The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-06 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS.

WALLASEY COMMISSIONERS. - The usual monthly
meeting was held on Thursday, Mr. Brice chairman. The
only question considered by the board was the propriety
of dismissing the whole or part of the four extra police
officers, put on during the winter months. It was agreed
to retain two of the men.
STOCK OF CoTToN.—A meeting of the Cotton-Brokers'
Association was held on Friday, on this subject, when,
after some discussion, it was resolved that the experiment
should be tried of taking stock three times a year instead
of once. Cotton-brokers and merchants have, therefore,
been requested forthwith to forward to the secretary
returns of their respective stocks on the first day of this
month.

WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.-At the meeting on Wed-
nesday, the clerk reported that, pursuant to a resolution
of the board, he had preferred an indictment against
James 'Wark, for an assault on Sarah Garland ; and that,
on the last Kirkdale sessions, Wark had been sentenced
to twelve months' imprisonment. In consequence of the
indisposition of Mr. Lvthgoe, the governor of the Work-
house, an assistant was allowed him, at a salary of 21s.
per week. The other business was unimportant.
ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—
The usual fortnightly meeting of this society was held on
Wednesday; Mr. J. A. Picton presided, and there was a
numerous attendance. The successful students who had
adopted mottoes during the session gave in their names.
Mr. Mallinson took the first prize, and Mr. Mason the
second. The following students were also competitors:—
Messrs. Rimmer, Murray, and James George. Messrs. A.
Holme, George Williams, Henderson, and James
Fairclough, four of the competitors for the design of the
Palatine Club, sent in their plans and drawings for the
inspection of the society. The chairman said it had been
stated that eighty designs had been sent is, and taking
the average cost of each set at £lO, £BOO had been actually
thrown away for the chance of obtaining £5O. Whether
that was a profitable mode of doing business or not,
he would leave each gentleman to judge. Mr. Joseph
Boult stated that Mr. Matthew Gregson had invited the
members of the society to inspect his apparatus for desi-
eating timber, by Messrs. Davison 'and Symmington's
process; and it was decided that the society would pay
Mr. Gregson's establishment a visit on Friday afternoon.
Mr. Duncan read some interesting "Notes on the ruins
of the Fern Islands." It was suggested that the annual
excursion of the society should be made this year to the
beautiful town of Shrewsbury, which abounds in buildings
of architectural interest. Manchester and Furness Abbey
were also named.

HEALTH COMMITTEE.—At the usual weekly meeting
on Thursday, Mr. Alderman Parker presided. The
building surveyor reported that Mr. James Thomson was
building a dwelling-house in Prescot-street for which,he
had not submitted a proper plan, nor given notice of the
same agreeably to the 84th section of the sanatory" act.
The surveyor wished to have the instructions of the com-
mittee in the mattes.—Mr. Hornby : If the members of
this committee will not comply with these r Iles, how can
it be expected that others will ?—A plan of another
budding was here taken ,up by Mr. Johnson, who said—
Here is the case of a poor man who has complied with
the law ; the rich man has not,—that's the difference._.
Mr. Beckwith : Yes; and that man who has not complied
is a member of this board.—Mr. Johnson : Has he given
notice of this building.—Mr. Hughes (the clerk) : He
has given notice of the brewery, but not of the dwelling-
house.—The committee recommended that the building
should be demolished, the costs to be recovered from Mr.
chomson.—This recommendation was confirmed. The
medical officer of health reported that the number.of
deaths registered during the week were 183, of which 132
had been in the parish, and 51 in the out-townships, show-
ing a decrease of 15 on the preceding week, but an in-
crease of 5 on the corresponding week of the three pre-
vious years. The returns showed that the mortality from
small-pox was stationary ; during the week 11 deaths had
been occasioned by this disease, nine of whom were un-
vaccinated. A fatal case of small-pox had occurred in
Sherwood-street. Two men, age,l respectively 47 and 51,
died during the week from the effects of excessive drink-
ing.—It was ordered that £2OO should be returned to the
Rev. C. Lawrence, being the amount of his outlay for the
construction of a sewer in Myrtle-street.—ln re'erence
to the machine of Mr. Simms, for the exhaustion of foul
air from sewers, the borough engineer remarked that the
machine was good in principle, hut not applicable to the
holds of ships for tent air.—The inspector of nuisances
reported the usual workings in his department.

THE Dooze COMMITTEE.—At the usual meeting of the
Dock Committee, on Thursday, Mr. T. Li;tledale pre-
siding, a plan showing a new site for the slate yards,
which was approved by the trade, was sanctioned by the
committee.—Messrs. Betteley and Co.'s tender for the
supply of one hundred fathoms of the best mooring chain
was accepted.—Messrs. David Cannon and Sons applies
to be paid a sum of £2B, an additional cost incurred in
discharging the Beejapoore, in consequence of that vessel
being unable to enter the Brunswick Dock, from, as it
appeared, the enormous breadth of the bilges. Refused.
Ordered, th ‘t Mr. George Wright, a master-porter, who
had violated the regulations, be prohibited from acting as
master-porter for six months, and that Mr. Brene be pro-
secuted for the recovery of a penalty of £5O for acting as
a master-porter without being qualified.—Mr. North, at
the request of Mr. Bold, read the resolution come to by
the committee at the last meeting in reference to the
Dock Bill. in Parliament. After reciting the prior pro-
ceedings, and the resolution of the Council, it thus pro-
ceeded :—Resolved, "That the trustees do abstain from
any further opposition to the bill, except it so far as may
be necessary to protect their own interests, as at present
•recognised by the bill, and to prevent any injurious alter-
ations being made in the clauses thereof. And that, in
order more effectually to carry out the spirit of the reso-
lution, and of the Council above recited, and to avoid
further and useless expense, the American Chamber of
Commerce be now requested to hand over the bill to the
solicitor of the Dock Trustees, to be by him passed
through its future stages as an unopposed bill, the Trus-
tees hereby undertaking to use their exertions to procure
the same to be passed during this session in its present
form, as respects the principle of the measure, but with
such verbal additions, amendments, and correction of
clauses as the Town-Clerk, and the solicitor to the Trus-
tees shall consider necessary to be made therein, and shall
not be disapproved of by the solicitor of the present pro-
moters." Resolved, also, " That these resolutions be for-
warded to the Finance Committee." The resolutions
were forwarded, and a resolution passed by the Finance
Committee agreeing with the view taken by the Dock
Committee ; and a resolution was also adopted by the
American Chamber of Commerce, to the effect that the
bill be handed over to Mr. North, as proposed, and that
Mr. Duncan be associated with that gentleman. On the
motion of Mr. Bohl, seconded by Mr. Robinson, the par-
liamentary sub-committee were ordered to proceed to
carry out the former resolution of the Dock Committee
(substantially as it agreed with those of the other bodies)
in the terms agreed to. This was adopted.
SELECT VESTRY.—OnTuesdav the first meeting of the
new Select Vestry was held at the Parish-offices, in
Brownlow-hill. The Rev. Rector Campbell presided.
The Venerable Archdeacon Brooks was also present.
The Chairman, on the part of Mr. Dover, answered cer-
tain charges which had been made against that gentleman;
affecting, in Mr. Dover's opinion, his personal character
for honour and honesty. The charges were to the effect;
that he had tampered with the parish assessments in
favour of his warehouse interests. These (continued the
chairman) are " ugly charges," and Mr. Dover believes
justly enough that they are intended to be " fastened"
on him, and to these he authorises me to give " a strong
and indignant denial." in words as strong and indignant
as words can be, affirming that they are not only false,
but that they cannot be true ; that he, as churchwarden,
had nothing to do with the assessments, or the alterations
in the assessments, which were made, not by him, but by
the collectors and surveyors, who declared, in their report
to the select vestry, dated October 21, 1850, that in mak-
ing " or altering the assessments they never had the
slightest intercourse with the churchwardens, overseers,
or any members of the Finance Committee." This report
of the surveyors was made to the vestry on the 22nd of
last October, when a similar charge of tampering with the
assessments against the two churchwardens and two other
members of the Finance Committee was investigated. in
consequence of some expressions that had fallen from one
of the vestrymen seeming to impute this charge, but
which charge he very handsomely disavowed, a special
meeting of the vestry was summoned on the 22nd of
October, 1850, and, on the report of the surveyors, the
vestry came to the unanimous resolution that there was
no foundation for the imputation ; " that the assessments
were made and confirmed solely by the surveyors and ma-
gistrates, and that no imputation rested on the fairness
and honesty of the Finance Committee individually or col-
lectively," as will appear from the recorded proceedings
of that vestry. From that report it appears that the re-
ductions in the assessments were made on appeal by the
magistrates, an appeal which was equally open to all
the parishioners, and that if any injustice was done,
it was done, not by the churchwardens, but by the magis-
trates themselves. I have, as you are well aware, no
pecuniary interest in this matter. lam neither a cot-
tage nor a warehouse owner, and my business is my
determination, as far as lies in my power, to favour nei-
ther party, but, to the best of my ability as a member of
the select vestry, to do justice to the parishioners, and to
make both parties pay their due. Mr. Gardner, on be-
half of the board, expressed himself fully satisfied with
the statements made by the rev. Chairman and by Mr.
Dover. It would be admitted, he thought, that, during
the heat of the election, both parties put forward state-
ments which had no foundation in fact. The Workhouse
Committee reported not less than 560 sick cases in the
house, 133 being fever. The usual number of vagrants
resorted nightly to the sheds, there being, last week, not
less than 1,164 admissions,-660 being males, 286 females,
and 218 children. Mr. Miller, one of the agents for
White's patent gas, waited upon the board to invite a
deputation to visit the gas works at Manchester : Mr. M.
being desirous of lighting the workhouse with his hydro-
carbon gas. Referred to the Finance Committee. It was
resolved that the rectors, churchwardens, and overseers,
should be members cx officio of all committees. The
committees were then appointed.

LILLIPUTIAN TEA KETTLES.—A mechanic of Man-
chester has made two miniature silver tea kettles, one
made from a four-peony piece, weighing 29 grains troy ;
and the other from a three-penny piece, and weighing 24
grains troy. Both are complete in every repect, with
moveable lids, &c.
DISTRESSING EVENT..—AR inquest has been held at
Salford, on the body of Sarah Stracey, whose death was
the result of a singulrr fright. She was the wife of a
working man, and ran out in the evening to get a steak
for her husband's tea ; is quickly turning the corner of a
court in which she lived, she ran violently against the
wheel of a cart that happened to be passing, and was so
dreadfully frightened by the suddenness of the rencontre
that she died a few minutes after. There were no in.ark,s
,externally to account for her cloth.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE CHESHIRE
JUNCTION RAILWAY.

• One of the most serious railway accidents lately recorded
took place on Wednesday evening, in the Sutton Tunnel
of the Birkenhead Junction Railway. Six lives have
been sacrificed, and from thirty to forty persons seriously
injured. The circumstances of the accident are as follow :
—Wednesday being the cup day at Chester, the amount
of passenger traffic over this line from Manchester and
the manufacturing districts was enormous ; and at the
termination of the day's sport crowds hastened to the
station at Chester for the purpose of proceeding home-
ward. At 7 o'clock a monster train left for Manchester.
As soon as practicable another train was started in the
same direction, and about 8 o'clock a third. The last
two trains were considerably lighter than the first, and
the first train having only one engine, the second train
overtook it as it was about to enter the Sutton Tunnel.
In this tunnel (a mi!e and a quarter in length) there is an
incline, which materially retarded the progress of the
heavy train, in fact, it was unable to proceed at more than
a walking pace. At this juncture the second train joined
on to the first for the purpose of assisting it through the
tunnel. They still went very slowly, and as a collision
from the third train was feared, parties were sent back for
the purpose of stopping it. The precaution. unfortu-
nately, was ineffective, for ere the message could be
delivered, the third train came thundering on,- and, as
the statement goes, no red light being shown at the end
of the second train, ran into 'it before the driver was
aware that the line was impeded. The crash was terrific,
and the.scene that ensued was one that defies description.
Several carriages were smashed to atoms, one of the.
engines was thrown off the line, and the tunnel was com-
pletely blocked with the debris of carriages, dead, and
wounded ; the confusion being increased by many of the
Passengers jumping through the windows and doors,
after the accident had happened. On the result of the
disaster being ascertained, the engine wos disconnected.
from the first train, and sent on to Warrington, giving
the alarm at the several stations. • The driver shortly
returned, bringing some additional aid.
Prompt and energetic assistance was at once given, and
a careful search instituted. In the broken carriages,
which were those immediately ran into by the third train,
five dead bodies were discovered. The lady who was
killed was not Mrs. Ridgway, but her sister, Mrs.
Wetenhall. The story of Mrs. Wetenhall's death is a
very remarkable one. The two sisters are widows, Mrs.
Ridgway (of Ridgmont, near Bolton) being the widow of
the late. Mr. Joseph Ridgway, and her sister being the
widow of the
,late Major Wetenhall, lion. East India
Company's service. The two ladies had gone to Chester
races together on Wednesday, in company with Mr.
Clarke, a friend, and their carriage was remarked out the
Roodee as the smartest equipage on the ground. They
left Chester by the second race train for Manchester over
the Lancashire and Cheshire junction line, which runs
into the London and North-Western line at Warrington.
Their carriage was mounted upon a truck, with the coach-
man and footman occupying seats upon it. When the
train was about to start the two ladies evinced great
nervousness and fear without appearing to know why, but
were reassured by Mr. Critchley, the station master at
Chester, who told them there was no danger, and they
were placed, together with their friend, Mr. Clarke, in
the last compartment of a first-class carriage, behind
which was the truck with their private carriage. When
the collision took place in the middle of the tunnel, there-
fore, there was only the truck behind them and the loco-
motive at the head of the train which ran into their own.
The truck and their private carriage upon it appear to
have been smashed to atoms by the collision, and the
coachman and footman upon it were thrown upon the
advancing locomotive of the train behind. Mrs. Ridg-
way sat with one of her sister's hands clasped in her own,
and as the carriage in which they both sat was destroyed,

it is extraordinary haw the one should have escaped coat-
paratively unhurt and the other have been killed. Their
servants were hurt, but not dangerously. Of the other
Persons killed, one is Mr. Davidson, salesman at Messrs.
Bannerman and Son's warehouse, Manchester; another
is Henry Anderson. paperhanger, of Hulme, Manchester.
A youth, named Newell, of Whitley, Cheshire, was also
killed. Besides these four fatalities there were two
bodies lying at Sutton not identified. Mr. Rooker, of
Manchester (an assistant surveyor to the corporation),
whose bones and flesh were described by the surgeon as
a mass of fractures and bruises, lies in a precarious state.
Captain J. Purley Leatham, unattached (now lying at the
house of his sister, Mrs. Birley, York-place, Oxford-road,
Manchester), sustained a compound fracture of the -left
leg, right collar bone broken, and three fingers broken,
b'sides several contusions of the head ; Lieutenant Ogee,
Adjutant of the 50th Regiment, a good deal bruised and
shaken, but not dangerously hurt. One or two parties,
whose lives were supposed to be in jeopardy, were at once
conveyed to Frodsham,—others less seriously hurt, fol-
lowed, and those who were deemed able to be removed
were sent on to Warrington. Amongst those, we under-
stand, was Dr. Leith, of Newton, who has received
some serious injuries ; Mr. Wilson, wine and spirit
merchant, Newstaff, Warrington, very seriously injured,
his nose being nearly severed from his face ; and a
Ms. Adams was also seriously injured. Mr. Hender-
son, of York, and a clerk at the railway station, War-
rington, sustained severe injuries. A gentleman who
groped his way out of the tunnel at the Frodsbam end,
and who took a private conveyance to Warrington, says
that he overtook a great number of working people who
had their arms in slings and seemed a good deal hurt,
walking home in the same direction, having preferred
walking to trusting themselves further by rail. About
forty persons were injured.
Mr. Moseley, of the electric telegraph, describes the
scene in the tunnel, both before and after the collision,
as one of great confusion. He says the second train could
make little or no progress, in consequence of the first
being at a standstill after the collision with it, and his fel-
low passengers were in the greatest alarm in the expecta-
tion that a train would come up behind and run into th m.
Most of the doors of the carriages were locked, and people
were battering at them and trying to burst them open.
The darkness was intense, and looking from the window

of the carriage in which he sat he could not see a single
light in any direction. After the second collision the cries
of distress and groans were beyond all conception, and
the darkness added to the confusion which prevailed.
From a recess in the side of the tunnel several lamps
were obtained and lighted by a passenger, but from the
dense steam i❑ the tunrel they were of little use. Many
of the passengers .by the third-class stand-up carriazes

_
were burning their race cards and paper (lighting them
by means of lucifers) in order to obtain light enough to
see their position.

•
The inquest on the bodies was commenced on Saturday.
before a highly respectable jury, of which Dr. Wilson, of
Preston-brook, was foreman. Mr. J. B. Lloyd, the soli-
citor of the railway company, was present, and expressed
the desire of the company to furnish every possible relief
to the sufferers, and to afford the jury every witness who
could speak to the facts of the case. Several witnesses
having deposed to the" circumstances as detailed above,
Mr. W. T. Ansell deposed that the train "ame to a dead
stop when about two-thirds through the tunnel. Witness
heard the engine making an attempt to get forward, but
the driving-wheel slipped, as he (witness) judged in con-
sequence of the rails being wet. He thought the wetness
of the rails prevented the driving-wheel from biting. At
this moment witness put his head out of the carriage-
window, and found that the tunnel was full of smoke and
steam, and he could see nothing. Witness asked a gen-
tleman who was looking out of the window of the next

and, after a fe

compartment what he thought best to do,
moments conversation between them, Witness suggested
that each man should get out of his carriage, and stick to
it, and push it on. In a minute or two afterwards witness
heard the puffing of an approaching engine, which induced
him to throw himself back into his own carriage, and to
call out to the passengers. to hold hard. He put his hack
against the cushions, and his feet on the onnoßito cant_

The crash, which was rather a prolonged one, came almost
immediately afterwards. Witness escaped unhurt.
Joseph Steele, of 123, Chancery-lane, London, patent
agent, was the next witness examined. After a variety of
statements in condemnation of the general arrangements
of the company on the day of the accident, the witness
said ho could not designate what he saw as anything less
than gross mismanagement from beginning to the end,
from morning to night.
Geo. Frederick Robinson, an engineer, who was in the
same train with the last witness, agreed with his evidence
generally.
After the examination of one or two other witnesses,
Mr. Bancroft, the chairman of the directors, expressed his
willingness to be examined, and to give every information.
The directors courted investigation, and were willing to
abide the issue.

The inquest was then adjourned to Monday (yesterd

The population of Flee
increase over 1841 of 540.

The Preston Town Council are about to discuss the
propriety of appointing a stipenchary magistrate for that
town.

On Wednesday three men were killed by an explosion
h the coal pit of Messrs. Rylance, at Woodhouses, near
Wigan. '

the Earl of Derby has given two and a half acres of
ground for the erection of a new church, at Holcombe,
near Bury.

The hands of Messrs. Pilling, cotton spinners, Tatter-
sall, have struck for an advance of wages, and a limitation
of the hours of labour.

A further export of 103 bales of cotton, the produce of
Tinnevelly and Coimbalore districts of India, is now on
its way to Manchester.

Captain Warburton, the officer, who, a few weeks ago,
inquired into the allegations of the petition praying for a
charter of incorporation for Blackburn, has reported in
favor of the charter,

A Preston paper computes that 100,000 oysters were
eaten on Easter Monday and Tuesday, by the visitants of
Blackburn fair.' The shells alone tilled three carts, and
one oyster dealer sold more than 15,000.

A turnout of bricklayers' labourers has taken place at
Altriricham, near Manchester, caused by an increase in
the size of the mould, consequent on the abolition of the
duty, unaccompanied by a corresponding increase of

wages.
Ann and James Waddington, of Manchester, the mo-
ther and stepfather of a girl, aged sixteen, are in custody
on a charge of having murdered the latter by poisoning
her with arsenic. It appears that they used the poor girl
with great cruelty, and that they ware entitled to £7 club
money on her death.

The population of Sunderland, including Bishop-Wear-
mouth, and Monk-Wearmouth, numbers about 75,000
souls, the increase since 1841 being about 15,000,
- •

A SIGNIFICANT ANAGRAM.—Among the curious co--
incidences which sometimes startle us in the unexpected
disclosures of the Anagram, few, perhaps, will be found:
more remarkable than the discovery of the present great
troubler of our Israel, " CARDINAL WISEMAN,i''jn the
P,l73linops words " SIN, MALICE! AND WAR,"

I &rime anb 31)ortiruIturt.

I On Sunday evening, April 27th, a_ brilliant meteo:

passed over the village-iof Nigher and Lower Tranmere

but so rapid was its eight that very few persons had an
opportunity of seeing its progress. The time of its ap-
pearance was about ten o'clock, at which time it was unu-
sually dark, heavy thunder-clouds hung round the hori-
zon, and but few stars we-e visible over head. Hail,
thunder, and lightning, had been frequent during the af-
ternoon and evening ; and after dark considerable excite-
ment was visible in the dense masses of clouds, and an
occasional shooting star was seen. The writer of the pre-
sent article was observing these appearances, so unusual
in the early spring when suddenly a brilliant light ap-
peared due east, and luminous body as large as a man's
head moved rapidly, and apparently at a low elevation,
directly westward. Its first appearance seemed to be
about midway over the Mersey, between the ferries of
Tranmere and the Rock, thence in a direct line towards
Oxton ; but it ceased about half-way between higher
Tranmere and Oxton. When it first appeared it was as
large as a man's head, remarkably brilliant, and of a blue
or violet tint ; when it ceased, a sort of silent explosion
seemed to take place, and a small body like a red-hot
marble fell towards the earth. All these appearances were
carefully noted, and appear most strongly to favour the
hypothesis of K. E. A. Von Hoff, that meteors are ag-
glomerations of cosmical matter, and not, as Chladin sup-
poses, fragments of destroyed planets, or, as he face-
tiously terms them, Weltspane (world-chips). This is an
interesting subject, and we know that more than one of
our correspondents have devoted much time to this mat-
We hope to receive from them any information they
sess upon this vexata questio.

may nos:

MISCELLANEA

The " Victoria regia" flower emits a delightful fragance,
at and for some time after its opening. This perfume,
which has all the aroma of the richest pine-apple, is so
pooerful as to scent the air for several yards beyond the
house in which the plants grow. _ _ _ _

AGE 01, TREES.—Professor Goppert has described the
lower end of a trunk of Pinites protolarix, a gigantic
fossil tree which was found in the brown coal of Laason,
in Silesia, in 1849. It measured more than 32 feet in
circumference, and about four feet in length ; erect, per-
fect in form, hut stripped of bark ; 16 large roots ran out
at right angles from its base. The interior was filled
with structureless brown coal ; but in sections of the
outer parts, one sixteen inches broad, the other three feet
:ix inches. Professor Goppert counted respectively 700
and 1,300 rings of wood ; so that for the half diameter
of 51 feet, at least 2,200, but probably 2,500 rings must
have existed. _
_According to the-theory of annual rings,

this tree would appear to have been from 2,200 to 2.500
years old ; but, unfortunately, the annual ring theory is

not ahv

s trustworthy

—Botanical Gazette.
lANIFESTATION OF THE EARTH'S ROTATIO
ous paragraphs and articles have been circulating

empts

have been made to give

an intelligible account of this fact to the general reader.
Tables have been said to rotate round their centre instead
of round an axis—not so much theirs either as the earth's ;

pendulums have been described as vibrating for hours or
days. without the slightest hint how this was done—how
or whether the effects of drafts, of torsion, of local vibra-
tion, were guarded against or allowed for—in what plane,
whether meridinal or otherwise, the pendulum was made
to vibrate in the outset, &c., &c. And, notwithstanding
such uncertainties, they were told that it was only " the

unscientific mir

down all the " common sense," cast, like pearls, before
those who could not appreciate it ; whereas, we verily
believe, it was the unscientific alone who were at once
carried away by the ad captandum idea of the table
rotating round its centre, with the earth's rotation, while
the pendulum measured out that rotation like fixed hands
on a horizontally rotating dial.—The Builder.

NOTICES OF NEW WORKS

We some time since called the attention of our readers

ork in course of publication by Messrs. Fullarton
and Co., styled " The Gazetteer of the World." We
have now before us the third division of the work, and can
hardly conceive anything more adapted to the wants of
the time. Very few gazetteers are in use, and they are by
no means calculated to meet the present-demand for geo-
graphical information, whereas " The Gazetteer of the
World" is a complete epitome of all that is known in
geozraphical science. The cheap rate at which it is pub-
lishing must make it a hazardous enterprise to the pub-
lishers, but we hope it will meet with liberal encourage-
ment.

CHESTER SPRING MEETING

This interesting meeting, under the stewardship of the Hon
Major Pitt, Colonel Peel, ➢].P., and Colonel Anson, M.P., came

day, and Friday. The attendance of spectators thio.ughout,
especially on Wednesday, was numerous, and the sport first-
rate. The course, although there had been a very heavy suc-
cession of rain during the three days preceding the opening of
the meeting, was in beautiful order; giving rare foot-hold, and
partaking of an elasticity seldom met with.
The first race, on Tuesday, was for the Grosvenor Stakes, of
10 sov; each, which were won by Lord Waterford's Kick-up-
the-Dust ;• Mark Tapley, 2 ; The Cutler, 3. Three others
started. Won by three:parts of a length.—The Mostyn Stakes,
of 10 sovs each ; won by Mt. Hawke's Paddy Bird; Bethgelert-
2. Eight others started.—The Chesterfield States, a handicap
Of 10 soya each ; won by the DukC Of Richmond's Hurry-scurry ;
Aristos, 2. Five others started.—The Optional Selling Stakes,
of 5 says each ; won by Mr. Smith's Emma ; Maid of the Moun-
tain, 2; Ostialdwick, 3. Two others started. The winner was
afterwards purchased by Mr. Lister for .e35.--The Palatine
Stakes, of 15 soya each ; won by Sir J. Hawley's Merry Peal;
Tightwaist, 2; Poquetta, 3. Five others started.—A Sweep-

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stakes, of 5 sous ; ;von by Mr. Bobb's Lucy; Avia, 2;
Hurricane, 3. Three others started.

On Wednesday the Corinthian Handicap, of 5 sows each, with
30 added, won by Lord Cardross's Arundel ; Escape, 2; Fifty-
three, 3.—The Third Year of the Roodee Produce Stakes, of 15
sows each ; won by Mr. E. W. Topkam nas Guardsman; Aria,
2 ; Drill, 3 ; Paddy Whack, 4.—The Tradesman's Plate, of 200
sorb in specie, added to a handicap sweenstekes of 25 sovs each :
won by Mr. J. Bird nas Nancy ; The Black Doctor, 2 ; Hesse
Homburg, 3. The following also ran :—Russborough, Back-
biter, Vampyre, Duc-au Durras, Sauter-la-Coupe, Langton,
Italian, The Knight of Avenel, Montagu, Rhesus, Seaman, Ha-
ricot, Sir Robert, Damask, Lady Eden, Mickleton„Caurire,
Eva, York-you're-wanted, Wallflower, Wilniont, Sprite, Knock
Knoll, Hurry-scurry, and Rubina. Betting: 4 to 1 agst Rhesus,
7to I agst the Italian, 7 to I agst the Black Doctor, taken
freely, 9 to I agst Hesse Homburg, 9 to 1 agst Russborough,lo
to 1 apt Backbiter, 10 to 1 agst Sauter-la-Coupe, 15 to 1 agst

Nancy, 20 to 1 agst Vampyre, 20 to 1 agst Montagu, 20 to 1 agst
Haricot, and 30 to 1 agst any other. There were three false
starts. At the fourth attempt, the troop of twenty-eight got
well under weigh, Knock-cnoll showings head, with Montagu
Eva, Hesse Homburg, Russborough, the Italian, Backbiter,
Nancy, the Black Doctor, and Rhesus close up, Wallflower and
Hurry-scurry brpig up the rear. thus they continued at a

splendid pace, with very little variation, to tbe T.Y.C. course,
where Duc-an-Durras and Sauter-la-Coupe emerged from the
ruck behind, and gradually drew towards the front, the Italian
and Russborough dropping somewhat behind. Re-passing the
stand the Black Doctor took their place, and gained upon the
leader at the top turn, headed him at the river's bank, and ran

with him to the bridge, where they were joined by Nancy and
Hesse Homburg. In the straight run, Knock-Knoll gave
way entirely, leaving the Dlack Doctor and Nancy with
the lead, and Hesse close at the latter couplet's haunches.
Rhesus made his effort at the bottom, together with Back-
biter, Montague resigning altogether. A beautiful race home

was won by Nancy by a neck, the Black Doctor beating
the Goodwood filly for second place about the same. Rhesus
was fourth, two lengths from the winner, Backbiter next, the
succeeding division being headed by Duc-an-Durras, and York-
you're-Wanted. Value of the stake, ..f2,1C0. The distance.

about two miles and a quarter, was run in 4 minutes 14 seconds
—Sixty Guineas, (clear,) added to a sweepstakes of 3 sous.
won by Lord Waterford's Holler; The Cutler, 2; Aristos, 3
b c by nelbourne, 4,—The Scramble Handicap of 5 soya. each
with 30 added : won by Mr. J. Osborne's Iresine a gen, 9_—

Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas : won by Lord Waterford's
Kick-up-the-Dust; General Sale, 2.
On Thursday the Cheshire Welter Cup was won by General

ench • Needle,

; The Merry Bird

The Dee

Stakes of 10 soya. each : Hippolytus. 1 ; The Black Doctor, 2 ;
Mountain Deer, 3. Eleven ran.—The Westminster Plate:
Alonza, 1 ; Italian, 2.—The :Selling Stakes: Guardsman, 1 ;
Old Claret, 2.—The Scurry Handicap : Don Caries, 1 ; Cutler, 2.
On Friday the Cestrian Stakes were won by Colsterdale •,
Guardsman, 2; Vermuth, 3.—The Wirral Stakes : Tightwaist
walked over.—The Cheshire Stakes : Sauter-la-coupe, 1 ; Snow-
storm, 2; Christina, 3.—A. Free Handicap Stakes: Forester, 1 ;
Aldgate, 2; Queen Bee. 3.—The Eaton Stakes: Tightwaist
walked over.—The Grand Stand Cup : Humphrey, 1 ; Kick-up-
the-Dust, 2; Duc-an-Durras, 3.—The Ladies' Purse; Aria, 1.

LORD STANLEY AND SrR, JAMES GRAIIAM.—TWO
statesmen, belonging to different schools, have come

prominently forward during the late Ministerial crisis ;
and to one or other of them, or perhaps to both alternately,
if they live, the destinies of the empire, for.a long period
of time, will in all probability be intrusted. These are
Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham. Both are men of

ating power; but,
in other respects, their. characters are as opposite as the
poles are asunder. As usual, in such cases, while their
characters bear the mark of distinct individuality, they
are the types or repres3ntatives of the two great parties
which now divide the 'British empire: The first is straight-
forward, intrepid, and manly—patriotic, but not vacil-

business

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unwilling to do so unless he can carry out the principles
which he deems essential to the salvation of his country.
The second is ambitious, cautious, diplomatic, desirous of
power, but fearful of the shoals with which it is beset • and
desirous so to shupe his policy and conceal his intentions,
as to avoid shipwreck by coming openly ` nto collision with
any powerful party in the state. The device of the one
is the steady polar star of duty ; the guide of the other

. .
the flickering light of expediency. The -first refused the
Premiership when offered to him by his sovereign, because
he thought the time had not yet arrived when he could
carry out his principles; the latter has so often changed
his side, and held office under so many parties, that no
man alive can tell what his principles are. The first broke
off from Sir Robert Peel in office, when he deserted his
principles; the latter deserted his principles to join Sir
Robert Peel. when entering on power. The first, white
still in opposition, has already announced to the country
what line of policy he is determined to adopt if placed in
power; the last has talked of a mutiny in the army as a
reason for continuing the ruin of agriculture, and a rebel.
lion in I--' for tame • submitt;ne to Papal

_reiand as a reasoi
ggression. The one is of the true breed of th,
ion, the other a mongrel cross between the Whig
iPree-trader.—Blackwood.
It is stated that one landowner in the county of Nor-
thumberland, who, though a great liberal and free-trader.
refuses to reduce his rents, has no less than twelve farms
on his hands, with little prospect of any of them being
let upon the terms required.
MEETING THE TIMES.—We noticed not long since
that Henry Lawson, Esq., of Bath, had made a perma-
nent reduction of 15 per sent. in the rent of his estate at
Suckley. We have now to state that, notwithstanding
this abatement, a further return of 15 per rent. was made
to the tenant in payment of his rent '
making a total retniplop pf 30 per
manency.

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