The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-06 00:00:00

DECIMAL COINAGE

A MEETING of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
was held yesterday, Mr. Boucu in the chair, when the
following petition was agreed to, and a sub-committee
appointed to aid in carrying out the views expressed in it :
" To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain
now in Parliament assembled.

"We, the undersigned inhabitants of Liverpool, most
respectfully state that, setting a high value upon any

measure tliat will simplify accounts, render mist,
frequent, abridge the time necessary for education
save labour to both master and scholar, learned with g

.es less
a, and

satisfaction that a committee of your honourable house was
appointed last session to take evidence as to the advantages
that would arise from having a decimal system of coinage,
and that the committee so appointed, after examining

sses. unanimously and most u: gently
And your memo-
eat not only
ersally and with-

rialists, considering it would confer a

on the Country, but upon all class

most respectf

dly urgeits being carried into

,asdom or government may seem best
,ossible delay. And your memorialists aril

OLD OAK CIIEST.—An American paper says,
death occurred in this city on the 10th inst
Spanish mother missed her child only a year old. •

apposed that it lost it 4f in the streef, and advertised for
it, but could learn nothing. On the 13th she had occasion
to open her camphor•wood trunk, and there lay her child,
It had fallen into the trunk, and, in trying to get
milled down the lid, which closed with a spring and
that the child was smothered
.to death."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

'ATTERSALL'S.-THIIESDA.Y

CHESTER CUP. 1554

Friday was in considerable force. After 1,000 to 13 had
been taken about him several times, be advanced to I,olio to
20 (taken); but towards the close a party connected with the
stable dropped in-and offered to bet any part of 10,000 to 150
against him, or any other of William Day's lot. 3,000 to 45
was laid, in the aggregate, against Little' Harry; 1,000 to 15
each against Happy, Newininster, and Defiance, and 1,000 to
10 against King Pepin.

GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP
30 to I offered on the field.
TIIE DERBY, 1854.

6 to 1 repeatedly offered against Autocrat ; 25 to 1 taken to
£5O about Linn), ; 1,000 to 30 Boiarclo ; 40 to 1 to £75 about
Hesse Cassel, and the same odds wanted about Meteora.

THE OAKS, 1854.
450 to 100 apt Mr. J. Scott's Meteora—taken.
The room was very thinly attended,

BETTING AT MANCHESTER

TRIDAN

There was a very meagre attendance to-day, and speculation
was extremely dull; the only transactions we noticed were

as follows

WOLVERHAMPTON SLEEPLE CHASE.
3to 1 asst Mr. S. Darling's Bourton—taken to .425,
CHESTER CUP, 1854.
500 to 8 agat Mr. A. Nichol's Newminster—taken.
500 to 5 Mr. H. Hill's Dr. O'Toole—taken.
2000 to 20 Virago—taken,

THE DERBY. 1854.
7to 1 agst Mr. R. E. Cooper's Autocrat—taken
25 to 1 Mr. J. Adkin's Ruby—taken.
25 to 1 Lord Derby's Acrobat—taken.

40 to 1

50 to 1
1000 to 20

Mr. J. Bull's Curin—taken.
Mr. Disney's Knight of St. George—taken
0:d Noll—taken.

The price given for The Reiver was :4'1.600.
The brown eelding by. the Ugly Buck out of Helena, 3 yrs.,
has been named Ulster.

Victress was declared not to start for the Wolverhampton
Steeple Chase on Friday afternoon last.
Mr. John Osborne's brown colt by Melbourne out of Miss
Castling, 2 yrs., has been named Seducer.
The British Queen, by Touchstone, out of the Queen of
Beauty, 2 rs. has been put out of training.
Nabob has been purchased by Mr. Howard, and will, for
the future, be trained by John Day, sen., at Findon.
The new Betting Houses' Bill hawing come into operation
on Thursday last, most of the London "pest houses" were
closed on that day.

Mr. John Osborne has sold Brown Brandy and Bridesmaid,
for a stiff price. They have left Middleham, and joined
Woolcott's string at Woodford, near Salisbury.
Mr. I'. Parr has given names to the following yearlings :
Bay colt by Old England out of 'Destiny, Fatalist; chesnut
colt by Nutwith out of Macremma, Challow Boy; and brown
colt by Ithuriel, out of Blue Light, Rocket.
Mr. Morton's cheanut filly by Malcolm out of a Valparaiso
mare, and Mr. Morton's bay filly by Pyrrhus the First out of
Themis' have arrived at J. Dawson's stables, Illsley, to be
trained for their engagements.
Lord Eglinton has given the following names to his foals:—
Colt by Gamehoy out of Gala, Omer Pasha; filly, by The
Flying Dutchinap out of Bellona, Oltenitza and filly by The
Flying Dutchman out of Blue Bonnet, Mary Cobb.
The Derby colt, Neville, having appeared of late in the
names of various owners, we beg to state that he was sold by
Mr. Charles Winrringham, his trainer, at the Newcastle-upon-
Tyne Meeting for 1,500 guineas, with contingencies, to a
gentleman, who has adopted the name of " Clarkson."
The following horses, having changed owners, have gone
into E. Jones's stables, Marlborough :—Mr. Sykes (h.b.), 3
yrs. • brother to Little Swift, 2 yrs. •, colt by Sane out of
Soutildown, 2 yrs. •, colt by Fang') a Bill lagh, out of Caurouch's
dam, yearling ; colt by Sir Tattoo Sykes, out of Southdown,
yearling : filly by Sweetmeat out of Glenhawk's dam, yearling.
GRAND MATCH BETWEEN CAPTAIN ASTLEY, OF THE
SCOTS FUSILIER GUARDS, AND LIEUTENANT SAYERS, OF
THE 23RD WELCH FUSILIERS.—This match arose out of a
challenge given by Lieutenant Sayers, at the time the regi-
ments were encamped on Chobbam Common, to run any
officer in the British army 150 yards for £l5O. Capt. Astley
accepted the challenge upon condition that two races should
be run—one a flat race, and the other a hurdle rare, which
was .ultimately agreed to. The flat race came off Lt Salt Hill,
on Tuesday last, and was cleverly won by Lieutenant Sayers,
who beat his opponent by three feet. '1 he hurdle race, which
came off yesterday afternoon in the Horne Park, excited un-
usual interest, from the well-known reputation of the gallant
captain as a hurdle jumper, and, by three *lock, the time
appointed for the start, same hundreds of persons had congre-
gated, including the officers of the Scots Fusilier Guards and
Ist Life Guards, as well as many of the sporting gentry of the
neighbourhood. When the distance, 150 yards, had been
carefully mar4d out by the umpires, and seven hurdles

,
pitched at equal distances across the ground, the combatants,
after dressing at old Snooks', the keeper's, house, made their
appearance--one in pink and the other in blue silk drawers—
and both men exhibited a fine frame and plenty of muscle.
Captain Astley for choice. The start was admirable, and both
leapt the four first hurdles together, when Lieutenant Sayers
slipped up, and before he could recover his footing, the captain
had cleared the fifth hurdle, and, consequently, won easily.
notwithstanding Lieutenant Sayers made a desperate effort to
regain his lost ground.

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THE CHASE.
THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS MEET
To-morrow, (Wednesday,) 7th, at -
Thursday, 8th...._

Saturday, 10t1
Monday, Vith

Wednesday. 14th

Thursday,.lsth

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Saturday, 17th
Monday, 19th.,