The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-28 00:00:00

Vice-President of the Board of irat' ,the Secretary to the
Postmaster-General, the Covernor and Deputy-Governor of
the Bank of England, tl_e Chairman of the Customs, the
Chairman and Deputy-Chairman of the Excise, the Chairman
and Deputy-Chairman of the Stampa and Taxes, the Chair-
man of the Audit Office, Mr. Greene, M.P., the Lords of the
Treasury, and the Secre!aries of the Treasury.
The Earl of Liverpool, as Lord Steward,gave a grand ban-
quet. in celebration of the Queen's birthday, at his residence,
Fife House, Whitehall, to a party of between forty and fifty of
the nobility and gentry.
Her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentleman-at-Arms had a full
dress dinner to celebrate the day.
The Queen gave a concert yesterday evening at Buckingham
Palace. The following was the programme
Part I.

Overture (Der Vampyr) Lindpaintner
Recit " Der Holle Selbst," Ilerr Pischek ( Faust) Spohr
Arie " Liebe ist die Zarte Bluthe" Herr
Pischek (Faust) Spoilt.
Gesang " Die Boths-chaft," Maddle. Rupplin Kucken
Cavatina, Madame Blaes Meerti (Catarina Cor-
naro) Lachner
Duet " Folg' dem Freunde mit vertrauen,"
Madlle. Rupplin and Herr Pischek (Faust) Spohr
Air " Nina julie et sage," Madame Thillon ( Ac-
teon)
Lied " Zaar and Zimmerman," Herr Oberhoffer Lortzing
Romanze de Blungini.—" Der Abschied des
Troubadours," voice, Madame Maillard ; Mayseder and
harp, M. Godefroid ; violin, Mr. Bla- Moscheles
grove ; and pianoforte, Mr. Moscholes
Part 11.

Duet—" Die Schwalben and der Jager,"
Madlle. Rupplin and Herr Oberhoffer........ Kucken
Air—" 0 mon Fernand," Madame Maillard.
(La Favorite)
Lied—" Die Fahnenwacht," Herr Pischek ;
harp obligato, M. Godefroid ..... Lindpaintner.
Fantasia sur des molifs des Bellini—Clarinet,
M. Blaes
Romance—" Dieu m'a conduit ver vous"—
Madame Blaes Meerti
Air Varid—" La Biondina"—Mad. Thillon Paer
Duet—" Jetzt alter ! jetzt hat es Eile"—Herr
Pischek and Herr Oberhoffer (Fidelio) Beethoven
Mr. Moscheles presided at the pianoforte.
Her Majesty's private band, under the direction of Mr.
Anderson, was in attendance, and accompanied the vocal music.

Donisetti

A PROPHECY for the OAKS, 1845.
In days of old when fervent spirits wrought,
And Delphe's Oracle the future taught,
When aged Seers, through darkest gloom of night,
Were gifted to foresee, like second sight,
Through chaos the events of coming strife,
When man 'gainst men was doom'd to wage his life,
And in old Trov Cassandra's voice wss heard,
Majestic with great mind a prophetess appeared.
Into the depths of darkness dared to pry,
With wond'rous wisdom show futnrity ;
But though Cassandra's visions are no more
And Delphe's shrine has crumbled to the shore,
And I am little skilled in Grecian lore,
But, following such bright examples great,
A humble scrawler seeks to emulate,
And dares the Pythian priestess imitate.
Greece, now debased, is not what once she was
When the Parthenon rang with loud applause ;
But to my theme—the Derby day is o'er,
'rho' many aching hearts the day deplore.
The Oaks remain some comfort to impart
To the desponding and the sick at heart ;
Their blighted prospects still may find relief
And bring a panacea for their grief.
Haste to the ring, from moody thoughts relieved,
The ruined fortunes yet may be retrieved,
For in the race see Hope is there to-day,
Let's trust that she the distance long will stay,
Tho' pressed by one whom children's taught to shun
The Witch of Lancashire the dangerous one ; -
But see, to snatch the frighten'd from despair,
The lovely, beauteous, Rose of fair Cashmere,
With Lady Wildair, and a virgin guide,
Called Miss Elis, Goodwood's joy and pride,
Aided in glittering armour, too remark,
The Maid of Orleans, glorious Joan of Arc.
" Though burnt by wicked Bedford for a witch,
Behold her statue placed in glory's nich ;"
And with them witness moving gallantly
Rogers' lively, laughing filly Glee.
The start is made, and up the hill they hie,
The Wild Rose making running recklessly;
Miss Elis doing all a maid should dare,
Yet cannot reach th' aristocrat Wildair;
The Persian Cashmere, dazzling and bright,
With generous ardour rushes to the fight,
To save her bosom friend from dire disgrace;
But she, alas 1 herself can't live the pace :
Hope will not aid her, and her course is o'tr,
Expiring nature can achieve no more.
And see who comes, urged on with gory spur,
That petted dame the Pride of Lancashire,
Orleans, heroic maid, so fleet of foot,
And Lady Wildair, now are coming out.
They run so close, one knows not which is which ;
Not Lancaster's, but wicked Bedford's witch,
First meets the unerring eye of Mr. Clarke.
The mist dispels, and nothing now is dark,
Lancaster's beauty and the proud Wildair,
Second and third will pass the Judge's chair.
Bicester, May 27, 1845

ESAU.

THE DERBY DAY.
(From Mr. D'lsraeli's " Sybil.")
" Will any one do anything about llybiscus ?" sang out a gentle-
man in the ring at Epsom. It was full of eager groups; round
the betting poat a swarming cluster, while the magic circle itself
was surrounded by a host of horsemen shouting from their saddles
the odds they were ready to receive or give, and the names of the
horses they were prepared to back or to oppose.
" Will any one do anything about Hybiscus ?"
" I'll give you five to one," said a tall, stiff Saxon peer, in a
white great coat.
" No; I'll take six."
"Seven to four against the favourite; seven to two against
Caravan; eleven to two against Mango. What about Benedict?
Will any one do anything about Pocket Hercules? Thirty to one
against Dardanelles."
" Done."

" Five and thirty ponies to one against Phosphorus," shouted a
little man vociferously and repeatedly.
" I will give forty," said Lord Milford. Nu answer—nothing
done.

" Forty to one !" murmured Egremont, who stood against Phos.
phorus. A little nervous, he said to the peer in the white great
coat, " Don't you think that Phosphorus may after all have some
chance ?.'

' I should be cursed sorry to be deep against him," said the peer.

Egremont with a quivering lip walked away. He consulted his
book; he meditated anxiously. Should he hedge? It was
scarcely worth while to mar the symmetry of his winnings; he
stood "so well" by all the favourites; and for a horse at forty to
one. No; he would trust his star, he would not hedge.
" Mr. Chippendale," whispered the peer in the white great coat,
"go and press Mr. Egremont about Phosphorus. I should not be
surprised if you got a good thing."
At this moment, a huge, broad-faced, rosy-gilled fellow, with
one of those good-humoured yet cunning countenances that we
meet occasionally on the northern side of the Trent, rode up to the
ring on a square cob, and dismounting entered the circle. He was
a carcase butcher, famous in Carnaby.market, and the prime coun-
cillor of a distinguished nobleman for whom privately he betted on
commission. His secret service to.day was to bet against his noble
employer's own horse, and so he at once sung out, "Twenty to one
against Man-trap."
A young gentleman just launched into the world, and who,proud
of his ancient and spreading acres, was now making his first book,
seeing Mantrap marked eighteen to one on the cards, jumped
eagerly at this bargain, while Lord Fitzheron and Mr. Berners, who
were at hand, and who in their days had found their names in the
book of the carcase butcher, and grown wise by it, interchanged a
smile.

" Mr. Egremont will not take," said Hump Chippendale to the
peer in the white great coat.
" You must have been too eager," said his noble friend.

The ring is up ; the last odds declared ; all gallop away to the
Warren. A few minutes, only a few minutes, and the event that
for twelve months had been the pivot of so much calculation, of
such subtle combinations, of such deep conspiracies, round which
the thought and passion of the sporting world have hung like eagles,
will be recorded in the fleeting tablets of the past. But what
minutes ! Count them by sensations and not by calendars, and
each moment is a day and the race a life. Hogarth in a coarse and
yet animated sketch has painted " Before.' and " After." A
creative spirit of a higher vein might develope the simplicity of
the idea with sublimer accessories. Pompeius before Pharsalla,
Harold before Hastings, Napoleon before Waterloo, might afford
some striking contrasts to the immediate catastrophe of their for-
tunes. Finer still the mariner who has discovered a now world;
the sage who has revealed a new planet ; and yet the " Before"
and " After" of a first-rate English race, in the degree of its ex-
citement, and sometimes in the tragic emotions of its close, may
vie even with these.

They are saddling the horses ; Caravan looks in great condition ;
and a scornful smile seems to play upon the handsome features of
Pavis, as in the becoming colours of his employer, he gracefully
gallops his horse before his admiring supporters. Egremont in the
delight of an English patrician scarcely saw Mango, and never
even thought of Phosphorus—Phosphorus, who, by the bye, was
the first horse that showed, with both his forelegs bandaged.

They are off I
As soon as they are well away, Chifney makes the running with
Pocket Hercules. Up to the Rubbing House he is leading; this
is the only point the eye can select. Higher up the hill, Caravan,
Hybiscus, Benedict, Mahometan, Phosphorus, Michell Fell, and
Rat-trap are on the grey, forming a front rank, and at the new
ground the pace has told its tale, for half a dozen are already out
of the race.
The summit is already gained ; the tactics alter : here Pavis
brings up Caravan with extraordinary severity—the pace round
Tottenham corner terrific ; Caravan leading, then Phosphorus a
little above him, Mahometan next, Hybiscus fourth, Rat-trap look-
ing badly, Wisdom, Benedict, and another handy. By this time
Pocket Hercules has had enough, and at the road the tailing grows
at every stride. Here the favourite himself is hors de combat, as
well as Dardanelles, and a crowd of lesser celebrities.
There are but tour left in the race, and of these, two, Hybiscus
and Mahometan, are some lengths behind. Now it is neck and
neck between Caravan and Phosphorus. At the stand Caravan
has decidedly the best, but just at the post, Edwards, on Phos.
phorus, lifts the gallant little horse, and with an extraordinary
effort contrives to shove him in by half a length.
" You look a little low, Charley," said Lord Fitzheron, as taking
their lunch in the drag he poured the champagne into the glass of
Egremont.

- -
" By Jove!" said Lord Milford, " Only think of Cockie Graves
having gone and done it I"

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
MONDAY, MAY 26.
The following Bills were read a first time :
Disc, Beccles, and Yarmouth Railway.
Goole and Doncaster Railway.
West London Railway.

Standing Orders Committee,—Resolutions reported ;
1. " That, in the case of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hast.
ings Railway (Hastings, Rye, and Ashford Extension) pea
Lion, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with :—That
the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill."
2. " That, in the case of the North Wales Railway peti-
tion for additional provision, the Standing Orders ought to
be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to intro-
duc such additional provision on proving to the Committee
on the Bill the consent of the owners of the lands through
which the proposed deviation is to be made."
3. "That, in the case of the Newport and Ponty Pool
Railway petition for additional provision, the Standing Or-
ders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be per-
mitted to introduce such additional provision, on proving to
the Committee on the Bill the consent of the owners, lessees,
and occupiers of the lands through which the proposed de-
viation is to be made." •
4. " That, in the case of the Guildford, Chichester, and
Portsmouth Railway petition for additional provision, the
Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the par-
ties be permitted to introduce such additional provision, on
proving to the Committee on the Bill the consent of the
owners, lessees, and occupiers of the lands through which
the proposed deviation is to be made."
5. "That, in the case of the Preston and 'Pyre Railway
petition for additional provision, the Standing Orders ought
to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to in-
troduce such additional provision, on proving to the Com-
mittee on the Bill the consent of the owners, lessees, and oc-
cupiers of the land through which the proposed deviation is
to be made."
6. " That, in the case of the Birmingham and Gloucester
Railway (Worcester Branch and Cheltenham Extension)
petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with:—
That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill on
omitting such clause or clauses as enable the Company to
sell or lease their Railway to the Midland Railway Com-
pany."
" That the Committees on this and the three preceding
Bills do examine, in the first place, how far such Orders have
been complied with, and do report the same to the House on
the report of the Bills."
7. " That, in the case of the North British Insurance
Company Bill, amendments on consideration of report, the
said amendments arc of such a nature as to justify the
House in entertaining them, if they shall think fit."
8. "That, in the case of the Athlone and Galway petition
for leave to present a petition for a Bill, the Sessional Order
ought not to be dispensed with."
9. "That in the case of the Southampton and Dorchester
Railway petition for additional provision, the Standing Or-
ders ought not to be dispensed with."
10. "That, in the case of the Sheffield Waterworks peti-
tion for additional provision, the Standing Orders ought to
be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to intro-
duce such additional provision."
11. " That, in the case of the Portarlington and Tullamore
Railway Petition, the Standing Orders ought not to be dis-
pensed with."
12. "That, in the case of the London and Brighton Rail-
way (Wandsworth Branch) petition, the Standing Orders
ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted
to proceed with their 1341."

First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, tenth, and twelft
resolutions agreed to.—Report to lie on the table.

Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway (Hastings, Rye,
and Ashford Ext;nsion),—Report (this day) from Select
Committee on Standing Orders read; lull ordered to be
brought in by Mr. Darby and Mr. Henry Fitzroy.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
Monkland and l.iirkintillocii Itaihvay,—Committee on Bill,
Tuesday, June 3, at twelve.
Select Committee on Group N. adjourned till Thursday,
May 29, at twelve.
Select Committee on Group A. adjourned till Wednesday,
May 28, at twelve.
Select Committee on Group Q., adjourned till Thursday,
June 5, at twelve.
Exeter and Crediton Railway,—Third reading, Wednes-
day, May 28.
Eastern Counties (Ely and Whittlesea Deviation) Rail-
wav,—Third reading. Wednesday, May 28.
Mill and Selby (Bridlington' Branch) Railway,—Third
reading, Wednesday, May 28.
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway,—Third read-
ing, Wednesday, May 28.
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway,---Third reading,
Wednesday, May 28.
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal,—Third
reading, Wednesday, May 28.
Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway,—Third reading,
Wedne day, May 28.
Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway,—Third read-
ing, Wednesday, May 28.
North \Vales Mineral Railway,—Report, Wednesday,
May 28.
Goole and Doncaster Railway,— Second reading, Friday,
May 30.
Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth Railway,—Second reading,
Friday, May 30.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway,—Report, Wednesday,
May 28.
Wilts, Somerset. and Weymouth Railway,—Third reading,
Thursday, May 29.
Berks and Hants Railway,—Third reading, Thursday,
May 29.
Select Committee on Group Mi., adjourned till Thursday,
May 29, at twelve.

TUESDAY. MAY 27.
Whitby and Pickering Railway,—Third reading, Friday,
May 30.
York and Scarborough Railway Deviation,—Third read-
ing, Friday, May SO.
York and North Midland Railway (Bridlington Branch),—
Third reading, Friday, May 30.
Ely and Huntingdon Railway,—Third reading, Thursday,
May 29.
Great Grirnsby and Sheffield Junction Railway,—Third
reading, Thursday, May 29.
London and Greenwich Railway,—Report, Thursday,
May 29.
Bull and Selby Railway (Bridlington Branch),—Third
reading, Thursday, May 29.
Exeter and Crediton Railway,—Third reading, Thursday,
May 29.
Eastern Counties ( Ely and Whittlesea Deviation),—Third
reading, Thursday, May 29.

THE LATE DREADFUL FIRE AT
RAGGETT'S HOTEL.

LOSS OF FIVE LIVES.

The following additional facts, collected from statements made
by the Earl of Huntingdon and other survivors, leave no doubt as
to the origin of the fire, and that five persons at least, viz., Mrs.
John Round, the lady of the Hon. Member for Mahlon, Essex;
Mr. Raggett, sen , the proprietor of the hotel; his daughter, Miss
Raggett, aged :7; Mss. Jones, a nurse in the service of the Earl
of Huntingdon ; and a servant woman, have perished by the sad
occurrence.

It appears that the hotel (which Is a very capacious one) was at
the time of the outbreak completely occupied by families, chiefly
from the country. The Earl and Countess of Huntingdon, with
their infant son, Lord Hastings, occupied the front drawing.room
on the first floor, and the corresponding rooms above for their ser-
vants, Mrs. Jones and the nursemaid, &c. The back drawing.
room was occupied by Mrs. John Round and her daughter (who
had only arrived there late on Monday afternoon from Brighton, to
be presented at Court as yesterday), and they had also a sitting-
room and other apartments on the second floor. Another suite of
apartments on the drawing-room floor were occupied by Mr.
Richard Poer King and his sister ; and beneath these were apart-
ments in the occupation of Lord Louth, the Hon. Col. Bouverie,
and other gentlemen ; the remainder of the building being de-
voted by Mr. Raggett to his own family and domestics, and those
of the families staying at the hotel.
Singular as it may appear, when the fire was first discovered, the
hotel had not [been closed for the night. Mr. Raggett and his
daughter retired to rest shortly before twelve o'clock, as did the
servants, with the exception of the head waiter and the cook, who,
as well as Mr. Raggett, jun., were sitting up for those inmates who
had not then returned home. Mrs. Round and her daughter had
bean to the St. James's Theatre to see the French plays, and the
Earl and Countess of Huntingdon to the Opera. Mrs. Round and
her daughter came home a few minutes after twelve, and retired to
her sitting-room, on the second floor, to partake of supper. They
had scarcely sat down when the head waiter, who had seen Miss
King whilst going up stairs entering her bed-room at the back of
the first floor, and who had again descended, was alarmed by
hearing screams of fire. On rushing up to the first floor land-
ing he met Miss King coming down in a distracted state, ex-
claiming that her bedroom was in flames, and that she feared
she had set fire to the bed-curtains. He found the whole
room in a blaze, and entrance impossible from the dense
smoke that issued from it. The screams had attracted
the attention of the inmates, and on his rushing up
the second.floor stairs he saw Mrs. Round on the land-
ing in the same dress in which she had arrived from
the theatre. He told her the house was on fire, and to make her
escape. He ran down stairs, supposing the lady to be following
him, and saw no more of her. Miss Round states that she was
with her mother at this time, and either from the smoke or fright
the lady fell on the stairs, but at the same moment a man caught
her up, saying he would save her ; and seeing her, as the sup.
posed safe, she ran back into the apartment occupied by her attend.
ant, but was unable to proceed down stairs, on account of the in.
tensity of the heat and smoke. She and Miss Raggett again went
back to the front room, and opened the window ; and when the
fire.escape arrived the fire was coming into the apartment. Miss
Raggett was the first to go out, but did so before the conductor
could get up, and fell on to the pavement and was killed. Miss
Round then got out, with her attendant, and effected their escape.
A minute or two before this occurrence a painful sight was wit.
flossed by the crowds which had already assembled. A poor fel-
low servant to Mr. King, was seen to make his appearance at an
adjoining window of the second floor to that from which Miss
Raggett fell. The flames were in the apartment, and in the hope
of immediate assistance, he got outside, and clung to the window.
sill for several minutes. The flames bursting through the win-
dow burnt his hands so dreadfully that he let go his hold, and fsrtu.
nately fell into the balcony, from which he ultimately managed,
with difficulty, to scramble into the street. About three or four
minutes prior to the cries of fire being raised, Lord Huntingdon
had arrived home, add his Lordship states that he had scarcely
put his hat down when he was startled by the alarm. His first
impulse was to run to the room where his son and servants were.
Mrs. Jones, the nurse, had heard the alarm, and was preparing to
dress the child, but his Lordship snatched his son from her arms,
and with the Countess ran out of the house, telling her to follow
him. He believed she did so, but returned for some article, and
must afterwards have mistaken the staircase, and got into one of the
back rooms, and out of the window, from the position in which
her body was found. The person whom Miss Round saw on the
landing with her mother is supposed to be Mr. Raggett, sett., from
the fact that the remains of the two bodies, when discovered yes.
terday, were found close together,
The rapidity and intensity of the firs may be accounted for from
the fact that the whole of the apartments were wainscoted, and
that there was three times as much wood in the building as is usual
in modern houses. Although, therefore, there were ten engines
in attendance within half an hour of the outbreak, and a plentiful
supply of water, the whole building, with the singular exception
of the sitting-room of Mrs. Round, which remains with the supper
things still standing en the table uninjured and untouched, was in
flames.

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also a frightful wound on her head, but her body was imme-
diately identified by Lord luntingdon. Ihe ruins were not suffi-
ciently cool to commence a search for the other bodies supposed to
be there until ten o'clock, when, at the earnest request of Colonel
Boucher, Colonel Rolt, and other relatives of Mrs. Round, some
of the brigade were induced to enter, and, after a short search,
they found what are supposed to be the remains of Mrs. Round,
lying on a part of the burnt flooring of the first floor, and close to
them the remains of another person, supposed to be those of Mr.
Itaggett. They presented a truly horrifying spectacle, scarcely
anything but the mere trunks remaining. They were placed in
shells, and conveyed to the workhouse of St. George's, Hanover.
square, in Mount-street, as was also that of Mrs. Jones. Miss Rag.
gett was conveyed to No. 8, Dover-street, exactly opposite the
hotel, where she died almost immediately after.
It appears that the Countess of Huntingdon has lost the whole
of her jewels, the estimated value of which his Lordship stated
yesterday to be as much as 3,0001. ; and those of the unfortunate
Mrs. Round and her daughter, which they intended to have worn
yesterday at the Drawing-room, are estimated at a much larger
sum, in addition to the plate. Mr. King, who is a merchant from
Bristol, had, in one of his apartments, a large and valuable chest
of plate, supposed to be destroyed.
Mrs. Round's family had, up to the discovery of:the bodies, enter-
tained a hope that the unfortunate lady had escaped.
Her Majesty had herself witnessed the progress of the flames
from the Palace, and a messenger was at an early hour sent to
inquire into the extent of the damage.
In the report made last evening by Mr. Braidwood, he attributes
the rapid progress of the fire to the fact that the whole of the doors
were thrown open, and thus a free current of air tended to in-
crease the flames. The inquest on the bodies is expected to take
place this evening.
A singular circumstance in connexion with this shocking affair
occurred yesterday afternoon, about two o'clock. Lord Hunting-
don came to Inspector Aggs and asked if it was safe to enter the
drawing-room on the first floor, as he remembered that in his
flight he had left a valuable gold watch on the mantelpiece. He
was referred to the firemen, one of whom his Lordship accom-
panied up the ladder and through the window into the apartment,
and shortly after returned, having found the watch in the fender,
partially melted.
Prior to taking apartments at Raggett's Hotel, on Monday even-
ing, Mrs. Round and her daughter applied at Mivart's, but that
establishment was full.
Too much praise cannot be given to the police, under Superin-
tendent B, resford and Inspector Aggs, for the efficient aid they
afforded the firemen in their arduous and dangerous duties ; and it
is also a gratifying fact to mention, that Lord George Cavendish,
the Hon. Charles Cavendish, and several other noblemen, during
the raging of the fire, exerted themselves vigorously, in the cause
of humanity.
/ The loss of property is estimated at little short of 30,0004

TROTTING MATCH AGAINST TIME. -- An extra-
ordinary horse (of the sort, having been engaged for the last two
years in drawing a bricklayer's cart), belonging to a respectable
tradesman of Eton, was backed two months ago to trot five miles
in seventeen minutes, for 501. The match came off' on Monday
evening, on Hartford bridge Flat. A great number of persons
from the towns of Windsor and Eton, and the adjacent districts,
were present. The betting for some days previously was two to
asnedvewnateseninmexiLeitlesenatncdontdwiteionnty,-wfiraes
one on time, and very large sums changed hands upon the issue of
the event. The horse (rising
. six years, and fifteen hands high),
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by
performedyi l Ctraatlo' 're d,. :na professional jockey from town. The
sfiecveonmdisle;sthe backers of time thus winning, and to a very large
amount. The horse, which was somewhat "hustled" by the
horsemen pressing upon him, did not once break into a gallop
distance.
throughout the whole ln its trials it had performed the
five miles within the time with apparent ease, thus inducing the
presumed knowing ones to back him to a large amount.
I isps GRACE THE LORD PRIMATE.—We are sin-
to have it in our power to state, in the most positive
cmeraeninYerh,altrat there is not the slightest foundation for a rumour put
forth in an Evening Paper, of the sudden demise of the Most Re-
verend Prelate in the forenoon of yesterday. His Grace was at
her Majesty's Drawing.room in the afternoon, dined subsequently
with the Lord Bishop of London, and retired to rest at his usual
hour, and, we rejoice to add, in his usual state of health.—Punt.