The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 12, 1844.

more our manufacturers are employed," said he, " the
more corn and food they require; and the better
' prices we (the growers) shall receive." Granted,—
if the Legislature, meanwhile, will only discharge the
first and most imperative duty which j ustice, feeling, and
the safety of the empire alike require; namely, so
amend our existing monetary system;—so to remodel
and ameliorate the currency as to make it perform the
hitherto neglected function of distribution to the poor
and labouring classes, whose condition at present
deteriorates, from day to day, in the inverse ratio of
manufacturing production and of the accumulation of
capital in the kingdom. Let us hear Mr. TAYLOR fur-
ther on this very point; for to that, we find, his state-
ments and his reasoning irresistibly tend. We could
not desire a more convincing argument for the change in
the currency, which we contend ought immediately to
be adopted with regard to issuing Government paper,
convertible into Bank notes or gold or silver, at the
market value of bullion, to the extent of our present taxa-
tion. That extent or amount, be it remembered, is
neither allowed for by the manufacturer in•wages to his
workmen, nor represented by the convertible cur-
rency exclusively legalised, and abridged to the arbi-
trary gold standard of PEEL'S Bill of 1819:—" In
1815 wheat was down to 635. Bd. per quarter on the
average; and the landowners, considering, then, that
it could not be grown for less than 80s. per quarter,
passed a law prohibiting importation when the price
was below that sum. Then the ruin of the tenant-
farmer and the labourer commenced; and mark—
during the operation of this corn-law PEEL'S Cur-
rency Bill was passed."
It might be imagined impossible to enhance the
enormity of the injustice, worked by such a statute,
passed under such circumstances, at such a period.
Nothing, however, is more certain than that the very
next illustEtion,' supplied by the same speaker, does
greatly exaggerate its oppressive injustice. Want of
space compels us here, for the present, to break off.
With the abstract which we shall publish to-morrow
of the proceedings, the speeches delivered, &c. at
that meeting, we shall probably recur to the subject.

It is now some three or four years since a proposi-
tion was brought forward in the House of Commons,
and agreed to, for the formation of a public park at
the east-end of the metropolis, to be entitled " Vic
toria Park." Not a few ad captandum speeches were
made on the occasion ; and those, in particular, who
introduced the measure, took credit to themselves
for the kindly feeling by which they were actuated,
in endeavouring to provide for the health and re-
creation of those immense masses of the London
population who dwell eastward of Temple-bar,
in the remote regions of Shoreditch, White-
ehapel, Mile-end, Bethnal-green, &c., in whose vici-
nity the park was proposed to be located. 'Three or
four years, we repeat—probably more—have elapsed
since this useful measure received the sanction of
Parliament, and from that period to the present it
would appear that not a single decisive step has been
taken with a view to carry it into effect. The matter

remains in precisely the same state in which it was
when it was first broached in the House of Commons ;
and there, we suppose, it will be permitted to remain,
unless an active stir be made on the subject, for the
majority of those interested in the completion of the
park, are a poor, hard-working class, weavers,
small: mechanics, and such like, who are utterly
without means and influence to press their claims on
the kindly consideration of the Legislature, with any
chance of success. By the following paragraph, which
we quote from a Morning Contemporary, it will be
seen that we have not been speaking without warrant,
but that " Victoria Park" is still among the things
that are yet to be :—" Notwithstanding the eager
anticipations of the inhabitants of the eastern division
of the metropolis, of the commencement of operations
for the formation of the park early in the present
spring, these are disappointed by the Crown having

actually given permission to the market-gardeners to

continue in occupation and plant their lands, IA hich
were lately purchased, for six months longer. The
inhabitants naturally consider that the want of funds
cannot be the reason of this strange delay, as the
Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in their report
of 1842, state that they had received 100,0001. from
the sale of York House, which they had invested in
Exchequer bills, and their report of 1843 further

states that it remains there invested, for the purpose

required, in the hands of trustees." It is clear
from the above paragraph that little or nothing
of moment will be done towards the formation
of the park this year, at least ; for six months hence
the fitting period for such out-door work will in
a great measure have passed away; the fine long days
of summer will be at an end, and the rain and gloom

of confirmed autumn will have set in. Really this
long delay is quite inexcusable, the more so when we
consider how imperative is the necessity that exists
for a healthy, open place of recreation at the east
end of the metropolis. The inhabitants of that
quarter have no airy and cheerful green fields lying
within a short walking distance of them, such as is
the case in the northern district of London ; they have
no spacious and salubrious parks, such as the west-end
can boast of; but are shut up in narrow, crowded streets,
and lanes and alleys, which stretch away to an almost
interminable distance. Here and there, to be sure,
they may get sight of a thing growing in a miserably
small, old-fashioned square, and calling itself a tree,
but which looks rather like a quiz upon vegeta-
tion ; but with this rare exception, they can see
nothing to remind them of the country, and
have no possible chance of gulping in a mouth-
ful of fresh, unadultQrated air, unless they stroll

away to a disellece of some miles from their
homes. As for the west-end parks, they are
scarcely to be reached without fatigue, except through
the agency of an omnibus—and sixpences, we fear,
do not abound among the poor, toiling artisans of
Bethnal-green and Whitechapel ; and the cheerful
sylvan uplands of Hampstead in the north, and of
Brixton in the south, are still more remote, and con-
sequently inaccessible, localities. Under these cir-
cumstances, the formation cf a park, wherein they
may stroll at leisure on sunny summer evenings
or on Sundays, becomes not merely a luxury,
but a matter of absolute necessity, to the hard-
worked, ill-fed, and scantily paid artisans of the east-
end of London, who are numbered not by thousands
but by tens of thousands ; and we do hope that Go-
vernment will take their case promptly into consi-
deration, and if a " Victoria Park" is to be formed
at all, give directions to have it formed immediately.
When a National Gallery, or any other luxury
is required for the embellishment and convenience
of the fashionable west-end, not an instant's
time is lost in setting to work at it ;
Committees of Taste are appointed, and the
matter becomes quite an affair of moment; but when
a park is proposed for the use of a poor, plebeian,
unfashionable district, whose inhabitants have no
other means of obtaining fresh air and exercise; then,
after the first mooting of the question and the first
flourish of patriotic trumpets in Parliament, the
affair is allowed to drop quietly out of notice,
and no man seems to think it worth his while
'to revive it. This should not be ; to say the least of
it, it is ungenerous and impolitic ; and we do hope
that those officials who have a voice in the matter,
will bear in mind that the poor mechanics at the
teoasht -aevnedof the
their intmereetsrtoconsultedlishave
ve quiteas those as
muchwli o ridwellg:h
at the west-end, and who claim, in consequence, the
privileges and consideration due to their unquestioned
respectability.

Madrid papers of the 3d have been received, but
as usual they contain no news.
The Gazette publishes a dispatch from General
RONCALI, which seems a duplicate of one trans-
mitted some ten days previous. It is dated Fe-
bruary 28, and states, " that the insurgents had on
that day made a sortie, under cover of the fort of
San Fernando, but met with such a warm reception
that they were soon obliged to re-enter, under
protection of the fort, leaving behind them several
killed and wounded. The heavy artillery was land-
ing, and every preparation making for bombarding
the city of Alicant."

The QUEEN-MOTHER WAS expected at Albacete, on
the 10th instant. Great preparations were going on
at different places for her reception.
The Three per Cents. were done at 301 at 60
days ; the Five per Cents. at 228 at 60 days ; and
the floating debt at 51 at 60 days.

We have received Paris papers of Friday and Sa-
turday. The affair of Otaheite, and the subscriptions
for a sword to the gallant Admiral, still excite

some interest. The conduct of the students of the
Polytechnic School, in favouring the subscription has
been condemned by the masters ; and the delin-
quents, as a punishment, are to be confined within
doors for fifteen days. The testimonial is also re-
ceiving support in other quarters ; and, according to
some accounts, subscription-lists have been opened
in the ranks of the national guards, and even the
troops of the line. No one will suffer more from
this foolish display, and none, probably, will regret
it more, than Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS, and he
will be placed in the painful position of offending
the Government, or the subscribers. The following
are extracts from the papers :
On Saturday the Chamber of Deputies again anulled the
election of M. Charles Laffitte, and the discussion of the re •
port on the petitions against the Paris fortifications was con-
tinued.

The French Government has received the following tele-
graphic dispatch :---
" PERPIGNAN, MARCH 7.—The entry of Queen Christina
into Barcelona on the 4th was a triumph; there was great
enthusiasm, and the town was magnificently illuminated.
The fetes were continuing the day before yesterday. Her
Majesty was to leave this day or to-morrow by land for Tar-
ragona, there to embark in the Lavoisier for Valencia.—The
municipal elections of Valencia were known on the 3d. The
Moderados had gained the upper hand."
The Journal des Chemins de Fer states that at a meeting
of the Cabinet Council, held on Friday, the Ministry decided
that the Orleans and Tours Railway Bill and the Paris and
Chartres Railway Bill should be presented to the Chambers
without delay.
" We have learned," says the Patric," that some Italian emi-
grants resident in Paris, such as Lieut.-General Pepe, General
Busi, Count Mamianic, and Lovatelli, Amari, Canalli, Crema,
Leopardi, Montalegie, Roberchi, and Gonna, were this day
sent for to the Prefecture of Police. M. Delapor informed
them, that the French Government was acquainted with the
intrigues of M. Mappini, Chief of La Jeune Italie, for produc-
ing an insurrection in Italy, and he, as a friend, advised
them to abstain from taking any part in acts by which they
might be compromised."
"The Augsburgh Gazette gives the following from Posen,
25th ult. :—The fate of the Russo-Polish refugees is decided.
This morning about two-thirds of them were sent under escort
to Magdeburg. The remainder will follow in a few days,
with the exception of a few who have received permission to
stay until the end of March. Amongst the persons affected
by the measure are the Count de Plater, who has always re-
sided here in a very retired manner, and who recently pur-
chased an estate in the Grand Duchy; the rich Count de
Potocki, son-in-law of Count Edward de Razzinhi ; Count
Eugene Breza ; and M. do Luszewski, who is the owner of
two houses in Posen."

With the exception of the Five per Cent. Stock,
the Funds on Saturday continued firm.

THE BOURSE,-SATuRDAy, MARCH 9.

First Highest Lowest

Price Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. ex dlv 122 65= .. 122 65 .. 122 40 .. 122 45
Four-and-a-Half. .. • 110 50 . • 110 50 .. 110 50 .. 110 50
Four per Cents. .. • . 104 50 . • 105 .. 104 50 .. 105
Three per Cents 82 90 .. 82 90 .. 82 80 .. 82 80
Bank of France....... 3265 —3265 ..3265 ..3265
Latlltte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesllos ..1105 .. 1105 .. 1105
5,000 f. BharessoBs ..5085 ..5085 —5085
Belgian Fives ..•...-
1840 ........ 1081 .. 1081 .. 1081 .. 1081
1842
Spanish Active •• • ...
Passive 6l • • 61 .. 61 .. 6/
Threes ............ 37 .. 37 . • 361 .. 36/
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 461 .. 46/ .. 461 .. 461
Neapolitan-- • ... 102 40 .. 102 60 .. 102 40 .. 102 60
Roman

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain ........ ..
Versailles, R.B.
L.B. 175 .. 175 .. 172 50 •• 172 50
Rouen 865 .. 872 50 .. 865 .. 670
Rouen to Havre.

Orleans
Strasburg to Bale • ..... • . 245 .. 245 • • 243 75 . • 243 75
Avignon to Marseilles.... 775 .. 775 • • 771 25 .. 771 25
RAILWAY SHARES, FOR TIIE ACCOUNT.
St. Germain .......• ••.• • • 830 .. 832 50 .. 830 .. 832 50
Versailles, HAL.... .• ••• • • . 380 .. 385 .. 380 .. 385
L. 8....... ••• • • . 172 50 .. 175 • • 172 50 .. 175
Rotten 870 .. 877 50 .. 870 .. 877 50
Rouen to llavre.
Orleans ........• •• • •
Strasburg to Ilal.
Avignon to Marseilles • . 775 .. 780 .. 771 25 .. 775

The Earl of RADNOR presented a petition from the

county of Somerset, praying for the removal of all du
ties on the necessaries of life, and a revision of the
whole system of taxation. A few remarks, which the

Noble Earl made on presenting the petition, led to a

little discussion, in which Lord PORTMAN said he was an
amphibious animal, and had taken part neither with the
League nor the Anti-League. He was, however, op-
posed to a total repeal of the corn•laws, but did not ap-
prove of the sliding scale, and trusted that the contend-
ing parties would be disposed to meet upon his view of
the question. After a few remarks from the Duke of

WELLINGTON, the Duke of RICHMOND denounced the
proceedings of the League in strong terms. Some other
Lords spoke on the subject, but as there was no motion
before the House, the discussion led to no result.

On the motion of Lord BROUGHAM, the Privy Counci
Appellate Jurisdiction Bill was referred to a Selec
Committee.

A brief conversation ensued, relative to the new
Houses of Parliament, from which it appeared that it
would not be possible to fit up the Houses with perma-
nent fittings by next session.
In answer to a question from Lord GIFFORD, relative
to the Rev. Mr. MARSH,

The Bishop of PETERBOROUGH (Dr. Davys) said the
Church Discipline Act prevented him from punishing
any offence committed two years before, or out of the
diocese. (What a humane act!) The reverend offender,
however, had been prohibited from performing any ser-
vice in the diocese.
The House adjourned at Half-past Seven.

In the House of Commons, Mr. O'CONNELL gave no-
tice that, on an early day after the recess, he should move
fur leave to bring in aßill to define the law of conspiracy.

Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD gave notice that, on the
second reading of the Commons'lnclosure Bill, he should
move that it be read a second time on that day six
months.

In answer to a question from Mr. ESCOTT, Mr. Con-
DEN said he would bring on his motion relative to the
effects of protective duties this day.
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,

the Report on the Three-and• a-Half per Cents. Annui-
ties Acts was brought up, and the resolutions were
agreed to.

On the Report of the Committee of Supply being
brought up, Capt. BEnxiL moved for a copy of any letter
or correspondence which had taken place between
the Secretary-at-War and the widow of Colonel Faw-
CETT, relative to the withholding of her pension. After
giving a brief history of duelling, and mentioning some
great names who had set the example to Colonel Few-
cETT, he expressed a hope that the Right lion. Gentle
man would reverse his decision, and not visit the sins of

the husband upon his widow. Sir HENRY HARDINGE,
in reply, pointed out one or two cases in which pensions
had been refused under similar circumstances. The
papers, however, would be produced ; but he could not
hold out any hopes that the pension would be granted,
as there were many reasons for not acceding to it, which
might not exist in other cases. Other Member& fol
lowed, and among them Sir CHARLES NAPIER, who
made a good and amusing speech on the subject.
The only remedy, he said, was to legalise
duelling, and pass a law that all duels should
be fought across a table ; that one pistol only should be
loaded, and that the survivor should be hanged. The
resolution was ultimately withdrawn.

On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduction Bill was
ordered to be read a second time this day, and the
House adjourned at Nine o'clock.

A Bill has been brought into the House of Commons
for improving the Church Establishment in Scotland,
by disjoining and dividing extensive or populous parishes,
and erecting new parishes suited to the religious wants
of the people. Anything like improvement in that
excellent Church we hail with unmixed delight. It is
the cheapest, and we may add, what is more to its credit,
the most useful ecclesiastical institution in any part of
the world ; and if its beneficial influence can be increased
by any new Legislative act, all good men will rejoice in
the result. In many parts of the country there are
Parishes of such a vast extent that the clergyman can-
not by the utmost exertion give religious instruction
or perhaps what is of more effect, show a good example,
to his parishioners. Some of the Highland parishes
extend from forty to sixty miles in length, the population
is so thin and scattered that Dissenting clergymen could
not find subsistence among them, and the consequence is
they are left almost entirely without instruction,
and what they get is of the very worst kind. They
have no schools that arc really useful ; they have no
church within their reach; they flock once or twice
a-year, travelling fifteen or twenty miles, to the nearest
church, to attend the Sacrament; but in this they per-
form neither a religious nor a moral duty, for one-half
they hear they do not understand, and the other half
only excites some wild fanatical ideas, which neither
improve their morals nor give them any correct no-
tions of religion. The Lord Advocate, therefore, de-
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clergymen as the only real instructors, and to have for-
gotten the most useful class in Scotland—the teachers
of the rising generation. A minister, without a school-
master, is the most useless animal in existence ; yet in
the whole of this Bill not the slightest allusion
is made to parish schools. Of what use is it to send a
minister among a people who are ignorant of the
first rudiments of knowledge ? It is only casting seed
on waste land which springs up and is choked by rank
weeds. If Mr. M•NEILL had consulted any practical
man on the subject, the answer would have been—
"Begin with the beginning. Send schoolmasters among
the people, who would be passing rich with forty pounds
a year—lnstil into their minds some knowledge of

reading, and writing, and arithmetic, and the history of
their country, but on no other condition send a clergy-
man among them." Each clergyman is to receive 120/.
a year, no great sum; but the question is whether it
might not be better applied, and whether three school-
masters would not be a greater blessing than one
clergyman. But even admitting the use of the Church
Establishment, why not adhere to the old system, which
has done so much for Scotland. It is quite an anomaly
in that country to have a parish church without a pa-
rish school, and if the Bill is not materially altered in
this respect, it will give no satisfaction either to Church-
men or laynen. But this measure is only in keeping
with the Tory rage of the day. The cry is, not for more
knowledge, more sound principles of right and wrong,
more sound, religious, and moral doctrines but for
more Church, as if a steeple and bells, and a sermon
once a week would chace away ignorance, and make
the community happy. In our opinion, all these para-
phernalia have only the contrary effect. They are in-
tended only to mislead the people for the interest of the
Church, or make them subservient to State purposes.
Church extension, by itself, is only a wild delusion or a
wicked scheme, for enslaving the working classes. The
political and religious principles of the men who shout
loudest for' Mother Church " can leave no doubt as to
their object.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
There was a quieter market this afternoon for the
English investments, the rates of the morning, however,
being fully supported. Consols were 98* to .1.
The Spanish Market wore a little flatness, the Actives
leaving off at 25* to *, and the Three per Cents. at 35*
to 1. Mexican also did not quite sustain the rise, being
36 to *. Brazilian for Account advanced to 82 and 83.
Chilian were firm at 104*. Portuguese Converted
realised 461 ; and Russian 117. Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. rose to 57, the ne.v finance laws adopted on
Friday by the States• General of Holland being calcu-
lated, it is presumed, to consolidate the credit of the
country.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these .—Birmingham and Gloucester New were 3;
Bristol and Exeter, 1*; Ditto and Gloucester, 13 ; East-
ern Counties Extension, 1 ; Great 'Western, 37 ; Ditto
New, 20} 4 ; Birmingham, 138 ; Manchester and Leeds,
46 ; Ditto New, 21; Northern and Eastern, 121; Rouen
and Havre, 61 ; and Yarmouth and Norwich, 7* prem.
Brighton, 6 to 51 ; Blackwall, 10 to 104 ; Greenwich,
7+ ; Ditto Preference, s ; and South Eastern, 141 dis.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
This is the first day appointed in the resolutions of the
House of Commons to receive notice of dissent from the
holders of the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities, to the
scheme of conversion propounded by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer on Friday last, but up to the hour which heads
this article not one inscription has been made in the book
provided for that purpose in the chief cashier's office.
A considerable amount of business has been transacted in
the Consol Market this morning, and all in favour of a rise
in prices. This indicates a feeling that the Government
proposition will tend to enhance the value of the Three per
Cents. For Money, as well as for the Account, the price of
Consols has been 98k to 94 The Commissioners bought
21,300/. Consols at 98a. The New Three-and-a-Half per
Cents. have been done at 1021 and 104 Exchequer Bills
at 71s. to 725. premium, and Reduced Annuities, with the
dividend, at 99.
Pursuant to promise, the agents for the Republic of
Mexico have advertised the half-year's dividend that remained
unpaid on 11th October,lB.l.3, they having now in hand most
ample means to do so. By the last West India steamer, the
actual amount received for the dividend fund was 130,500 dol-
lars. There are assurances held out of the punctual payment of
the interest upon Mexican Stock for the future, and the con-
sequence is, that the prices of the Bonds have continued to
advance. The Old Five per Cents. have improved since
Saturday from 354 to 364, and the Deferred from 144 to 15.
For Spanish Stock the price receded from 2511 to 234, and
the Three per Cents. from 354 to 354. Dutch Stock keeps
up, and Belgian have been sold at 104 Chilian Deferred
are at 50; Brazilian at S 1; Peruvian at 30; and Colombian,
ex Venezuela, at 14Z.
A vast amount of business has been done againte-day in the
Railway Share Market, but prices are scarcely so firm as they
were on Saturday.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 9.—We have had a
very buoyant market to-day, and a considerable business has
been done at the quotations :—Eastern Counties, 114 to
9-16ths ; Ditto Perpetual, 1/. 9s. 10d. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow
Quarters, 15*- ; Manchester and Birmingham, 44i ex div.
Paris and Orleans, 341; Sheffield and Manchester 69k
South Western One .Eighth Shares, 4* ; Manchester Assur
ante, 10*.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
_. ............ ..... Indian Stock — In•
3 per Cent. Red PO Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. Cons. ......... 98% !Ditto 014 Annuities
3% per Cent. Mel ...... ... Ditto New Annuities —
,BE 'Lai jpn
kii Bills,
ttiool
StocklssSbno'lal, 00); .A. . .Ic. NC' t. d.. :
19177 %- 713Ppinmm:.
New 3% per Cent
LoNerigsApnenr
Annuities to
expire I—°N
Jan. 1860
Oct. 1839 — Consols for Acct 1'833
Jan. 1860 — India Stock for Acct.... 28i
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian. 5 per Cent ..... .... ;Portuguese, 5 per Cent
Belgian, 5 per Cent IN% Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... ;Russian, 5 per Ccnt ll7
Chllian, 6 per Cent ..„....„.. 101 Ditto, Metallic _
Colombian, 6 per Cent_ IS% Spanish, 5 per Cent —
Ditto, 1824 Ditto, 3 per Cent —
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent 93 !Ditto, Deferred l4 ii
D.:nish, 3 per Cent - (French, 5 rer Cent —t. —c.
Greek, 16.5, 5 per Cent — Exchange —f. --c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837. — Dutch, 2% per Cent 57
Peruvian, 1E25, 6 per Cent... 'Ditto, 5 per Cent lOl%
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) B3 •
Ditto New (17% daid)
Bristol and Exeter (.0 paid) 7l
Eastern Counties (23 paid)
11
Ditto New (25 pain)
131%
1
Great Western (75 paid)
112534
Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) .....
Ditto Extension (Ws.
(41dri.v.ntipa.1(,41,gildesi)..
70%
Ditto t itths (12 paid)... ..........
,611::::::1) .....
10%
Lon Jon and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Blackwall (161. 135. 411) t %
London and Birmingham (Stock)
(131. 17s. 2d. pd) 23818
paid) ~, 82
4
London London
ilLitt
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Eighthsaann Preferencedd Greenwich South
,svvsor
rppaid
Western
er
Lancaster and Carlisle ( S paid)....
Manchester and Leeds go paid) ll6
Ditto 'slew Shares (30 paid)
Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid)
Northern and Eastern (41 paid)
Paris and Orleans (20 paid) .......
" $
Paris and Rouen (20 paid)
Rouen and 'Havre (_ ,J paid)
my
23
South
Yarmouth
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paid)
.......... 3 i

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday morning
in the Royal Gardens of Buckingham Palace. Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out, on horseback
Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
yesterday.
Ladyhifeil Prince Albert, yesterday
Majesty
Waiting, dined with her
evening, at Buckingham Palace.
Ladyeesrt
yFßaoanynna
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at
Gloucester House.
Lieut.-Colonel Johnson had an interview with Lord Stan-
ley yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mr. Butler had also an
interview with his Lordship yesterday.
Sir Robert H. Inglis transacted business yesterday at the
Home-office. . •

.....
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. Dispatches
were also received yesterday from the Governor of the Mau-
ritius.

'S
-YESTERDAY.
SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
10 to 1 agst Col. Cradock's Pagan
TA.TTERcSIAIELsLTEit
cup.
14 to 1 agst Mr. Milbank's Sir Robert—taken
17 to 1 agst Mr. Bristow's Pharaoh
27 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Deer
30 to 1 agst Mr. Stebbing's Celeste—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. llesseltine's The Prior
30 to 1 agst Mr. Tuting's Tacita
35 to 1 agst Mr. Stanley's Vakeel—taken
1000 to 20 agst Mr. Mostyn's General Pollock—taken
So little notice was bestowed upon this race that were it
not for the disappearance of the Prior from the commanding
position he so long held in the quotations, our task would be
simply to return the market prices of a very select list of fa-
vourites. His retreat is the effect of some operations in Lan-
cashire, where certain parties have suddenly discovered that
he is troubled with divers infirmities, to which his late and
present owners appear to have been strangers, and who, odd
as it may read, insist that he is perfectly sound, and fit.
Without hazarding an opinion as to the degree of credibility
attachable to the rumours afloat, we may venture to interpret
them as suggestive of caution to those not in the " secret,"—
he may be "a cripple," and he may see 12 to 1 again • in either
case no one who watched the Chester Cup betting last year
need be surprised.

DERBY.
13 to 2 agst Mr. Crockford's Rattan—taken
7 to 1 agst Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck—taken
16 to I agst Col. Peel's Orlando
20 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's T'Auld Squire—t. and aft, off.
20 to 1 agst Mr. Quin's Loadstone
22 to I agst Lord Maidstone's Cockamaroo
25 to 1 agst Mr. A. Wood's Running Rein
35 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Apprentice
40 to 1 agst Mr. Onglev's King of the Gipsies—taken
500 to 8 agst Mr. Scott's Sister to Grey Momus colt—t.
2000 to 25 agst Mr. Bradshaw's Sir Isaac—taken
1000 to 10 agst Lord Orford's Boots—taken freely
3000 to 25 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Akbar—taken.
The betting at the commencement was eminently calcu-
lated to increase the alarm of those who stand on The Ugly
Buck ; 600 to 100 was taken about his Newmarket rival ;
300 to 100, four or five times, between the two and the field ;
and almost at the same moment, 15 to 2 laid to 501. agst The
Buck, half a point less, looking at the 3 to 1 bets, than the
real market price. As the afternoon advanced a different
feeling was evinced, and at the close of the room 13 to 2
was laid agst Rattan, and 7 to 1 was hardly obtainable
about the other. Offers to take 22 each about T'Auld Squire
and Leander, and 25 to 1 about Cockamaroo, and 40 to 1
about Apprentice. 1,000 to 25 was taken about The King of
the Gipsies ; 2,000 to 30 and 2,000 to 25, three or four times,
about Sir Isaac ; 1,000 to 10 freely about Boots ; 500 to 8
about the Sister to Grey Momus colt ; 1,000 to 35 about
Mr. Ford's lot ; 1,000 to 15 about Lord George Bentinck's
lot ; 1,000 to 10, three or four times, about Boots ; and 3,000
to 25 agst Akbar. 300 even between Campanero and lonian.

OAKS. -•
11 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Barricade—taken
12 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's The Bee—t.
16 to 1 against Lord Westminster's Fanny Eden
17 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Boarding School

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A BLANK DAY WITH SIR JOHN COPES FOXHOUNDS.
—The meet on Saturday last was at Temple House, Birham,
near Great Marlow, the residence of 'l'. P. Williams, Esq.,
M.P. for that borough, where a splendid luncheon had been
prepared for Sir John Cope and his friends. After drawing
the several great covers at Mr. Clayton's, around Clay Hall,
near Hurley, B
blank, the pack was then taken towards Twy-
ford, then to Mr. ulkeley's at Hare Hatch, and nearly to
Wargrave, and thence all around to Lawrence Waltham, and
although between 40 and 50 covers were drawn, extending
over a large portion of the county of Berks, not so much as
the ghost of a fox was found during the whole of the day up
to four o'clock in the afternoon, when the flack returned to
kennel.