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Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of bu-
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THE CITY PRIVILEGES.
The following letter from Mr. C. Pennon, the City So •
licitor, was read by the Clerk of the Court:—
"My Lord and Gentlemen,—l have the honour to
certify that I yesterday received, a letter from Messrs.
Pemberton, Crawley, and Gardiner, the solicitors of her
Majesty's Woods, Forests, &c., of which a copy is
hereto annexed, containing a subpoena from the Court of
Chancery to the Corporation of London, the Town Clerk,
and certain parties, relative to the City's right to the soil
and bed of the 'river Thames ,• calling upon them seve-
rally to appear in the said Court, to answer to a bill
filed for the purposes mentioned in Messrs. Pemberton,
Crawley, and Gardiner's letter. I have ordered an
appearance to be entered for the Corporation, and have
bespoke .a copy of the bill.---I have the honour to be, my
Lord, and gentlemen, your most obedient servant,
" CHARLES PEARSON, City Solicitor.
" Guildhall, March 14, 1844.".
• (Copy.) " Whitehall-place, March 12, 1844.
" Sir,—The Commissioners of Woods, &c., have caused
an information to be filed in the Court of Chancery
against the Corporation of London, and sundry persons
to whom the Corporation have granted licenses to em-
bank, praying that the rights of her Majesty and of the
Corporation respectively in the• strand or soil of the
River Thames, may be ascertained and declared under
the decree of the Court, and we herewith send
,you a
!tnibixena, and beg- the favour of your undertaltnrir, to
appear for the Corporation of London and their Town-
clerk. " We are, Sir, yours, &c.
" C. Pearson, Esq., 66PE MBE RTON,
City Solicitor. CRAWLEY,
GARDINER."

Mr. RICHARD LAMBERT JONES immediately rose
and said, that in his opinion the Recorder sheuld be ap-
plied to for advice as to the steps which the Corporation
ought to take under the circumstances. It was important
that a conference should be held with her Majesty's Mi-
nisters on a subject of such moment. The intimation of
the proceeding came from an inferior branch of the'
Administration, and it would be proper, as soon as pos-
sible, to ascertain from the best source whether it was
the intention of the Government to interfere with the
vested rights of the body.—(Hear, hear.)
The RECORDER admitted that the point to which the
communication referred was a very important one. The
course, he believed, which it would be advisable to
adopt was to refer the matter to a Select Committee,
and to enable that Committee, with the assistance of the
law officers of the Corporation, to hold a conference with
the Ministers of the Crown relative to it.—(Hear.)
It appeared to him that the object of the Commissioners
of the Woods and Forests was to ascertain, before the
embankment was commenced, the nature of the rights
of the case, and of the rights of the Corporation, and
not to interfere with the chartered rights of the citizens
of London.—(Hear.) The suggestion of the Chairman
of the London-bridge Approaches Committee was most
fit and wise.

Sir P. LAintrE said he agreed in every part of the
suggestion except that of applying to the Prime Mi-
nister on a matter which was undertaken by those in
another department of the Administration. Such a
course would look like slighting that department ; and
he did not see what good could possibly arise out of
the offence which would be thus unnecessarily in-
flicted.—(Hear, hear.) After all the City need not care
anything about the soil of the river.
Mr. ANDERTON would contend for the rights of
the City in every matter, however apparently trivial or
insignificant. He did not think a Select Committee so
eligible as the Navigation Committee to undertake the
task of inquiring into such a subject. In fact any of
the Committees already formed would be qualified to act
on it.

Mr. LAWRENCE was -decidedly in favour of a Select
Committee. That Committee would probably seek a
conference with those who instigated the suit. They
would be directed in the course they should pursue by
the character of the answer they should receive. If in-
formation upon the subject were withheld, it might be
reasonably concluded that mischief was intended.
Mr. H. PHILLIPS observed that the question was very
properly called a most important one. It was well
known, he said, that a great many privileges had been
granted to individuals, by the Corporation, on the banks
of the Thames, and the Corporation had, he believed a
right to the soil as well as to the river itself. The Court
however, could not exactly know what the object of the
'Government was ; when they isscertained what it was
they could act accordingly.
Mr. R. TAvLoa. said he was informed that Mr. Pem-
berton had been making similar claims all over the king-
dom, and trying to get hold of every thing, but without
the least success in many instances.
Mr. R. L. JONES declared it was immaterial to him to
what Committee the Court should refer the• question,
but be was sure that the best mode of proceeding would
be by conference with her Majesty's Government.—
(Hear, hear.) He could not conceive why the Commis-
sioners of Woods and Forests should cause a bill to be
filed against the Corporation in the Court of Chancery,
and he adhered to the opinion ho had expressed that the
Court should go to the principal Members of her Ma-
jesty's Government, ,to know whether they sanctioned
such a proceeding upon the part of the Commissioners.
He accordingly moved that a Select Committee be ap-
pointed to confer with the Ministers, &c.
Mr. KING said it would be advisable to send to the
Commissioners a few of the most intelligent men in the
Corporation.
Mr. ANDERTON moved as an amendment that the sub-
ject be referred to the Navigation Committee.
Ultimately Mr. R. L. Jones's motion was adopted by
a large majority, and the following Select Committee
was appointed to confer with her Majesty's Ministers
or any other parties with full powers to act with respect
to the communication, and take such measures as they
should consider necessary, and report from time to time
to the Court :

The Lord Mayor, Sir Peter Laurie, Alderman John
Johnson, Mr. 11. L. Jones, Mr. Deputy Peacock, Mr.
John Dixon, Mr. B. Taylor, Mr. W. Lawrence, Mr.
Burn, and Deputy Hicks.

A letter was presented from the Charity called the
City Kitchen, signed by Mr. T. Lott, thanking the
Court for the liberal donation of 200/., by which the
Committee were enabled to render considerable addi-
tional assistance to the poor.—Ordered to be inserted in
the Journals.

Sir PETER LAURIE presented a petition from Captain
Strannock and William Birch, praying for some remu-
neration to Captain Mays and crew, of the Charlotte
smack, of Antwerp, as a testimonial for their exertions
to save the petitioners and seamen on board the Elber-
feldt steamer, when wrecked easward of the North Fore-
land, on her passage from Rotterdam, on 23d February
last, and for a grant towards the relief of the widows
and children of the men unfortunately lost.
The petition was, after some discussion, withdrawn,
the majority being of opinion that if the Corporation
gave rewards or remuneration upon every occasion in
which the lives of people saved, their pecuniary means
would be soon wholly exhausted.

HOLBORN-HILL ACCLIVITY.
Mr. R. TAYLOR presented a petition from Mr. Thomas
Taylor' architect and surveyor, praying that, until it
should be decided whether a viaduct should or should
not be erected, to remedy the acclivity at Holborn-hill,
the space should not be built upon. Mr. R. Taylor
hoped there would be no objection to the application,
particularly as the petitioner's plan was considered to be
the best that had been suggested for overcoming the
difficulties of Holborn-hill. He moved that the petition
be referred to the London Bridge Committee.
Mr. R. L. JONES said, if the Court referred the peti-
tion to the Committee, the consequence would be that a
stop would be put to the disposal of the ground, which
they were daily letting. It would hold out an idea to
the inhabitants, and the public, that a viaduct was
about to be built.—(Hear, hear.) Now he was ready to
admit that it would be most desirable to have a viaduct,
although he by no means admitted that Mr. Taylor's
was the project most worthy of adoption. However, it
was quite certain that the City had no funds to carry
out that object. There was, at present, no likelihood
of accomplishing any improvement of the kind ; and as
the reception of the petition would have the effect of
checking the present labours in the vicinity, the only
prudent way of treating the petition would be to let it

lie on the table.
Mr. W. LAWRENCE said Mr. Taylor's project was
certainly the best, but there was no chance of carrying

it into execution.
Mr. GnEgilAnt wished to be informed whether there
was a prospect that anything at all would be done to
remedy the acclivity at Holborn-hill?
Mr. HETTEE begged to be informed whether it was
supposed, if all the improvements already proposed by
the Chairman of the London-bridge Committee were
carried into execution, there would remain any balance
with which to accomplish other improvements?
Mr. Jones shook his head, and laughed.
Mr. GODSON said it must be most cheering to the in-
habitants of Farringdon-street to know that there was
no chance of the formation of an improvement, which
they considered to be of more importance than any that
had yet been effected. He hoped the petition would be
sent to a Committee for consideration.
The petition was then ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. KING presented a petition from the Fishmongers'
Company and Messrs. Jones, for a reference to the
Bridge House Estates' Committee, to consider the pro-
priety of allowing a communication from their wharf to
the stairs of London-bridge. He also presented a peti-
tion from several merchants and bankers . for the same
object.
The prayer of the petitioners was refused, but the
Committee were directed to check all encroachments on

the stairs stairs on the north-west end of London-bridge.
A report was brought up, recommending a police-rate
for the year. It was :Treed to, and the rate was or-
dered to be made in the usual form.—Adjourned.

Mr. Norman had an interview with Lord Stanley, on
Wednesday, At the Colomat-ace,

LITERATURE.
WANDERINGS IN SPAIN. 2 Vols.
Newby, London, 1844.
Mr. Haveity, to whom we are indebted for these
volumes, was, it appears, for some months last year a
wanderer in Spain, and made such good use of his
time, that there was scarcely any city, town, or dis-
trict of consequence that he left unexplored. Of
Cordova, so well known in the Moorish annals of the
Peninsula, and still more-celebrated, perhaps, as being
the birth-place of the great captain, Gonsalvo, he
gives us a most graphic and eloquent description; and
was never weary of visiting its famous mosque,
" the effect of whose inextricable multiplicity
of graceful arcades and colonnades," he tells us, " where
at every step new vistas of matchless beauty and in-
terest meet the eye, WEB that of an edifice called into
existence by an enchanter's power rather than by the
labour of human hands." In the course of his wan-
derings in the romantic neighbourhood of the Sierra
Morena, Mr. Haverty unexpectedly encountered an
old travelling companion, an artist, whom he had parted
with some years before in Italy; and this little incident
gives him an opportunity of introducing an interesting
anecdote respecting another artist, who had been
taken prisoner by some bandits while rambling over
the Sierra Morena, and only effected his escape by
sticking t*o of the foot-pads with a knife, blowing
out, the brains-a, tathircir,and. wailaing off with the
daughter of a fourth, by way of guide. The anec-
dote is related with remarkable spirit and -dramatic
skill, but we take for granted that it is a
little embellished in its details, for the sake
of effect. Arrived in the provice of La Mancha,
which no reader of Cervantes can ever think of with-
out interest, our author. was surprised to find how
extreme was the poverty and wretchedness under
which its inhabitants laboured; "it is the native
country," he says, "of nearly all the lame and blind
paupers, street-criers, and wandering musicians, who
are to be met with in the capital, and in a great part
of Spain besides." Of course, while stationary for
a time in Madrid, Mr. Haverty did not miss
the opportunity of getting a peep at the young
Queen ; he was fortunate enough to see her go down
in state to open the session of the Cortes, and describes
her as being abrupt and petulant in her manners, and
resembling her royal father—the blessed Ferdinand,
who looked so like an Angola baboon—in a certain
coarseness of expression about the mouth and chin,
if not in the general outline of her features.
Our author's sketches of the Spanish capital, of
the scenery in its ' immediate vicinity, of the man-
ners and customs of its inhabitants, its public build-
ings and fine picture galleries—these sketches are hit
off with great raciness and felicity of touch ; but in-
deed throughout his volumes Mr. Haverty exhibits
descriptive powers of no common order ; and his
" Wanderings in Spain " are the most entertaining
volumes we have read on this subject since :the days
of Inglis. We quote a portion of his sketch of a
bull-fight at Madrid :
_ _ _

" A Sourish of drums and trumpets now gives the signal
for a new change in the ' performance.' Otte of the bande-
rilleros comes forth with a pair of light shafts armed with
barbed darts at the ends, and ornamented, as I have already
said, with ribands of cut paper. He approaches the bull in
the centre of the arena, and while the enraged brute stoops
in order to toss his rash tormentor in the air, the intrepid
banderillero plants the pair of darts in the bull's neck, just
behind the horns. Now the agony of the tortured animal is
truly piteous. He tosses his head with rage to get rid of the
shafts which cling to him; but the barbs keep their hold,
and he only increases his own torture. Thus another, and
still another pair 'of banderilleros are planted in his bloody
mane ; and along each shaft a stream of blood comes trick-
ling down. The picadores now leave • the field, and the
chulos make the final effort to harass the bull, until the sig-
nal is sounded for the last act of the tragedy.
"All the interest which the sanguinary exhibition hitherto
possessed, was nothing to what was then to come. The ma-
tador came forth singly from among his companions, holding
in one hand a red flag, and in the other a long two-edged
sword of the best tempered steel. He approached the bull,
concealing for awhile the sword behind his back, and
holding the flag forward to provoke the animal to the as-
sault. Although wearied with the numerous desperate efforts
he had made, his movements were less brisk, the fury of the
bull was, nevertheless, at its highest pitch, and he prepared
to meet the new enemy with fresh vigour. Recoiling a few
paces, and stooping with his head to the earth, he steadily
observed the matador, seeming to feel that his deadliest foe
was now before him ; while the latter, leaning forward on his
left foot, held the sword .on a level with his head, having the
point bent slightly doWnward. There was a moment of ter-
rible suspense. At length the bull rushed forward, but the
matador received the charge on his red flag, and, turning on
his heel, like Montes, allowed the bull to pass him. The
people were disappointed. Some called him a coward, whilst
a few applauded him for the graceful style in which he
evaded the charge; and as every one delivered his opinion
as loudly as he could, the din of fierce voices was literally
deafening.
" Again the bull was brought to the attack, and the mata-
dor awaited him with the same firm and well poised attitude ;
the poor brute dashed furiously to the assault, but this time
he carried with him the sword plunged up to the very hilt in
his withers, whilst some inches of its point appeared through
his chest below.

" The vociferations
.of the people were terrible, but the
word barbar9 1 was the only one I could distinguish. In fact,
the pass was a bad one, for the sword should have gone in
another direction, so as not to have appeared on the opposite
side. The appearance of the noble animal as he now moved
about with the sword through him, and the barbed and
bloody shafts dangling about his forehead, was truly harrow-
ing. The life-torrent, at length, came gushing from his
chest, and formed a steaming pool beneath, in which, for a
while, he dabbled with his muzzle, for the purpose, perhaps,
of quenching his burning thirst with the only liquid he could
find—his own heart's blood."

THE BATTLE OF LONCARTY.
Churton, London, 1844.
The subject of this poem is the Battle of Loncarty,
which, it appears, took place in Scotland about the
end of the tenth century, when a peasant and his
two sons, who chanced to be ploughing in a field near
the place of battle, stayed the flight of the Scottish
army, just as it was on the point of being destroyed,
and thereby saved their country from subjection to
the Danish yoke. After stating this anecdote
in his preface, the author of the poem before us goes
on to remark, " I saw no reason why this instance of
heroic patriotism in ancient Scotland should not have
a place in the rolls of fame, as well as the defence of
the Pass of Thermopylae by the Greeks, or that
of the bridge at Rome by Horatius Cceles,
which, considering the neglect into which the
history it is recorded in has fallen, I saw
no way of effecting without a touch of the pencil of
poetry." It is highly creditable to the author's sense
of patriotism that he should be anxious to give the
" Battle of Loncarty a place in the rolls of
fame ;" but we fear he has not gone the right
way about it, for his poem on this celebrated battle
is likely to have "a place" nowhere but on its pub-
lisher's shelves, where, if we mistake not, it is destined
to be stationary, until, in due course of time, it is
transferred from thence to the trunkmaker's. The
" Battle of Loncarty " is, in truth, a very ordinary
production ; as far as mere versification goes, it is
passable enough ; the sentiments, also, are such as do
the author credit; but the poem is destitute of fresh-
ness and vigour, and contains not a few descriptive
passages which are diffuse and languid, and provoca-
tive only of slumber.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
FROM TIER MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 13 per mille,
which, at the English Mint price of Si. 17s. 104 d. per ounce
for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 48 ; and the
exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 65, it follows
that gold is 0.68 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh, the price of gold is 434 per
mark, which, at the English Mint price of Si. 17s. 10id. per
ounce fur standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 91; ; and
the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13
it follows that gold is 0.91 per cent. dearer in London than in
Hamburgh.
The course of exchange at New York on London is 109 k
per cent. ; and the par of exchange between England and
America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the ex-
change is 0.33 per cent. against England ; but the quoted ex-
change at New York being for bills at sixty days' sight, the
interest must be deducted from the above differencs.-
Attention has been called to an advertisement inserted by
the Mexican agents in the Times of to-day, the object of
which, without some explanation, is not obvious. By the
advertisement in question, the public is cautioned against
purchasing or negotiating a certain series of coupons (the
numbers of which are given), due in October last and in
April next, but the reason of the caution is not stated. On
inquiry, however, it appears that the announcement refers
to a holder of Mexican Stock who received Custom-house
certificates for a portion of his claim, and also received the
half-dividend that was duo last October. To elucidate this
particular position, it is necessary to call remembrance to
one of the many operations which render the history of
`Mexican Stock such all intricate matter; Eight of the
coupons on the Active Bonds to October, 1841, inclusive,
have been delivered up by the majority of the bondholders,
and debentures for half the amount represented by them
have been received in their stead. Some of the holders,
however, received payment of the first four of these coupons
in certificates, which were receivable for duties at the Cus-
tom-houses, and therefore these were in a better position
than the other holders. To place both on the same footing,
it was agreed, that when the other holders received their
dividends in the years 1842-3, those who had received certi-
ficates should not be paid, but only have debentures. The
coupon due in April, 1843, was not, as we understand,
brought under this rule, as the Mexican Government re-
solved that that arrangement should affect all parties alike ;
but making an allowance for this one exception, the parties
will be all in the same position in April, 1844, the one class
having been paid for their first four coupons, and the other
for their last. Now it appears that the party to whom the
advertisement refers, having received certificates for the fist
four coupons, and therefore defeated his right to the dividend
due in October, nevertheless by some inadvartency received
the half which was paid, and subsequently sold the coupons,
or some of them, in presenting the other half (payment of
which is now promised) in the open market. The bona fide
purchasers, without notice, will, it would seem, have the full
right to claim the half, notwithstanding the first transaction
had its origin in error; but when those whe are fully aware
of the peculiar circumstances affecting these coupons, the case
may be different. At all events the advertisement may have
the effect of stopping the negotiation of the coupons due next
April, and if they remain in the hands of the original party,
the agents may be able to reimburse themselves by stopping
out of the April payment a sum equal to that erroneously
paid in October. We give this explanation of an affair which
is more intricate than important, that it may prevent the
notion that something more serious is implied by the adver-
tisement.
SUN.—There was a spurt of business in the English
Stocks, and Consols improved this afternoon to 984 to I.
The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. rallied from 102*
to The Three per Cents. of 1726 were done at 98.
India Stock for Account was 285 to 2854.
The Foreign market, on the contrary, did not close
quite so good, Spanish Actives leaving off at 25 to 251,
and the Three per Cents. at 354 to 4. Brazil Bonds
were done at 824, and Venezuelan at 40. Dutch Five
per Cents. were 1014 to 102.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Eastern Counties, New, were 44 to 5 ;
Great Western Fifths, 7 ; Grand Junction, 131 ; Lan-
caster and Carlisle, 28 ; Birmingham, 134 to 135 ; Ditto
New Quarter, 254 ; Ditto New Thirds, 38i ; North
British, 4 ; Northern and Eastern, 124 ; and West Lon-
don Thames Extension, 14 to 1 premium. Brighton
were 54 discount.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S--YEsTERDAY.
CHESTER CUP.
8 to 1 agst Col. Cradock's Pagan
14 to 1 agst Mr. Milbank's Sir Robert
500 to 30 agst Mr. Collett's Cattonite—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Stephenson's Freedom-25 to 1 ta. once
25 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Deer—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Tuting's Tacks.
30 to 1 agst Mr. Dawson's Merry Andrew
30 to 1 agst Mr. Heseltine's The Prior
33 to 1 agst Sir W. W. Wynn's Rowland—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Speed's Everton—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's General Pollock—taken.
The little of novelty in the business transacted on the above
race, with the exception of Pagan, whose promotion is a con-
sequence of the Manchester quotations of Tuesday, and
Merry Andrew, the odds returned were taken in every in-
stance, to amounts varying from a pony to 601., and, as
against Red Deer, The Prior, and Freedom, were afterwards
currently offered.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
Offers to take 2 to 1 about the Ugly Buck
DERBY.
11 to 2 agst Scott's lot—taken to 150/.
13 to 2 agst Mr. Crockford's Rattan—taken
17 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Orlando—taken
22 to 1 agst Lord Maidstone's Cockamaroo
30 to 1 agst Mr. A. Wood's Running Rein—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Ongley's King of the Gipsies—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Apprentice—taken
50 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Campunero
,55 to 1 agst Mr. Scott's Sister to Grey Momus colt-
-1000 to 15 taken twice
1000 to 15 agst Mr. J. Osborne's Mount Charles—t. twice
1000 to 15 agst Mr. S. Herbert's Delightful c—t. thrice
1000 to 15 agst Lord Westminster's Lancet—t. twice
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Copeland's two—taken
1000 to 10 agst Lord Orford's Boots
1000 to 10 agst Mr. Sadler's Johnny Broome
' 1000 to 10 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Akbar—taken.
1000 to 10 agst Mr. Peek's Corodino
500 to 1 agst Mr. Bradshaw's Sir Isaac
1000 even between Corodino and Akbar
2000 even on Akbar agst Johnny Broome
500 even on Akbar agst Imaum
1,000 to 20 agst each of the following, in one bet :—Mount
Charles, Apprentice, Delightful colt, Lancet, King of the
Gypsies, and Bebington. No others mentioned. 320 to 250
agst Scott's, Day's, and Rogers's lots (taken). More busi-
ness was got through on this race than, from the flatness of
the market, we had ventured to calculate upon. As it re-
garded the two favourites, we have nothing new to dilate
upon-650 to 100, 335 to 50, and two or three other bets at
the same figure, were laid against Rattan. 200 even between
him and the Ugly Buck, and 3 to 1 to 2001. against them
coupled—the Buck's actual price did not transpire. Orlando
was backed in one quarter at 17 to 1, Cockamaroo at 25 to 1
(the layer refusing to go on), Running Rein at 30 to 1, and
the King of the Gypsies at 1,000 to 25. 1,000 to 20 was laid
once, and afterwards offered, against Campunero ; Akbar, as
a set off, having plenty of backers at 1,000 to 10, taken at
least ten times, besides a bet, of 3,000 to 25. The
other outsiders mentioned above were backed at
the prices quoted, which, against all but Akbar,
and Mount . Charles were subsequently offered. The most
curious feature in the afternoon's proceedings was an offer to
bet 3,000 to 6 against Sir Isaac, who, a few days ago, was in
considerable request at 1,000 to 15, and was said to be des-
tined to join Dockeray's string—it is now doubtful whether,
at any period since he appeared in the market, there has been
such a horse in training.

OAKS.
500 to 30 agst Lord Westminster's Fanny Eden—taken.

WETHERBY STEEPLE CHASES.

Sweepstakes of 5 sovs., 12st each. Three miles. (18 Subs.)
Mr. Brown's Jacob Faithful (Mr. Wilson) 1
Mr. Brown's Birthday
Mr. Reynard's The Hawk 3
Mr. Brown's Yorkshire Lass

Colonel Thompson's Hamlet and nine others also started,
but were not placed. Won easy, by two lengths.
The Farmers' Steeple-chase, four miles, was won by Mr
Downes's Charles O'Malley (Scott), beating Mr. Mewburn's
Clementine. and several others. _ _

CASTLE HOWARD STEEP LE-CHASE.--TuEsDAT.
Sweepstakes of 7 sovs. each, 3 ft., with 25 added. Four miles.
Mr. J. Simpson's Aggravator (Mr. Johnson) 1
Mr. Mewburn's Clementina 2

Mr. Nicholson's Perambulator
Five others ran. Won in a canter

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

Mr. Archer's hounds Monday at Kennel, Thursday, Eglo,s-
kerry, IN—East .Essex hounds, Monday, Green Dragon,
Thursday, Marks-hall, 10O—Herefordshire hounds, Tuesday,
Lyston, Saturday, Hope Turnpike, 10—Monmouthshire
hounds, Monday, Tallycoed-wood, Thursday, Moon Cap
Inn—East Sussex hounds, Monday, Norton Top, 1101—Mr.
Trelawny's hounds, Tuesday, Fleet Western-lodge, 1! ridgy,
Plymton—Essex and Suffolk hounds, Tuesday, Thorrington-
hall, Friday, Monks Eliegh, 1011—Cheshire hounds, Mon-
day, Mere, Wednesday, Bridgrnere-lodge, Doddington,
Thursday, Hurlestoke, Saturday, Crewe, 10I—Findon
hounds, Tuesday, Kennel], Thursday, Green-lodge, Satur-
day, Stoke—Cambridgeshire hounds, Monday, Odsey,
Friday, Sandy-warren—Mr. Mure's hounds, Monday,
Rushbrooke-park, Thursday, Pakenhani-street, 101—War-
wiekshire hounds, .Monday, Whimpston-bridge, Tuesday,
South Village, Thursday, Red Hill, Saturday, Shuckburgh
Park—Sir, R. Sutton's hounds, Monday, Greatham Inn,
Tuesday, Ayston, Thursday,
Flolywell Hall, Saturday,
Brooke Hall, 11.—Earl Fitzwilliam's hounds, Monday,
Broughton Furze, Wednesday, Titchmarsh, 11-Lord Tar-
borough's .hounds, Monday,. Cadney village, Wednesday,
Wrawby [mill, Friday, Ravendale, 11—Lord Henry Ben-
tinck's hounds, Monday, Harby, Tuesday, Norton-place,
Wednesday,, Scopwick, Friday,
.Stanfield Hall, Saturday,
Wickenby, 11—Mr. Ilellier'S hounds, Monday, Keswick toll-
. bar, Tuesday, Thornton, village, Thursday, North Willing-
ham, Saturday, Welton wood—Mr. Drake's hounds, Monday,
Weston-on-the-Green, Tuesday, Stratton-Audley, Thursday,
Stanton St. John, Saturday, WarkWorth village—Lord Re-
glesdale's hounds, Monday, Great Tew; Wedneday, Tar wood,
Thursday, Eyford,. Mustefs'S h6unds'' Monday,
Thurgarton,Wednesday, Oxtoh-j)ridge, yridey, Bth mile-stone
on the Mansfield. Road, 10i---,P,,ufford hounds, Monday, Kir-
ton village, Thursday,. Thoresby Park, Saturday, Ossing-
ton,".lo4.

The poor's rates for the parish of Lavenham
(Cosford Union) for the past year were about seven hundred
pounds. Previous to the enactment of the Poor-law Amend-
ment Act they sometimes moulted to that suni.for the
quarter.—Bury Post.