Comte de Lagrange's
Ariel, first ; M. Cartier's Rochefort, second. They
betted 6 to 4 agst Vendome ; but—there was
really no betting, and then betting France rushed
off to England.

A correspondent making reference to a recent
paragraph in our "Table Talk," which stated-that
a rank of pipes sounding the seventh to the funda-
mental tone has been introduced by M. Cavailld-
Coll into the organ at the Cathedral of Notre
Dame, Paris, says :—lf it be a seventh it is a
novelty; but if the pipes sound, as is most likely,
a flat seventh, M. C. Coll cannot claim to be the
originator of it; inasmuch as the stop in question
was introduced by Dr. Ganntlett into the organ at
St.Olave's, Southwark, in 1814 (under the style of
" Clockenspiel and Bve Septima"), by Jackson at
Liverpool, and at Preston (in 1850 and 1854 rc-
spectively), where it is,named. " sharp twentieth."
It is believed also to exist under the name
" Clockenspiel " in the organ at St. Philips',
Sheffield, built by Hill iu 1841.—J/us/cal Stan-
dard.
PATENT OFFICE MUSEUII, SOUTH KENSINGTON.—
Number of visitors for the week ending lalay 23, 2,39 G ;
total number since the opening of the museum free daily
(May 12, 180), 1,800,543._

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING,Tms DAY.

DERBY.
Evens Lady Elizabeth (taken)
sto 1 agst Blue Gown (taken)
100 to 8 agst Paul Jones (offered)
1000 to 30 agst Oap-a-Pie (taken)

ARRIVALS.
Lady Elizabeth, The Earl, Paul Jones, Tumbler, Vixen,
Gap-a-pie, Hatchment, and Grand Turk.

TAT TE LiZALL'S—Las t Evening.

DERBY.
5 to 4 agst, I, tdy Eliza") Ali (taken)
6 to 1 agst Blue Gown (taken and offered)
11. to 1 agst Paul Jones (taken)
1000 to 60 agst Or,on (taken)
1001) to 60 agst It )sicrucian
100) to 1;0 :1.8.4 k (t ikon)
1000 to 6J :ig3t E (t•iken)
VO to 1 asst Speculum (taken)
25 to 1 agst Pace (taken)
30 to . 1 asst. St.n.man (taken)
1030 to 30 agst Given Sleeve (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Forest King (taken and offered)
100 J to 10 agst Gap-a-pie (taken)
SJO to 10j on Lari v. Paul Jonas-1, 2, 3

PLACE rrxx J.
6to 4on Lady Elizabeth (taken)
2to 1 agat Blue Gown (offered)
2 to 1 agat Paul %roues (taken)
3 to 1 agst Orion (takeu- taken to £600)
100 to 30 agst Speculum (taken)
4to 1 agst Paco (taken and off.)

SCRATCHED THIS DAY.--Ilercury, 12.4.5 p.m.; all Lord
Glasgow's, except Maid of Masham colt, 4.45 p.m. ; Chel-
sea, 3.25 p.m.

RACIN U. FIXTURES lOU 1868.
MAY.

Epsom Summer

JUNE

West Drayton
proydon 2d Summer

Newton
Ratupton ....... 18

- -- .....
Mauchostor
Ascot Sunimor 9 Bibury Club 23
I Boyerlay, Hull, and Stockbridge
East _Riding lO 1 Alosuudra Park • 30
Windsor Slimmer

JULY.

Chelmsford

Liverpool July M. . 1f

Worcester Summer
Kingsbury and Hendon
Radcliffe
Carlisle

2
6
6 [ I
7

Odilm:tu _
16
Stamford
Huntingdon 2l
Nottiugham July

Newmarket July
7 1 Chest°Tfield 23
-llung,erford
Pontefract
_ I
Down Royal C0rp..... 11 Sudbury and Ealing
Reading
Spilsby