No. IV. MAY 26, 1856. i UNSTAMPED, THREEPENCE ( STAMPED, FOURPENCE. GOSSIP ON THE DERBY, & c. BY CHIFNEY. IT is unnecessary our troubling our readers with any further description of the candidates for the Blue Riband of the Turf beyond a few brief remarks, on the account which appeared in our impression last week. We again insert for the benefit of those who were unable to procure copies last week, owing to the unprecedented demand for LIFE IN THE TURF in the provinces. We, in common with other com- missioners of the Turf, are informed, of course iu confidence, on the best and most accurate information, that such and such a horse is to win, whilst another friend whispers in a mysterious manner, that the Derby is as good as won, another privately drops us a note of invitation to inspect his favourite. To all these persons we have said, and are still prepared to maintain, that a more open or uncertain Derby than the present, has seldom, if ever been seen ; for the bookmakers generally, it has been a Godsend, and from the partiality evinced for so many different animals, there has not been the slightest difficulty in getting round with their books. Vandermeulin, we are informed, is again all right, and has made himself a favourite, although he is in no little degree indebted to his good looks and blooming condition for his position. There appears to be a strong party in the ring, who support the pretensions of Cannobie belonging to Lord John Scott, who has the privilege of availing himself of eitherJTempleman or Nat on this occasion ; it is likely the former will obtain the mount; there is little doubt of his ob- taining a place, as he will run honestly, and to win if he can. Wentworth appears to be retiring from the premiership, for which he is severely pushed by Fazzoletto, who has been backed for an immense sum, and Lord Derby's chance of a Derby this year certainly appears a bright one ; indeed, it is stated that Fazzoletto is now nearly a stone better than when he won the 2,000 guineas, and if he is th » horse of the Whitewall Stable, and not Fly- by- Night, with the Turf in a suitable condition, the race ought to be nearly over. He is strongly backed this morning in the City. Fly- by- Night continues to occupy a queer position, rumours of being well one day, and out of sorts the next; it is evi- dent cannot have procure confidence in him. We have reason to believe that it is quite correct that he is now well, and may carry a Derby once more to Streatham Castle. The Prince during the past week hascome into favour at 20 to l, hewillhave Sherwood, the rider of Wild Dayrell, on hisback, and if he is successful this year, it will prove a curious coinci- dence, that, with two exceptions only, for the last ten years, winning jocks for the Derby have been successful for the following years. Speed the Plough's vietorj- for the Bath Handicap gave a fillip to Artillery in the betting, causing him to spring to 8 to 1. Artillery has been doing some good work of late, and is led by Speed the Plough in his gallops, and Cotswold and the Barbarina colt have made their appearance from the outside. Prince is a Derby look- ing horse all over, and if his performances on the Downs are anything like his looks, it will take a good horse to beat him. Verdant Green or " gig lamps," is often spoken of, and as an outsider has received some little support. Yellow Jack appears to have given precedence to his com- panion the Coroner, whose starting is doubtful, and a power- ful battery is directed against them both. Itis just possible that John might pull off the Derby, and then the cry would be, who would have thought it ? Jack appears to stand at 20 to 1, and at that price a fiver might prove a good myestmeut. A. Day, S. Rogers, ' Job Marson, Maton, and Castleman have been retained for the Danebury stable. The Barbarina colt is now named Bay Hilton. For the four days, including the Queen's Guineas, the amount ot public money is twelve hundred and seventy- five sovereigns ; and the fixtures, alternating six and five, form a total of twenty- two. The New Derby Course is exactly a mile and a- half, and somewhat in the form of a horse- shoe, the last half- mile being straight. The first half- mile is on the ascent, the next third of a mile level, the bend into the straight run home, and, until within the distance, on the descent, and the remainder on the rise. In the year 1816 they boasted of the largest number of subscriptions to the Derby upon record since its institu- tion, in 1780, amounting to 193, since when the second hundred has been five times exceeded, namely, 215, 237, and 204, successively in the Surplice, Flying Dutchman, and Voltigeur years, 217 on the Andover anniversary, and 213 for the coming conflict, being the surplus of the unit over the nominations for 1857. TO THE EDITOR OF " LIFE ON THE TUKF." SIR,— Without making any preface, I at once give you my prediction for THE DERBY." Cannobie, Yellow Jack or Verdant Green. THE OAKS. Victoria or Kalypige, with Comeda as a cock- boot. Grseculus Escurius will take the [ Epsom" Summer Handicap. The other events I shall not touch upon, and if Yel- low Jack does not obtain a place, Coroner will, And remain your INDICATOR. A PEEP AT THE GREAT SURREY EVENT, BY " CLEARSIGHT." TO THE EDITOR OF " LIFE ON THE TURF." SIR— The intense excitement always occasioned as the Derby approaches, makes me bold enough to think that a brief discussion as to the probable result may not, perhaps, be totally devoid of interest to your readers, so without further comment I will at once to my task, viz., to pndeavour to discover the horse that is most likely to carry off the " blue ribbon" this year. The field will, in all probability, be unusually large, from the fact of so many of the " cracks" having failed as the day approaches. The following list will, I think, comprise nearly all the starters :— Wentworth ! The Prince Artillery Newington Cannobie I Yellow Jack Ellington i Coroner Fly- by- Night > Polmoodio Fazzoletto ! Barbarina colt Rogerthorpc j The British Lion Mr. V. Green ! Vandermeulin West Langton > Aleppo Porto Rico ( Astrologus Birdin- Hand ! Pretty Boy WENTWORTII, although he won the Newmarket Stakes jjy no means easily, has retained his position at the head of the " poll," and is not now, unless by accident, likely to be deposed. I think lightly of his chance, though he might perhaps with safety be backed for a place. ARTILLERY must have improved wonderfully on his two- year- old form to Lave much chance, as the running of Queen's Head this year[ Jproves, for he had some difficulty in shaking the mare off for the Criterion last year. He should be kept on the " sunny side" of the book. CANNOBIE has more enemies than friends, who do not hesitate in laying het. vily against him. I shall enrol myself under their banner, and do not think he has speed enough for the Derby course. ELLINGTON has surrendered all chance he might liavo had by running for the Dee Stakes. I do not think his owner could have known what he was about in bringing such a thoroughly unprepared horse out before the day. FLY- BY- NIGHT, report says, has not yet recovered from his accident, but so highly do I think of his two- year- old performances that, if well on the day, I do not think anything will come near him. FAZZOLETTO came into favour immediately on Fly- by- Night's retrogression, and, if Fly- by- Night is an absen- tee on the day, I shall expect to see him very near winning. ROGERTHORPE is thought by some to be the intended of Day's stable, but T do not hold the same opinion myself, and think his two- year- old performances ao very moderate that he will be quite out of the race. Mr. VERDANT GREEN is a dark one, but I have heard a great deal of him, and expect he will give the favour- ites some trouble to shake him off. WEST LANGTON and PORTO RICO may start, but win- ning is out of the question. BIRD- IN- HAND ran so badly last year thkt I had no hope for him ; but unless ELLINGTON is wonderfully gone back from his two- year- old form, I should think his chance decidedly good, and even now think lie might with safety be backed for a place. The PRINCE and NEWINGTON come from the same stable, and it is even now doubtful which will be the intended. I, however, think that Newington will turn out the best of the two, and think the odds about him ( 50 to 1) are well worth booking. . YELLOW JACK and CORONER are also stable com- panions, and from the way the latter has lately been backed, I suppose he will be the intended of the stable, and he will not be far off winning depend upon it. POLMOODIE is of no use. BARBARINA COLT and THE BRITISH LION are two very good outsiders, the former especially. VANDERMEULIN will, I think, turn out the Wild Day- rell of the year, and I confidently expect him to be placed ; he has wonderfully improved on his two- year- old form, and is a Derby horse all over. ASTROLOGUS is the only one worth backing of the other outsiders, and, to sum up, I think the race will lie between the following, viz.:— Fazzoletto, Fly- by- Night, Artillery, Wentworth, Coroner, Newington, Bird- in- Hand, Vandermeulin and Mr. Verdant Green; and for the winner I shall take " ARTILLERY," and, if he is upset, it will be by Bird- in- Hand or Van- dermeulin, CTEARSJOHT. 50 L I F E ON T H E TURF. SPORTING. PROGRAMME OF THE EPSOM SUMMER MEETING. Tuesday, May 27. The CRAVEN STAKES of 5 SOTS eacb, with 50 added. Three- year- olds 7st lib, four 8st 71b, five 8st 131b. six and aged 9st. Mares allowed 51b, and geldings 31b. The last mile and a- quarter of the New Derby Course. Close and name this day, ( Monday.) The WOODCOTE STAKES of 10 SOTS each, with 100 added, for two- year- olds. Colts 8st 71b, Allies 8st 41b. The seoond to reoeiTe 25 SOTS out of the stakes. The new T. Y. C. three quarters of a mile. 41 subi. Mr. Adkins's b f Fascination Mr. Adkins's ch f Verona Mr. Alexander's b c Humbug Lord Anglesea's Cedric Mr. J. Barnard's Commotion Mr. T. Brown, jun's c c J. Peel Capt. Christie's b f Wild Honey Capt. Christie's br o The Abbot Mr. E. R. Clark's be Yorkshire- man, ( h b) Mr. E. R. Clark's chcGlenEagle Mr. J,. Clark's ch c by Epirus out of Elcot's dim Sir W. Codrington's Hobgoblin Mr. R. E. Cooper's Claude Lor- raine Mr. R. E. Cooper's King of the Forrest Mr. W. S. S. Crawfurd's Broad- cloth Mr. E. Day'sb orbrc Slanderer Mr. Isaac Day's Desdemona Mr. W. Day's Tricolour Mr. Douglas's br c Tinwald Lord Glasgow's ro c by Hernan- dez out of Physalis Mr. Guilder's br c Salonica Mr. Hewitt's The ATenger Mr. G. Hobson's bf byWeather- bit out of Itedycina Mr. Howard's br c Rohallion Mr. Howard's c Martinet Ld. Londesborough's Ornament Mr. J. Merry's King of the Isles Mr. J. Merry's gr or r f Lady Albert Mr. OliTer's b f by Iago out of Arthur Wellesley's dam Mrs. Osbaldiston's ch f Darda- nelles Mr. E. Parr'sch c Lambourn Mr. T. Parr's Apathy Mr. Payne's c by Alarm out of Plush Mr. Payne's ro c by Chanticleer out of Forlorn. Hope Gen. Peel's br. f by Iago out of Palma Baron Rothschild's Electra Mr. Sherwood's b c Fright Mr. J. M. Stanley's Kingmaker Mr. J. M. Stanley's f by Pyr- rhus the First out of lone Mr. C. Wyndham's b c Glen Masson Lord Zetland's Skirmisher The SUMMER HANDICAP of 10 SOTS each, h ft, with 100 SOTS added. Winners of any race ( matches excepted) after pub lication of the weights, 51b extra. The second to saTe his stake. One mile and a- quarter. 29 subs, yrs st lb Typee 6 9 6 Vindex 6 8 12 Lord Alfred ... 4 8 4 Clotilde 4 8 4 Grseculus Esuriens 4 8 2 Romeo ( pd) ... 6 8 0 Flatterer 4 7 9 Gamekeeper ... 5 7 9 Domino ( pd) ... 5 7 9 Noisy 4 7 7 Bonnie Morn ... 4 7 7 Dame Judith ... 4 7 4 Roebuck 5 7 4 Polydore 4 7 2 Palmerston ... 4 7 2 Catspaw 6 7 0 st lb 6 12 7 1 6 9 yrs Joshua 4 A therstone|( in 51b ex) 4 Neoptolemus ... 4 Napoleon III. ( inc 51b ex) 3 6 8 Gondoline 4 6 3 Teddy ( in 51b ex)... 3 6 6 Announcement ... 3 5 13 Kestrel 3 5 10 B c by Ratan out of Alice by Touch- stone 3 5 9 Bubble 3 5 8 Uzella 3 5 7 Woodcock 3 5 6 Blue Bell 3 5 4 The HORTON STAKES of 5 sovs each, with 30 added, for two- year- olds and upwards. New T. Y. C., three quarters of a mile. To close and name on Monday ( this day). The MANOR PLATE ( Handicap) of 50 sovs, for all ages. The winner of any race after the publication of the weights ( matches excepted) 51b extra. One mile. Tom Burke John Dory... Englemere... Newmarket Cbal Black Rose yrs 4 a . 4 . 4 3 st lb 8 12 8 5 7 11 7 9 7 7 Rip Van Winkle ... Br g by Faugh a Ballagh out of Emulous( in51b x) yrs 3 st lb 6 2 7 0 The HEATHCOTE PLATE of 50 soys, for all ages. Two- yen r- olds 5st 121b, three 7st 101b, four and upwards 8st 71b. Mares allowed 51b, and geldings 31b. Half- a- mile. The Pony, 2 yrs Flacrow, 4 yrs Comfort, 5 yrs Jeu d'Esprit, 3 yrs Adamas, 2 yrs Ariel, 3 yrs Swindler, 4 yrs St. Giles, 2 yrs Little John, 2 yrs The Borderer, 2 yrs Cutty Quean, 2 yrs New Brighton, 6 yrs Maid of Athens, 2 yrs Ceres, 3 yrs upwards 9st; mares allowed 51b, geldings 31b ; any horse haying ran in the Derby race without being placed allowed 31b; Derby Course; 14 subs. Typee, 6 years Manganese, 3 years Vengeance, 4 years Sultan, 4 years Capticine, 4 years Stork, 3 years Rataplan, 6 years ( pd) Saucebox, 4 years Porto Rico, 3 years Glen Lee, 3 years Lady Tatton, 4 years Rifleman, 4 years Escape, 4 years Coroner, 3 years St. Hubert, 4 years The DUHDAN STAKES of 5 SOTS each, with 30 added, for two- year- olds and upwards ; half a mile. To close and name on this day ( Monday). Thursday. The EPSOM FOUR YEAR- OLD STAKES of 50 SOTS each, h ft, with 100 added if not walked OTer for; colts 8st 1 lib, fillies 8st 61b; New Derby Course ; 11 subs. Paros Bessie Cornucopia Spinner Tynemouth Exchange The Romp Vandal Rambling Katie The Professor Polydore The TWO- YKAR- OLD STAKES of 10 BOVS each, with 50 added ; colts 8st 71b, fillies 8st 41b; winners 51b extra; half a mile ; 32 subs. Baron Rothschild's Electra Col. Martyn's b c by Colling- wood out of Elf Mr. T. Parr's b c Bosham Mr. C. Formby's The Banner Bearer Duke of Bedford's Cruzada Mr. Capel's ch c Delos Mr. Bowes's Beloiseau Mr. R. Sherwood's b c Fright Mr. Merry's Sister to Dramatist Mrs. Osbaldeston's Dardanelles Mr. W. Robinson's Lady Mal- colm Mr. Cooper's Coxwell ( h b) Mr. J. S. Douglas's b c Tourna- ment Capt. Christie's Equity Capt. Christie's The Abbot Mr. Morris's Decoy Bird Mr. Morris's General Bosquet Mr. J . Adkin's Fascination Wednesday. The DERBY STAKES of 50 SOTS each, H ft, for three- year- olds; colts 8st 71b, fillies 8st 21b ; the second to receive 100 SOTS out of the stakes ; the winner to pay 100 SOTS to the police and regulations of the course, and 50 SOTS to the judge ; the last mile and a half, to be run on the New Course ; 213 subs. [ The names of the horses expected to start, with the jockeys, & c., will be found in another colamn.] The BENTINCK PLATE ( Handicap) of 50 SOTS, for all ages ; the winner of any race ( except matches) after the publica- tion of the weights 51b extra ; one mile. age st lb age st lb Tom Burke ... 4 8 12 Treachery ... 4 7 11 LeJuif( hb) ... a 8 10 Newmarket ( pd) ... 4 7 10 John Dory ... a 8 5 Coal Black Rose ... 3 6 12 Atherstone ... 4 7 13 Rip Van Winkle ... 3 6 12 Englemere ... 4 7 13 The EPSOM TOWN PLATE ( Handicap) of 50 SOTS for all ages; the winner of any race ( matches excepted) after publication of the weights 51b extra ; one mile. age st lb Flacrow Romeo ( pd) Westminster ( p) ... 4 Gamekeeper ... 5 Noisy ... 4 Weathercock ( including 51b extra) 5 Moonshine ... 4 Georgium Sidus ... 4 Flo ... 3 4 10 4 6 8 10 8 10 8 6 8 6 8 7 8 2 7 11 7 6 age st lb 4 7 " 7 7 Vulcan Firebrand ... 5 Maid of the Morn 3 Alma ... 3 RoTing Betsy ... 4 6 Tester ... 3 6 B c " by Clumsy out of Bastile ... 4 6 Bulbul .. 3 6 Fulbeck ( pd) ... 4 1 Mr. J. White's Queen of the East Mr. Barnard's Commotion ( 51b extra) Mr. D. Lane's Saturn Mr. Howard's Rohallion Mr. Howard's Sister to B. Buc- cleugh Mr. Drinkald's Black Tommy Mr. Powney's b f Queen of the West Mr. W. Day's Utrecht Mr. W. Day's Aloupka Mr. Payne's bf by Orlando out of The Farmer's Daughter Mr. Payne's ch f Perfume Mr. E. R. Clark's ch f Gertrude Mr. S. Thellusson'sMd. Cliequot ( 51b extra) Mr. Saxon's bk f Wild Straw- berry ( pd) HER MAJESTY'S PLATE of 100 guineas, for mares only, three- year- olds 7st, four Sst 91b, five 9st 21b, six and aged 9st 51b ; Great Metropolitan Stakes Course ( two miles and a quarter), to start at the winning chair. Close and name this day ( Monday). The GRAND STAND PLATE ( Handicap) of 100 SOTS ; the win- ner of any race after the publication of the weights ( matches excepted), 51b extra ; Derby Course. Lord Alfred Clotilde Bracken Romeo ( pd) Marchioness Domino ( pd) John Dory Roebuck Joshua Atherstone Englemere age st lb 8 12 8 12 Pharold The Archer Gondoline Lawn Kestrel Pantheon Siroco ( inc 51b extra) Announcement Rip Van Winkle ... Uzella age st lb 6 7 0 6 10 The SELLING STAKES of 5 SOTS each, with 30 added, for two- year- olds and upwards ; New T. Y. C. ( three quarters of a mile). To close and name by nine o'clock on Wednesday night. The COBHAM PLATE ( Handicap) of 50 SOTS, for all ages; the winner of any race ( matches excepted) after the publica- tion of the weights 51b extra ; New T. Y. C. ( three quarters of a mile). age at lb New Brighton ... 6 9 4 Escape ... 4 8 9 ( inc 51b extra) ... 5 8 7 Westminster ( p) ... 4 8 7 Moonshine ... 4 8 4 Humboldt ... 5 7 11 Weathercock( in51bex) 5 8 7 Georgium Sidus ... 4 7 11 December ... 4 7 10 Professor Airey ... 4 7 9 Vulcan ... 4 7 5 Alastor Roving Betsy ... 4 The Roman ... 4 Tester ... 3 B c by Clumsy out of Bastile ... 4 Br g by Faugh- a Bal- iagh out of Emulous ( tnc 51b extra) ... 3 Cleopatra ... 3 age st lb 3 7 2 6 6 6 11 6 4 Parry I Will o' the Wisp i The Roman Gaylass I Astrologer Haunch ofVenison B c by Bolingbrokc Peter Wilkins The Fury out of FernhiH' 8 I Kingsland Emigrant dam ' Van Galen ' Arimaspian ( paysft The DERBY AND OAKS STAKES of 5 sovs each, with 30 added, for two- year- olds and upwards ; half a mile. To close and name by nine o'clock on Thursday night. V The entries for those stake9 which close this day ( Monday) will be giTen in our " Second Edition." Friday. The OAKS STAKES of 50 SOTS each, h ft, for three- year old fillies ; 8st 7 lb each ; the second to receive 100 sovs out of the stakes, and the winner to pay 100 sovs towards the police and regulations of the course, and 30 SOTS to the judge ; the last mile and a half on the New Course; 137 subs. ' [ The names of the horses expected to start, with the jockeys & c., will be found in another column.] The MEMBERS' PLATE of 50 SOTS, for three year- olds ; one mile and a quarter. To close and name to the Clerk of the Course by nine o'clock on Thursday. The RAILWAY PLATE ( Handicap) of 50 SOTS, for all ages; any winner after publication of the weights 51b extra ; New T. Y. C. ( three quarters of a mile). To close and name by nine o'clock on Wednesday night; the weights to be published on the following day. • The THIRD GREAT SURREY FOAL STAKES of 10 SOTS each, with 100 added, for three- year- olds ; colts 8st 71b, fillies 8st 41b; the winner of the Derby 121b, the second in that race, or the winner of the Oaks or the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, 01b extra; fillies having starfed for the Oaks without being placed allowed 3lb; last mile of the Derby Course; 38 subs. The EPSOM CUP of 100 SOTS, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 SOTS each, h ft; three- year- olds 7st, four 8st 71b, five and Siroco Peaceful Coal Black Rose Tyre Little Sykes Sir Tatton Brabantia Ch c by The Libel or Don John— Baleine St. Dunstan Tapestry West Langton Assailant Illuminator Smack Jeu d'Esprit Ariel Music Napoleon III. Calphurnia Middleton Caramba The Prince Ch f by Robert de Gorham out of Mary Sunshine B f by Bay Middle ton out of Idleness BATH AND SOMERSET RACES. Tuesday, May 20. The LANSDOWNE STAKES ( Handicap) of 5 sovs each, with 40 added. Certain winners extra. One mile. 17 subs. Mr. Adkin's Curious, 3 yrs, 6st 81b ( Fordbam) 1 Mr. T. Hughes's Romeo, 6st 31b ( D. Hughes) 2 Mr. Barnard's Sirocco, 3 yrs, 6st 81b ( Swift) 3 Mr. J. B. Starkey's Van Eyck, 3 yrs, 6st 81b..( Quinton) 4 Mr. P. Fisher's New Brighton, 6 yrs, 8st 121b...( Wells) 5 Mr. W. Day's Moonshine, 4 yrs, 7st 131b... .( G. Mann) 6 Mr. H. Lewis's Helene, 4 yrs, 7st 131b ( Grubb) 7 Betting : 2 to 1 agt Curious, 3 to 1 agst Van Eyck, 7 to 1 agst Romeo. Won by a length. Ten lengths between second and third. BIENNIAL STAKES of 10 sovs each, with 50 added ; for three- year- olds, colts, 8st 101b; fillies and geldings, 8st 71b. Certain allowances. The second to save his stake. Ono mile and a half. 41 subs. Mr. E. Parr's Stork, 8st 101b ( Wells) 1 Mr. Walter's King Cob, 8st71b..." ( Flatman) 2 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Porto Rico, 8st 101b ( Ashmall) 3 Duke of Beaufort's Furioso, 8st 101b ( A. Day) 4 Mr. R. E. Cooper's c by The Libel or Don John— Baleine, 8st 101b ( G. Whitebouse) 5 Betting : 2 to 1 agst Porto Rico, 3 to 1 each agst Stork and Furioso. Won cleverly by three- quarters of a length. The first year of the FIFTH BIENNIAL STAKES of 10 sovs each, with 50 added, for foals of 1854, colts 8st 101b, filliesand geldings 8st 71b. Certain allowances. The second to save his stake, and the winner to pay £ 5 towards expenses ; T. Y. C. half a mile. 37 subs. Mr. E. Parr's Lambourn, 8st 101b ( Wells) 1 Duke of Beaufort's the Vigil, 8st 71b ( A. Day) 2 Lord J. Scott's Cantrip, 8st 71b ( Flatman) 3 Mr. J. Hewitt's the Avenger, 8st 71b ( Sly) 4 Mr. C. Capel's Delos, 8st I01b ( J. Mann) 5 Mr. J. M. Stanley's lone, 8st 41b ( Ashmall) 6 Betting: 2 to 1 on Lambourn, 4 to 1 agst Vigil, 10 to 1 agst any other ( offered). Won in a canter by two lengths ; a length between the second and third. The SOMERSETSHIRE STAKES of £ 25 each, 15 ft, with 100 added. The second to receive £ 50, and the third to save his stake. The winner of the Metropolitan, Gt. Northern, Newmarket, or Chester Cup Handicaps, to carry 71b, of any two, 141b extra; any other winner of a Handicap value £ 200, after April 1st, 51b extra. Two miles and a distance. 75 subs, 00 paid £ 5 forfeit. Sir J. B. Mills's Cerva, 3 yrs, 6st, ( SalterJ 1 Mr. Moseley's Alonzo, aged, 8st 71b ( Welle) 2 Mr. Starkey's Topsy, 5 yrs, 6st 51b ( Enock) 3 Lord Clifden's Poodle, aged, 7st 101b ( Flatman) 4 Lord J. Scott's Napoleon the Third, 3 yrs, 5st 91b ( Fordham) 5 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Mishap, 5 yrs, 7st 31b ( Tyrrell) 6 Marq. of Aylesbury's Intimidation, 3 yrs, 6st ( Hearndon) 7 Betting: 7 to 4 agst Cerva, 7 to 2 agst Poodle, 4 to ] agst Alonzo, 10 to 1 agst any other ( offered). Won by three lengths ; bad third. The SELLING STAKES of 5 sovs each, with 25 added, for three- yr- olds and upwards, optional selling allowances, < fcc., once round, four subs., were won by Mr. Oliver's Etbel- bald, 4 yrs (£ 50), 7st lib ( Prior), beating Sextus, Tower, and Jeu d'Esprit. The MEMBERS' PLATE ( Handicap) of £ 50. Winners extra. Once round, about a mile and a half. Mr. Smith's Freckle, 4 yrs, 5st 121b ( Hearndon) 1 Mr. T. Parr's Wantage, 4 yrs, 6st 101b ( Carroll) 2 Mr. Mellish's Sandboy, 4 yrs, 6st 51b ( J. Land) 3 Lord Anglesey's Old Rowley, aged, 6st 121b.. .( Fordham) 4 Mrs. Osbaldeston's Champagne, 5 yrs, 8st 41b ( H. Steggles) 5 Won by a length and a half, bad third. The other two b9aten off. Wednesday. The ARISTOCRATIC HANDICAP of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, with 20 added; gentlemen riders, jockeys 71b extra. Certain win- ners extra. Once round. ( 8 subs.) Mr. W. Barnard's Sirocco, by Sirikol, 3 yrs, lOst, ( inc 71b ex) ( A. Day) 1 Mr. Gough's Anthracite, 4 yrs, list 31b ( inc 71b ex) ( T. Oliver, sen.) 2 Mr. Starkey's Topsy, 5 yrs, lOst 41b ( Mr. Dart) 3 Betting.—- Even on Sandboy, 4 to 1 agst Anthracite, 5 to 1 agst Sirocco, 6 to 1 agst any other. Won by three- quarters of a length ; a length between the second and third. SWEEPSTAKES of 5 sovs each, with 20 added, for two- yr- olds and upwards ; weight for age. Horses to be sold for £ 200 allowed 31b ; further allowances if for less, Sec. One mile ( 7 subs.) Won by Mr. Mellish's Weathercock, 5 yrs, (£ 50) 7st 61b ( Escott), beating Sextus, Ethelbald, Tower, Battery, and filly by Pyrrhus the First out of lone. The WESTON STAKES of 10 sovs each, with 50 added, for two- year- old colts, 8st / lb ; fillies and ge|^ ings, 8st 41b. The winner of any one stake of £ 200 value before starting to carry 51b extra, and the winner to pay 5 sovs towards ex penses. T. Y. C. Straight half mile. 42 subs. Mr. Howard's Pomona, by Birdcatcher, 8st 41b...( Wells) 1 Mr. E. Parr'sLambourne, 8st 121b( in 51b ex)...( W. White) 2 Duke of Beaufort's The Vigil, 8st 41b ( A. Day) 3 Betting.— 6 to 4 agst Lambourn, 4 to 1 agst Car* Fatima, 13 to 2 agst Banner Bearer, 7 to 1 agst Pomona. Won by a head; five lengths between the second and third; bad fourth. Cara Fatima was fifth. Bannockburn and the Wren filly were left at the post. 50 L I F E ON T H E TURF. The GOLD CUP given by Lord W. Powlett, added to a sweep- stakes of 10 sovs each, for 3 yr- olds and npwards. Weight for age. Certain penalties. Once round. ( 6 subs.) Mr. T. Parr's Fisherman, by Heron, 3 yrs, 7st 71b ( car- ried 7st 91b) ( Wells) 1 Mr. Wallers King Cob, 3 yrs, 6st 121b ( Crouch) 2 Mr. Starkey's Topsy, 5 yrs, 8st 131b ( Cordery) 3 Betting.— 3 to 1 on Fisherman, 4 to 1 agst King Cob. Won very easily by a length and a- half; very bad third. The BATH HANDICAP of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 100 added. • Certain winners extra. Once round. About one mile and a half. 18 « ubs, 15 of whom declared. Mr. Brown's Speed the Plough, by Cotherstone, 6 yrs, 8st 41b ( Ashmall) 1 Mr. Moseley's Alonzo, a, 8st 121b ( Wells) 2 Mr. Hope's Agra, 3 jrs, 6st 81b ( inc 51b ex)...( Fordham) 3 Betting.— 6 to 4 agst Agra, 3 to 1 agst Alonzo, 5 to 1 agst Speed the Plough. THE SHORTS of £ 25, for two- yr- olds and upwards. Weight for age. Horses to be sold for £ 200 allowed 31b; further allowances if for " less, & c., straight half- mile, was w on by Mr. Wyatt's Battery, 6 yrs (£ 40), 7st 61b ( Oliver, jun), beating The Grey Dawn, Ariel, Wild Kose, and Rose. The DYRHAM PARK HANDICAP of £ 100. Certain winners extra. To start at the distance post and go once round. ( 23 subs). Mr. Hughes's Romeo, by California, 6 yis, 8st ( D. Hughes) 1 Mr. Adkin's Curious, 5 yrs, 6st 101b ( inc. 51b extra) ( Fordham) 2 Mr. I. Day's Diana, 5 yrs, 7st 51b ( Crouch) 3 Betting : 5 to 4 agst Curious, 4 to 1 agst Jack Sheppard, 5 to 1 agst Diana. Won by a head ; bad third. HARPENDEN RACES- Friday, May 23. THE weather was fine, the attendance immense, and the sport superior to anything that was ever seen at a minor suburban meeting. Large fields went to the post for almost every race, and but for the unpleasant contretemps connected with the Handicap, the meeting would have passed off most satisfactorily. The following are the details :— The ROTHAMSTEAD STAKES of 3 sovs each, with 25 added; one mile and a half; 14 subs. Mr. T. Hughes's Firelight, by Jericho, 4 yrs, 7st 101b ( D. Hughes) 1 Mr. Armstrong's Little Emma, 3 yrs, list 111b ( Miles) 2 Mr. Thorpe's Little Tom, aged, 9st 111b ( Wells) 3 Mr. H. Smith's Spernza, aged, 9st 81b ( I'uke) 0 Mr. Bartlett's Useless, 4 yrs, 8st. 91b ( Yates) 0 Mr. Jagger's b f Bolingbroke, 3 yrs, 6st 111b . .( Bolland) 0 Mr. Mark's Young Hack, aged, 9st 71b ( Charlton) 0 Mr. White's Dalston, I yrs, 8st 01b ( Nightingale) 0 Mr. Clinton's Farus, 4 yrs, 8st 101b ( Palmer) 0 Mr. Mellish's Van Brackel, 3 yrs, 6st 71b ( J. Laud) 0 Mr. Marson's b f Heiress, 3 yrs, 7st ( Quinton) 0 Mr. F. Fisher's Bulbul, 3 yrs, 6st 41b ( Plumb) 0 Mr. C. C. Hale's ch m Wave, 4 yrs, 8st 101b...( Simpson) 0 Betting : 4 to 1 agst Little Tom, 5 to 1 each agst Firelight and Little Emma. Firelight made nearly all the running, and won cleverly by a length : two lengths between the second and third. Van Brackel was a bad fourth, and Use- less fifth. Farus bolted soon after starting, and was left behind. The winner was bought in for 52 sovs. The TWO- YEAR- OLD STAKES of 5 sovs cach, with 50 added ; colts 8st 71b, fillies 8st 21b; previons winners certain extras, according to published articles; T. Y. C.; 16 subs. Mr. W. Cox's Commotion, by Alarm, 8st 71b D. Hughes Mr. Mellish's Adamas, 8st 121b ( inc 51b extra) .. Wells Mr. J. S. Douglas's b c Tournament, 8st 71b ... Fordham Mr. C. Snewing's br f Annot Lyle, 8st 21b .... Ashmall Capt. Fitzwarren's b f by Burgundy out of All is Lost, 8st 21b J. Forster Mr. F. Fisher's b f England's Beauty, 8st 2 lb.. T. Cliff Mr. Newman's br c by Theon— Lady Meauly, 8st 71b Charlton Mr. W. Douglas's f Harriet Wilson, 8st 21b Kendal Mr. G. Ongley's br f by Gilbert Gurney out of Seaweed, 8st 21b Norman Mr. Edward's Little John, 8st 71b..., Palmer Mr. Gulliver's b c Salonica, 8st 21b Yates Mr. llayhoe's Cinderella, 8st 21b Hayhoe Betting : 3 to 1 agst Tournament, 4 to 1 agst Commotion, 5 to 1 agst Salonica, 6 to 1 agst Annot Lyle, and 10 to 1 agst Adamas. After considerable difficulty, caused by two or three breaking away, an excellent start was effected, Annot Lyle, Adamas, Commotion, and England's Beauty being in front, with the others, headed by Tournament, closely laid up, to the half distance, where Annot Lyle retired, leaving the lead with Adamas, who, followed by Commotion, carried it on to the Stand; here they were joined by Tournament, and the three ran a close race home, Commotion winning rather cleverly at last by haif a neck, Adamas beating Tour- nament by a length ; England's Beauty was a good fourth, Harriet Wilson fifth, and Annot Lyle next, the others beaten off. The HARPENDEN HANDICAP of 5 sovs each, 3 ft, with 50 ad ded ; the second to save his stake ; two miles; 34 subs. Mr. F. Hughes's b g by Faugh- a- Ballagh out of Emu- lous, 3 vrs, 6st 71b ( D. Hughes) ] Mr. E. llonek's br c Buckingham, 3 yrs, 6st 71b ( Fordham) 2 Mr. Drew's Philip. 3 yrs, 6st ( Brav) 3 Mr. Fisher's New Brighton, 6 yrs, 9st 41b ( T. Cliff) 0 Mr. J. Brown's Balmoral, 4yrs, Bst 71b ( Wells) 0 Mr. Smith's Newbold, 5 yrs, 8st 41b ( Searle) 0 Mr. Edney's br m Miss Goldschmidt, aged, 8st ( G. Sharpe) 0 Mr. F. Hughes's ch g Westminster, 4 yrs, 7st 121b ( J. Clarke) 0 Mr. E. R. Clarke's b g Billingham, 5 yrs, 7st 121b ( Kendall) 0 Mr. B. Land's Vestige, 5 yrs, 7st 101b ( Charlton) 0 Mr. Messer's Warbler, 6 yrs, 7st 101b ( G. Quinton) 0 Mr. Ivory's Swalcliffe, 3 yrs, 6st 91b ( Plumb) 0 Mr. Perk's br c Brutus, 3 yrs, fist 91b ( Bolland) 0 Mr. Newcome's br o General Wyndham, 3 yrs, 6st 71b ( Quinton) 0 Mr. Lane's Clara, 8 yrs, 6st ( Snowden) 0 Betting : 3 to 1 agst General Wyndham, 7 to 2 agst Buckingham, 5 to 1 agst Philip, 7 to 1 agst Swalcliffe, 8 to 1 agst Vestige, 10 to 1 each agst Faugh- a- Ballagh and Westminster, and 100 to 8 agst Biliingham. General Wyndham jamped off with the lead, followed by Swalcliffe, Philip, and the Faugh- a- Ballagh gelding, the others headed by New Brighton lying close up. At the mile post, General Wyndham and Swalcliffe gave way to Philip, who, fol- lowed by Buckingham, carried on the running to the turn in the straight, where they were joined by the Faugh- a- Ballagh colt, the latter running wide on the lower side. Half way between the Stand and the chair Buckingham caught Philip, and Faugh- a- Ballagh colt joining issue at the same time, an exciting set- to ensued between the three, the judge deciding in favour of the Faugh- a- Ballagh colt by a head, and the second beating the third by the same. Westminster was a good fourth, Warbler fifth, General Wyndham sixth, and Swalcliffe seventh ; the others tailed off. The LADIES' PURSE of 25 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 each ; one mile and a half; 10 subs. Mr. T. Parr's b g Goldhill, by Safeguard, 3 yrs, lOst 71b. ( inclnding 101b ex.) Wells 1 Mr. Mill's b h Firebrand, 5 yrs, 12st 71b ( in. 71b ex) Higgins 2 Mr. Prime's ns ch g Ploughman, 6 yrs, J2st Mr. Prime 3 Mr. J. Brown's Dardanelles, 5 yrs, 12st ( in. 71b ex.) Owner 0 Mr. Crawford's ch g by Cranbrook, 5 yrs, 12st 41b ( in. 71b ex.) Owner 0 Mr. White's b h Dalston, 4 yrs, list 41b... Mr. Edwards 0 Mr. Montier's b o Turk, 3 yrs, lOst 71b ( in. 101b ex. ) Salt 0 Mr. Nesbitt's br c St. Julian, 4 yrs, 12st ( in. 101b ex.) Kendall 0 Mr. F. Fisher's Cleopatra, 3 yrs, lOst 41b ( in. 101b ex.) T. Cliff 0 Betting : Even on Goldhill, and 4 to 1 agst any other. Goldhill made strong running and won by two lengths ; a length between the second and third ; the others beaten off. A HANDICAP PLATE of 40 sovs ; the winner of any race after the weights are out 51b, or of the Harpenden Handicap 71b extra ; one mile and a half. Mr. Oliver's Elfrida, by Faugh- a- Ballagh, 3 yrs, 6st 111b Prior Mr. Newcombe's br g General Wyndham, 3 yrs, 7st J. Quinton Mr. Coleman's ch g Ploughman ( late John Bull), 6 yrs, 8st 41b Nightingall Mr. Edney's br m Miss Goldschmidt, aged, 8st 21b G. Sharpe Mr. Wood's br g Phaeton, 6 yrs, 8st 21b Burton Mr. G. Tanquery's b m Foam, 5 yrs, 7st 111b Wells Mr. G. Ongley's f by Gilbert Gurney out of Fame, 6 yrs, 7st 101b C. Norman Mr. F. Fisher's gr f Maid of the Mom, 3 yrs, 7st 81b D. Hughes Mr. C. C. Hales's ch f Wave, 4 yrs, 7st 41b Fordham Mr. J. Fisher's ch f Glendonna, 3 yrs, 7st J. Forster Mr. Messer's Persia, 3 yrs, 6st 121b ( carried 7st) G. Quinton Betting : 6 to 4 agst Elfrida, 5 to 1 agst Wave, ( i to 1 agst General Wyndham, and 10 to 1 agst Glendonna. Miss Gold- schmidt made play to the turn into the straight, when El frida went in front and won by a length. Ploughman and Foam were next, beaten a long way. The TALLY HO STAKES of 5 sovs each, with 60 added ; one mile and a half, over four flights of hurdles ; 10 subs. Mr. Barling's Nicholas, by the Emperor, 5 yrs, lOst 101b ( 25 sovs) Eatwell Mr. Phillips's Cock Sparrow, lOst ( 25) .. Weaver Mr. Messer's b h Warbler, 6 yrs, list 71b ( 50) Nightingall Mr. Abbott's Flageolet, 4 yrs, lOst 71b ( 50) Kendall Mr. Cameron's br g Fearless, h b, 4 yrs, lOst ( 25) Mr. Cameron Mr. Hatterton's b m Lady Emily, 5 yrs, list 31b ( 50) West Mr. Land's Gossip, list 41b ( in 4tb extra) ( 25) Land, jun Mr. King's br g Victory, h b, aged, list 41b, in 41b extra ( 25) M'Lean Mr. Allibone's Battery, 6 yrs, list 71b ( 50) ... Donaldson Betting : 2 to 1 agst Flageolet, and 4 to 1 each agst Bat- tery and Cock Sparrow. Won by three- quarters of a length two lengths between second and third. The winner was bought in for 57 sovs. A HURDLE RACE of 2 sovs each, with 20 added ; mile and a half; 11 subs. Mr. F. Fisher's Diligent, by Melbourne, 5 yrs, lOst 101b ( SO sovs) Kendall Mr. Phillips's Cock Sparrow, 4 yrs lOst 21b ( 20) Weaver Mr. Mills's Firebrand, 5 yrs, list ( 20) Higgins 3 Capt. Freeman's ch g Bono Johnny, 6 yrs, list 71b ( 30) Bailey Mr. Barling's Nicholas, 5 yrs, list 31b ( in 101b ex. 20) Eatwell Mr. Montier's Pharold, aged, list ( 20) Salt Mr. G. Searle's Newbold, 5 yrs, lOst 101b ( 20) J. Bailey Mr. Hunter's Egalit£, aged, list ( 20) Boxall Mr. Allibon's Battery, 6 yrs, 12st ( 40) Donaldson Betting : 2 to 1 agst Cock Sparrow, 3 to 1 agst Pharold, and 5 to 1 agst Newbold. Won by a length, the same be tween second and third ; the others beaten off. The winner was bought in for 62 sovs. The SCCRBT STAKES of 1 SOT each, with 15 added ; T. Y. C. 11 subs. Mr. Groom's b g Bordeaux, by Cotherstone, 9st lib ( 30 sovs) B. Land, jun. 1 Mr. Thorpe's Little Tom, aged, lOst ( 50) ... Wells I Mr. Armstrong's Little Emma, 5st 101b ( 10) ... Miles 0 Mr. E. R. Clark's Plausible, 8- t ( 10) ... Kendall 0 Mr. Hobson's Glissade, 3 yrs, 6st 111b ( 10) Fordham 0 Mr. Marson's br f Heiress, 3 yrs, 6st 111b ( 20) J. JQuinton 0 Mr. Cattern's Twn Shon Catti, 8st 71b ( 20) Ashmall 0 Betting : 7 to 4 agst Icarus, 3 to 1 agst Twn Shon Catti, and 5 to 1 agst Bordeaux. Won, after an excellent race, by half a length, Little Emma a bad third. There was no ad- vance upon the selling price of the winner. LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. THE DERI1Y. 5 to 1 agst Fazzoletto I 15 to 1 agst Fly- by- Night 8 to 1 agst Cannobie Vandermeulin was backed at 10 and 0 to 1 for upwards of £ 1,400 during the afternoon. Nothing else done. Sir. Bull's Icarus, 4 yrs, 8st 31b ( 10) Mr, Eden's Amazon, 4 yrs, 8st 71b ( 20) E. Sharp Nightingall ULVERSTON RACES. Friday, May 16. The TRADESMEN'S STAKES of 3 sovs each, h ft, with 20 added ; 5 subs. Mr. Menzie's ch g Phoenix, by Phlegon, 5 yrs ( C. Barker) 1 Mr. Brown's br h Angelo, 6 yrs ( Brown) 2 The RAILWAY STAKES of 1 sov each, with 10 added; 4 subs. Mr. M'Adam's b g Prince, by Kremlin, aged ( Maley) 1 1 Mr. Brown's br h Angelo, 6 yrs ( Brown) 2 2 Mr. Robinson's Little Fan, 4 yrs ( Mitchell) 3 3 Saturday. The NoRTn LONSDALE STAKES of 3 sovs each, h ft, with 20 added ; 6 subs. Mr. Menzie's ch g Phoenix, 5 yrs ( C. Barker) 1 Mr. Brown's br h Angelo, 6 yrs ( Brown) 2 Mr. Berridge ns b h Conrad, aged ( Jones) 3 Mr. M'Adam's b g Prince, aged ( Maley) 0 The INNKEEPER'S STAKES of 1 sov each, with 10 added, for beaten horses. Mr. MAdam's b g Prince, aged ( Maley) Mr. Brown's br h Angelo, 6 yrs ( Brown) Mr. Robinson's Little Fan, 4 yrs ( Mitchell) Mr. Berridge ns b h Conrad, aged ( Jones) 4 X 1 X 2 2 3 3 0 1 dr STOKESLEY RAGES. Monday, May 19. A HURDLE RACE of 1 sov each, with 10 added; thorough breds 101b extra ; the second to save bis stake; over three hurdles ; 3 subs. Mr. Skeene's bk m Maid of the Mill ( h b), aged, 12st 1 wo Mr. Coxori's b h Shorts ( h b), aged, 12st 1 dr Mr. J. F. Clarke's br h Anglo- Saxon, 6 yrs, 12st 101b 3 dr The NORTH YORKSHIRE STAKES of 2 sovs each, with 15 added; the second to save his stake; heats, about one mile and three quarters ; 3 subs. Mr. Hutchinson's b m Letcombe Lass, by X. X., 5 yrs, 7st 131b 1 X Mr. Graham's br h Coomberland Stathesmon, 6 yrs, 8st 101b 2 2 Mr. Coxon's b h Shorts, aged, 8st 21b 3 3 Tuesday. The CLEVELAND STAKES of 2 sovs each, with 15 added ; the second to save his stake ; heats, about two miles ; 5 subs. Mr. Banks's b h Menzie, by Simoom, 4 yrs, 8st 101b ( including 51b extra) 4 1 1 Mr J. F. Clark's br h Anglo- Saxon, 6 yrs, lOst 31b ( including 101b extra) 2 3 2 Mr. Brown's br h Angelo, 6 yrs, lOst 31b ( in- cluding 101b extra) X 3 3 Mr. Graham's br h Coomberland Stathesmon, 6 yrs, 9st 71b 3 dr Each heat well contested. The TRADESMEN'S PLATE of 10 sovs; heats, twice round, ( about a mile and three quarters); 3 subs. Mr. Graham's br h Coomberland Stathesmon, by British Yeoman, 6 yrs, 8st 101b 2 1 X Mr. Hutchinson's bm Letcombe Lass, 5 yrs, 8st 21b X 2 2 Mr Coxon's b h Shorts, aged, 9st 3 dr Each heat well contested. A HACK RACK was won by Mr. Carter's black mare, beat- ing Shorts and Maid of the Mill; and a PONY RACE by Mr. R. Fenwick's Rob Roy, beating two others, which concluded the best day's sport ever witnessed on the Stokesley race ground. THE NORTH HERTS ( ROYSTON) YEOMANRY RACES. Thursday, May 22. In order to avoid clashing with Harpenden, this meeting, hitherto extending over two days, was reduced to one, and, as will be gathered from our brief return, " sufficient for the day was the evil thereof." The weather was wretched, and the attendance in consequence considerably below par. The racing exhibited a marked falling off, and without some vigorous efforts be made by its supporters, we fear that the meeting will be the last held on Royston Downs. The OFFICERS' Cup ; a mile and a half. Mr. Woodward's ch g Golden Plover, by the Baron, 6 yrs, 12st ... ... .. Mr. Thurnall 1 Mr. Coleman's b h Monti, aged, 12st.. Mr. E. Coleman 2 Mr. Beale's gr m Alice Gray, 6 yrs, l'ist .. Owner 3 Mr. Nash's b m Frolic, 12st ... .. Owner 4 Golden Plover made all the running, and won in a canter by four lengths, Alice Grey a bad third. The ROTSTON TOWN PLATE of 20 sovs ; gentlemen riders ; about a mile and a distance. Mr. Bevill's b g Gerard, by Alarm, aged, lOst ( 20 sovs) Mr. W. Bevill Mr. Brooks's ch m Thermonser, list, ( 50) ... Mr. Rook Mr. Purser's b g Little Tommy, lOst 51b ... Owner Mr. J. R. Wortham's b g Liberty, aged, lOst ( 20) Owner Mr. Coleman's gr m Miniature, 5 yrs, lOst ( 20) Mr. Hands Mr. Nesbitt's Lady Alice, lOst ( 30) .. Owner Mr. Wilkie's b g jEolus, aged, lOst ( 20) .. Mr. Cole Gerard made the running, and won easily by six length Thermonser beating Little Tommy by two lengths ; Alice Gray was a bad fourth, Liberty fifth, and Lady Alice last. 5 0 L I F E O N T H E TURF. S P O R T I N G . PROGRAMME OF THE EPSOM SUMMER MEETING. Tuesday, May 27. The CRAVEN STAKES of 5 SOTS eacb, with SO added. Three- year- olds 7st lib, four 8st 71b, five 8st 131b, six and aged 9st. Mares allowed 51b, and geldings 31b. The last mile and a- qnarter of the New Derby Course. Close and name this day, ( Monday.) The WOODCOTB STAKES of 10 SOTS eacb, with 100 added, for two- year- olds. Colts 8st 71b, Allies 8at 41b. The second to reoeive 25 aovs out of the stakes. The new T. Y. C. three quarters of a mile. 41 suba. Mr. Adkins's b f Fascination Mr. Adkins's ch f Verona Mr. Alexander's b c Humbug Lord Anglesea's Cedrie Mr. J. Barnard's Commotion Mr. T. Brown, jun's c c J. Peel Capt. Christie's b f Wild Honey Capt. Christie's br o The Abbot Mr. E. R. Clark's b c Yorkshire- man, ( h b) Mr. E. R. Clark'schcGlenEagle Mr. J, Clark's ch c by Epirns out of Elcot's dnm Sir W. Codrington's Hobgoblin Mr. R. E. Cooper's Claude Lor- raine Mr. R. E. Cooper's King of the Porrest Mr. W. S. S. Crawford's Broad- cloth Mr. E. Day's b orbrc Slanderer Mr. Isaac Day's Desdemona Mr. W. Day's Tricolour Mr. Douglas's br c Tinwald Lord Glasgow's ro c by Hernan- dez out of Physalis Mr. GulliTer's br c Salonica Mr. G. Hobson's bfbyWeather- bit out of ltedycina Mr. Howard's br c Rohallion Mr. Howard's c Martinet Ld. Londesborough's Ornament Mr. J. Merry's King of the Isles Mr. J. Merry'i gr or r f Lady Albert Mr. OliTer's b f by Iago out of Arthur Wellesley's dam Mrs. Osbaldiston's ch f Darda- nelles Mr. E. Parr's ch c Lambourn Mr. T. Parr's Apathy Mr. Payne's c by Alarm out of Plush Mr. Payne's ro c by Chanticleer out of Forlorn Hope Gen. Peel's br. f by Iago out of Palma Baron Rothschild's Electra Mr. Sherwood's b c Fright Mr. J. M. Stanley's Kingmaker Mr. J. M. Stanley's f by Pyr- rhus the First out of Iono Mr. C. Wynd ham's b c Glen Masson Lord Zetland's Skirmisher Mr. Hewitt's The ATenger The SUMMER HANDICAP of 10 SOTS each, h ft, with 100 SOT3 added. Winners of any race( matches excepted) after pub lication of the weights, 51b extra. The second to saTe his stake. One mile and a- quarter. 29 subs. yrs st lb yrs at lb Typee 6 0 6 Joshua 4 6 12 Vindex 6 8 12 Atherstone|( in 51b ex) 4 7 1 Lord Alfred 4 8 4 Neoptolemus 4 « 9 Clotilde 4 8 4 Napoleon III. ( inc 8 Grseculus Esuriens 4 8 2 51b ex) 3 6 6 Romeo ( pd) 6 8 0 Gondoline 4 8 Flatterer 4 7 9 Teddy ( in 51b ex)... 3 6 6 Gamekeeper 5 7 9 Announcement ... 3 3 5 13 Domino ( pd) 5 7 9 Kestrel S 10 Noisy 4 7 7 B c by Ratan out of Bonnie Morn 4 7 7 Alice by Touch- 9 Dame Judith 4 7 4 stone 3 5 Roebuck 5 7 4 Bubble 3 5 8 Polydore 4 7 2 Uzella 3 5 7 Palmerston 4 7 2 Woodcock 3 5 6 Catspaw 6 7 0 Blue Bell 3 5 4 The HORTON STAKES of 5 sovs each, with 30 added, for two- year- olds and upwards. New T. Y. C., three quarters of a mile. To close and name on Monday ( this day). The MANOR PLATE ( Handicap) of 50 SOTS, for all ages. The winner of any race after the publication of the weights ( matches excepted) 51b extra. One mile. Tom Burke Jehn Dory... Englemere... Newmarket Cbal Black Rose yrs , 4 a . 4 . 4 . S st lb 8 12 8 5 7 11 7 9 7 7 Rip Van Winkle ... Br g by Faugh a Ballagh out of Emulous( in 51b x) yrs 3 st lb 6 2 7 0 The HEATHCOTE PLATE of 50 SOTS, for all ages. Two- yen r- olds 581 121b, three 7st 101b, four and upwards 8st 71b. Mares allowed 51b, and geldings 31b. Half- a- mile. The Pony, 2 yrs Flacrow, 4 yrs Comfort, 5 yrs Jeu d'Esprit, 3 yrs Adamas, 2 yrs Ariel, 3 yrs Swindler, 4 yrs St. Giles, 2 yrs Little John, 2 yrs The Borderer, 2 yrs Cutty Quean, 2 yrs New Brighton, 6 yrs Maid of Athens, 2 yrs Ceres, 3 yrs upwards 9st; mares allowed 51b, geldings 31b ; any horse haTing ran in the Derby race without being placed allowed 31b ; Derby Course; 14 subs. Typee, 6 years Manganese, 3 years Vengeance, 4 years Sultan, 4 years Capucine, 4 years Stork, 3 years Rataplan, 6 years ( pd) Saucebox, 4 years Porto Rico, 3 years Glen Lee, 3 years Lady Tatton, 4 years Rifleman, 4 years Escape, 4 years • oroner, 3 years St. Hubert, 4 years The DURDAN STAKES of 5 SOTS each, with 30 added, for two- year- olds and upwards ; half a mile. To close and name on this day ( Monday). Thursday. The EPSOM FOUR YEAR- OLD STAKES of 50 SOTS each, h ft, with 100 added if not walked oTer for; colts Sat 1 lib, fillies 8st 61b; New Derby Course ; 11 Bubs. Paros Bessie Cornucopia Spinner Tynemouth Exchange The Romp Vandal Rambling Katie The Professor Polydore The TWO- YEAR- OLD STAKES of 10 SOTS each, with 50 added ; colts 8st 71b, fillies 8st - lib; winners 51b extra ; half a mile ; 32 subs. Baron Rothschild's Electra Col. Martyn's b c by Colling- wood out of Elf Mr. T. Parr's b c Bosham Mr. C. Formby's The Banner Bearer Duke of Bedford's Cruzada Mr. Capel's eh c Delos Mr. Bowes's Beloiseau Mr. R. Sherwood's b c Fright Mr. Merry's Sister to Dramatist Mrs. Osbaldeston's Dardanelles Mr. W. Robinson's Lady Mal- colm Mr. Cooper's Coxwcll ( h b) Mr. J. S. Douglas's b c Tourna- ment Capt. Christie's Equity Capt. Christie's The Abbot Sir. Morris's Decoy Bird Mr. Morris's General Bosquet Mr. J . Adkiu's Fascination Mr. J. White's Queen of the East Mr. Barnard's Commotion ( 51b extra) Mr. D. Lane's Saturn Mr. Howard's Rohallion Mr. Howard's Sister to B. Buc- clengh Mr. Drinkald's Black Tommy Mr. Powney's b f Queen of the West Mr. W. Day's Utrecht Mr. W. Day's Aloupka Mr. Payne's bf by Orlando out of The Farmer's Daughter Mr. Payne's ch f Perfume Mr. E. R. Clark's ch f Gertrude Mr. S. Thellusson'sMd. Cliaquot ( 51b extra) Mr. Saxon's bk f Wild Straw- berry ( pd) HER MAJESTY'S PLATE of 100 guineas, for mares only, three- year- olds 7st, four 8st 91b, fiTe 9st 21b, six and aged 9st 51b ; Great Metropolitan Stakes Course ( two miles and a quarter), to start at the winning chair. Close and name this day ( Monday). The GRAND STAND PLATE ( Handicap) of 100 SOTS ; the win- ner of any race after the publication of the weights ago st lb age st lb Lord Alfred ... 4 8 12 Pharold 6 7 0 Clotilde ... 4 8 12 The Archer 4 6 10 Bracken ... 5 8 6 Gondoline 4 6 4 Romeo ( pd) ... 6 8 2 Lawn 3 6 2 Marchioness ... 4 8 2 Kestrel 3 6 2 Domino ( pd) ... 5 8 1 Pantheon 4 6 2 John Dory ... a 7 12 Siroco ( inc 51b extra) 3 6 1 Roebuck ... 5 7 5 Announcement 3 6 0 Joshua ... 4 7 2 Kip Van Winkle 3 5 13 Atherstone ... 4 7 2 Uzella 3 5 10 Englemere ... 4 7 2 The SELLING STAKES of 5 SOTS each, with 30 added, for two year- olds and upwards; New T. Y. O. ( three quarters of a mile). To close and name by nine o'clock on Wednesday night. The COBHAM PLATE ( Handicap) of 50 sovs, for all ages ; the winner of any race ( matches excepted) after the publica- tion of the weights 51b extra ; New T. Y. C. ( three quarters of a mile). New Brighton Escape ... 4 ( inc 51b extra) ... 5 Westminster ( p) ... 4 Moonshine ... 4 Humboldt ... 5 Weathercock( in 51bex) 5 Georgium Sidus ... 4 December ... 4 Professor Airey ... 4 Vulcan ... 4 age at lb 6 9 4 Alastor RoTing Betsy ... 4 The Roman ... 4 Tester ... 3 B c by Clumsy out of Bastile ... 4 Br g by Faugh- a Bal- iagh out of Emulous ( tnc 51b extra) ... 3 Cleopatra ... 3 Wednesday. The DERBT STAKES of 50BOTS each, li ft, for three- year- olds; colts 8st 71b, fillies 8st 21b ; the second to receive 100 sovs out of the stakes ; the winner to pay 100 SOTS to the police and regulations of the course, and 50 SOTS to the judge ; the last mile and a half, to be run on the New Course ; 213 subs. [ The names of the horses expected to start, with the jockeys, & c., will be found in another column.] The BENTINCK PLATE ( Handicap) of 50 SOTS, for all ages ; the winner of any race ( except matches) after the publica- tion of the weigh ts 51b extra ; one mile, age st lb Parry | Will o' the Wisp Gaylass Astrologer B c by Bolingbrokc Peter Wilkins out of Fernhill's I Kingsland dam I Van Galen The DERBY AND OAKS STAKES of 6 added, for two- year- olds and upwards ; half a mile, close and name by nine o'clock on Thursday night. V The entries for those stakes which close this day ( Monday) will be given in our " Second Edition." The Roman Haunch ofV enison The Fury Emigrant Arimaspian ( pays ft sovs each, with 30 To age stlb 3 7 2 6 6 6 11 6 4 Tom Burke Le Juif( hb) John Dory Atherstone Englemere 4 8 12 i Treachery a 8 10 ! Newmarket ( pd) a 8 5 ~ ' ' " 4 7 13 4 7 13 age st lb 4 7 11 Coal Black Rose Rip Van Winkle 7 10 C 12 6 12 The EPSOM TOWN PLATE ( Handicap) of 50 BOVS for all ages; the winner of any race ( matches excepted) after publication of the weights 51b extra ; one mile. age st lb Flacrow Romeo ( pd) Westminster ( p) ... 4 Gamekeeper ... Noisy ... 4 Weathercock ( including Sib extra) 5 Moonshine ... 4 Georgium Sidus ... 4 Flo ... 3 4 10 4 6 8 10 4 8 10 5 8 6 8 6 7 11 7 6 age st lb Vulcan ... 4 7 6 Firebrand ... 5 7 5 Maid of the Mom 3 7 4 Alma ... 3 7 4 Roving Betsy ... 4 6 13 Tester ... 3 6 6 B c ' bv Clumsy out of Bastile ... 4 6 6 Bulbul .. 360 Fulbeck ( pd) ... 4 1 6 8 9 8 7 8 7 8 4 7 11 8 7 7 11 7 10 7 9 7 5 Friday. The OAKS STAKES of 50 sovs each, h ft, for three- year old fillies ; 8st 7 lb each ; the second to receive 100 BOVS out of the stakes, and the winner to pay 100 sovs towards the police and regulations of the course, and 30 sovs to the judge ; the last mile and a half on the New Course; 137 subs. ' [ The names of the horses expected to start, with the jockeys & c., will be found in another column.] The MEMBERS' PLATE of 50 sovs, for three year- olds ; one mile and a quarter. To close and name to the Clerk of the Course by nine o'clock on Thursday. The RAILWAY PLATE ( Handicap) of 50 sovs, for all ages; any winner after publication of the weights 51b extra; New T. Y. C. ( three quarters of a mile). To close and name by nine o'clock on Wednesday night; the weights to be published on the following day. The THIRD GREAT SURREY FOAL STAKES of 10 sovs eacb, with 100 added, for three- year- olds ; colts 8st 71b, fillies 8st 41b; the winner of the Derby 121b, the second in that race, or the winner of the Oaks or the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, 01b extra; fillies having Btarfed for the Oaks without being placed allowed 3lb; last mile of the Derby Course; 38 subs. BATH AND SOMERSET RACES. Tuesday, May 20. The LANSDOWNE STAKES ( Handicap) of 5 sovs each, with 40 added. Certain winners extra. One mile. 17 subs. Mr. Adkin's Curious, 3 yrs, 6st 81b ( Fordham) 1 Mr. T. Hughes's Romeo, 8st 31b ( D. Hughes) 2 Mr. Barnard's Sirocco, 3 yrs, 6st 81b ( Swift) 3 Mr. J. B. Starkey's Van Eyck, 3 yrs, 6st 81b..( Quinton) 4 Mr. P. Fisher's New Brighton, 6 yrs, 8st 121b... ( Wells) 5 Mr. W. Day's Moonshine, 4 yrs, 7st 131b... .( G. Mann) 6 Mr. H. Lewis's Helene, 4 yrs, 7st 131b ( Grubb) 7 Betting : 2 to 1 agt Curious, 3 to 1 agst Van Eyck, 7 to 1 agst Romeo. Won by a length. Ten lengths between second and third. BIENNIAL STAKES of 10 sovs each, with 50 added ; for three- year- olds, colts, 8st 101b; fillies and geldings, 8st 71b. Certain allowances. The second to save his stake. Ono mile and a half. 41 subs. Mr. E. Parr's Stork, 8st 101b ( Wells) 1 Mr. Walter's King Cob, 8st 71b..: ( Flatman) 2 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Porto Rico, 8st 101b ( Ashmall) 3 Duke of Beaufort's Furioso, 8st 101b ( A. Day) 4 Mr. R. E. Cooper's c by The Libel or Don John— Baleine, 8st 10lb ( G. Whitehouse) 5 Betting : 2 to 1 agst Porto Rico, 3 to 1 each agst Stork and Furioso. Won cleverly by three- quarters of a length. The first year of the FIFTH BIENNIAL STAKES of 10 sovs each, with 50 added, for foals of 1854, colts 8st 101b, filliesand geldings 8st 71b. Certain allowances. The second to save his stake, and the winner to pay £ 5 towards expenses ; T. Y. C. half a mile. 37 subs. Mr. E. Parr's Lambourn, 8st 101b ( Wells) 1 Duke of Beaufort's the Vigil, 8st 71b ( A. Day) 2 Lord J. Scott's Cantrip, 8st71b ( Flatman) 3 Mr. J. Hewitt's the Avenger, 8st 71b ( Sly) 4 Mr. C. Capel's Delos, 8st 101b ( J. JIanu) 5 Mr. J. M. Stanley's lone, 8st 41b ( Ashmall) 6 Betting: 2 to 1 on Lambourn, 4 to 1 agst Vigil, 10 to 1 agst any other ( offered). Won in a canter by two lengths ; a length between the second and third. The SOMERSETSHIRE STAKES of £ 25 each, 15 ft, with 100 added. The second to receive £ 50, and the third to save his stake. The winner of the Metropolitan, Gt. Northern, Newmarket, or Chester Cup Handicaps, to carry 71b, of any two, 141b extra; any other winner of a Handicap value £ 200, after April 1st, 51b extra. Two miles and a distance. 75 subs, 00 paid £ 5 forfeit. Sir J. B. Mills's Cerva, 3 yrs, 6st, ( SalterJ 1 Mr. Moseley's Alonzo, aged, 8st 71b ( Wells) 2 Sir. Starkey's Topsy, 5 yrs, 6st 51b ( Enock) 3 Lord Clifden's Poodle, aged, 7st 101b ( Flatmau) 4 Lord J. Scott's Napoleon the Third, 3 yrs, 5st 91b ( Fordham) 5 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Mishap, 5 yrs, 7st 31b ( Tyrrell) 6 Marq. of Aylesbury's Intimidation, 3 yrs, 6st ( Hearndon) 7 Betting: 7 to 4 agst Cerva, 7 to 2 agst Poodle, i to ] agst Alonzo, 10 to 1 agst any other ( offered). Won by three lengths ; bad third. The SELLING STAKES of 5 sovs each, with 25 added, for three- yr- olds and upwards, optional selling allowances, < tc., once round, four subs., were won by Mr. Oliver's Ethel- bald, 4 yrs (£ 50), 7st lib ( Prior), beating Sextus, Tower, and Jeu d'Esprit. The MEMBERS' PLATE ( Handicap) of £ 50. Winners extra. Once round, about a mile and a half. Mr. Smith's Freckle, 4 yrs, 5st 12lb ( Hearndon) 1 Mr. T. Parr's Wantage, 4 yrs, 6st 101b ( Carroll) 2 Mr. Mellish's Sandboy, 4 yrs, 6st 51b ( J. Land) 3 Lord Anglesey's Old Rowley, aged, 6st 121b...( Fordham) 4 Mrs. Osbaldeston's Champagne, 5 yrs, 8st 41b ( H. Steggles) 5 The EPSOM CCP of 100 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sove each, h ft; three- year- olds 7st, four 8st 71b, five and Siroco Peaceful Coal Black Rose Tyre Little Sykes Sir Tatton Brabantia Ch c by The or Don Baleine Libel John— St. Dunstan Tapestry West Langton Assailant Illuminator Smack Jeu d'Esprit Ariel Music Napoleon III. Calphurnia Middleton Caramba The Prince Ch f by Robert de Gorham out of Mary Sunshine B f by Bay Middle- ton out of Idleness Won by a length and a half, bad third. The other two beaten off. Wednesday. The ARISTOCRATIC HANDICAP of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, with 20 added; gentlemen riders, jockeys 71b extra. Certain win- ners extra. Once round. ( 8 subs.) Mr. W. Barnard's Sirocco, by Sirikol, 3 yrs, lOst, ( inc 71b ex) ( A. Day) 1 Mr. Gough's Anthracite, 4 yrs, list 31b ( inc 71b ex) ( T. Oliver, sen.) 2 Mr. Starkey's Topsy, 5 yrs, lOst - lib ( Mr. Dart) 3 Betting.— Even on Sandboy, 4 to 1 agst Anthracite, 5 to 1 agst Sirocco, 6 to 1 agst any other. Won by three- quarters of a length ; a length between the second and third. SWEEPSTAKES of 5 sovs each, with 20 added, for two- yr- olds and upwards ; weight for age. Horses to be sold for £ 200 allowed 31b ; further allowances if for less, See. One mile ( 7 subs.) Won by Mr. Mellish's Weathercock, 5 yrs, (£ 50) 7st 61b ( Escott), beating Sextus, Ethelbald, Tower, Battery, and filly by Pyrrhus the First out of lone. The WESTON STAKES of 10 sovs each, with 50 ' added, for two- year- old colts, 8st 71b ; fillies and geldings, 8st 41b. The winner of any one stake of £ 200 value before starting to carry 51b extra, and the winner to pay 5 sovs towards ex penses. T. Y. C. Straight half mile. 42 sabs. Mr. Howard's Pomona, by Birdcatcher, 8st 41b...( Wells) 1 Mr. E. Parr's Lambourne, 8st 121b ( in 51b ex)...( W. White) 2 Duke of Beaufort's The Vigil, 8st 41b ( A. Day) 3 Betting.— 6 to 4 agst Lambourn, 4 to 1 agst Car » Fatuna, 13 to 2 agst Banner Bearer, 7 to 1 agst Pomona. Won by a head ; five lengths between the second and third; bad fourth. Cara Fatima was fifth. Bannockburn and the Wren filly were left at the post. 50 L I F E O N T H E T U R F. The GOLD CUP given by Lord W. Powlett, added to a sweep- stakes of 10 soys each, for 3 yr- olds and upwards. Weight for age. Certain penalties. Once round. ( 6 subs.) Mr. T. Parr's Fisherman, by Heron, 3 yrs, 7st 71b ( car- ried 7st 91b) ( Wells) 1 Mr. Waller's King Cob, 3 yrs, 6st 121b ( Crouch) 2 Mr. Starkey's Topsy, 5 yrs, 8st 131b ( Cordery) 3 Betting.— 3 to 1 on Fisherman, 4 to 1 agst King Cob. Won very easily by a length and a- half; very bad third. The BATH HANDICAP of 10 SOTS each, h ft, with 100 added. Certain winners extra. Onoe round. About one mile and a half. 18 subs, 15 of whom declared. Mr. Brown's Speed the Plough, by Cotherstone, 6 yrs, 8st 41b ( Ashmall) 1 Mr. Moseley's Alonzo, a, 8st 121b ( Wells) 2 Mr. Hope's Agra, 3 j ra, 6st 81b ( ine 51b ex)...( Fordham) 3 Betting.— 6 to 4 agst Agra, 3 to 1 agst Alonzo, 5 to 1 agst Speed the Plough. THE SHORTS of £ 25, for two- yr- olds and upwards. Weight for age. Horses to be sold for £ 200 allowed 31b ; further allowances if for " less, & c., straight half- mile, wns w on by Mr. Wyatt's Battery, 6 yrs (£ 40), 7st 61b ( Oliver, jun), beating The Grey Dawn, Ariel, Wild Rose, and Rose. The DYRHAH PARK HANDICAP of £ 100. Certain winners extra. To start at the distance post and go once round. ( 23 subs). Mr. Hughes's Romeo, by California, 6 yis, 8st ( D. Hughes) 1 Mr. Adkin's Curious, 5 yrs, Ost 101b ( inc. 51b extra) ( Fordham) 2 Mr. I. Day's Diana, 5 yrs, 7st 61b ( Crouch) 3 Betting : 5 to 4 agst Curious, 4 to 1 agst Jack Sheppard, 5 to 1 agst Diana. Won by a head ; bad third. HARPENDEN RACES- Friday, May 23. THE weather was fine, the attendance immense, and the sport superior to anything that was ever seen at a minor suburban meeting. Large fields went to the post for almost every race, and but for the unpleasant contretemps connected with the Handicap, the meeting would have passed off most satisfactorily. The following are the details :— The ROTHAMSTEAD STAKES of 3 sovs each, with 25 added; one mile and a half; 14 subs. Mr. T. Hughes's Firelight, by Jericho, 4 yrs, 7st 101b ( D. Hughes) Mr. Armstrong's Little Emma, 3 yrs, Ost 111b ( Miles) Mr. Thorpe's Little Tom, aged, 9st 111b ( Wells) Mr. H. Smith's Spernza, aged, 9st 81b ( 1' uke) Mr. Bartlett's Useless, 4 yrs, 8st. 91b ( Yates) Mr. Jagger'sb f Bolingbroke, 3 yrs, 6st 111b . .( Bolland) Mr. Mark's Young Hack, aged, 9s t 71b ( Charlton) Mr. White's Dalston, 4 yrs, 8st 01b ( Nightingale) Mr. Clinton's Farus, 4 yrs, 8st 101b ( Palmer) Mr. Mellish's Van Brackel, 3 yrs, 6st 71b ( J. Laud) Mr. Marson's b f Heiress, 3 yrs, 7st ( Quinton) Mr. F. Fisher's Bulbul, 3 yrs, 6st 41b ( Plumb) Mr. C. C, Hale's ch m Wave, 4 yrs, 8st 101b...( Simpson) Betting : 4 to 1 agst Little Tom, 5 to 1 each agst Firelight and Little Emma. Firelight made nearly all the running, and won cleverly by a length : two lengths between the second and third. Van Brackel was a bad fourth, and Use- less fifth. Farus bolted soon after starting, and was left behind. The winner was bought in for 52 sovs. The TWO- YEAR- OLD STAKES of 5 sovs each, with 50 added ; colts 88t 71b, fillies 8st 21b ; previons winners certain extras, according to published articles ; T. Y. C.; 16 subs. Mr. W. Cox's Commotion, by Alarm, 8st 71b D. Hughes Mr. Mellish's Adamas, 8 » t 121b ( inc 51b extra) .. Wells Mr. J. S. Douglas's b c Tournament, 8st 71b ... Fordham Mr. C. Snewing's br f Annot Lyle, 8st 21b .... Ashmall Capt. Fitzwarren's b f by Burgundy out of All is Lost, 8st 21b J. Forster Mr. F. Fisher's b f England's Beauty, 8st 2 lb. . T. Cliff Mr. Newman's br c by Theon— Lady Meauly, 8st 71b Charlton Mr. W. Douglas's f Harriet Wilson, 8st 21b Kendal Mr. G. Ongley's br f by Gilbert Gurney out of Seaweed, 8st 21b Norman Mr. Edward's Little John, 8st 71b..., Palmer Mr. Gulliver's b c Salonica, 8st 21b Yates Mr. llayhoe's Cinderella, 8st 21b Hayhoe Betting : 3 to 1 agst Tournament, 4 to 1 agst Commotion, 5 to 1 agst Salonica, 6 to 1 agst Annot Lyle, and 10 to 1 agst Adamas. After considerable difficulty, caused by two or three breaking away, an excellent start was effected, Annot Lyle, Adamas, Commotion, and England's Beauty being in front, with the others, headed by Tournament, closely laid up, to the half distance, where Annot Lyle retired, leaving the lead with Adamas, who, followed by Commotion, carried it on to the Stand; here they were joined by Tournament, and the three ran a close race home, Commotion winning rather cleverly at last by haif a neck, Adamas beating Tour- nament by a length ; England's Beauty was a good fourth, Harriet Wilson fifth, and Annot Lyle next, the others beaten off. The HARPENDEN HANDICAP of 5 sovs each, 3 ft, with 50 ad- ded ; the second to save his stake ; two miles; 34 subs. Mr. F. Hughes's b g by Faugb- a- Ballagh out of Emu- lous, 3 yrs, 6st 71b ( D. Hughes) Mr. E. Monck's br c Buckingham, 3 yrs, 6st 71b ( Ford ham) Mr. Drew's Philip. 3 yrs, 6st ( Bray) Mr. Fisher's New Brighton, 6 yrs, 9st 41b ( T. Cliff) Mr. J. Brown's Balmoral, 4 yrs, fcst 71b ( Wells) Mr. Smith s Newbold, 5 yrs, 8st 41b ( Searle) Mr. Edney's br m Miss Goldschmidt, aged, 8st ( G. Sharpe) Mr. F. Hughes's ch g Westminster, 4 yrs, 7st 121b ( J. Clarke) Mr. E. R. Clarke's b g Billingham, 5 yrs, 7st 121b ( Kendall) Mr. B. Land's Vestige, 5 yrs, 7st 101b ( Charlton) Mr. Messer's Warbler, 6 yrs, 7st 101b ( G. Quinton) 0 Mr. Ivory's Swalcliffe, 3 yrs, 6st 91b ( Plumb) 0 Mr. Perk's br o Brutus, 3 yrs, 6st 91b ( Bolland) 0 Mr. Newcome's br o General Wyndham, 3 yrs, 6st 71b ( Quinton) 0 Mr. Lane's Clara, 3 yrs, 6st ( Snowden) 0 Betting : 3 to 1 agst General Wyndham, 7 to 2 agst Buckingham, 5 to 1 agst Philip, 7 to 1 agst Swalcliffe, 8 to 1 agst Vestige, 10 to 1 each agst Faugh- a- Ballagh and Westminster, and 100 to 8 agst Billingham. General Wyndham jumped off with the le: id, followed by Swalcliffe, Philip, and the Faugh- a- Ballagh gelding, the others headed by New Brighton lying close up. At the mile post, General Wyndham and Swalcliffe gave way to Philip, who, fol- lowed by Buckingham, carried on the running to the turn in the straight, where they werejoined by the Faugh- a- Ballagh colt, the latter running wide on the lower side. Half way between the Stand and the chair Buckingham caught Philip, and Faugh- a- Ballagh colt joining issue at the same time, an exciting set- to ensued between the three, the judge deciding in favour of the Faugh- a- Ballagh colt by a head, and the second beating the third by the same. Westminster was a good fourth, Warbler fifth, General Wyndham sixth, and Swalcliffe seventh ; the others tailed off. The LADIES' PDRSE of 25 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 each ; one mile and a half; 10 subs. Mr. T. Parr's b g Goldhill, by Safeguard, 3 yrs, lOst 71b, ( including 101b ex.) Wells 1 Mr. Mill's b h Firebrand, 5 yrs, 12st 71b (. in. 71b ex) Higgins Mr. Prime's ns ch g Ploughman, 6 yrs, J2st Mr. Prime Mr. J. Brown's Dardanelles, 5 yrs, 12st ( in. 71b ex.) Owner Mr. Crawford's ch g by Cranbrook, 5 yrs, 12st 41b ( in. 71b ex.) Owner Mr. White's b h Dalston, 4 yrs, list 41b... Mr. Edwards Mr. Montier's b c Turk, 3 yrs, lOst 71b ( in. 101b ex.) Salt 0 Mr. Nesbitt's br c St. Julian, 4 yrs, 12st ( in. 101b ex.) Kendall 0 Mr. F. Fisher's Cleopatra, 3 yrs, lOst 41b ( in. 101b ex.) T. Cliff 0 Betting : Even on Goldhill, and 4 to 1 agst any other. Goldhill made strong running and won by two lengths ; a length between the second and third ; the others beaten off. A HANDICAP PLATE of 40 sovs ; the winner of any race after the weights are out 51b, or of the Harpenden Handicap 71b extra ; one mile and a half. Mr. Oliver's Elfrida, by Faugh- a- Ballagh, 3 yrs, 6st 111b Prior I Mr. Newcombe's br g General Wyndham, 3 yrs, 7st J. Quinton 2 Mr. Coleman's ch g Ploughman ( late John Bull), 6 yrs, 8st 41b Nightingall 0 Mr. Edney's br m Miss Goldschmidt, aged, 8st 21b G. Sharpe 0 Mr. Wood's br g Phaeton, 5 yrs, 8st 21b Burton 0 Mr. G. Tanquery's b m Foam, 5 yrs, 7st 111b Wells 0 Mr. G. Ongley's f by Gilbert Gurney out of Fame, 6 yrs, 7st 101b C. Norman 0 Mr. F. Fisher's gr f Maid of the Morn, 3 yrs, 7st 81b D. Hughes 0 Mr. C. C. Hales's ch f Wave, 4 yrs, 7st 41b...... Fordham 0 Mr. J. Fisher's ch f Glendonna, 3 yrs, 7st J. Forster 0 Mr. Messer's Persia, 3 yrs, 6st 121b ( carried 7st) G. Quinton 0 Betting : 6 to 4 agst Elfrida, 5 to 1 agst Wave, 0 to 1 agst General Wyndham, and 10 to 1 agst Glendonna. Miss Gold- schmidt made play to the turn into the straight, when El- frida went in front and won by a length. Ploughman and Foam were next, beaten a long way. The TALLY HO STAKES of 5 sovs each, with 60 added ; one mile and a half, over four flights of hurdles ; 10 subs. Mr. Barling's Nicholas, by the Emperor, 5 yrs, lOst 101b ( 25 sovs) Eatwell Mr. Phillips's Cock Sparrow, lOst ( 25) .. Weaver Mr. Messer's b h Warbler, 6 yrs, list 71b ( 50) Nightingall Mr. Abbott's Flageolet, 4 yrs, lOst 71b ( 50) Kendall Mr. Cameron's br g Fearless, h b, 4 yrs, lOst ( 25) Mr. Cameron Mr. Hatterton's b m Lady Emily, 5 yrs, list 31b ( 50) West Mr. Land's Gossip, list 41b ( in 41b extra) ( 25) Land, jun Mr. King's br g Victory, h b, aged, list 41b, in 41b extra ( 25) M'Lean Mr. Allibone's Battery, 6 yrs, list 71b ( 50) ... Donaldson Betting : 2 to 1 agst Flageolet, and 4 to 1 each agst Bat- tery and Cock Sparrow. Won by three- quarters of a length; two lengths between second and third. The winner was bought in for 57 sovs. A HURDLE RACE of 2 sovs each, with 20 added ; mile and a half; 11 subs. Mr. F. Fisher's Diligent, by Melbourne, 5 yrs, lOst 101b ( 20 sovs) Kendall Mr. Phillips's Cock Sparrow, 4 yrs lOst 21b ( 20) Weaver Mr. Mills's Firebrand, Syrs, list ( 20) Higgius Capt. Freeman's ch g Bono Johnny, 6 yrs, list 71b ( 30) Bailey Mr. Barling's Nicholas, 5 yrs, list 31b ( in 101b ex. 20) Eatwell Mr. Montier's Pharold, aged, list ( 20) Salt Mr. G. Searle's Newbold, 5 yrs, lOst 101b ( 20) J. Bailey 0 Mr. Hunter's Egalit< 5, aged, list ( 20) Boxall Mr. Allibon's Battery, 6 yrs, 12st ( 40) Donaldson Betting : 2 to 1 agst Cock Sparrow, 3 to 1 agst Pharold and 5 to 1 agst Newbold. Won by a length, the same be tween second and third; the others beaten off. The winner was bought in for 62 sovs. The SCCRRT STAKES of 1 SOT each, with 15 added ; T. Y. C.; 11 subs. Mr. Groom's b g Bordeaux, by Cotherstone, 9st lib ( 30 sovs) B. Land, jun. 1 Mr. Thorpe's Little Tom, aged, lOst ( 50) ... Wells 2 Mr. Bull's Icarus, 4 yrs, 8st 31b ( 10) ... E. Sharp 0 Mr, Eden's Amazon, 4 yrs, 8st 71b ( 20) ... Nightingall 0 Mr. Armstrong's Little Emma, 5st 101b ( 10) ... Miles 0 Mr. E. R. Clark's Plausible, 8- t ( 10) ... Kendall 0 Mr. Hobson's Glissade, 3 yrs, 6st 111b ( 10) Fordham 0 Mr. Marson's br f Heiress, 3 yrs, 6st 111b ( 20) J. jQuinton 0 Mr. Cattern's Twn Shon Catti, 8st 71b ( 20) Ashmall 0 Betting : 7 to 4 agst Icarus, 3 to 1 agst Twn Shon Catti, and 5 to 1 agst Bordeaux. Won, after an excellent race, by half a length, Little Emma a bad third. There was no ad- vance upon the selling price of the winner. LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. THE DERISY. 5 to 1 agst Fazzoletto I 15 to 1 agst Fly- by- Night 8 to 1 agst Cannobie Vnndermeulin was backed at 10 and 9 to 1 for upwards of £ 1,400 during the afternoon. Nothing else done. ULVERSTON RACES. Friday, May 16. The TRADESMEN'S STAKES of 3 sovs each, h ft, with 20 added ; 5 subs. Mr. Menzie's ch g Phoenix, by Phlegon, 5 yrs ( C. Barker) 1 Mr. Brown's br h Angelo, 6 yrs ( Brown) 2 The RAILWAY STAKES of 1 sov each, with 10 added ; 4 subs. Mr. M'Adam's b g Prince, by Kremlin, aged ( Malev) 1 1 Mr. Brown's br h Angelo, 6 yrs ( Brown) 2 2 Mr. Robinson's Little Fan, 4 yrs ( Mitchell) 3 3 Saturday. The NORTII LONSDALE STAKES of 3 sovs each, h ft, with 20 added; 6 subs. Mr. Menzie's ch g Phcenix, 5 yrs ( C. Barker) 1 Mr. Brown's br h Angelo, 6 yrs ( Brown) 2 Mr. Berridge ns b h Conrad, aged ( Jones) 3 Mr. M'Adam's b g Prince, aged .(" Maley) 0 The INNKEEPER'S STAKES of 1 sov each, with 10 added, for beaten horses. Mr. M'Adam's b g Prince, aged ( Maley) Mr. Brown's br h Angelo, 6 yrs ( Brown) Mr. Robinson's Little Fan, 4 yrs ( Mitchell) Mr. Berridge ns b h Conrad, aged ( Jones) 4 1 1 l a 2 3 3 0 1 dr STOKESLEY RACES. Monday, May 19. A HURDLE RACE of 1 sov each, with 10 added ; thorough breds 101b extra ; the second to save his stake; over three hurdles ; 3 subs. Mr. Skeene's bk m Maid of the Mill ( h b), aged, 12st 1 wo Mr. Coxori's b h Shorts ( h b), aged, 12st 1 dr Mr. J. F. Clarke's br h Anglo- Saxon, 6 yrs, 12st 101b 3 dr The NORTH YORKSHIRE STAKES of 2 sovs each, with 15 added ; the second to save his stake ; heats, about one mile and three quarters ; 3 subs. Mr. Hutchinson's b m Letcombe Lass, by X. X., 5 yrs, 7st 131b 1 1 Mr. Graham's br h Coomberland Stathesmon, 6 yrs, 8st 101b 2 2 Mr. Coxon's b h Shorts, aged, 8st 21b 3 3 Tuesday. The CLEVELAND STAKES of 2 sovs each, with 15 added ; the second to save his stake ; heats, about two miles ; 5 subs. Mr. Banks's b h Menzie, by Simoom, 4 yrs, 8st 101b ( including 51b extra) 4 11 Mr J. F. Clark's br h Anglo- Saxon, 6 yrs, lOst 31b ( including 101b extra) 2 2 2 Mr. Brown's br h Angelo, 6 yrs, lOat 31b ( in- cluding 101b extra) 13 3 Mr. Graham's br h Coomberland Stathesmon, 6 yrs, 9st71b 3 dr Each heat well contested. The TRADESMEN'S PLATE of 10 sovs; heats, twice round, ( about a mile and three quarters); 3 subs. Mr. Graham's br h Coomberland Stathesmon, by British Yeoman, 6 yrs, 8st 101b 2 11 Mr. Hutchinson's bm Letcombe Lass, 5 yrs, 8st 21b 12 2 Mr Coxon's b h Shorts, aged, 9st 3 dr Each heat well contested. A HACK RACE was won by Mr. Carter's black mare, beat- ing Shorts and Maid of the Mill; and a PONY RACE by Mr. R. Fenwick's Rob Roy, beating two others, which concluded the best day's sport ever witnessed on the Stokesley race ground. THE NORTH HERTS ; ROYSTON YEOMANRY RACES. Thursday, May 22. In order to avoid clashing with Harpenden, this meeting, hitherto extending over two days, was reduced to one, and, as will be gathered from our brief return, " sufficient for the day was the evil thereof." The weather was wretched, and the attendance in consequence considerably below par. The racing exhibited a marked falling off, and without some vigorous efforts be made by its supporters, we fear that the meeting will be the last held on Royston Downs. The OFFICERS' CUP ; a mile and a half. Mr. Woodward's ch g Golden Plover, by the Baron, 6 yrs, 12st ... ... .. Mr. Thurnftll 1 Mr. Coleman's b h Monti, aged, 12st. • Mr. E. Coleman 2 Mr. Beale's gr m Alice Gray, 6 yrs, 12gt .. Owner 3 Mr. Nash's b m Frolic, 12st ... .. Owner 4 Golden Plover made all the running, and won in a canter by four lengths, Alice Grey a bad third. The ROTSTON TOWN PLATE of 20 sovs ; gentlemen riders ; about a mile and a distance. Mr. Bevill's b g Gerard, by Alarm, aged, lOst ( 20 sovs) Mr. W. Bevill Mr. Brooks's ch m Thermonser, list, ( 50) ... Mr. Rook Mr. Purser's b g Little Tommy, lOst 51b ... Owner Mr. J. R. Wortham's b g: Liberty, aged, lOst ( 20) Owner Mr. Coleman's gr m Miniature, 5 yrs, lOst (_ 20) Mr. Hands Mr. Nesbitt's Lady Alice, lOst ( 30) .. Owner Mr. Wilkie's b g JEolus, aged, lOst ( 20) .. Mr. Cole Gerard made the running, and won easily by six length Thermonser beating Little Tommy by two lengths ; Alice Gray was a bad fourth, Liberty fifth, and Lady Alice last. 50 L I F E ON T H E TURF. The HUNTERS' STAKES of 5 SOTS each, with 20 added; 12st each ; gentlemen riders ; about two miles; 4 subs. Mr. W. Bevill's b m Perea Kena, by Spanish Jack, 6 yrs, 12st ... .. ... .. Owner wo A SWEEPSTAKES of 3 sovs each, with 25 added ; 12 » t each ; half breds allowed 71b ; winners in 1858 71b, twice 141b extra ; about three- quarters of a mile ; 3 subs. Mr. Dark's b g Glendower, by Slane, aged, 12stMr. Jones 1 Mr. Jones's br g Tormentor, 12st ... Mr. Longman 2 Mr. Longfellow's br g The Doctor ( h b), list 71b Mr. Fellowes 3 Glendower made all the running, and won in a canter by eight lengths. The WELTER SWEEPSTAKES of 3 SOTS each, with 25 added ; one mile and a half; 4 subs. Mr. Jones's b m Miss Collingwood, aged, 13st .. Owner 1 Mr. Grenvill's b g Telegraph, 13st .. .. Owner 2 Mr. Lennox's br g King Tom, 13st .. Mr. Thomas 3 Mr. LoDgfellow's br g The Doctor, 13st Mr. Longman 4 Won by ten lengths. A SELLING SWEEPSTAKES of 2 SOTS each, with 20 added ; 12st 71b each ; three quarters of a mile ; 4 subs. Mr. Dark's Glendower, by Slane, pged, list 81b ( 50 govs) ... ... ... ... Mr. Jones 1 Mr. S. vkes's The Secret, lOst 101b ( 30) ... Owner 2 Mr. Nesbitt's Lady Alice, lOst 101b ( 30) ... Owner 3 Won in a canter by four lengths. A SILVER CUP, added to a Sweepstakes of 2 sovs each ; about one mile and a half; 2 subs. Mr. Nesbitt's St. Julian, by St. Lawrence, 4 yrs, list Owner w o The SCURRT of 1 sov each, with 10 added ; half a mile ; 6 subs. Mr Woodward's ch g Golden Plover, by The Baron, 6 yrs, 10st71b .. ... Mr. W. Bevill 1 Mr. Hobson's Pharos, 6 yrs, lOst 71b .. Fisher 9. Mr. Pinser's b g Little Tommy, lOst 71b ... Owner 3 Mr. J. R. Wortham's b g Liberty, aged, lOst 71b Owner 4 Golden Plover made nearly all the running, and won by two lengths ; four lengths between second and third. Ther- monser was weighed for and mounted, but did not get to the post in time. An OPEN HANDICAP with 10 sovs added. Mr. Bevill's b m Perea Nena, by Spanish Jack, 6 yrs, list 21b .. .. .. Mr. W. Bevill 1 Mr. Styles's The Secret, lOst ( carried lOst 21b) Mr. Goodwin 2 Mr. Coleman's ch g Ploughman, 12st 31b.. Mr. Prince 2 Mr. Lennox's King Tom, 15st ... .. Mr. Pratt 0 Mr. Wortham's Gerard, list 81b, aged Mr. Thurnall 0 Mr. Smith's Speranza ( h b) lOst 101b ... Juke 0 Mr. Nesbitt's St. Julian, 4 yrs, 12st 71b .. Owner 0 Won by three lengths, The Secret beating Ploughman by the same. BEVERLEY, HULL, AND EAST RIDING, 1856. The BEVERLEY CUP of 100 sovs, added to a Handicap of 10 each, h ft, and only 3 if declared on or before Tuesday next; a winner of any handicap after the publication of the weights 51b, two 71b, or one of 200 sovs value 101b extra ; if the highest weight accepting be under 8st 71b, it will be raised to that weight, and the rest in propor- tion ; two miles ; 18 subs. Eulogist Braxey The Assayer Cardsharper Yorkshire Grey Cossey Bolton Fanny Fern Angelo yrs st lb 6 8 7 8 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 Freddy Yentick Confederate Phoenix Idmon Gathercole Bobby Taft ( h b) ... Eustace Fitzjohn... Midhope yrs st lb 4 6 13 6 13 6 10 6 9 6 0 5 12 5 12 5 7 5 7 The EAST RIDING HANDICAP of 3 sovs each, with 40 added ; a winner of any handicap amounting to 50 sovs after the publication of the weights 51b, two of 50 sovs each, or one of 100 sovs 71b, or of the Beverley Cup on the pre- vious day 101b extra ; no horse to carry more than 101b extra: one m " The Assayer Cardsharper The Rajah ... Bolton The Caliph... Solestar Angelo Yeutick Menzie Berezina Hanover ... Excitement Twilight ... Alfred yrs st lb yrs st lb 5 8 7 Gathercole 3 6 2 5 8 1 Ch c by Morgan 4 7 10 Rattler — Fanny 4 7 7 Fern's dam 3 6 0 5 7 6 De Ginkel 3 6 0 4 7 5 Imposture 3 5 12 6 7 5 Villiers 3 5 12 4 7 4 Eustace Fitzjohn ... 3 5 12 4 7 2 The Scotsman S 5 10 4 7 2 Kitty 3 5 8 4 6 9 Br f by Iago out of 4 6 6 Chloris 5 5 6 4 6 3 Galloper 3 5 3 3 6 2 On the 16th inst, at Burlington Quay, Mr Boynton's grey mare own sister to St George, by The Lion, a colt by Galaor. IRISH.— Lord Howth's Lizzie and I> ahlia, Mr. Clark's Isa- bella ( with a colt by Mountain Deer, Mr Smythe's La Gazza Ladra, Mr. Rynd's bay mare by Harkaway out of Summerliill, Mr. Rynd's bay mare by Hetman Platoff out of Summerhill, Mr. Irwin's Clarinda ( with a filly by Mountain Deer), Mr. Hur- man's Nuptial ( with a filly by Faugh- a- Ballagb), Ms Hurman's mare by Polish ( with a colt by Faugh- a- liallagh), Mr. Mur- phy's mare by Dough out of Sultan's dam, Mr. Nugent's Lady Cecilia ( with a colt by the Friar), Mr. Henderson's The Novice Mr. Nugent's the Princess, Mr. Powell's mare by Simoom ou, of Ira, Mr Copperthwaite's ' Iheme, Music and Rosethc, Mr Morres's Juanita Perez ( with a colt by Mountain Deer), have been put to Mountain Deer since our last. ASCOT HEATH, 1856. The ASCOT STAKES of 25 SOTS each, and only 5 if declared on or before Tuesday next; the winner of any Handicap after the weights are declared 71b extra ; two miles and a half; 63 subs. aScythian ... aSaucebox ... aSultan Hungerford... Winkfield ... Polestar Quince Vengeance ... LadyTatton... Imogene aSarabaud ... Poodle Homily Rogerthorpe aOneAct Kalipyge Cerva Puck Jolly Marine Bolton Simon Pure... Brinklow Mishap Flatterer Aleppo Zeta Those lioises marked ( a) haTing been entered without the knowledge of their owners, will be struck out at the expira tion of the time prescribed, unless specially ordered to re- main in. Nominations for the ROYAL HUNT CUP of 200 sovs, by sub- scription of 10 sovs each, with 100 added, for all ages ( two- year- olds excepted); New'Mile ; weights to be declared on the Tuesday after Epsom ; the winner's stake, after the weights are declared 71b extra ; 44 subs. age st lb age st lb 5 9 0 Diana 5 6 9 4 9 0 Enchanter 3 6 6 4 8 9 Freddy 4 6 4 a 8 9 Ncoptolemus 4 6 4 6 8 4 Veteran 6 6 4 4 8 3 aSurgeon- General ... 5 6 4 5 8 0 Milton 8 6 4 4 8 0 Diego 8 6 2 4 7 12 Lawn 3 6 2 4 7 11 Warlock 8 6 0 4 7 8 Peter Wilkins 8 6 0 a 7 8 The Cropper 4 6 0 4 7 7 aBold Buccleugh ... 8 6 0 3 7 7 aBesika 4 5 13 3 7 6 Sandboy 4 5 13 3 7 4 Br f by Flatcatcher 3 7 4 out of Trickery ... 4 5 10 8 7 4 Agra 8 5 10 4 7 0 Redemption 4 5 10 4 7 0 Dramatist 3 5 10 5 7 0 Fnrioso ... ,. 8 5 7 4 6 12 Libellist 8 5 7 5 6 10 Kestrel 3 5 0 4 6 10 Van Eyck 3 4 12 3 3 6 10 6 10 Bandalore ... 4 4 three- yr- olds and upwards ; winners of any handicap after the publication of the weight! 51b, two 71b extra ; two miles; 27 subs. The Spaniard, 3 yrs Blooming Heather, 4 yrs Strood, 4 yrs Flacrow, 4 yrs Duke of Lancaster, 5 yrs Saraband, 4 yrs Mermaid, 3 yrs Scythian, 5 yrs Vengeance, 4 yrs Falcon, 5 yrs Welham, 5 yrs Melissa, 3 yrs Alembic, 5 yrs Disraeli, 3 yrs Ceiva, 3 yrs Furioso. 3 yrs Aleppo, 3 yrs Stanhope, 3 yrs Katerfelto, 4 yrs Dramatist, 3 yrs Barfleur, 3 yrs Tug o' War, 3 yrs Capucine, 4 yrs Sly Fellow, 3 yrs Bracken, 5 yrs The Mosquito, 4 yrs Peter Flat, 3 yrs Consternation, 3 yrs Smack, 3 yrs Bright Phoebus, 5 yrs Flatterer, 4 yrs Frederick, 4 yrs King of Trumps, aged Vendex, 6 yrs Grajculus Esuriens, 4 yrs Forbidden Fruit, 3 yrs The Poacher. 6 yrs Lord of the Isles, 4 yrs Clotilde, 4 yrs Bay Hilton, by Slane— of Bar- barina, 3 yrs Boer, 5 yrs Michaelmas Maid, 6 yrs Defiance, 6 yrs Kestrel, 3 yrs FOALS, & c. At Middle Park, Eltham :— April 24, Mr W. Day's Marriage, a colt by Joe Lovell, and will be put to Kingston ; May 3, Mr Blenkiron's Caroline ( dam ol Burgundy and Matilda) a filly by Kingston ; May 19, Mr Blenkiron's Kirth ( sister to Green Mantle), a colt by Kingston ; May 21, Mr Blenkiron's Exact, a filly by Kingston. At Swalcliffe Paddocks, since the last:— Impression, a colt to Archy, and put to Magnes ; Sister to Lucretia, a colt to Arcby, and put to Ethelbert; mare by Pantaloon out of The Mite, a colt to Woolwich, and put to Archy ; Noisette has been put Magnes, and Judy Macaw ( sister to Intrepid) to Ethelbert. Mr. S. Whiting's Slashing Polly, a filly; Mr. S. Whiting's Slashing Alice, a colt; Mr Danby's Rosodrette, a colt; Mr Slater's Robin Hood mare, a colt; and his Hornsea mare, a filly, all by Augur, and will be put to him again. On the 19th ult, at Caistor, Lincolnshire. Mr. Quickfall's bay mare by Marcheon, a bay colt by Fernhill, and has been put to him again, and ou the 6th inst., a bay marc by Resolutiou, a bay colt to Fernbill, and will be put to him again. Ou the 20th inst, at Seckington, Mr. N. Dester's chesnut mare by Dandelion out of Miss Lydia, by Walton, a bay colt by Drayton, which has been christened " Bonehill;" the mare will be put to Coriander. Wild Huntsman Defiance ... Ivan Lady Tatton Lord Alfred Herald ... Braxey ... Goorkah ... Little Davie Imogene ... Yorkshire Grey . Wantage... Lady Palmerston age 5 6 5 . 4 . 4 . 4 • . 6 a . 4 . 4 . 4 . 4 . 4 st lb 8 7 8 4 8 2 7 13 7 12 7 11 7 11 7 10 10 8 6 4 4 2 Vulcan ... Alston St. Clair ... Moorcock ... The Yore ( h b) Falstaff ... Goldhill ... Early Morn St. Arnaud Tom Thnmb Adam Jack the Giant Killer ... Joe Miller age 4 4 5 4 5 3 3 3 3 3 st lb 7 2 6 12 6 11 6 8 6 ( paid) ( dead) The GREAT NEWTON HANDICAP PLATE of 200 sovs, added to a sweepstakes of 5 sovs each ; winner of any race Bub- sequent to the publication of the weights, value 200 SOTS clear 51bs, of two or more 71b extra, and if of the clear Talue of 500 SOTS 101b, and the second 51b extra, but not to be accumulative ; no horse more than 101b; one mile and a half; 46 subs. Wild Huntsman Rylstone Clotilde Defiance Lord Alfred... Nathan Gd. Inquisitor Herald Imogene Goorkah Flatterer ... Little Davie Yorkshire Grey Vandal Wantage Lady Palmerston Vulcan Miss Briggs... Aladdin ( late Go Away) Diana John Dory Atherstone ... Heir of Linne Berezina The SOUTH LANCASHIRE TRADESMEN'S PLATE of 100 SOTS, added to an handicap of 5 SOTS each ; winners of any handicap Talue 100 SOTS after the publication of the weights 51b, or two of that Talue, or of the Gold Cup, or Great Newton Handicap 71b, of both those handicaps 101b extra; one mile and a half; 30 subs. Lord Alfred... Nathan Herald Goorkah Gaylad Little DaTie... Wantage Lady P almerston Fanny Fern... Aladdin Miss Briggs ... Diana Atherstone ... Heir of Linne Berezina Sir George ... age st lb 5 8 7 Whitcliff 4 8 4 Sir George 4 8 4 Leamington 6 8 3 Moorcock 4 8 0 Falstaff 6 8 0 Goldhill 5 7 12 B c by Iago out of 4 7 12 Minx 4 7 11 Sugarplum 6 7 10 Ephorus 4 7 10 Lawn a 7 2 Tom Thumb 4 7 7 Heber 3 7 7 Do Ginkel 4 7 6 Bubble 4 7 4 Knighton 4 7 3 Midhope 6 7 0 Adam Assailant 5 7 0 St. Dunstan 5 7 0 Van Dunck a 7 0 Balrownie 4 6 12 Jack the Giant 3 6 10 Killer 4 6 10 age st lb 5 6 10 4 6 10 3 6 8 4 6 8 3 6 6 8 6 5 8 6 5 3 6 3 8 6 0 8 5 12 3 5 12 3 5 12 3 5 10 . 8 5 10 . 3 5 8 8 5 8 3 5 6 3 5 6 . 3 5 6 3 5 3 6 ( paid) 6 ( paid) HAMPTON, 1856. Nominations forthe SURREY AND MIDDLESEX STAKES ; 36 subs AVinkfield, 5 yrs Blue Bell, 3 yrs King of Trumps, a The Spaniard, 3 yrs Be by Ratan out of Westminster, 4 yrs Veteran, 6yrs Alice, 3 yrs Fulbeck, 4 yrs Redemption, 4 yrs Nathan, 6 yrs + Typee, 6 yrs Lucy Lockit, 4 yrs Diana, 5 yrs + Surgeon- General, 5 MissGoldschmidt, a Pumicestone, 5 yrs yrs Napoleon III., 3 yrs Kaffir, 5 yrs " Saucebox, 4 yrs Furioso, 3 yrs B f by Alarm out of Wantage. 4 yrs Domino, 5 yrs Duvernay, 3 yrs Buckingham, 3yrs Pretty Boy, 3 yrs Brinklow, 4 yrs The Hiud, 4 yrs Romeo, 6 yrs Poodle, aged Sandboy, 4 yrs Those marked + being entered without the knowledge of their owners, will be struck out by the time prescribed, unless spe- cially ordered to remain in. Nominations for the CLAREMONT STAKES ; 20 subs. Mr. Adkins's Fascination Mr. Barber's Lord Nelsou Count Batthyany's bk f Media Noce Mr. Bickham's br f Miss Dixon Mr. J, Clark's b f by Alarm out of Alicia Mr. W. Cox's Commotion Lord Clifden's br f by Surplice out of Rose of Cashmero Mr. W. Day's St. Giles Mr. W. Day's Kimburn Mr. Isaac Day's Desdcmona Mr. J. S. Douglas's b c Tourna- ment Mr. G. Drew's ch f Dexterity Mr. A. Garrod's Hollybank Mr. Hadland's Ruth Mr. Mannington's ch f Maid of Athens Col. Martyn's b c by Colling- wood out of The Moor's dam Mr. Mellish's Adamas Mr. H. Newman's b f by the Cure out of The Jewess Mr. R. Sherwood's Fright Mr. J. M. Stanley's Parole Nominations for the VISITORS' PLATE. Oltenitza, 3 yrs Eardrop, 3 yrs Duke of Lancaster, 5 y rs Domino, 5 yrs Pr. of Orange, 3 yrs Mary, 4 yrs Gondoline, 4 yrs Romeo, 6 yrs Blue Rock, 3 yrs December, 4 yrs Swindler, 4 yrs Olympus, 3 yrs Ariel, 3 yrs | Bishop of Osnaburg, 3 yrs King of Trumps agd Humboldt, 5 yrs Woodcock, 3 yrs Sirocco, 3 yrs age st lb I 8 7 Falstaff 6 8 7 The Yore ( h b) 8 8 5 His Piper 6 8 2 Ch f by Bran— Era a 8 2 by Camel a 8 0 Goldhill 4 7 13 Skyrocket, by Pon 4 7 10 tifex 4 7 9 Ephorus 5 7 7 Lawn... 6 7 7 Alfred 5 7 6 Tom Thumb 4 7 5 Kestrel 3 7 3 Knighton 4 7 2 Adam 4 7 0 Van Dunck age st lb 3 6 12 5 6 12 4 6 12 4 6 12 3 6 10 3 6 10 6 6 3 6 3 3 6 3 3 6 3 3 6 0 3 5 12 3 5 11 8 5 8 NEWCASTLE- UPON- TYNE, Wednesday, June 25. The NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE of 200 SOTS, added to a Handi- cap Stakes of 15 SOTS each, 10 ft, and only 5 if declared, & c., for three- year- olds and upwards. The second to re- ceiTe 50 SOTS out of the stakes, and the third to save his stake. The winner to pay 25 guineas towards expenses. A winner ofa Handicap ( subsequent to May 20, at 10 a. m.) of 200 sovs or upwards Ulb, of two of that value 91b, or of the Derby or Oaks at Epsom 91b extra. Two miles. 73 subs. NEWTON SUMMER MEETING, 1856. The GOLD CUP of 100 sovs, given by the Lord of the Manor, added to an handicap of 5 SOTS each, h ft, for Typee Early Bird Vindex Wild Huntsman ... Rotherham Coroebus Red Lion The Assayer Lord Alfred Lady Tatton Courteney Herald Braxey Siding St. Andrew Saraband Marchioness Grseculus Esuriens, Mosquito Dame Judith Mary Ann ... Cannobie Yorkshire Grey ... Honeysuckle Vandal Paletot Whitelock Artillery Cossey Bolton Alston John Dory Sole Star Volunteer Freddy Peter Wilkins Hospitality yrs . 6 . 5 . 6 .. 5 .. 4 . 4 a .. 5 .. 4 .. 4 .. 4 .. 4 a . 4 .. 6 .. 4 .. 4 4 4 4 a 3 4 5 4 4 5 3 4 4 4 a 4 3 4 3 3 st lb 7 6 13 6 12 6 12 6 12 6 10 6 10 6 10 6 10 6 2 St. Clare Maid of Derwent.. Sir George Moorcock Lily Steelyard Mirage Agra Diego Pack Sugarplum LaVictime... Panmure Van Galen Napoleon III. Gaudy Bold Buccleuch . Absolution... Ld Derwenewater. Zeta Sulpitia Warlock ... San Francisco Houghton ... Little Bird... Announcement . Alma St. Domingo Tom Thumb Greencaatle Lady Florence Villiers Courtier King of Scotland... Little Nell ( h b) Post- horse, 3 yrs yrs st lb . 5 6 0 3 5 13 . 4 5 13 , 4 5 11 4 5 11 , 4 5 10 . 3 5 10 . 3 f 10 3 5 8 3 5 7 . 3 5 7 . 3 5 7 . 3 5 7 . 3 5 7 . 3 5 6 . 3 5 6 . 3 5 6 . 3 5 5 . 3 5 5 . 3 5 5 . 3 5 5 . 3 5 5 . 3 5 4 . 3 5 4 . 3 5 3 . 3 5 2 . 3 5 2 . 3 5 2 . 3 5 0 3 5 0 3 5 0 3 5 0 . 3 5 0 . 3 5 0 3 4 12 3 paid The Assayer is scratched. 50 L I F E ON T H E TURF. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING, 1866. A FREE HANDICAP of 100 sovs each, h ft, for three- year- olds ; the winner of the Derby or Doncaster St. Leger 9st, of the Oaks 8st 51b ; A. F. The weights not be raised after acceptance under rule 71. Acceptances to be made to Messrs. Weatherby, in London, on or before Tuesday next, the 27th of May. They may be sealed up, if preferred, and the sealed acceptances not to be opened till after the race for the Oaks. st lb st lb st lb Wentworth 8 12 Rogerthorpe 8 0 West Langton 7 8 Coroner 8 9 Walmer 7 13 Enchanter 7 8 Manganese 8 7 Cerva 7 12 King Cob 7 8 Fazzoletto 8 7 Mermaid 7 12 Peter Wilkins 7 7 Fly- by- Night 8 7 One Act 7 12 Tyrius 7 7 Cannobie 8 5 Bro. to Bird on Pretty Boy 7 6 Yellow Jack 8 4 the Wing 7 12 Sugarplum 7 6 Artillery Bird- in- Hand 8 4 Vadermeulin 7 12 Intimidation 7 4 8 4 Kalipyge 7 12 Lawn 7 4 Pitapat 8 2 Porto Rico 7 11 Melissa 7 4 Mincepie 8 2 Hospitality 7 10 Furioso 7 4 Theodora 8 2 Tyre 7 10 Glen Lee 7 2 Falst& ff 8 0 Heir of Linne 7 9 Zeta 7 0 Fisherman 8 0 Wand. Willie 7 9 Druid 6 12 Stork 8 0 Polmoodie 7 9 Barfleur 6 10 Ellington 8 0 Queen's Head 7 9 Bro. to Folly 0' Peter Flat 8 0 Aleppo 7 8 the Day 6 7 Aatrologus 8 0 GOODWOOD, 1856. List of Subscribers to the Goodwood Cup.— The horses to be named on the Tuesday after Epsom Summer Meeting. Duke of Cambridge T!. e H. Gd Dk of Mecklenburg Prince Edward of SaxeWeimer Duke of Richmond Duke of Reaufort Duke of Redford Due d'Ossuna Lord Zetland Lord J. Scott Mr. J. M. Stanley Lord Chesterfield Lord Derby Lord Exeter Lord Foley Lord Glasgow Lord Anglesey Lord Cliiden Lord Annesley Lord H. Thynne Lord de Mauley Mr. T. Pan- Mr. Merry Sir J. B. Mill Mr. Snewiug Mr. Padwick, jun Mr Gratwicke Mr. Howard Mr. Greville M. Aumont M. Aumont Mr. H. Stone Mr. J. Jackson CRICKETING. MARYLEBOXK CI. UB AND GROUND T>. OXFORD UNIVERSITY. This match was commenced on the Magdalen Ground, Ox- ford, on Monday, and terminated on Tuesday, the M. C. C. winning by 26 runs. The match was well contested, but J. Lillywhite's 60 is worthy of mention, being scientifically got. For Marylebone, E. T. Drake, Esq., did good service for his party, as also did Grundy, who scored 3fi in good style in his second hands. Mr. C. Marshall! placed 19 ( not out) on the list, and the more prominent on the part of the University were Messrs. Veitch, Lane, and Randolph, but the excellence of the contest will be best seen by the subjoined score :— MARTLEBONE CLUB. First Innings. Second Innings. J. Dean, b Fiennes 5 b Fiennes 0 E. Tredcroft, Esq. c Veitch, b Marsham 0 b Fiennes 2 J. LillywlnU: c Armitstead, b Randolph 66 b Fiennes 36 J. Grundy b C. Marshall! 3 c Digby b Fiennes 36 C. Marsham, Esq. c Digby, b C. D. Marsham 7 not out' 19 E. T. Drake, Esq. b Fellowes... 28 b C. D. Marsham 6 Captain Bathurst b Fellowes.... 0 b Fiennes 0 D. D. Whigham, Esq. b Fiennes 5 b Fiennes 5 Hon. E. C. Leigh, not out 3 b Fiennes 6 A. Baillie, Esq. b Fiennes 0 b C. D. Marsham 1 Hon C. Fiennes b W. Fiennes.. 12 c C. D. Marsham, b Fiennes 6 b. 4, 1. b. 3, w. b. 3 10 b. 4, l. b. 3 7 Total 139 Total.. 124 3; Eames, 2 ; byes, 4c., 13— totol 37. Milton : Utting, 0; Baker, 5; Parsons, 3; W. Wright, 0 ; Hudson, 0; T. Wil- liams, 1; Piper, 8 ; Turner, 0 ; Allen, 0 ; Hunt, 1; E. Prior, 1; byes, & c., 0— total, 25. MAHYLEBONE CLUB V. THE WESTBOURNE CLUB.— On Mon- day last this match was played at Lord's Ground, when the M. C. C. were the victors, with the loss of two wickets only in their second innings. From the late rains the ground was rendered very heavy, consequently the beauty and science of the game was lost. Score:— WESTBOCRXE CLUB. First Innings. Second Innings. E. James, Esq. b Martingell.... S b Martingell 2 F. Boulton, Esq. run out 3 b Royston 1 G. Williamson, Esq. b Martingell 0 c Earl Winterton, b Martingell 3 Captain Moore b Martingell .... 6 c Rennard, b Martingell 2 E. Williamson, Esq. c Bowden, b Benson 2 b Martingell 4 L. E. Mui- timer, Esq. bMartingell 0 b Royston 10 E. B. Prest, Esq. s Rennard, b Benson 19 c and b Royston 3 J. Williamson, Esq. b Martingell 0 not out 9 T. Gill, Esq cMartingell. bBenson 7 bMartingell 2 W. Daly, Esq. b Benson 0 b Martingell 0 A. Daly, Esq. not out 0 b Martingell 0 1. b 1 b 0 Total . 41 Total 36 MARYLEBOSE. First Innings. Hon. E. Grimston b W. Daly 8 Earl Winterton b E. Williamson 3 T. Harman, Esq. c and b W. Daly 4 Royston b Captain Moore 15 G. Rennard, Esq. c G. Williamson, b W. Daly... 0 R. Benson, Esq. b W. Daly 9 Martingell, run out 1 F. Marshall, Esq. b W. Daly 9 J. E. Hill, Esq eE. Williamson, bC'apt. Moore... 9 — Campbell, Esq. c J. Williamson, b Capt. Moore 1 — Bowden, Esq. not out 0 1. b. 1, w. b. 5 6 Total 56 . On the second innings, Hon. R. Grimston scored ( c E Williamson, b W. Daly) 5, R. Benson, Esq. ( o and b Capt. Moore) 6, T. Harraan, Esq., ( not out) 6, — Bowden, Esq., ( not out) 9, wide ball 1— total 27, with eight wickets to fall. THE SURBITON CLUB V. THE INDIAN CLUB.— This match was played on Tuesday, on the Surbiton ground, near Kings- ton, the result being that the Indians made as many in their first innings as the Surbiton did in their two, in con- sequence of which the latter gave up the match. The In- dians availed themselves of the services of Royston and Sherman, the former of whom secured six wickets in each innings, and the latter eight in the two. The ground, as may well be supposed from the late heavy showers, was ex- exceedingly slow, making hard work for both parties. The fielding throughout was exceedingly good, Messrs. Verrall, Lipscomb, and Meyer, distinguishing themselves on one side, and Messrs. Wynyard, Sapte, and Captain Taylor on the other. The bowling of the Indians was certainly the means of winning the match, though that of Chester and Montague for Surbiton, was well up to the mark, but not sufficient to combat with the difficulties of the ground. The wicket- keeping of both parties was very good. SCRBITON. First Innings Second Innings. A. Beard, Esq. c Jackson, b Royston 12 b Royston 0 J. Chesterc Wynyard, b Royston 3 h. w., b Roystou 7 Chadband c Jackson, b Royston 2 c Boyston, b Royston 9 E. Lipscomb, Esq. b Royston... 3 b Sherman 0 — Thompson, Esq. b Royston... 12 b Sherman 3 — Porcher, Esq. b Sherman.... 3 c Sanders, b Royston 0 — Verrall, Esq. b Royston 0 b Rovston 2 — W. Lipscomb, Esq, bSherman 1 b Royston 8 — Meyer, Esq. b Sherman 2 bSherman 0 — Montague, Esq. not out 4 b Sherman 0 Lloyd b Sherman ... 0 not out 0 b. 3, 1. b. 1, w. !, b 2 8 h. 2, w. 1, n. b. 1 4 UHIVEBSITT. First Innings. Second Innings. W. G. Armitstead, Esq. b Dean 5 b Dean 0 H. Veitch, Esq. b Dean 12 b Grundy 38 B Marsham Esq. b Lilly white 1 not out 6 C. G. Lane, Esq. b Lillywhite... 12 b Grundy 7 B. M. Randolph, Esq. c Tred- croft, b Grundy 37 c Whigham b Dean 0 W. Fellowes, Esq. b Dean 2 c Lillywhite b Dean 3 F. W. Oliver, Esq. b Grundy.... 12 c Lillywhite b Grundy 15* C. D. Marsham, Esq. not out... 39 run out 19 R. E. Digby, Esq. c Lillywhite, b Grundy 0 1. b. w., b Grundy 1 J. D. Bandford, Esq. b Grundy 0 run out 14 Hon. W. Fiennes b Dean 2 b Grundy 0 l. b 3 b. 7, 1. b. 2 9 Total.. . 125 Total 112 HAMPSTEAD ALBION V. BARNET.— This match was played on Monday last, on Hampstead- heath, and was decided in favour of Barnet on the first innings. In the second innings of Hampstead they had obtained 29 runs, for the lots of 5 wickets, when time was called. The match throughout was characterised by that friendly feeling which adds so great a charm to this manly sport. Some very good fielding was shown on both sides, Capt. Bowie and Goulding keeping wicket for their several parties in capital style. Abercrombie bowled well for Hampstead, as did Heath and, Hullcock for their opponents. Score: Barnet— 101 and 79, total 180, of which Buckle marked 17 and 3, Hullcock 10 and 11, Wilks 1 and 15, Heath 1 and 13, Capt. Bowie 8 and 6, Osborne ( not out) 9 and 3, Brooke 10 and 6 ( not out) ire. Hampstead— 37 and 29 ( with 6 wickets to go down), total 56 ; J. Pritchard scored 7, W. Thompson 1 and 8, ( not out), T. Thompson 2 and 7 ( not out)| ic. The rest were minor numbers. CITY CHARLTONIAJC CLUB V. CITY MILTON.— This match was played at Tuflnel Park, on the 17th inst., and the un- favourable state of the weather will, in a great measure, ac- count for the smallness of the scores. Charlton : Jolly, 1; G. Wisden, 0; Reed, 5; Holdsworth, 9; Champion, 2 ; Treleaven, 0; J. Wright, 1 j T. Whitet, 0; Ingram, 1; Dell, Total , 50 Total 33 INDIAN CLUB. First Innings. — Poutet, Esq. c Thompson, b Chester 3 A. Saunders, Esq. b Chester.. 4 W. Wynyard, Esq. b Chester 17 C. Monttressor, Esq. c Chester, b Montague 2 W. Wilson, Esq. c Chester, b Chester Id H. Boyston c Verrall, b Chester 10 E. Jackson Esq. c E. Lipscomb, b Chester 0 Captain Taylor b Montague la T. Sherman, not out 15 A. Mansel, Esq. c Chadband, b Montague... 0 B. Sapton, Esq. s Lipscomb, b Chester 0 w. 1, l. b. 1 3 Tot « l 83 AQUATICS. REGATTAS AND MATCHES TO COME- MAY. 29, 30, 31.— Oxford University Sculls. JUNE. 9, 10.— Henley- on- Thames Royal Regatta. 13.— Royal London Yatch Club Sailing Match ( first and second class), from Erith round the Nore Light. Entries close June 9. 14.— Royal Thames Yatch Club Schooner Match. Entries close June 5, at ten p. m. 24.— St. George's Yatch Club Regatta, Dublin Bay. 26.— Birkenhead Model Yatch Club Sailing Match. 28.— Royal Thames Yatch Club Sailing Match. Entries close June 19, at ten p. m. JULY. 12.— Royal London Yatch Club Sailing Match ( third class), from Erith to Coal House point and back to Green- wich. Entries close July 7. 26.— Birkenhead Model Yatch Club Sailing Match. AUGUST. 23.— Birkenhead Model Yatch Club Sailing Match. Chal - lenge Cup, ROYAL THAMES NATIONAL REGATTA. THIS great national regatta, under the patronage of her Majesty, the Emperor of the French, the King of the Bel- gians, the Duke of Cambridge, and a vast number of the nobility and gentry, haa been fixed to come off on Tuesday the 29th, Wednesday 30tb, and Thursday the 31st of July, at Putney. The prizes will consist of a number of valuable challenge cups, and other pieces of plate, for which it ia « x- pected gentlemen of the Universities and of the leading metro- politan rowing clubs will contend ; in addition to which, aa an incentive to competition amongst the provincial men of note, the £ 100 prize, open to all the world, will be repeated, and crews from Manchester, Elawick, and Newcastle- upon- Tyne ( the renowned Claspers), picked Loudon watermen, and others of fame are training for the great event. Valuable prizes will also be given for boatmen of tha coast, for which the celebrated " Arrow" of Ramsgate, " Unity" of Hastings, and other crews are expected to enter. Indeed every class and description of rowing men will be provided for by tha rules of the regatta. The races will commence on each day at one o'clock in the afternoon. The sculling and pair oared matches extending from Putney to Hammersmith, and the fours to Chiswick Ait. ROYAL HARWICH YACHT CLUB REGATTA. THE annual regatta at Harwich has been fixed to take place on Wednesday, the 9th of July, and is expected to be supported as usual by a strong muster of the yachts of the Royal Thames, Royal London, and other great yacht cluba. The prizes to be given for sailing matches are extremely handsome. DUBLIN BAY REGATTA. THE Dublin Bay Regatta this season will take place on Tuesday, the 24th of June. It is under the auspices of the Royal St. George's Yacht Club, who have sent invitations to the other great yacht clubs to honour the regatta with their presence. LOWESTOFT REGATTA. THE Lowestoft Regatta is expected to take place about the 29th July, but arrangements are pending between this and the Royal Yorkshire, for the convenience of yachtsmen and visitors. RANELAGH YACHT CLUB SAILING MATCH. The first above- bridge match took place yesterday, among the yachts belonging to the Ranelagh Yacht Club, for a silver cup and cover, over the usual course, from Battersea bridge to Putney, twice over. The weather being very fine, a large assemblage of spectators were attracted to witness the match, which, from the large number of entries and excel- lence of the craft created considerable interest. The fol lowing were the entries, viz.:— Zouave, 4 tons, owner, Mr. Sawyer. Eugenie, 6 tons, owner, Mr. White. Mary, 6 tons, owner, Mr. Wyld. Doubtful, 4 tons, owner, Mr. King. Alice, 5 tons, owner, Mr. Guest. Belle, 4 tons, owner, Mr. Greaves. ' ** Cremorne, 4 tons, owner, Mr. Burney. The yachts started lh. 50min., the Alice being first in trim, then the Belle, Cremorne, and Eugenie, the latter of which passed the Cremorne opposite her namesake; the Belle ( having on board Lord de Ros) then passed the lead- ing boat a little higher tip, and became first; but, through some mistake, rounded lower down than the buoy at Put- ney, and did not discover her error till she had sailed to- wards home about a mile, when she went back and rounded, The wind was fair up, being S. S. E., but there was more work to do coming down. At Wandsworth Pier, on the re- turn, the Eugenie led, followed by the Alice about four lengths astern ; Zouave, 3rd; Belle, 4th. In this order they continued to Battersea- bridge, where they rounded the lower buoy in the following time and order:— H. M. a. Eugenie 2 48 0 Alice 2 50 20 Zouave 2 51 15 Belle 2 58 40 Cremorne 2 5t O The Mary and Doubtful having fallen astern, owing to a collision directly after the start. Directly after they had turned to go up again, the Alice carried away her bobstay, and consequently allowed the Zouave to pass her, the Eugenie still keeping her lead. Thus they continued to tha finish, the Belle gradually nearing the Alice, and the finish- ing time was as follows :— n. m. s. 3H| Wf Eugenie 3 35 10 mmm Zouave 3 37 l' 5JM Alice 3 41 jOjMM Belle 3 43 45 M Cremorae 3 50 0 ""^ H Although this is the order in which they came in, it ia alleged that the two first- named are disqualified and out of the race. The reason assigned for this is the allegation, stoutly maintained, that neither of them rounded the uppea boat the first time, but turned short of it, an assertion strongly negatived by the owners and others. There is another matter imported into the race, a protest by tha Belle against the Alice for a foul; and, in order that ampla justice may be done to the merits of the case, the matters in dispute will be referred, at the earliest opportunity, to tha sailing committee, who will determine upon the evidenca adduced before them AMATEUR PAIR- OARED RACE. A very excellent amateur pair- oared race came off on Wednesday, from Battersea to Putney. The competitors were— Messrs. James Taylor, Richard Berry, and Henry Moyeit, coxswain ; against Messrs. William Tagg, Henry Pullen, and T. Oliver, coxswain. The men were at their stations shortly before ten o'clock, both parties exhibiting the utmost confidence. Messrs. Tagg and Pullen took the lead, closely followed by their opponents, who rowed so powerfully as to put the leading pair thoroughly upon their mettle, who at last dig 50 L I F E ON T H E TURF. covering the pace too good for them, gave way, and Messrs. Taylor and lierrv, after rowing a few strokes oar and oar with them, passed them off Point Pleasant, and finally came in first by about ten lengths. The winners rowed in a boat built by Greaves. SCULLERS' RACE ON THE THAMES. GREAT ROWING MATCH FOB £ 2 0.— The long- anticipated scullers contest between Henry Kelly, of Fulham, and John Mackinney, of Richmond, came off on Thursday last, and so great was the interest excited that, notwithstanding the heavy rain, there were no less than seven or eight steamers filled with passengers, besides an immense assemblage of spectators in small boats, and on shore. Large sums de- pended upon the issue of the event, which was looked forward to with great anxiety, and a first- rate struggle had been anticipated ; but the result was the very contrary, it being all one way from the moment of starting to the finish. The competitors are well known to the aquatic world ; Mackinney more so than his adversary. He has much sig- nalised himself during the last eight years as an oarsman and sculler, while the other has jumped into notice suddenly within the last two years, and bids fair to become the sreat- est man on the Thames. In age and size the men were nearly evenly pitted, both being at that period of life most suited for great trials of strength and endurance ; they are both very fine, powerful young men, under 30 years of age, and weigh between ten and eleven stone each, Mackinney being heavier than his opponent by a few pounds. They • were matched and rowed in the latter end of last year, when, before they had proceeded a couple of hundred yards, Mac- kinney'B boat was upset, owing to the roughness of the water, and his opponent achieved an inglorious victory. Another match was immediately made, to come off on Thurs- day last, from Putney to Mortlake, for £' 200. Although the men had formerly encountered each other, speculators were lost in conjecture which to back, and the bets were consequently made at evens, with Kelly for choice, until shortly before the time of starting, when he was backed at 5 to 4, and the race itself warranted much greater odds. Kelly had trained under the care of H. Salter ; his opponent was at Mr. Wilcox's, the White Hart. The men came to their stations for the start at a quarter to four, both looking extremely well, and being very confi- dent. At four precisely they were off. It was a very even start, but in the first half dozen pulls Kelly drew his boat half clear, and from that moment gained stroke by stroke, never, after the first half mile, giving his opponent a shadow of a chance. Kelly was a clear length ahead off the high bridge, three or four lengths clear at the Crab- tree, and finally won with the most perfect ease by 300 yards, doing the distance in ' 25 J minutes. Mackinney, although defeated, struggled very hard to mend his position. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. !! i: •:•-:.•< r. • • . v • ^ - • Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. As it is probable that in the course of a few weeks the walls of this noble building will be pulled down, we think the present a fitting opportunity to direct at- tention to the external beauties of this most magnifi- cent pile, whilst they yet remain to charm the public eye. The architect of the demolished temple took for his model the finest specimen of the Doric from the ruins of Athens— the grand temple of Minerva, situated in the Acropolis. The principal point— all that remains visible of this once splendid edifice— ex- hibits a portico, which, thoroughly magnificent, is no- thing inferior to the Athenian original. It is embellished w'. th statues of Tragedy and Comedy by Flaxman, and with two bassi- relievi representing the ancient and modern drama. The following description will enable the spectator to distinguish the various figures. The Ancient Drama looking towards Hart- street, is the most important of the two sectional compartments. In the centre tbree Greek poets are sitting, the two looking towards the portico represent Aristophanes as Old Comedy, and Menander as New Comedy: before whom appears Thalia with her crook and comic mask; Polyhymnia playing on the great lyre, Euterpe on the less, Clio with the pipes, and Terpsichore as the muse of action, followed by the Hours or Seasons attendant on Pegasus. The third figure, sitting in the centre, represents JEschylus, the father of tragedy, holding a Scroll on his knees, and looking at Minerva, who is seated opposite. Be- tween ^ Eschylus and Minerva, Bacchus stands leaning on a fawn, and behind Minerva appears Melpomene or Tragedy, holding a sword and mask : then follows two Furies pursuing Orestes, who supplicate* protection from Apollo, who is represented in the four- horse chariot of the Sun. The Modern Drama is equally graphic. The centre figure, looking from the portico, represents Shakspeare seated, and calling before him the following characters in the Tempest: Caliban, laden with wood, Ferdinand sheathing his sword, Miranda entreating Prosper*), and Ariel playing on a lyre. This part is terminated by Hecate in her car, attended by Lady Macbeth and Macbeth, who is turn- ing with horror from the body of Duncan lying behind him. In the centre, looking to wards the portico, is seated Milton, contemplating Urania. At his feet appears Samson Agonistes chained The other figures represent the Made of Comm. The two brothers appear driving out three Bacchanals, with their leader Comus, and the enchanted lady is seen seated in the chair. The group is terminated by two tigers, in reference to the transformation of Comus's devotees. A careful inspection of this statuary will well repay the trouble of the curious. In a month or so it will, perhaps, have entirely disappeared. It must not be forgotten, that inside these walls an attempt was made, under the management of our greatest living actor, Mr. Macready, to bring out Shakspeare with all the advan- tage of scenery, costume, and grouping ; and, such was the perfection of the representations, that we proudly bestow upon Covent Garden the well- earned title o the National Theatre, Her Majesty's Theatre. Madame Alboni has added fresh laurels to her fame during the last week by her inimitable performance in La Somnambvla and II Barbiere. As Amina, in the former, she has literally taken the town by storm. She has suddenly succeeded to all the eclat and praise which enshrined Malibran in Amina. Her contralto is quite as rich and beautiful as that of the latter, whilst she revels in a soprano of most extraordinary flexibility and brilliancy. On the two previous ap- pearances of our favourite her audiences were charmed, but on Tuesday night they were electrified. Her Arabia is not only a piece of exquisite singing, but of really fine and natural acting. Her representation of the natural country girl exhibited some Siddonian touches of feeling. To such an extent did the impres- sion she created in the Chamber Scene prevail, that at the fall of the curtain a loud call was raised for Amina, and, when the fair singer appeared, the house rose in a perfect furore of delight. Nor would the audience rest until the finale was thrice repeated— an occurrence almost unprecedented even at her Majesty's Theatre. Madame Alboni is fortunate in her supporters. Elvino found a most flattering representative in Calzolari. He gave the airs admirably, and was especially excel- lent in " Ah, pesche non posso odiarti." Beneventano was an excellent Rodolfo. He sang and acted with ease and dignity. Mdlle. Bizzi, a Seconda Donna of much promise, got a hearty and deserved encore in the song allotted to her. The operas we have thus noticed have been alternated to crowded houses on each night of performance ; and, up to our present writing, nothing has occurred to mar the brilliant prospect of Mr. Lum- ley's season. Madame Sainville's Ball.- This entertainment, which took place on Monday evening last, was one of a most agreeable description. It presented a feature of novelty which may be recommended to the adoption of future ball- givers. Taking a hint for public from private amusements, Madame Sainville prefaced the ball by a short concert'. This commenced at nine o'clock, and consisted— as in such circumstances a concert ought— of that sort of agreeable and not very elaborate music which pleases without effort, and amuses without making too much call upon the atten- tion. The pieces performed were executed in a most satis- factory manner, and the concert was as successful a feature of the entertainment as it deserved to be. The ball which followed, at half- past eleven o'clock, was very numerously attended. The arrangements for the accommodation of the company were unexceptionable, and, under the inspira- tion of a capital band, dancing was kept up with great spirit to a late, or rather early hour in the morning. The Amateur Pantomime- Monday, the 2nd of June, has been fixed upon for the representation of the new ama- teur pantomime, and the report of the coulisses speaks highly of the achievements of the company. Her Majesty has, we believe, retained her box, and a very brilliant audience is anticipated. The burlesque prologue, the open- ing, and the epilogue, have b - en constructed by Messrs. Albert Smith, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Talfourd, and Hale, and the " comic business " by the gentlemen engaged in it, whose efforts last year were so singularly successful. The prologue, which is called " The Library of Time," gives an opportunity for the appearance of the representa- tives of all the great epochs from the year 1 to 1856 to be reviewed by Time. The opera, called " William Tell, or the Strike of the Cantons," embraces all the historical doings of the Swiss Patriot; and the epilogue lies between Sliak- spere and the Spirit of Pantomime ( Miss Oliver) of last year. Miss Rosina Wright makes her first appearance as a speaking actress on the occasion. Cremorne Gardens.- The weather for the last few w< eks has been very unfavourable for out- door recreation, and, we presume, that this attractive resort of the Londoners has experienced the effect of this adverse circumstance. But notwithstanding the pluvial influences which have com- pelled the public generally to deny themselves extra mural enjoyment, considerable numbers repair every evening to these beautiful grounds, where they find ample resources < f amusement and delight. The arrangements for the seasoD which we regret has not commenced more auspiciously, are' on an almost unpreiedented scale; and no smallexpense'must have been incurred in the effort to provide so much variety for the pleasure seeking public. Fireworks and marvellous gymnastic feats are not the staple performance at the gar- dens. An accomplished ballet corps have been engaged, who, in the pretty allegory, " The Island of Roses," in which the sentiment of returning peace is appropriately ex- temporised, display their fairy agility to admiring crowds. The gardens are beautifully laid out, further pains being taken with the horticultural decorations. To men who have been all day occupied with the monotonous cares of business, we think that the promenade in this pleasing re- treat should, of itself, constitute an attraction. We hope and believe that the present will prove a successful season at Cremorne. It is the meet reward of one who exerts himself so much to please the public as the enterprising proprietor of these grounds uniformly does. M. Benedict's Concert was held on Wednesday evening at Exeter Hall. Jenny Lind, as one of the principal per- formers, drew an immense assemblage, every part of the hall being densely crowded. There was an ample musical banquet; too ample, indeed: for the length of the concert rendered it necessary to leave out two or three of the last, and by no means the worst, pieces in the programme, as the audience showed themselves not disposed to listen to them. One of them^ we regretted— Benedict's chorus of stu- dents in the Gipsy's Warning, among the most pleasing of his vocal compositions. The selection, moreover, scarcely exhibited M. Benedict's usual judgment. There were several long pieces not well suited to a concert of this kind; and the great attraction of Jenny Lind was not turned to the most advantageous account. After Weber's " Jubilee Overture "— the most noisy, if not the best, of that master's orchestral works— had bi ought the audience on their legs, by the boisterous " God Save the Queen " with which it ter minates, Beichardt sang a clever but very long recitative and romance from an opera by a royal amateur, the Duke of Coburg; and it was followed by Mendelssohn and Moscheles's Concertante Duet for two pianofortes on an air from Weber's Preciosa, played by two young ladies, one of them a Miss Goddard, but not the Miss Goddard. They played very well, but not well enough to give interest to an exceedingly long piece, which, to be effective, demands the most brilliant execution. Madame Goldschmidt then presented herself, with Signor Belletti, and was received with a prolonged burst of applause from all parts of the hall. They sing a duet called " I Montanari," on Styrian melodies arranged by Benedict. The melodies were pretty, full of national character, and ( we need scarcely add) charm- ingly warbled by the fair singer, Belletti's part being little more than an accompaniment, l'latti next played the ad- agio and final of the beautiful violoncello concerto written expressly for him by Molique : his tone and execution, as usual, were perfect. Madame Yiardot's performance of the fine old air, " Verdi prati," from Handel's Alcina, was a model of pure style and true expression. John Sebastian Bach's concerto for two pianofortes is a fine specimen of that great old master, and, moreover, was finely played by Mr. Otto Goldschmidt and Mr. Benedict. But it was out of place at this concert; it demands a small locality, and a small and critical audience. Its delicate and recondite beau- ties— its masterly construction and counterpoint— are " caviare to the general," and lost in a great miscellaneous audience. Notwithstanding its intrinsic merits and excel • lent execution, it attracted very little notice. The first part of the concert concluded with the scena and aria, " Squal- lida veste bruna,'' Turco in Italia, sung by Madame Gold- schmidt, who by her exquisitely clear and finished execu- tion of Rossini's brilliant divisions showed herself a singer of the best and purest Italian school. The second part of the concert consisted chiefly of a selection from Minnesinger, an opera which has been performed in Germany, but is not known to the English public. The selection consisted of the overture, which is vigorous and martial, and the intro- duction, a long concerted piece, full of dramatic action, and requiring the means and appliances of theatrical representa- tion to make it effective, and even intelligible. We regretted that M. Benedict had brought it forward at a concei t; the more especially as the execution was slovenly and noisy. The brass instruments were blown without intermission, overwhelming the voices by their ruthless blast. We were able, however, to perceive a fine tenor song, " Life's a dream," sung with much spirit by Beichardt, and an exceed- ingly gay and pretty festive choius, which must be very effec- tive on the stage. Ernst played his celebrated " Papageno " in his usual admirable manner; and then Meyerbeer's French duet, " La Mere Grand," was sung by - Madame Goldschmidt and Madame Yiardot. This was the last, as it was the most delightful, performance of the evening. The quaint dialogue between the young girl and her watch- ful grandmama was supported on both sides with admir- able archness and humour, and the music was charming. When the applause subsided the audience ( as lias been said) rose to depart, and the finest overture in the world ( the Zauberflote) served to " play them out." Mr. Hullah's Concert.— The monthly concert on Wed- nesday night last, at St. Martin's Hall, under the direction of Mr. Hullah, consisted of two parts— the first, Rossir i's Stabat Mater, the second, Mendelssohn's Ilymn of Praise. The greit composer's ecclesiastical masterpiece was probab y never before performed in this country in a style so perfect, or in a manner more calculated to develope fully all its peculiav characteristics and beauties. ^ The orchestra was composed of the first instrumentalists in the metropolis— the chorus of the now celebrated " Lpper Singing School " of the director; and the principals were Madame Clara Novello, Miss Dolby, Mr. Swift, and Mr. Thomas. The mere enumeration of the names is sufScient to give an idea of the excellence of the performance. Both the ladies are confessedly the first singers of sacred music in this country, and their performances onWednesday- fully sustained their claim to that position. The duet, " Qui est Homo,'' was a marvel of delicate and exquisite vocalisation, and secured an encore, which was only exceeded by the enthusiastic demand forthe repetition of Madame Novello's solo," Inflammatus et ascensus." Mr. Swift and Mr. Thomas maintained their high 50 L I F E ON T H E TURF. reputation in this class of music, and the choruses exhibited that perfect blending of light and shade, that crispness of execution, which distinguishes the choral performances at St. Martin's Hall. The sinfonia to Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praite, was admirably given and warmly applauded. Miss Sherrington and Miss Banks, assisted by Mr. Swift, were the principals, and the second part of the concert passed off not less satisfactorily than the first. The hall was crowded by an audience that remained to the very last. BETTING DURING THE WEEK- TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY. What with the settling of the Bath accounts, comparing bets on the Derby, and booking additional investments, a good deal of business was transacted. The betting was nott however, marked by any very important point of difference from the quotations last published, except with regard to Vandermeulin, who " came again" with much force. In City circles he was backed freely during the morning, and at the Corner 12 to 1 was taken about him to some money. These odds were, however, currently offered at the close. The investments on Wentworth, at 3 to 1, exceeded £ 1,000, and backers, hardening in confidence, were evidently willing to go on. (£( Fazzoletto was in considerable request. 5 to 1 was taken to several hundred pounds ; at half a point higher the outlay in bis favour would have been considerably increased. 8 to 1 was offered against Cannobie, and 9 to 1 taken about Ar- tillery. In the early part of tbe afternoon 10 to 1 was booked to £ 50 about Coroner; subsequently 11 to 1 was laid, and at last 12 to 1 was offered. Several inquiries were made about Fly- by- Night, but we did not see him backed; 15 to 1 fifties would have been betted. At 1,000 to 30, 30 to 1, and 25 to 1, the investments on Ellington amounted to about £ 700 ; 30 to 1 was his closing price. The odds quoted against The Prince were taken to £ 100. Of the outsiders Cotswold and the Barbarina colt were in most demand. The prices at the conclusion of business were as under :— DEBBY. 3 to 1 agst Wentworth ( taken and offered) 5 to 1 — Fazzoletto ( taken and offered) 8 to 1 — Cannobie ( offered) 19 to 1 — Artillery ( taken) 12 to 1 — Vandermeulin ( taken and offeied) 12 to 1 — Coroner ( offered) 15 to 1 — Fly- by- Night ( offered) 20 to 1 — The Prince ( taken) 30 to 1 — Ellington ( taken) 40 to 1 — Mr. Verdant Green ( taken) 60 to 1 — Astrologus ( taken) 50 to 1 — Barbarina colt ( taken) 1000 to 15 — Cotswold ( taken freely) 1000 to 10 — Puck ( taken) Offeri to bet 1,000 to 60 on twenty. TATTERSALL' S— FRIDAY. The fineness of the weather and an attractive bill of fare drew most of the bookmakers to Harpenden ; the room consequently was very thinly attended, and speculation dull in the extreme. The chief transactions were upon Fazzoletto and Vander- meulin ; 1,800 to 400, and 425 to 100 was taken about the former, though subsequently 5 to 1 was obtainable in more quarters than one. Vandermeulin was backed for two or three hundred pounds at 11 to 1, and in one bet at 3,000 to 800. 1,000 to 100 was laid once against Artillery, and 12 to 1 against Cannobie, but the former's real price cannot be quoted at more than 9 to 1. Both Coroner and Fly- by- Night appeared to have passed " bad nights," nor was Yellow Jack in very good odour. 800 even was laid between Mr. Howard's two, and 9 to 1 against Yellow Jack and Fly- by- Night coupled. There was a general disposition to bet against Mincepie and to back Mermaid, about whom 500 to 100 was taken for the OAKS. Closing prices :— DERBY. 1 agst Wentworh ( taken and offered) Fazzoletto ( taken and offered) Artillery Vandermeulin ( taken) Cannobie ( offered) Coroner ( offered) Fly- by- Night ( offered) Yellow Jack ( taken) The Prince ( taken) Mr. Verdant Green ( taken) Cotswold ( taken) 3 to 5 to 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1000 to 15 9 to 10 to 10 to 20 to 20 to 22 to 22 to 40 to OAKS. 3 to 1 on the field ( offered) 5 to 1 agst Mermaid ( taken) 10 to 1 — Tyue ( taken) TATTERSALL'S, SATURDAY. The desire to back Vandermufin bad not abated. He was in steady demand, and 7 to 1, 13 to 2, and ultimately 6 to 1 were booked about him to " money." Siill Fazzoletto was unshaken, and several investments were made on him at 5 to 1 and 11 to 2. 9 to 1 w as, with difficulty, obtainable about Artillery at the close of business. 8 and 9 to 1 were taken about Cannobie. The Coroner was quite out of fa- vour, and receded to 40 to 1. The odds quoted against Puck were taken to upwards of £ 150. 7 to 2 was currently offered on the field. 450 to 100 was taken twice about Vandermulin and Cannobie couplid, and afterwards 400 to 100 was booked. 15 to 1 to a pony was laid against Fazzoletto winning the Derby and Mincepie the Oaks. The quotations were as under:— DERBY. 7 to 2 agst Wentworth ( offered) 6 to 1 — Fazzoletto ( taken) 6| to 1 — Yandermeulin ( taken and offered) 8 to 1 9 to 1 25 to 1 25 to 1 25 to 1 40 to 1 40 to 1 50 to 1 50 to 1 . 1000 to 15 — 3 to 1 agst 4 to 1 8 to 1 9 to 1 10 to 1 Artillery ( take 9 to 1) Caunobie ( taken) Ellington ( taken) Fly- by Night ( offered) Rogerthorpe ( offered) Coroner ( offered) Barbarina colc ( take 50 to 1) Astrologus ( taken) Cotswold ( taken) Puck ( taken) OAKS. Mincepie ( taken) Mermaid ( taken) Kalipyge ( taken) Tyne ( taken) BETTING AT THE WEST END- SUVDAY.- Cannobie was in considerable force, and 6 to 1, to much money, was invested on him. 7 to 2 to £ 400 was booked about Wentworth, and 11 to 2 to £ 200 about Fazzoletto. Powerful hostility was displayed against Vandermulin. A strong bombardment was commenced against him ; at 9 to 1 upwards of £ 500 was betted against him. Ellington received good support, and returned to 20 to 1, and 28 to 1 and 30 to 4 were booked about Bird in- Hand. The subjoined list of quotations will sufficiently indicate the nature and extent of the business transacted :— DERBY. agst Wentworth ( taken and offered) — Fazzoletto ( taken and offered) — Cannobie ( taken and offered) — Artillery ( taken) — Vandermulin ( taken) — Ellington ( taken) — Bird- in- Hand ( taken and offered) — Fly- by- Night ( offered) — Bay Hilton— Barbarina oolt ( tk &. offer; — Puck ( taken) — Cotswold ( taken) — Ellington & Bird- in- Hand, coupled( taken) — Yellow Jack and Bird- in- Hand ( taken) FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD. — Cannobie ( taken) — Fazzoletto ( taken) — Yellow Jack ( taken) — Ellington ( taken) — Cotswold ( taken) OAKS.. — Mincepie ( taken) 7 to 2 11 to 2 6 to 1 9 to 1 9 to 1 20 to 1 28 to 1 30 to 1 40 to 1 50 to 1 50 to 1 13 to 1 12 to X 1 to 1 2 to 1 4 to 1 5 to 1 10 to 1 2 to 1 LIFE IN " TOWN." Upwards of three millions tons of coals were brought into London coastwise, and one million and a half tons by inland navigation and land carriage during 1855. His Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia ar rived at Dover from Ostend on Wednesday, and has been lioniz- ing in England ever since. At a meeting of the Peace Society held at the Chapel in Finsbury, a resolution was passed deprecating the differences between this country and the United States, and expressing a hope that they might be brought to an amicable adjustment. Lord Palmerston has been solicited to intimate with authority that the illumination of private houses in celebration of the peace is not expected, and that outrages on property will be promptly repressed and severely punished. A change of wind has brought the finest fleet of merchant- men into the various ports that ever entered in one week, and with them an influence of wealth without parallel in the annals of shipping, It appears from a return issued in London on Saturday that the gross total receipts, as revenue of all the presidenciet of East India last year amounted to £ 26,510,185, and the nett profits to £ 26,375,191. In an animated debate on the ballot, its supporters contended that it would protect the honest and conscientious voter, but its opponents prove, with their usual tact, that this was pre- cisely the class to which it would afford no protection, and that, on the contrary, it would only favour the liar, the hypocrite, and the knave, and open a door to an extensive system of fraud. A general meeting of hackney- carriage proprietors has been held in St. Martin's- lane, to pass resolutions with reference to their non- liability for property left ( or lost through being left) in their vehicles. A late decision in the Queen's Bench caused this dismay. Baby perambulators having of late become a complete nuisance m the streets, a meeting in condemnation of them was held in Oxford- street on Thursday. The illuminations at the British Museum are intended to be on a scale of splendour rarely surpassed. Besides the innumer- able jets of light around the railings, the architectural front of the building will be illuminated with gas. On Thursday the law and equity courts opened for the com- mencement of term. There were 132 rules nisi on the Common Law Courts paper. The Imperial Russian Arms, in cast iron, taken from over[ the gates of the arsenal in Circassis, has been received by the United Service Institution from Ciipt. Spratt, of her Majesty's ship Spitfire. Excursion trips to St. Petersburg, at so much per head, are being organized in London. It was stated at a Ragged School meeting that the penny savings connected with one Ragged School alone amounted to the sum of £ 95 in less than three years. The threatened riots for non- illimiination proved quite a God- send to the Plate Glass Insurance Companies, who are now busily engaged in granting policies to the timid. The exhibition of the Royal Acadciny this year has disap- pointed the expectations of the connoisseurs, it being admitted on all sides that the works of art exhibited are far below the average mtrk. Much dissatisfaction is expressed at an attempt at extortion by ihe Crystal Palace Company. Two guinea season ticket holders have to pay half- a erown extra on each visit for a seat sufficiently near to hear the music when concerts are given. It was stated at a general meeting of the Domestic Servants* Benevolent Institution, that there were in this country no less than a million and a half of persons belonging to the class do- mestic servants, of which number not more than 6,000 or 7,000 took an; steps to provide against the horrors of poverty. Great annoyance has been experienced by passengers on board the river steam boats from boys throwing pebbles on the decks from the bridges, and without any attempt on the part of the police to stop such amusement. The Court of Aidermen, on Tuesday, adopted stringent mea- sures by which a poor family would be enabled to get seven or eight po » nds of coals, instead of five, as heretofore, for their money, and other necessaries of life at a proportionate advan- tage. A novel robbery was exposed at the Mansion House, a man named Turner being committed by the Lord Mayor for ripping open the cushions of the Church of St. Mary Woolworth, and stealing the horsehair during divine service. At the Middlesex Sessions one Caleb Smith was found guilty and sentenced to ten months' solitary confinement for four re- markable and ingenious frauds. In each case the delinquent had obtained from detective police officers and sergeants of police sums of money varying from £ 2 to £ 4 under the pretence of splitting upon the persons who had been concerned in the late " Queen's plate" robbery. The London Tilbury and Southend Railway Company had a meeting on Tuesday, at which it was resolved to extend the line from the Blackball Railway at Bow to the Tilbury and South- end Railway at Barking, with two branches to the North Wool- wich Railway ; an extension of four miles and a- half. At the examination of Mr. C. J. Mare, in th « Court of Bank- ruptcy, it transpired that there was a total stoppage of the pro- gress of the New Westminster Bridge works, in consequence of the failure of the bankrupt. The Chancellor of the Exchequer's budget did not call forth much remark in the metropolis, nor did it produce any tangible effect on the money and stock markets. The Lord Chancellor, meeting with much opposition to hi « Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill, was compelled to with- draw the second reading. Mr. Warren was refused an answer by the Secretary of State for the Home Department to the reasonable question whether the advisers of the Crown, in recommending a commutation of the sentence of death passed on Celestina Sommer, for the murder of her child, had obtained the report, and taken the opinion of the judge by whom she had been tried. Messrs. Hanbury, the brewers, publicly announced that their firm had experienced the most beneficial results from the Saturday half- holiday, which they had been in the habit of granting to the men in their employ for the last year and a half. Once, and once only, during the progress of the Palmer trial did the prisontr shed a tear, and that was when his counsel— Sergeant Shee— read his first letters to his wife. The Sunday band question has been discussed in various parts of London, but'in the p arish of Marylebone it has created quite & f urore. Sir B. Hall is destined to enjoy a most enviable noto- riety. Henry Mayhew, in a manly letter to the editor of a contempo- rary publication, repudiates the ungentlemanly charges brought against him by Dr. Taylor. The managers of all the London theatres have agreed to commence their performances at three o'clock on the day of the general rejoicings in celebration of peace. Mr. Broughtom, the magistrate at the police- court, Maryle- bone, has addressed a letter to Sir B. Hall, stating that although he sat in his court on Monday, the 12th inst. until a late hour at night, not a single charge was brought before him arising out of the immense numbers who thronged to hear the music in the Regent's Park on the previous day. The long- anticipated scullers match between Henry Kelly, of Fulham, and John Mackinnay, of Richmond, for £ 200, ter- minated on Thursday in favour of the former, who won by 300 yards. The teetotallers had a grand muster of their disciples at Exeter Hall on Thursday night, the principal resolution of the eyening being one in favour of prohibiting the sale of intoxi- cating liquors during Sunday. Some agents of the Sanitary Commissioners discovered five families living in one room in a house in Whitechapel. Each corner of the apartment l. ad its bed, and its centre was occupied by another, in which three persons slept. The Bank of England on Friday reduced its rate of discount from 7 to G per cent, upon all bills below 60 days. The Judges of the Court of Common Pleas sitting in banco on the first day of term decided, in the case of Edmund Gar- bett, that an attorney once struck off the rolls for misconduct could never be restored, however good his subsequent behaviour. Notwithstanding reports to the contrary, it has been proved that the only sister of the late Mr. J. Parsons Cooke is still alive, having been marriedjn 1854 to Mr. Bradford, of Birk holme. The Lord Mayor stated at a court of Common Council that the banking and commercial firms of London could not give a whole holiday on the 29th, in consequence of the neglect of Government to bring in a bill with respect to bills of exchange due on that day. A telegraphic message was received in London contradicting the loss of the cutter yacht Secret, which was said to have foun- dered off the North Foreland, with the loss of all on board. The yacht is safe in Rainsgate harbour. The Right Hon. Sir John Pattison has been awarded a pre- sentation fee of £ 300 for his services in making the award between the town of Cambridge and the University. A female named Brook, residing in Lambeth, and the wife of a stonemason, was safely delivered of four children ( all boys) at one birth. A foolish man, one John Edwards, living at Stepney Green, for a foolish wager of half ( a sovereign, undertook to swallow two quarts of rum within a given period, but paid the forfeit of his life for his stupidity. £ 70, the produce of a dramatic entertainment given at the Camp before Sebastopol, has been remitted to Mr. Mitchell of Bond street, to be distributed among the sufferers by the late lire at Covent Garden Theatre. Peace having been proclaimed, the Royal Commissioners of the " Patriotic Fund" on Monday decided on a greatly increased allowance to the widows and orphans of non- commissioned officers and privates. Horses Struck out of their Engagements. On the 19th inst, at 9 a. m., Romeo and Westminster out of their engagements at Epsom. On the 19th inst, at 9 a. m., Fulbeck out of the Epsom Town Plate. On the 19th inst, at 4: 30 p. m., all Lord Derby's horses, except Fazzoletto, out of the Derby. On the 22d inst, at 11: 40 a. m., Domino, Newmarket, and Wild Strawberry, out ot their engagements at Epsom. On the 23d inst, at 9 a. m., British Lion out of the Derby. On the 19th inst, at 3 p. m., Vandyke, by Portrait, out of all his English engagements. 50 L I F E ON T H E TURF. A SECOND EDITION OF LIFE ON THE TURF Will be Published TO- MORROW ( Tuesday), AT ONE O'CLOCK. With CHIKHBY'S Observations on the Gallop of the Horses on Monday and Tuesday Mornings, after a personal inspection. Latest Betting, Arrivals, and Rumours up - to going to Press. To be had of all News Agents. Office— 291 STRAND, LONDON. A copy sent on receipt of four postage stamps. 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In thus apologising to our many kind and talented contributors, we sincerely thank them for their favours, assuring them that every attention shall be paid consistent with our space. The improvements in our means will now allow us to meet all claims ; and the hearty support we have already met with on all hands makes it certain that this journal will take a high ground among our contemporaries— a fact borne out by the large and increasing circulation already attained. LIFE ON THE TURF. MONDAY, MAY 26. PREPARATIONS AND ANTICIPATION OP THE COMING EPSOM MEETING. WE are again on the eve of this great metropolitan event, and, to all appearance, the Epsom meeting of 1856 is likely to rival all its predecessors in the interest attached to the great event of the year— the Derby. For information as to arrivals, probable starters, and winners of the great races, we must refer our readers to another column. The late refreshing rains have made the course in beautiful order for running ; and uo pains have been spared to render the accommodation as perfect as possible. The Croydon and Epsom rail- way company have issued tlieir announcements as to special trains lor the week. Trains will run at the or- dinary fares up to a certain hour on the Derby Day, after which the tariff will be raised as on former occa- sions. On the Derby and Oaks days trains will run in quick succession up to the last moment, and there will also be the " special express" at a quarter before two o'clock on each clay, for the accommodation of the City speculators, whose other avocations will compel them to draw it fine." On the South- Western Railway there will be also special trains during the morning to Kingston, for the accommodation of those who prefer the " happy medium," and wish to combine " the rail and the road." Tickets for the Epsom railway may, as usual, be obtained beforehand, at Messrs. Tattersall's, and the various booking offices in the metropolis. The first detachment of John Scott's horses for Ep- som and Ascot reached Leathcrhead on Monday, namely, Graeculus Esuriens, Yindex, Vandal, Forbid- den Fruit, Victoria, Comedy, and Warlock. The two " cracks," Fazzoletto and Fly- by- Night, joined the string on Wednesday. Baron Rothschild, W. I'Anson, and C. Marson will not have anything at Epsom. The following are the principal horses employed in the Derby, and a portion of which appeared in our last impression, and as so little changes have taken place during the past week in respect to their per- formances, we again give place to it. CORONER, after a strict seclusion from the betting, has once more come into demand ; his performances at Bath this week ought to be closely watched to see if there be any acting with respect to him. There still appeal's to be some mystery whether himself or Yellow Jack will go for the money, and I have reason for believing that in a recent trial with Yellow Jack he beat the yellow boy into fits. His former decline was attributed to his bursting a blood- vessel, but he appears now in splendid condition, and, although a little horse, will prove himself a worthy competitor for the Derby, and prove a formidable rival to Wentworth, Fly- by- Night, and some others. He is to be ridden by Weeks. CANNOBIE has only recently come again into the market, and will prove a disastrous horse to the ring, having been backed at odds from 100 to 1 down to 66 to 1 at Northampton ; and after winning the Metropo- litan, stood at 5 to 1, going back again after his race in the Burwell; and again springing to 5 to 1 within the last few days, although certain parties never cease laying against him ; however, unless tliey take care, they may regret their hostility towards him. VANDERMULIN is to be steered by Job Marson, and although he was nearly sent out of the market on Thursday week, he rallied Rgain on his owner s appear- ance the following Saturday, who backed him for every shilling he could obtain, finally wound up with an offer to take 15 to 1 about his winning £ 15,000. He appears during the past week to have much im- proved, and in excellent form at present, lie is a Derby Horse all over, and with Marson on his back, notwith stauding my last week's opinion, I believe myself, that from the further information I am in possession of, his chance is anything but bad. BONNIE SCOTLAND is a strong and powerful animal and is a real Derby- looking horse, with capital action ; is doing good work just now. ARTILLERY— a son of Touchstone— won the Prince of Wales Stake at the York August Meeting, beating Porto Rico and seven others ; but his performance was not considered very favourable, and caused him to recede a few points in the betting ; at Doncaster he was defeated in the Champagne Stakes, which pro- duced a decided opposition to him in the ring, and almost from the betting; however, he again ran at Newmarket for the Criterion Stakes, and suc- ceeded in beating Queen's Head by half a length after a severe struggle. He has wintered well, and is now in blooming condition ; he has stood for some time past in a respectable position in the betting, and con- tinues firm ; his owner expresses great confidence, and stands to win a large stake upon him. PUCK has recently been several times inquired after and has been quietly backed for a long shot: he has never done anything in public, although his trials are favourably spoken of. He has been backed to win £ 50,000, and made a sudden appearance in the betting ; he has been out three times, and always beaten, and declined showing with 5st 51b for the Northampton- shire Handicap, and 4st 101b at Chester. COTSWOLD, late Tithonus, is in the same position as Puck. ELLINGTON continues improving condition under the care of Tom Dawson, who speaks highly of his abili- ties ; and although defeated by Fisherman at York, it is entirely attributed to his want of preparation, an his owner is most severely blamed for running him ; he is still improving, and, if up to the mark by the Derby he will prove an awkward customer ; he beat Artillery, Mary Copp, Vandermeulin, Bird- in- Hand, and three others. FLY- BY- NIGHT has again come with a rush into the betting, after his sudden withdrawal. This horse, it he keeps liis condition, is one of the best animals on the Turf; and although he was compelled by an accident to withdraw his pretensions for the guineas, I am told is now as well as ever he was in his life. That lie has speed as a racer is proved by his victory over Man- ganese for the Convivial Stakes, and who was unable to come near, althoughvery severely, punished. He also defeated Bird- in- Hand, Polmoodie, and a dozen others for the Triennial Stakes last year; also, Man- ganese, Aleppo, and nine others for the Convivial Stakes. PRETTY Boy may probably put in an appearance, but my present impression, notwithstanding his per- formances last week, are decidedly unfavourable, as he has neither speed nor stamina for the Derby course. THE BARBARINA COLT by Slane, is one of the dark division ; he is quite a favourite with the stables, who have backed him on the quiet for a heavy stake, and I doubt not will see 15 to 1 before the Derby day. FAZZOLETTO is deservedly a favourite since his vic- tory over Yellow Jack f » r the 2,000 Guineas, and now stands 5 to 1. It is asserted fey some of the knowing ones that he cannot stay the Derby course, but that the flat course of Doncaster or York will suit him much better ; and as my Lord Derby has never won the Derby, it is more than likely that great pains will be taken to have him properly prepared. LEAMINGTON, by Faugh- a- Ballagh, now belongs to Mr. J. Parr, who expresses great confidence in his racing powers. He won the Woodcote Stakes at last year's Spring Meeting at Warwick, beating two others ; run second at Nottingham for the Robin Hood Stakes ; and last, for the Bunny Park Stakes ; whilst at York August Meeting was not placed for the Convivial Stakes, and at Derby won the Chesterfield Plate ( half a mile), where he obtained a good start, beating Stork, and five others. NEWINGTON belongs to the same parties as Prince, who do not hesitate to confess his inferiority to that horse ; he has been lately well supported, and some mystery is observed with respect to lifm. He beat Oltenitza and Smack easily for the Fifth Bentimk Memorial Stakes, and was third for the Brentwood Stakes at Chelmsford last year. PRINCE, the stable companion of Newington, has been steady in the market for a long time, and imme- diately alter Viscount's running at York and Chester his supporters did not hesitate in saying his success for this event was a perfect certainty. No doubt they have got the impression from his running Ellington to a length, but they will at once perceive that by taking 50 L I F E ON T H E TURF. a line through | Bird- in- Hand, Ellington should have been nearly last for the 2,000 guineas if he had run in it, and to win the Derby, the Prince must be able to give Viscount 211b and a beatiDg. It certainly . appears a iittle mysterious that he is constantly quoted with NewiDgton ; however, either Prince or Newington, no doubt, will show some good work in the Derby. Prince is in excellent condition, and as an outsider, is well worth backing for a place. ASTROLOGUS, by Birdcatclier, won the Wilton Park Stakes at Salisbury, beating Rogerthorpe and 4 others, Rogerthorpe not being then in condition, and has since ran third for the Champagne Stakes at Bibury. POLMOODIE, last year has beaten Fly- by- Niglit, Manganese, Pit- a- pat, Wandering Willie, Queen's Head, West Langton, Porto Rico, Cerva, Brother to Bird- on- Wing, at Ascot, Goodwood, & c. I do not, however, think much of his racing powers, although he is heavily backed by his owner, Lord J. Scott, who was so unfortunate with The Reiver, and who recently at- tempted to purchase Caunobie, without success. BIRD- IN- HAND.— There still continues a disposition to back this horse on the part of the public. He has appeared in public eight times, winning twice— once at Catterick Bridge, beating an indifferent field, and at Chester, the Dee Stakes, beating Ellington and Stan- hope, with five others : Ellington, however, was not fit to run. At Ascot was second to Ellington, beating Yandermeulin, Overreach, Artillery, Mary Copp, and The Danube. ROGERTHORPE may go to make the running for Wentworth. He is a son of the celebrated Hero, but has neither the speed nor the staying powers of his'sire. His name appears very often in the betting. He will go to the post in excellent condition. YELLOW JACK continues a firm favourite of mine, notwithstanding his defeat by Fazzoletto for the Guineas, and by One Act for the Chester Cup, to whom he gave 61b, and was only beaten by a head. If yel- low John is the horse of the stable, and not the Coroner, I must expect to see him at a much shorter price than he is at present; and, I expect, if not first for the Derby, he will be well up at all events ; and, of all the horses named at present, I think him to be well worth backing at the present price. PORTO RICO appears altogether too doubtful a cha- racter to back for the blue riband. His appearance in the 2,000 Guineas, and defeat by Yellow Jack, appear quite sufficient to shut out his chance, and it is not likely his friends will permit themselves to be deceived a fourth time. His temper is a bad one, and a horse of an uncertain temper shall not carry my money. WENTWORTH continues first, a doubtful favourite, and now stands at four to one at the Corner. The reports of his trials are extremely satisfactory, his racing powers are described to be most extraordinary, he continues in splendid condition, but I cannot say I was much im- pressed with his Newmarket performance ; he appears to be a sluggard, and requires considerable punishment to make him put forth his power. However, my present impression is, that when he makes his appear ance on the Derby course, amongst a large field, he will be disposed to turn a cur, unless he gets a good lead at the commencement. There appears sufficient doubt about him at present to warrant any one in being ex- tremely cautious in interfering with him either in one shape or another. QUEEN'S HEAD.— This filly, belonging to Mr. Howard' is far from despicable. She ran second to Artillery for the Criterion Stakes at Newmarket, who only defeated her after some punishment by half a length, and won the Althorp Park Stakes at North- ampton, beating King Chat, Skyscraper, Diego, Slander colt, and five others. Was beaten twice at Ascot, and a good third for the First Class Nursery Stakes. It may not be a little curious if she makes her appearance at the post on her own account on the Derby day, as she belongs to a party who will at all events see what she is made of. ST. DOMINGO, if she starts, cannot go the journey with success. SKYSCRAPER, belonging to Mr. T. Parr, is a probable starter ; has done nothing. THAMES DITTOS- has seen a good deal of hard work, is in the same stable as the last, but his winnings will not pay his trainer's expenses. SUGAR PLUM, West Langton, Bucolic, and Aleppo are in good condition but I doubt their abilities. VERDANT GREEN.— There are some strange rumours afloat respecting this horse, who is trained by Good- win ; it is said that in his trials he has proved himself another Wild Dayrell. As an outsider, he appears to be worth backing'at all events, as also PETER WILLIAMS, a son of the Flying Dutchman out of Boarding- school Miss, is trained by T. Taylor! he was early brcked, and has been for sometime quietly supported by his stable. Yellow Jack, however, ap- pears to hold him perfectly safe, as he was far behind Typee at the Chester weight ; however, I doubt whether he has improved sufficiently sinice last year to run forward at the Derby. He has been favourably spoken of, and, if he starts, he will not be last in the race ; but I believe he is not the horse who carries the stable money. THE DERBY FIELD will probably consist of HOUSES. JOCKEYS. CANNOBIE N. DAY ROGERTHORPE S. ROGERS CANNOBIE TEMPLEMAM FAZZOLETTO NAT ARTILLERY BASHAM CORONER WELLS YELLOW JACK FORDHAM FLY- BY- NIGHT T. BARTHOLOMEW GLRD- IN- HAND J. OSBORJB ELLINGTON ALDCROFT MR. VERDANT GREEN CHARLTON PRINCE T. SHERWOOD NEWINGTON ASHMALL VANDERMEULIN G. DOCKERAY COTSWOLD SLY STANHOPE MATON ILLUMINATOR YATES PUCK QUINTON LEAMINGTON CARROLL ASTROLOGUS J. MAKM FURIOSO MATON SIR TATTON WAKEFIELD BRABARINA COLT -—- PRETTY BOY J. FOSTER ENCONIUM WHITEHOCSE In coming to a selection, I will select Artillery Wentworth, Prince, Fazzoletto or Fly- by- Night, Yel- low Jack or Coroner, and Cannobie with Barbarina colt to furnish the winner, which will probably be FAZZOLETTO, WENTWORTH, or PRINCF, with Vandermeulin as a cockboat. WOODCOTE STAKES.— Lambourne ought to win these; if he is bowled over, I must look to Tricolor or Ro- haillion. THE EPSOM SUMMER HANDICAP.— Unless Uzella does not make her appearance until Friday, she ought to win this; if she is not at the post, then, Clotilde or Bubble. HEATHCOTE PLATE of 50 sovs.— Flacrow or Swindler. The BENTICK PLATE HANDICAP— Atherstone or Coal Black Rose. THE EPSOM CUP— Horses not placed in the Derby are allowed 31b. I shall go for Manganese, Typee, or Saucebox. FOUR- YEAR- OLD STAKES of 50 sovs each— Vandal or the Spinner. TWO- YEAR- OLD STAKES— depends very much on the running for the Woodcote Stakes, that it is dangerous interfering with until the horses are at the post. Madam Clicquot is said to be amiss. Beloiseau, a doubtful starter, we therefore go for Black Tommy or Rohallion. GRAND STAND PLATE— Looks as if it would find an owner in Bracken, Sirocco, or The Archer. COBHAM PLATE— Yulcan or Roving Betsy. THE OAKS. This ladieb' race is run over the Derby Course, and upon the same terms, 8st 71b each ; » cd although there are 137 subscriptions, the running of the fillies entered herein may be generally termed dark, and as Manga- nese, the winner of the Thousand Guineas Stakes, is not entered for this event, it excites at present but very little interest, and a poorer field is expected this year than almost any of its preceding meetings. Up to this time only Mincepie and Mermaid have been named or supported in the betting; and whether anything more is likely to be done appears extremely doubtful, as Mincepie's running is considered superior by many to auything else in the race. So little is known of the intentions of the stables, that no selec- tion of horses at the time of writing can be considered accurate. I should think the following mares will likely form the lot out of which the starters will be selected:— HORSES. JOCKEYS. INTIMIDATION .... FLHUIL. VICTORIA TEMPLEJIAS. MARY COPP. BARTHOLOMEW, MINCEPIE ,„.,„,., ,„. A, PAT. HORSES. JOCKEYS. QUEEN'S HEAD GOATER. TYNE s. ROGERS. MERMAID WELLS. THE FAIR GERALDINE MELISSA MARSON. FLYAWAY KALIPYGE FLYING DUCHESS BLUE BELL CERVA EGLANTINE UZELLA INTIMIDATION ran very well last year, and succeeded in pulling off the Hopeful Stakes at Newmarket, but she has sadly fallen off this year. VICTORIA.— Her prospects of victory do not appear at all bright for the Oaks ; she is John Scott's best, and might turn up a trump. MARY COPP, as a two- year- old, ranked high in her performances, but was interrupted in her training for the Thousand Guineas, where she ran third, and I am afraid that she will not be fit in time to go this journey with success. MINCEPIE ran second for the 1,000 guineas at New market to Manganese, whose superiority places her a the head of the three- year- old fillies ; but considering who Mincepie was defeated by, and her extraordinary speed at Stockbridge justify the support which she meets with by her stable and friends. KALIPYGE is a stable companion of Mincepie, and i she goes the journey on her own account will be very near hand winning. CERVA, with the two last, is in John Day's stable, won the Somersetshire Stakes at Bath this last week, carrying Got, beating Intimidation, 6st, Poodle, aged, 7st 101b, Mishap, 7st 31b, and three others; and which- ever of the tin ee carries the money of the stable will be about the winner. QUEEN'S HEAD did some work last year, and was only defeated by Artillery after a severe struggle for the Criterion Stakes by half a length. Her chance, if she does not go to make the running for Mermaid, is a good one if she is in condition ; but I am told she is rather amiss, and Phyrrha will be Mr. Howard's mare. MERMAID is strongly supported by the Findon stable, she is in excellent condition and doing good work. She was out only once last year, when she beat Flying Duchess and Wandering Willie at Epsom in first rat ® style. THE FAIR GERALDINE is trained by her owner, who has recently refused a large price for her. She defeated Fly- a- Way and a strong field last year at Reading, and has much improved upon her two- year- old form, and should she come to the post in blooming condition she cannot but be placed. TYRE— A good outsider, but I must prefer some of the ethers to her. FLY- A- WAY ran respectably last year, but having been amiss a short time ago canuot be trusted. MELISSA has some running in her, and some day will win a good thiDg, but cannot expect her to win the Oaks. UZELLA belongs to Mr. Merry, and is backed by her owner and the Irish division for a good stake. EGLANTINE has been reserved for this, and is strongly fancied by the Yorkshiremen. My selections for this lot are MINCEPIE or CERVA ; MERMAID, with MARY COPP and EGLANTINE for Cockboats. The GREAT SURRY FOAL STAKES— Has 38 subscrib- ers. This will in some degree depend upon the result of the Derby. My pick is the Prince, Illuminator, or Peter Wilkins, and the Prince for choice. CHIFNEY, Trotting.— On Monday last, Mr. John Wests of Great Grimsby, backed his black pony, Newcastle Tommy, 10 hands high, to trot in harness eight miles in one hour ( four miles out and four miles home). The betting was on time. At two o'clock the pony started, doing the four miles out in 29min, and the four miles home in 25min, thus winning with six minutes to spare. Horses Struck out from their Engagements. On the 19th inst, at 3 p. m., Result, Overreach, Dudeen, filly by Cotherstone out of Treacherous, and filly by Cother- stone out of Duchess of Lorraine, out of all their engage- ments. On the 19th inst, at 3 p. m., Omer Pasha, out of all his engagements at Bath. On the 23d inst, at 9 a. m., Alston out of all his engage meats. 50 LIFE ON THE TURF. EPSOM- THIS DAY. { By Electric Telegraph.) HORSES ARRIVED UP TO 10 O'CLOCK. WOODCOTE STAKES, Commotion, the Abbot, R. C. by Hernandes out of Physalis, The Electra, and Fright. EPSOM SUMMER HANDICAP. Typee, Grasculus Esuriens , Romeo, Roebuck, Kestrel, Woodcock, Yindex, Gamekeeper. MANOR PLATE. Emulous g. HEATHCOTE PLATE. Ceres, Cutty Quean. EPSOM CUP. Typee. FOUR- YEAR- OLD- STAKES. Vandel. TWO- YEAR- OLD STAKES. Equity, Abbot, Electra, Flight, and Commotion. GRAND STAND PLATE. Bracken, Romeo, Roebuck, Pharold, Lawn Kestrel, and Sirocco. DERBY. Mark Faulis, Sirocco, Fly- by- Night, Lawn, Bird- in- Hand, Bobby B., Fazzoletto, Ellington, Warlock, Sacri- fice f, Mr. Yerdant Green, Caunobie, Dramatist, Wan- dering Willie, Peter Wilkins, Bay Hilton. BENTINCK STAKES. Treachery. TOWN PLATE. Romeo, Roving Betsy, Georgium Sidus, Gamekeeper. COBHAM PLATE. Georgium Sidus, Emulous g, Roving Betsy. OAKS. Victoria, Sacrifice f, Secret, Shot, Comedy. SURREY FOAL STAKES. Sirocco f, Peter Wilkins. EPSOM DOWNS. ( From our Own Commissioner.! SUNDAY MORNING. On our arrival on the Downs yesterday morning we found that the previous rain had made the course springy, and in excellent condition, but not the least heavy. Abont nine o'clock the atmosphere began to brighten, and the sun made his appearance. Shortly afterwards three horses made their appearance from the stables, and amongst them we observed Cannobie ; on his being recognised, there was a general rush to have a sight of him. He was led by Wandering Willie, and followed by Mayboy ; after a short walk they cantered up the hill, to the right of Sherwood's house, Cannobie being second, and followed by their trainer, Mr. Dawson. Canno- bie certainly looks in splendid condition, and a Derby horse ; yet I must confess I felt disappointed that they did not give a gallop over ' he Derby course. He does not appear from what I saw anything like a roarer, which has been asserted by some, and in looks is clean and full of muscle ; he settles down steadily to his work, and puts his legs in Buch a style which proves his ability to get up a hill. Taylor's lot of five wire out, including Bay Hilton ( late Barberina colt), and Peter Wilkins, but they had a mere canter. Bay Hilton looks a racing sort of a horse, and goes well, but stands rather straight on his pins. BIRD IN- HAND and SECRET arrived by the 10.30 train this morning, as also Georgium Sidus, and Jester, none of whom were out during the day. Bird- in- Haud looks well, and will run forward in the Derby. THE JESTER appears a leggy sort of a horse, and slightly made. I do not suppose he will put in an appearance for the Derby, but will be reserved for his other engagements, as he is in the same Btable with Gig Lamps. I presume from his not being in company with him, that VERDANT GREEN will be an absentee on the Derby day. FLY- BY- NIGHT had a sweat on Saturday, first two canters, a good gallop, and a steady four mile sweat; he pulled up nice and sound. He looks well, and has been doing strong work since his arrival at Leatherhead, and I should yet not be surprised to find him the best of the two 011 the day. FAZZOLETTO also had a sweat 011 Friday and Saturday, but has not done much work since his arrival at Leatherhead. The remainder of John Scott's horses, excluding those two, had a Bweat yesterday. COMEDY, Lord John Scott's filly, looks well for the Oaks, indeed, the whole of Scott's fillies are in excellent condition. I was informed that Forbidden Fruit has been tried with Bracken and won easily. One or two of Morris's horses arrived about noon, aud Artillery arrived on Monday ( to- day). Early in the morning Jones had ail animal out ill the mist and rain who went remarkably well, but the parties make it a mysterious affair, hinting it might be Bonnie Scotland, although I do not believe it was him. Wadlow's lot, including Equity and The Abbot had a canter ; Equity looks well and went well. Lord Glasgow's two, a 3- year old colt by Flatcatcber, and the Hernandez colt, out of Physalis, had a canter; the Her- nandez colt went well, aud pulled up with harJIy a blow; his lungs are good, and the Flatcatcher colt is a big un. Vandermeulin will arrive on Monday ; Bobby B., Cale- donian, and others ai rived last night. My impression is the Derby field will consist of 17 or 18 starters. The Coroner, Newington, and The Jester are all doubtful and uncertain starters. I shall forward you full particulars of Monday's doings, in time for your Second Edition to- morrow. My present impression is that Fazzoletto or Vandermeulin will win, with Prince or Bird- in- Hand for cockboats, and will . give you my absolute pick to- morrow. Horses arrived or Trained by J. Day J. Day J. Day J. Day J. Day J. Day J. Day J. Day J. Day Fobert J. Scott J. Scott J. Scott J. Scott Wentworth Rogertborpe Aleppo Furioso Grampian Mincepie Kalipyge Cerva Hobgoblin West Langton Grsec. Esuriens Vindex Vandal Fazzoletto Forbidden Fruit J. Scott Fly- by- Night J. Scott Bracken J. Scott Victoria J. Scott Comedy J. Scott Louvat J. Scott Warlock J. Scott Commotion Reeves Ruth Reeves Little John Reeves Roman Reeves Vulcan Reeves Sirocco Reeves Woodcock Reeves Alma, by Flat catcher ) Greville Reeves Rip Van Winkle Woolcot Yellow Jack W. Goater Coroner W. Goater Queen's Head W. Goater Mermaid expected at Epsom Trained by C by . CoJIlmg-( Death wood— Elf Ceres Roving Betsy Lawn Kestrel Equity Tbe Abbot Escape C, by Cother-) stone out of J> T. Ellen Home J Wadlow Wadlow Wadlow Wadlow Wadlow Wadlow T. Brown, j. Brown, '. Billingham | John Peel Pantheon Tom Burke Gondoline Tinwald Tournament Archer, The Who Are You ? Borderer I Abrahams Abrahams Abrahams Abrahams Drewitt Drewitt Drewitt Drewitt Drewitt Drewitt Drewitt Pyrrlia Rohallion Mark Foulis Curious Jeu d'Esprit Adamas Ariel Weathercock Puck W. Goater W. Goater W. Goater E. Jones E. Jones Escott Escott Escott Escott W. Treen Buckingham Kate Hardcastle Drewitt Bine Jacket Drowitt Lady Golightly Drewitt Tester W. Goodwin Mr Verd. Green W. Goodwin Georgium Sidus W. Goodwin Constellation W. Goodwin Tyte J. Godding Exchang* S. Rogers Blast S. Rogers Perfume Dockcray Alastor Butler Leamington Hopkins Saucebox Hopkins Vandermeulin Flintoff South Western Flintoff Surgeon- General Flintoff Flatterer Stevens F by Loup Ga- jw Treen rou— Venilla Stork Lambourn Pretty Boy Fair Geraldine Cotswold Disraeli Melissa Desdemona Ephesian Porto Rico Mary Copp Theodora Kingmaker Enconium E. Parr E. Parr Mizen J. Harrison I. Day I. Day I. Day I. Day I. Day A. Taylor A. Taylor A. Taylor A. Taylor Percy Elfrida Eardrop Salonica Illuminator Fascination Stevens Stevens Stevens Stevens Stevens Longstaff Longstaff Y. King Y. King The Unexpected Stevens Gamekeeper Lnogstaff Mirage Artillery Flacrow Reuben Martin Yorkshire Witch Y. King C by Flat--) catcher, dam V J. Dawson by California) C by Hernan-) dez out of V J. Dawson Physalis J Bird in Hand E. Gill Shot E. Gill Secret E. Gill THE JOCKEY CLUB. A general meeting of the members of the Jockey Club will be held at No. 6, Old Burlington- street, on Saturday the 31st of May, at two o'olock precisely. By order of the Stewards, C. WEATHERBY, Keeper of the Match Book. At this meeting it will be proposed to amend the resolu- tion passed on Thursday in the First Spring Meeting on tbe subject of selling races not on the Newmarket Rule, by adding the word " as far as concerns the beaten horses." The following notice of motions have been given :— The undersigned members of the Jockey Club give no- tice, that at the next meeting of the Club they will propose that the resolutions pased on the 1st of May, relative to not handicapping horses which have run for selling races not under the Newmarket Rule of claim- ing, shall be rescinded. C. C. GREVILLE, JOHN M. STANLEY, H. J. Rous, CHESTERFIELD, CLIFDEN. That the evidence in the alleged cases of crossing in the Burwell Stake and Two Thousand Guinea Stakes be published in the Racing Calendar 0f that or the fol- lowing week. GLASGOW. The question of raising the weights in the Derby, and other principal Three Year Old Stakes, from 8st 71b" to 8st 101b, will be further considered. DERBY PREDICTIONS. Belts Life.— Caunobie or Coroner. The Era.—( Touchstone) :— Fazzoletto . . 1 Wentworth . . 2 Artillery 3 Artrologus cockboat Sunday Times.— Fazzoletto or Artillery. Bell's New*. — ( Memnon). — Fazzoletto, Fly- by- Night, or Artillery. Weekly Times.—( Brevity;.— Artillery, Fazzoletto, and Wentworth. Morning Advertiser.—( Vates).— Fazzoletto, Coroner, or Vandermeulin. PRIAM.— Caunobie, 1; Fazzoletto, 2 ; Prince. 3. A copy of LIFE ON THE TURF will be forwarded di- rect rom the office for four postage stamps, or for One quarter for 4s. 4d. IRISH RACING- CURRAGH JUNE MEETING, 1856. THURSDAY, JUNE 20. The KILDARE HANDICAP of 5 sovs each, and 2 if declared, Jtc, with 100 added; one mile and a half. Simon Pure Trapper Chicken Cockatoo Arbutha Raphael Testy st lb 9 0 8 10 8 7 Thessaly Badinage Good Friday 7 Angelica 7 Surprise 0 Cheerful Horn 6 ^ rolite 6 st lb 7 4 st lb 6 0 5 12 5 12 Bonnivard Newhrook Cussbawn Harkaway colt ( Cummius's) 5 12 Confidence 5 10 Sunshine 5 10 BELLEWSTOWN. 1856 The BELLEWSTOWN HANDICAP of 5 sovs each, with 60 added ; heats, one mile and a half. Bt lb st lb st lb Protest 8 12 Dunmurry 7 0 Hecuba 6 10 Walterstown 7 12 Legacy 7 5 Baroness 6 7 Thessaly 7 12 Newbrook 6.15 Red Rose 6 0 CONTEST FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP. Although we did not^ intend to make it a practice to give in exlenso all the doings of the " fancy" in our columns, still the match on Monday last being for no less than the trial of skill and endurance upon the issue of which the title of " champion" depended, we had prepared a full account for our readers, but the superior claims upon our space, of mat- ters connected with " LIFE ON THE TURF," must supersede that of " Life in the Ring," so that the following brief sum- mary must therefore suffice. For the like reasons we cannot give the " doings" of pre- vious champions; on this occasion the " aspirants to the honour" were Harry Broome and Tom Paddock, the former a native of Birmingham, but of late years well- known in Lon- don, while Paddock is a native of Iledditch. An excursion by rail was decided on, and an excellent spot having been selected between Maningtree and Bewley, in Suffolk, the match commenced by Broome, in opposition to advice, making play and drawing " first blood " from Paddock in the second round, and gaining the next point— " knock down " in the ninth. But it was soon apparent that Broome is mot the man he was, but had apparently lost the power of hitting with effect he had once possessed. We will not particularise further, but it cannot be said that the battle on either side was a demonstration of scieace, and after forty- nine rounds, occupying one hour and seven minutes, Paddock was declared the victor. Broome now finds that his constitution will not bear training; his courage was not questioned, hut nature would not support him. His left hand was broken in the fifth round, and hence his inability to fight with his clenched fist— such a misfortune alone was enough to lick a man in the highest condition, but coupled with the impoverished state of Broome, it was really a discouragement not to be overcome. The great wrestling powers exhibited in previous fights by Harry, and of which Tom Paddock fought shy, were not displayed even once during the whole of this battle— neither crook nor cross buttock obtained. He weighed 15st. 81b. when he went into training, and 12st. 21b. when he entered the ring, so that nearly HOlb. had to be removed in four months. Broome has declared his intention of giving up the " ring" and persevering in his business as " mine host," in which more agreeable position we wish him all the success which his merits as a game and honest boxer eutitl/ him to expect. Of Tom Paddock we may say, that his unflinching game demands respect. He was not in this contest subjected to Bevere hitting, but he evidently does not mind it. His length of reach gives him an advantage over ordinary ad- versaries, and he must be something more than ordinary who expects to beat him. The conduct of both demanded the prise of all admirers of boxing. The confidence and strength of the victor was manifest throughout— while tbe courage o the vanquished was undiminished to the last— the latter having evidently made up his mind that if he was to bo thrashed, the thrashing should be a good one. 50 L I F E ON T H E TURF. TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. Monday— Fifth Day. THE first witness called by the Attorney- General was Alfred Swaine Taylor, who said : I am a Fellow of the College of Physi- cians, and Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence at Guy's Hospi- tal. I am author of n well- known work on " Medical Jurispru- dence." Amongst other subjects I directed my attention to the poison called strychnine. It is the produceof the?> uxromica. There is another poison produced from nux vomica called bruchia. The relative strength of the two poisons is with diffi- culty estimated. Bruchia contains from l- 6th to l- 12th strychnia. I have tried various experiments on animal life with strychnine, and gave their result and symptoms. I have never witnessed its action on a human subject. I have tried its effect on animal life about ten or twelve times— always on rabbits. The symptoms produced have, on the whole, been very uniform. I have opened the bodies of animals thus de- stroyed, but have not found any appearances in the stomach to indicate injury there. In the spinal cord, in one or two instances, I have found a congestion of the vessels of the membrane ; but, in most cases, I have not found any departure from the usual appearances after natural death. The congestion of the vessels of the membrane has been due to the succession of fits experienced by the animal before death. In three cases out of five, however, no change has taken place in the spinal cord. The heart has been contracted in all the cases, especially the right side. I have heard the symptoms given by Mr. Jones, which showed themselves in Mr. Cooke, and they appear to be the same as those evinced in animals after taking strychnine. The strength of the dose would make a difference in the human subject; a stronger dose producing a more rapid effect than a small dose. I have experimentalised on the bodies of animals to reproduce the strychnine. There are several substances which would produce the same colours as if strychnine were present; and many eminent men have been mistaken. Vege- table poisons are more difficult to discover by chemical tests than mineral ones. There is no process to detect the poison in the tissues, if administered only in small doses. Half a grain is known to have destroyed life. The smallest quantity undergoes some change in the blood, and that increases the difficulty to discover it in the tissues. Some portions of the body of Mr. Cooke were sent up to me. They were delivered to me by Mr. Boycott. They were in a brown jar, which was fastened down by bladders tied arid sealed. It contained the stomach and the intestines of John Parsons Cooke. I expe- rimented on them to see if they contained any poison. I sought for various poisons— prussic acid, oxalic acid, morphia, strych- nine, white hellebore, poison of tobacco, hemlock, mercury, arsenic, and other mineral poisons. We only found small doses of antimony. The most unfavourable portions of the body to discover strychnine from were in the jar, because the stomach had been cut from end to end, all the contents were gone, and the fine mucous substance in which any poison, if present, would be found, was lying in contact with the outside of the intestines, all thrown together. The stomach had been turned inside out in the jar. The whole was shaken up in every possible way. The contents of the stomach were gone. Had there been any strychnine in the body I should have expected to find it in the contents of the stomach and the mucous membrane. At my request, other parts of the body were sent, the liver, the spleen, and the two kidneys, and in addition to that a small quantity of blood. It was without a label, so that we did not know from what party it came. We analysed all. We searched the liver and kidneys for mineral poisons. We discovered antimony in one- eighth part of the liver. We then analysed the left kidney and the spleen ; they all yielded traces of antimony. It was less in proportion in the spleen than in any other part. The blood contained antimony. It was'reproduced, and brought out by boiling the animal subject in a mixture of hydrochloric acid and water. Copper and gall were then put in, and the antimony was found deposited on the copper. We applied various known and established tests for the purpose of our investigations. Br. Rees assisted me, and Professor Brande saw it afterwards. A small part of the antimony is still on the copper. [ Produced]. Was that such a vomiting of Cooke's as would be likely to be produced by antimony?— It would. It is soluble in fluids, and does not alter the colour of the liquid in which it is mixed. Would such a quantity as would suffice to produce vomiting affect the colour of the fluid in which it is mixed ?— No ; not some. Half a grain administered two or three days before death you would hardly expect to find?— I should expect to find some trace. Supposing one grain for each night for three nights?— Then I should expect to find it. The Attorney- General : One grain each night ?— Yes. Did you attend to the evidence given by Agnes Smith as to the death of Mrs. ? As the result of your own studies, you coincide in my opinion that those deaths were occasioned by strychnia ?— I do. I do not know of any other cause, in the nature of human disease, that will account for death, except strychnia, in the case of Cooke. Cross- examined by Serjeant Shee : You have frequently used the word " trace." What is the meaning of the word trace ? Does it mean an infinitesimal quantity?— Yes. What I discovered altogether in the entire of the body would make op half a grain. I will undertake to say that there was half a grain altogether. In my judgment that quantity would not be sufficient to cause death. Will you have the goodness to tell us what the tests used for the antimony were ? The Lord Chief Justice read the previous answer. Professor Taylor stated, in continuation of his evidence: It is my opinion that antimony was t* ken within three weeks of d iath. I should say, from the consideration of all the facts, that the antimony in Cooke's body was there much more re- cently than four months. Mr. Stevens brought me the jar him- self. Serjeant Shee : " We don't find strychnia." That is a pas- sage in your letter? The letter was then read. It contained the following passage —" We don't find strychnia, prussic acid, Or opium. He may have died from antimony." Haven't you told me to- day that the quantity found in Cooke's body was not sufficient to cause death ?— I have : but the quan- tity found was not all he took. He first vomits a great part, and a great deal passes into the urine. The syinp- oms in Cooke's case were quite in accordanco with the ordi- tnary action of stiychnia ; I don't see that he had any great command over the muscles of voluntary motion. Cooke was seized with the tetanic symptoms after he sat up in bed talking. For the patient in such an attack to beat the bed with his arms is exactly what I would expect. Such beating merely indicates that Cooke was very uneasy, and it was an effort for relief from a feeling of suffocation. The beating of the bed is not known as a common symptom of ordinary convulsions ; at least I do not know it. Persons who suffer from any kind of suffocation, generally beat about them for relief. I do not know a single fatal case in which the symptoms have mani- fested themselves so long as an hour and a half after the in- jection of the poison. The recovery of Cooke so soqn from the paroxysm of Monday night would depend upon the dose. I cannot refer you to any case in which a second paroxysm occurred so long after the first as the one in Cooke's case on Tuesday night, following Monday night's fit.— By the Attorney- General : That is supposing no additional strychnia was given on Tuesday, of course ?— By Serjeant Shee : I find no account in the cases of how the body is immediately after death. In three of the rabbits I found the spasms continue after death. It may be in one out of five cases that the spasms cease en- tirely at the moment of death. Four of the rabbits I recently experimented upon were quite stiff after death ; one was quite flaccid. Mr. Bamford's evidence as to finding Cooke's body quite straight when he went, immediately after his death, was consistent with Cooke's death by strychnine. I mean to say that the colour tests of strychnine are fallacious, and cannot be depended on unless you get the strychnia in a tangible, visible form, and it is impossible, in some cases, to get it in that form. It depends on the quantity administered.— Re- ex- amined by the Attorney- General : I have heard of three cases iu which the human heart was empty after death. I think the emptiness is to be attributed to spasmodic action. I know no reason why that should be different in animals. After death the rigidity always affected the same muscles, those especially of the limbs and back. The period before the effects of the poison would appear would vary with the strength of the per- son, the extent of the dose, and the facility of absorption. George Owen Rees, lecturer at Guy's Hospital, examined by Mr. E James: I assisted Dr. Taylor to make the analysis in Cooke's case, and the description of the result given by that gentleman is correct. The antimony we discovered might have been administered a few hours or a few days before death. The quantity we discovered was no indication of the quantity that may have been administered. ( Witness's evidence was corroborative of Professor Taylor's, and exactly of the same nature.) Win. T. Brande, professor of chemistry, was next examined, and he stated decidedly that antimony was found in the analysis of Cooke's viscera. Robert Christisson, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and Professor of Materia Medica in Edinburgh, examined by the Attorney- General— Was the author of a work on poisons, and amongst others had directed his attention to strychnia, which acted on the human frame, by the absorption into the blood, and acting on the nervous system. Had seen a case of poison- ing from strychnia, but not a fatal case. Had seen frogs, rabbits, cats, dogs, and one wild boar experimentalised upon by strychnia. He had directed his attention to this poison 6ince 1820 in Paris, where it was discovered two years pre- viously. In most of his experiments he had given very small doses ; but sometimes as much as one grain. A sixth of a grain was the smallest dose he had given, which had killed a dog in two minutes, when the poison was injeeted into the cavity of the chest by a small incision. [ Dr. Christisson detailed several experiments with rabbits, & c., but they were generally of the 6ame description as those already given.] The witness then spoke of the matter connected with the present trial— I should attribute the symptoms ascribed as attending Cooke's death to strychnia, or one of the four natural poisons contain- ing it. No natural disease I have ever seen or know of would produce these symptoms. When death takes place by spasm of the heart, as was evident in this case, no blood would be found in the heart. Colouring tests are unsound in some instances. There is one vegetable poison for which no test has been found. The deaths I have heard described— the Leeds case and the Glasgow case— were by strychnia, I have no doubt. The symp- toms in Cooke's case were very similar. Tuesday.— Sixth Day. Dr. Jaelson examined by Mr. James : I have been practising in India for twenty- five years, and have lind a good deal of experience in cases of traumatic and idiopathic tetanus. The latter disease, although it appeal's very rare in this country, is much more frequent in Iudia, and I have attended at least forty cases of that disease. Idiopathic tetanus is equally fatal, according to my experience, as traumatic. The usual period from the attack to death in infants is generally about forty- eight hours ; in adults, when arising from cold, it is of longer duration, and may continue many days, going through the same grades as the traumatic forms. Mr. D. Burgen, chief superintendent of police at Stafford, stated that he took possession of prisoner's papers in his house, when he locked them up, and then put them into a bag which he delivered over to Mr. Hatton, the chief constable. There was not among the papers any cheque bearing the signature of Mr. Cooke upon Messrs. Weatlierby, neither was there any paper referring to any bills of exchange which purported to bear the signature of the prisoner. There was no such docu- ment as this among the papers. Mr. Deane subsequently se- lected a number of letters and other papers of a private charac- ter, and instructions were given that they should be delivered up to Mr. George Palmer. The prisoner was taken into cus- tody on the night of the 15th of December. I remember Roberts, the apprentice, being examined, and also Newton. I do not know who fetched Newton. Mr. H. A. Deane said: I am a solicitor of Gray's- inn. I attended the coroner's inquest upon Anne Palmer, on behalf of the insurance company. The first time I saw the prisoner's papers was at Stafford. I sorted and selected them. I care- fully examined the whole of the papers, and returned a consi- derable quantity to Mr. G. Palmer. I am certain there was no cheque for £ 350, drawn apparently by the deceased, upon Messrs. Weathcrbv, nor any paper represent ng that certain bills of exchange had been accepted for the benefit of Mr. Cooke. I found no such paper as that which Cheshire says Palmer had requested him to attest. I found no document signed by Cooke, and acknowledging that Palmer had accepted bills for £ 4,000 on his behalf. Mr. Espin : I am a solicitor, and act for Mr. Padwick. I produce a bill for £ 2,000, placed in my hands by Mr. Padwick to enforce payment against the prisoner. ( The drawing and endorsing of the bill were here identified by a Mr. Strawbridge, manager of a local bank, to be in the handwriting of the pri- soner. The acceptance was certainly not in the handwriting of Sarah Palmer. The bill was then read. It purported to be drawn by the prisoner and accepted by Sarah Palmer. It bore the simple endorsement, " Wm. Palmer.") Witness gave some other evidence respecting some bill transactions between Mr. Padwick and the prisoner. Mr. Bamford examined by the Attorney- General— My name is William Bamford. I am surgeon and apothecary at Ruge ley. I first saw John Parsons Cooke on Saturday, the 17th November. William Palmer called upon me and asked me to attend a friend of his who was unwell at the Talbot Arms. He said Cooke had been dining with him the day before, and had taken too much champagne wine. I asked Cooke if he had taken too much wine the day before, and he assured me he only took two glasses. I found no appearance of bile, but a constant vomiting. I prescribed a saline effervescing draught for him in a six ounce mixture, and also some pills. I never saw Cooke take any of the pills I had prescribed and made up for him. After I had prepared the pills on the Monday even- ing, I took them myself to the Talbot, and gave them to the servant maid who had been waiting upon Cooke. I saw her take them upstairs. Those pills were of the same ingredients as I had prepared pills for him previously. I saw Palmer on the Tuesday. I asked hiin if he had seen Cooke the night before. He said he saw him between nine and ten o'clock, and that he was with him for half an hour. I then returned home without seeing Cooke. I met Palmer again between twelve and one o'clock. I was going to see Cooke, but Pal- mer begged that I would not do so, as it would disturb him. Palmer said Cooke was still quiet, and lie did not wish him disturbed. At seven oclock that evening Palmer came up to my bouse, and requested me to go down and see Cooke again. That was the first time I saw him on the Tuesday. After I had seen him I went out with Mr. Jones and Palmer. Nothing was then said, except that Mr. Palmer observed that he rather wished Cooke to have his pills again, and he said he would walk up with me for them. He did so, and stood by while I prepared the pills. I prepared them in my surgery, and Palmer stood by and saw me weigh the ingredients out. I had some strychnine in a private room. I do not keep it in the shop. I wrote on the box, " Night pills— John Parsons Cooke, Esq." Palmer had requested that I would put the direction on. That was all that passed. I never saw Mr. Cooke after that time alive. I wrapped the direction and the box up in a separate paper, and I sealed it up. It was as near half- past twelve o'clock as could be that night that I saw Cooke again. I found the body stretched out straight, resting upon its heels and the back part of its head, with the arms down the side, quite rigid. The arms were extended down each side of the body, and the hands were firmly clenched. I stated it to be my opinion that he died from apoplexy. Palmer asked me to fill up the certificate of death. I had forms of the certificate in my possession. I told Palmer that as Cooke had been his patient, it was his place to fill up the certificate. He said he would much rather that I did it, and so I did. I was present at the post- mortem examination. After it was over Palmer said, " We ought not to have let that jar go ;" he did not say more. Thomas Pratt called and examined by Mr. James, Q. C. ; I am a solicitor, practising at King- street, St. James's. I was acquainted with the prisoner. The first business I transacted for him was to obtain a loan for him of £ 1,000. That was ultimately paid. This was at the end of November, 1853. In October, 1854, I was employed by him to make a claim upon two policies. One was upon the life of Anne Palmer, and the other upon the life of Walter Palmer. I received part of the money, £ 5,000 from the Sun, and £ 3,000 from the Norwich Union. I applied it to the payment of three bills, amounting to £ 3,500 or £ 4,000, and the discharge of loans subsequently obtained, after I received the instructions to make the claim on the policies. There was left a balance of £ 1,500, and there still remained £ 1,500 bills outstanding ; £ 6,500 was applied in the discharge of debts, and £ 1,500 Palmer received as he re- quired it. In April, 1855, he applied to me for a loan of £ 2,000 ; lie did not state for what purpose the loan was re- quired. I obtained the loan on the security of a bill drawn by himself on his mother. I now hold eight bills of the prisoner's ; they are held by my clients and myself. They were held by myself or my clients in November. At that time there were two of them overdue, ( the bills were produced and read. All these bills purported to be drawn by the prisoner, and accepted by " Sarah Palmer." The » e was one for £ 500, two for £ 1000 each, f, id five for £ 2,000 each, making altogether £ 12,500). £ 6,0J0 of these bills were renewed and came due in January, and bills for £ 7,500 were in my hands, and over- due in Novem- ber last. Some of these bills were held over from mouth to month upon payment of the interest. With two exceptions these bills were discounted at the rate of sixty per cent. ( Sen- sation.) A very long detail was here entered into respecting the payment of interest on various bills; several letters were also read from prisoner to witness, and a great mass of money transactions called up respecting life assurances and accounts with Messrs. Weatherby and others. Witness, in continuation, said : On the Saturday a person called and handed me a cheque on Fisher for £ 200. The 39th was settling day at Tattersall's after the Shrewsbury Races, and after three o'clock Palmer called at my office and signed the paper produced. ( Paper read. It directed that 1,300, with £ 50 now paid, should be placed to the credit of the mother's bills.) The prisoner paid the £ 50, partly by cheque. He said I should receive a cheque by post for £ 450, and afterwards I did receive such a cheque from Mr. Herring, which I paid into my banker's. ( Letter produced from Palmer to witness, an- nouncing Cooke's death, and requesting witness to write to Saunders about the horses, adding '' Remember, I must have Polestar, and if anybody should ask you, don't let them know any of my money transactions with Cooke." The letter ac- knowledging this was also read. It still pressed the prisoner for money.) On the 26th of November Palmer again wrote to me not to say anything to any one about Cooke's affairs. I did not know the deceased John Parsons Cooke. I had a bill of sale upon two horses of his, called Polestar and Sirius. I never saw Cooke on the subject of that loan; the prisoner ne- gotiated. Mr. Stevens was here called, and the cheque for £ 375 was shown to him, and he said the endorsement of Mr. Cooke's name was a forgery. He always signed his name J. Parsons Cooke. The cheque was endorsed J. P. Cooke. Mr. Strawbridge, the manager of the Rugeley bank, was called, and having examined all the bills that had been pro- duced, he said that the signature Sarah Palmer, to the whole of them, was forged. William Cheshire, a clerk in the National Provincial Bank at Rugeley, proved that the cheque for £ 375 was paid in to pri- soner's account. Mr. John Armstrong, an attorney at Rugeley, said— About the 12th of November last I was employed to recover a debt of £ 60 from the prisoner for a mercer's bill. On the 19th I sent instructions for a writ, and on the following day I went to the prisoner's house, and he paid me two £ 50 notes in satis- faction of the debt. He at the same time said lie hoped he should not have to pay the cost of the writ. I took the notes to my employer to get a receipt and change, and to arrange about the costs. Mr. John Wallbank, a butcher at Rugeley, proved that on the 12th of November he was sent for to Palmer's house, and saw him there. The prisoner said to him, " Wallbank, I want 50 L I F E ON T H E TURF. ou to lend me five- and- twenty pounds." I replied, " Doctor, am very short of money; but I will try and get it." He replied, " Do, there's a good fellow, and I will give it you on Saturday morning, as I shall receive some money at Shrewsbury." This was the week before Shrewsbury Races. I lent him the money, and he repaid me ou the day he had promised. Mr. John Spilsbury, a farmer living at Stafford, proved that he had had dealings with the prisoner, and in November last he owed him £ 46 2s. He called upon the prisoner casually on the 27th of November, and he paid him the amount he owed him. He paid him in bank notes. Mr. Straw bridge, the bank clerk, was recalled, and he said that on the 19th of November the prisoner had only £ 9 fis in his favour. The last payment to tne credit of the prisoner's account was made on the 10th of October. Mr. Herbert Wright, a solicitor at Birmingham, said that he had known the prisoner since 1851, and in November, 1855, he was indebted to witness's firm to the amount of £ 10,400. They had a bill of sale of his property. It was executed by the prisoner. The debt arose out of advances upon bills of exchange, accepted by Sarah Palmer, and drawn and endorsed by the prisoner. He assigned the whole of his property as security for the payment of the money. The witness produced bills of exchange to the amount of £ 6,500 bearing the signature of Sarah Palmer. During the month of November he was pressing the prisoner for payment of the money that had been advanced, and in the beginning of December the bill of sale was put in force. By the Attorney- General— These bills were discounted at the rate of 60 per cent, per annum. If the prisoner had been able to continue to pay interest at that rate, the bills would probably have been renewed. Mr. Strawbridge was then called, and he said that the accept ances of Sarah Palmer to the whole of the bills produced by the last witness were forgeries. Wednesday.— Seventh Day. The proceedings commenced by the calling Mr. Weatherby. the Secretary to the Jockey Club, and other persons. Their evidence went mainly to prove that certain cheques and other documents, purporting to be in Cooke's handwriting, were not signed by him. Mr. Francis Butler proved that Palmer paid him £ 40 after Shrewsbury Races. He owed him £ 700, and said he had some to receive shortly. He gave him a cheque for £ 250 on Rugeley bank, but he never got the money. He knew Mr. Cooke's horse Polestar. It was sold at Tattersall's for 720 guineas. This was the case for the prosecution. THE DEFENCE. Mr. Serjeant Shee then rose to address the jury for the de- fence, and he commenced by expressing the deep sense of the responsibility which now devolved upon him. Once only be- fore had it fallen to his lot to defend a prisoner upon a charge of life and death, and he could not conceal from himself now that any slight error of judgment on his part might go far to damage the vital interests of the prisoner. This was an extra- ordinary case ; when it first burst forth upon the public mind the alarm it occasioned was increased by dark hints of alleged former deeds of blood committed by the prisoner, and the pre- judice against him became so literally overwhelming that it was feared at first he could not possibly have a fair trial. The Crown, however, came to its rescue, and, finding that the case excited so much prejudice, they determined that it should not remain in private hands. It was due to the prisoner that he should have a fair and impartial trial, and it would ever redound to the honour ot the legal advisers of the Crown that they had done all that in them lay to secure it. Having paid this just tribute to his learned friends on the other side, he could not help recalling to recollection that the eminent man whom the prisoner at first selected for his counsel had been stricken down by illness, and had thereby been prevented from conducting his defence, and that it was in these circumstances that he was solicited to take his place. At first he hesitated, feeling the immense responsibility it involved, but having well and carefully read the papers laid before him, and closely examined all the facts of the case, he could not help arriving at the solemn conviction that the prisoner was innocent of the charge imputed to him. He be- lieved never had truer words been uttered than when the prisoner at the bar pleaded not guilty, and if the jury at the bar would bear patiently with him, he would grapple with every point in the case for the prosecution, and meet them step by stop. The prosecution asserted, and attempted to prove this— that the prisoner had deliberately made up his mind, for pur- poses of his o. wn, to get rid of John Parsons Cooke, and he had prepared the'body with a minor poison for the rapid and deadly action of a more potent one. Here was the agent of the alleged murder, the next thing to discover was the motive for the acts his the prosecution had endeavoured to trace to the pecuniary; embarrassments of the prisoner, and, having disposed of that point, they had gone on to attribute death to poison, relying for the proof of that allegation upon the symptoms presented before the decease, and the appearance of the body afterwards. Here, then, he had three distinct and separate matters to deal with; first, the motive for the crime ; secondly, the intermediate preparation of the patient for the deadly poison, and, lastly, the agent itself. All these he should discuss in detail, and commencing with the last, the jury should bear in mind that it was contended by the prosecution that Cooke's death was produced by a strong dose of strychnine. No trace of that poison, however, had been found in the body. The death, it was insisted, had occurred within two hours after its administration ; but, although every search was made for it, not a particle could be found. But it was con- tended that when strychnia had once done its fatal work it be- came absorbed into the system, and was thus no longer sus- ceptible of being discovered by tests. The medical evidence of Dr. Taylor went to establish this theory, that the poison im- mediately after death no longer existed, but became part of the blood, from which no human power could dissolve or ex tract it; and upon his mcdical basis the ease for the prosecu- tion rested. He should, however, call medical men of equal eminence to those for the prosecution, who utterly rejected that position as one which practice distinctly proved to be un- tenable. These distinguished toxicological witnesses would em- brace Mr. Nunneley, who attended the Leeds case; Mr. Wil- kinson, of the Dublin Hospital; Dr. Letheby; Dr. N. Parker, of the London Hospital; Dr. Robinson, of St. George's School; and lastly, Dr. Herapath, of Bristol; and these eminent medical and scientific men would tell the jury that even the smallest possible dose of strychnine that Gould be infused into the human frame could afterwards be detected and ex- tracted from the system. They would stale their opinion that no amount of decomposition could preveut the poison from re- sponding to known and proper scientific tests; and if that posi- tion should be satisfactorily made out, what became of the hypothesis of the prosecution that Cooke's death was produced by strychnine? He now approached the second point, and he came to the ! discussion without any diffidence whatever, for he was satisfied , that if any motive could have influenced the prisoner in this ! matter of life and death, it must have had just tho contrary ef- fect to that which the prosecution wished to impute to it. No man could have been more interested in the preservation of Cooke's existence than the prisoner himself; his death, in fact, was the worst calamity that could have befallen him, since it could not have done otl erwise than lead to his entire ruin. Although living in an expensive style, and keeping a stud at Lutterworth, the jury would perceive that the comparatively unknown position of Cooke could not command the same in- fluence and advantages as the better understood position of Palmer; and hence, when the two confederates came into the discount markets as borrowers, the prisoner always had to assume the leading character. There could be no doubt that Cooke had been as much ( if not more) concerned in the bills negotiated by Mr. Pratt as the prisoner; the correspond- ence between Palmer and Pratt almost proved this to d9- monstration. On the day Polestar won at Shrewsbury, Pratt wrote to Palmer, urging him to make up a sum of £ 1,000 by the end of the week, or the consequences might be serious as regarded some of the running bills. At the time when Palmer received that letter, Cooke was suffering from indisposition, but the next day Palmer, interested as he was in his life, got him back to Rugeley. On the 16th Cooke dined with Palmer, and on this very day, let the jury remem- ber what was done. Why this— Palmer wrote to Pratt, telling him that £ 200 would be paid on the Saturday by a friend, and that as he should have to be up in London to attend the settling at Tattersall's on Monday, he would then bring £ 350 more. Now that was what Palmer did. Let them next see what Cooke wrote on the same occasion. Perhaps it had escaped the mind of the jury ; but on this very day, viz., the 16th of November, when it was said Palmer was poisoning Cooke, the deceased wrote to his betting agent, Fisher, re- questing the assistance of £ 200, as *' it is of importance," the letter said, " to me and Mr. Palmer that Mr. Pratt, of May- fair, should to- morrow be paid £ 600, and with £ 300 sent up to- night, your advance of £ 200 will make up the amount. Now did not this show that the two were then acting in perfect con- cert together. Passing now to the bill of sale transaction, whereby Cooke transferred Polestar and Sirius to Pratt as security for a £ 500 bill, after that loan had been negotiated, Pratt was urged to send the amount in money to Doncaster, as Cooke was very much pressed for it. Instead of doing so, however, Pratt sent £ 315 in cash, and a cheque for £ 375, together with a wine warrant; and the inference to be drawn from what followed was simply that the cash was handed to Cooke, and Palmer received in return the cheque for £ 375. This was rendered manifest by the letter of Palmer acknowledging the receipt of the letter con- taining the remittance, for in that letter Palmer says, " I shall have to give Cooke tho money, and take the wine myself;" while according to Palmer's banking- book it does not appear that the £ 315 was paid to his accou it, but that £ 375 was. What, then, became of the motive of forgery imputed to the prisoner? Like the others, it was either without foundation, or susceptible of a good deal of explanation. But there was the cheque which it was said the prisoner presented to the Messis. Weatherby for the Shrewsbury ; this was drawn on the Tuesday, and was it likely that he WOHM have caused it to be presented within the very time that he was meditating putting Cooke to death. Why, he must have known that before the cheque could be paid Cooke's death would be published to the world, and the money would be stopped. So much, then, for the money transactions of the prisoner and the deceased ; so far from showing a motive for the crime imputed to the pri- soner, they directly established that it would be more for his interest that Cooke should have lived, because the death of Cooke had brought down upon him new demands, and in order to meet those demands he was driven into acts which his counsel was not t lere to defend. laising for awhile to another feature of the case, let him just alvert to the evidence of Newton, who said the prisoner had questioned him as to the operation of strychnine. Now, was i likely that a medical man like the prisoner would not knew that without making inquiries of tho pupil of a local practitioner; but it was said there had been a manual of poisons found in the prisoner's possession, and in this book there were notes in the prisoner's handwriting remarking upon the progress and effects of strychnia poisoning. These notes were quite sufficient to show that the prisoner was aware that strychnia poison induced severe tetanic convulsions of a marked and easily distinguishable character. Was it likely, then, tli^ t a man knowing this would have the temerity to resort to such a poison, supposing he meditated murder? But it had been attempted to be insinuated that these notes had reference to this case ; he should show that they were made, and that the book was used, when the prisoner was attending his medical studies in London. To revert now to the position of the prisoner before the death of Cooke. His affairs then were almost desperate. Nothing could have extricated him from his difficulties but the forgive- ness of his mother, a lady of position, who had throughout dis- countenanced her son's gambling transactions, or the recovery of the £ 13,000 on the policy of insurance effected on the life of Walter Palmer. The question of the policy had begun to be ac- tively agitated. The Prince of Wales Insurance Company had offered to refund the premiums paid on the policy, but the pri- soner, relying upon the validity of his claim to the whole £ 13,000, refused these overtures, although the premiums amounted to a considerable sum of money, and would have been very acceptable to him at the time. Upon his refusal Inspector Field was sent to work by the office to make inquiries into the habits of life of Walter Palmer, and already there were whis- perings abroad which must have made the prisoner very cir- cumspect in his conduct. The Insurance Office saw an oppor- tunity for getting rid of their liability, and through their aid the agitation occasioned by Cooke's death was swelled into a per- fect storm against tho prisoner. Hang Palmer, it was perhaps thought, there would be an end of the case, but he believed the prisoner's life would in the end be saved, and the £ 13,000 have yet to be paid. Following up the history of this case, he must now glance at the bodily health of Cooke just before death, as well as at some of his antecedents ; and here he must tell the jury that his father, his mother, and his sister had all died young, and it was supposed of pulmonary affections. Cooke himself was a man of feeble health ; for some time before his death he had been under the impression that he was suffering from syphilis. He had taken a good deal of mercury, and had fre- quently complained of soreness of the mouth, while there was other symptoms and antecedents, such, for instance, as the dis- ease once having broken out all over bis face in spots of a oopper colour, which, had the body been examined at a com- mon dead- house in London, would easily have given a clear clue to the true cause of death. But the post- tnorlem examina- tion was made in a small country town, and, as was probably | to be expected, in a very clumsy manner, and that part of the I body where the real disease was likely to be found was not strictly examined. The stomach, however, was taken out and forwarded to London, where it was analysed by Dr. Taylor, and a conclusion arrived at on the part of that gentleman that death had been caused by repeated doses of antimony. Cir- cumstances then came to light which caused the doctor to alter his opinion ; something in the meantime had come out about the prisoner having purchased strychnine shortly before the death; and then the doctor went down to Rugeley, and I gave the opinion that had produced all this dreadful excite- ment, and had rendered it necessary that the trial should take place in London. The doctor stated openly, and upon oath, before the coroner's jury that he believed the pills ad- ministered to the deceased on the Monday and Tuesday nights contained strychnine. The statement was published by the press throughout the length and breadth of the land ; it produced the utmost alarm and the wildest excitement in the public mind, and this excitement it was which mainly led to the case being taken up by the Crown. Had there been no such excitement, had the insurance offices been out of the ques- tion, the case would have followed the ordinary course; it would have been prosecuted by Mr. Stevens, had any been ne- cessary, and the trial would have been divested of all that in- tense public interest which has now given it so much import- ance in the eyes of the world. But what ground had Dr. Tay- lor for saying that strychnine was given in the pill? He had found uo traces of it iu the body, or the bowels, or the intes- tines, or any of the organs of the body, and, in the absence of such a discovery, he must be a bold man who could swear positively that the pills had contained poison. He would submit to the jury, by the evidence of medical gentlemen, whether the death of Cooke had not resulted from convulsions not at all of a tetanic character. They had heard from medical witnesses already that a man in the prime of life was sometimes struck down by convulsions which left not a trace of disease be- hind. Sometimes it was shown that the cause of the loss of life originated from the indiscretion of the deceased ; and he should show, from the evidence of Elizabeth Mills herself, that Cooke's death did not result from tetanus of any kind, but from convulsions. He had said all he meant to say about his body, let them see what was the state of his mind. He went to ShrewsburyRaces with every prospect of leaving them a ruined man ; for it had been shown that so great was his pecuniary difficulties, that only some wonderful success upon the turf could restore his fortunes. His hopes, in fact, were fixed on Polestar,— to win about £ 400, the amount of the stakes, and £ 600 or £ 700 in bets upon the horse. lie rose from his bed on Thursday morning, either to be a beggar, or to restore himself to a satisfactory position. He waited impatiently for the race; the hour that elapsed before the race was an everlasting one. The horse ran, won easy, and Cooke was the winner of a thousand pounds. Fancy the state of his feelings under such circumstances. They knew that effect from the evidence of Mr. Jones, who said that Cooke could not speak for three minutes. Yes, he was saved— saved in fortune, saved in character, saved from being a disgrace to his friends— and his mind was convulsed with the effect of the change thus wrought in his position. Then he went to dinner and had some champagne, and although it had been shown that he was not drunk, they all knew that at a champagne dinner gentlemen enjoyed themselves. Whom he spent that evening with was not very clearly shown, but at all events it was not with Palmer. He was ill that evening, he was ill again next day, and that was the general hi& fcorv of his mental excitement. But the sickness clinging to his system left him without any rest, and rendered him incapaple of taking that food without which no man could maintain his health. He was taken vio- lently ill at Rugeley on Saturday night; but there was nothing beyond his own evidence as to that. But Le had been taking opium pills prescribed by Mr. Bamford. Then he was awakened in the middle of the night, and, according to his own evidence, he had been nearly mad for the first ten minutes, although he could ascribe it to nothing else than his having been awakened by a quarrel in the street, and this would hardly have hap- penened to a man leading a regular life. Next day he was well again, seeing his grooms and jockeys, and making schemes and arrangements for his next campaign. So it was said by the Crown, that this change took place because Palmer was not with him. It did not, however, seem that he took a hearty lunch, or any active exercise. Then in the middle of the night he was seized with the paroxysm which had been described by Elizabeth Mills. The learned Serjeant here read the evidence of that witness, and said that any, man in his senses, viewing the symptoms thus described must feel that the fit was a much milder one than that on the Punday night, for there was nothing like madness exhibited now. The witness Jones, who appeared to have been Cooke's best friend, had Cooke to himself as far as he could see, from three o'clock t. ll seven, and could during that time, if Cooke had desired it, have been the recipient of Cooke's full confidence. Cooke, if he had any doubt as to Palmer, might have mentioned it to Jones ; but as Jones seemed to have had no suspicion of Palmer, Cooke most likely did not do so. As to the evidence of Jones about the pills which were said to have killed Cooke, it appeared that Palmer, in the pre sence of Jones, forced down the throat of Cooke these pills, which he must have known were likely within a few minutes to cause Cooke to fall down dead. Was such a supposition consistent with probability ? Mr. Serjeant Shee then pro- ceeded to read extracts from Dr. Copelad's work upon convul- sions, and said ho felt convinced that, had Dr. Taylor read this, he would not have so boldly stated his belief that strych- nine was the cause of death. The evidence of the chamber- maid differed as to the state of Cooke upon the first time of her giving her evidence, and Dr. Jones somewhat differed in the statements made by him as to the state of the body. The learned Serjeant read Dr. Watson's work on tetanic diseases, and argued that they went to prove that the t6tanic symptoms in Cooke were attributable to other causes than strychnine ; but he was inclined to think that Cooke had suffered from general convulsions. He then went on to read the work of Dr. Taylor upon tetanus from stryehnino, which did not agree with the symptoms exhibited by Cooke. Dr. Taylor spoke of a person at first attacked from strychnine as unable to speak. Did Cooke exhibit these symptoms ? He sat up in bed and spoke. Dr. Christisson's work did not agl'ee with the symptoms stated to have been exhibited by Cooke.— The learned Serjeant then went on to explain some ex- periments which he had seen pe: formed for the purposes of this defence. It was upon a dog and two rabbits, and the result of these experiments proved to him that Dr. Taylor was not cor- reot in his work upon the question. Tne animals each evinced the greatest fear of being touched. Cooke did not evince those symptoms. All these cases showed that in no instance had there been so much command over the muscular system as in Cooke's case. Every instance, the experiments which he had j seen, showed that anything labouring under the effect of strych- I nine was most sensible of the slightest touch, and dreaded it. 50 L I F E ON T H E TURF. Tliis wns not so in Cooke's case. Cooke was not afraid, but when labouring under what was said to be strychnine, actually asked to have his neck rubbed. The learned gentleman then proceeded to contrast the evidence given by the medical gentle- men who have been examined, and also to read a number of cases in which strychnine had been taken, in all of which instances the symptoms came on in a much shorter time than was the case with Cooke. In one case two or three drachms of nux vomica taken by a young woman seventeen yearsof age, the symptoms first appeared in about half an hour, and death occurred in forty minutes. Another case was that which was mentioned by Dr. Watson in his book, and which he had himself witnessed. It occurred at the Middlesex Hospital. It was a case where the strychnine intended for a paralytic patient had been administered by mistake to another person. A grain was the quantity taken, Jand the time the accident occurred was about seven o'clock. In half an hour the symptoms came on, and the following incident took place, which did not occur in Cooke's case at all— the slightest touch of the patient brought on the spasmodic convulsions. Comparing the one case with the other, the space of time between the spasmodic attacks which took place in Cooke's was three times too long to indicate that the cause of death was the administration of strychnine. In all cases where the body of the aniinal he had seen killed by this deadly poison had been opened the heart was ivariably found full; but if the operation was performed in a clumsy manner the heart would then be found empty. He hoped anil trusted the jury, before they gave their verdict, would insist that a num- ber of dogs or cats should be brought into one of the yards adjoining the court, and strychnia should be administered to the animals, and that by that means, from actual observa- tion, they would be enabled to arrive at certain conclusions, which would be of the utmost importance to them in coming to a verdict in this important trial. He did not wish to impute perjury to the witness Elizabeth Mills, but she had given two different accounts, which might not be wilfully wrong, but still they would havo to receive her evidence with the utmost cau- tion. In a court of civil law her testimony would scarcely be received, she having told two different stories ; and how much more important was it for them when it was a case of life de- pending on not relying on her statement. The learned Ser- jeant then commented at some length upon the manner in which the inquiry took place before the Coroner, and argued that the evidence given by the girl Mills upon the first occasion was what they should alone rely upon. This statement was made before she knew what Dr. Taylor was to state, and before she knew the theory of Dr. Taylor, and that it was part of the case that the prisoner had by antimonial doses prepared the stomach of the deceased by repeated rounds, so as to absorb the poison of strychnine. Now, upon this point she had stated at first that she had tasted the broth, and thought it very good ; but she did not say one single word at that examination" about being ill from the effects of tasting that broth. It was doubtless true she had been spoken to by the prisoner, and she, perhaps, having been sick at the same time, attributed it to that, and had now come forward and said it had been caused by the broth. Was it likely that a man of Palmer's sense and shrewdness would have so laid himself open to be suspected as to send broth over from his own house to the Talbot when he knew that it contained an antimonial prepara- tion? Would he have sent it over there, to have found its way into the kitchen, where it was sure to have been tasted by the cook ? Again, in her evidence as to the coffee, she has differed in her statements, and one strauge thing was that her evidence now as to the state of Cook agreed in many particulars with the statements which appeared in the papers about the symptoms exhibited by a person at Leeds who had died from strychnine. This was since the death of Cooke, and her statements now upon that point differed from what she had first stated, more parti- cularly about the twitchings of Cooke's frame. He did not mean to say that she had perjured herself, but that she had been questioned and tutored to give an account which was more in keeping with the theory of the Crown, and that the story she now told was not so much to be relied upon as the statement she gave when the matter was first fresh upon her mind. He was not going to enter into detail upon the medical and clini- cal evidence which he intended to call, but merely to state that they were of the highest eminence, who would disprove the theory laid down by the prosecution, and would even, if the Bench thought fit to allow it, perform experiments in some of the yards of the gaoi; upon animals, and demonstrate to them what they in evidence would state. Lord Campbell and Baron Alderson said that such a course could not be pursued. The learned Seijeant said the next point he should touch upon was the circumstantial evidence, which, he contended, was not such as would justify a conviction in this case, and under all the circumstances it iwould be impossible to arrive at any other conclusion against the prisoner than a verdict of not guilty. The circumstance of the pushing at the inquest was of itself exceedingly trivial, and it could hardly be conceived that anything serious occurred, although the room was crowded to excess. Notwithstanding the pushing nothing was lost, and the jars were, according to the evidence, received in London in precisely the same state as they left Rugeley. The circumstance of Palmer expressine his satisfaction at Dr. Harland having been appointed to perform the post- mortem examination was of itself nothing. It was merely the expression of gratification on the part of Palmer that a person whom he thought compe- tent was appointed. The post- boy's evidence was pressed into the case, but it amounted to nothing. Stevens's behaviour to- wards Palmer was certainly calculated to cause him much an- noyance, and it was nothing surprising that there should not be a very good feeling on his part. It was also quite natural for Palmer to feel great anxiety that the jar should not go out of the possession of Dr. Harland. The expression, " I'll give ten pounds to upset them," could not have applied to the jars, as there was but one, and therefore it must have applied to the persons who were in the carriage, namely, Mr. Stevens and Boycott. That Palmer felt much vexed at the conduct of Stevens could not be a matter of wonder, when he ( Stevens) had hinted at suspicions which would utterly destroy him. Palmer after this met the post- boy, and asked him if he was going to drive " them," and this must have had relation to the passengers. The learned gentleman then referred to the examination in chief of the post- boy, and also his cross- examination, and the construction he put upon the same was, that to gratify a personal pique he offered the money to upset Mr. Stevens. He submitted that this was a fair version of the story. On the other hand, he held that it was highly improbable that a medical gentleman would at- tempt to upset the jar or hire any other person to do it, when there were so many members of the profession in the room at the time, with some of whom he was on terms of intimacy. He now passed to the evidenco of Newton. Newton swore that he gave Palmer three grains of strychnia. This witness did not bring this fact to the knowledge of the Crown till the night before the trial was commenced. He carefully con- cealed tho important fact till a very late moment, until con- cealment became dangerous to him, and then he mentioned the circumstance. The witness was not perfectly worthy of credit. Is a witness who takes an oath and keeps back a part of the evidence until a second oath is administered, worthy of belief? The buying of the strychnine signified nothing on the part of Palmer. It was used to kill dogs and other vermin, of which he had much need, as would be seen on referring to the evi- dence of Bates. It was to the last degree impossible for Pal- mer to have purchased the stiychnine for any other purpose, and if any other motive influenced him, it was not at all likely he would have bought the poison at a chemist's shop in a coun- try town where he resided, and purchase or obtain three grains of strychnine. Why the thing was improbable to a degree. Be- sides, he should be in a position to prove that it was utterly impossible for Palmer to have been in the shop at the time Newton deposed. A witness, Herring, stated that he saw Pal- mer in London on the day that Newton fixed as the day on which Palmer came to him at nine o'clock to get the strychnine. Now, it was absolutely impossible for Palmer, had he left Lon- don by the earliest and fastest train, to have been in Ruge- ley at the time deposed to by the witness. Strychnia must have been found in the prisoner's house after the death of Cooke if he purchased the quantity stated by several of the witnesses. Was it possible that Palmer would have went and consulted Newton on the effect of strychnine? He did not think for a moment that the jury could entertain the idea. Fisher's evidence went to prove that Cooke killed himself. The only thing extraordinary in Fisher's evidence was that Palmer said Cooke complained to him of putting something in his brandy and water. Then, with regard to the evidence of Mrs. Brooks, there was nothing extraordinary in it. She says that when she held the glass up to the light she thought it had not the appearance of anything being mixed with the brandy. After the races at Shrewsbury, Cooke and Palmer both saw ruin staring them in the face, and provided for the temporary difficulty by procuring a loan of £ 200 ; and, considering that they were " both joint owners of the same horses, there was nothing extraordinary in their conduct. It is said that the very attentiveness of the prisoner is an evidence of hi3 guilt. Cooke had no other friend in the room, and because Palmer laboriously devoted himself to alleviate the sufferings of his friend, he was accused of the most iusidious aud wickcd designs. The learned Serjeant then implored the jury to dismiss all the prejudice which they may have previously had from their minds, and at some length contended that if Palmer had intended to murder Cooke he would not have chosen the time and place where death had ensued when Cooke was with his friend, a medical man, and to kill Cooke by means most likely to create suspicions and bring about an exposure of those forgeries upon which so much stress had been laid. The medical book belonging to the pri- soner, with his notes as to the effect of strychnia written on the margin, was put in evidence to show that he was acquainted with the effects of that poison, but it really was relied upon as a damning proof of his guilt. Now, he should prove that this was one of the books which Palmer used as a student when he was attending lectures and studying for his profession, and that it was so would be seen by the very handwriting of his deceased wife. There could be no question that he loved that young woman in the way it was God's will young men should love— that his marriage with her was one of affection— and that he loved her for herself alone, as he now loved her first- born, who was waiting with trembling anxiety the result of their verdict— that he loved her with a pure and generous affection— an affec- tion, too, which showed that he was incapable of the abominable crime which was now laid to hi3 charge. Such a man, then, was William Palmer when be was only seven years younger; and here he would read a letter which he wrote to that young woman while he was pursuing his studies :— " Dearest Annie,— I snatch a moment to write to your dear, dear little self. I need scarcely say that the principal induce- ment I have to work is the desire of getting my studies fin- ished, so as to be able to press your dear little form in my arms. — With best love, I am, my dearest Annie, ever yours, " WILLIAM." These are not the sort of letters which are read in courts of justice, aud I had received no instructions to read this one; but when this book has been produced, and when attempts have been made to convince you that this man is a wicked, heart- less, savage desperado, I thought I would show you what he was seven years ago ; that he loved this young woman for her own sake, and that his love and affection for her were such as would, in almost all natures, be a certain antidote against guilt, especially such guilt as is here imputed. I therefore say that, on the evidence before you, you cannot believe him to be guilty. Do not, I beg of you, go away with the belief that he is unsup- ported by his family. An aged mother waits with trembling anxiety your verdict; a dear sister can scarcely contain herself under the anxieties which are now pressing upon her brain ; and a brave and gallant brother stands by me here, sparing no time and labour in assisting to defend the prisoner. I call upon you to raise your minds to a capacity to estimate the high duty you have to perform. You have to stem a torrent of prejudice,' and you have to vindicate the character and honour of your country. You will no doubt have the firmness and courage to do your duty, and to find a verdict for the Crown if you think the prisoner's guilt is proved; but if you have a doubt upon that point, you must acquit him ; and, depend upon it, the time will come when the innocence of that man will be made apparent, and when you will deeply regret any want on your part of a due and calm consideration of the case which it has been my duty to lay before you. Thursday.— Eighth Day. The prisoner, excepting that he looked more fatigued, main- tained the same composed appearance that he has all along ex- hibited. The proceedings commenced with the examination of the witnesses for the defence. Mr. Grove then called Dr. Thomas Nunnely, who said : I am Professor of Surgery to the Leeds lichool of Medicine. I have a large practice, and have made both classes of tetanus my study. I have seen four cases of idiopathic tetanus. Did they all terminate in lock- jaw ?— No, only one out of the number, and they did not prevent the person swallowing during the whole course of the illness. I have been present during the trial, and heard the symptoms described, and also read the depo- sitions. From both of those sources what opinion do you draw as to the cause of the death of Cooke?— From some convulsive disease. From what I have heard I should assume Cooke to be a man of delicate constitution. That for a long period he felt himself to be ailing, and for which he h& d been under medical treatment. That he had suffered from syphilis. That his lungs were diseased, and had an old standing disease of the throat. That he had led an irregular life, and was subject to mental excitement. The examination of the body showed the syphilitic taint and diseased condition of the body. The lungs were not healthy, being in a state of emphysumatous or disten- sion from wind. The scars were from syphilitic ulcers. There was a very unusual appearance of the membranes and spinal marrow. The lining of the aorta was in an unusual Btate. Serjeant Shee : You have heard the accounts given of the attacks which he had during the night, and when he said that he was mad for three minutes, what is the inference you draw from those attacks and their periodicity ?- That they were of a convulsive character. Would not the patient bo liable to irritability ?— Yes ; and in such a state of system other than physical causes, such as moral ones, would cause irrita- bility, such as any excitement cr depression. The disorganised state of the bowels, and vomiting for some days previously, would affect the nervous system of a subject lik the deceased more than a healthy person ; so also would cold and wet more easily affect such a person, and with such a constitution con- vulsions would be more likely to supersede. The witness, in answer to further questions, said I have known convulsive symptoms to occur at various intervals— sometimes hours, sometimes days. In the course of my experience I have had cases of traumatic tetanus, and I agree in the opinion that it commonly commences in the jaw. I have had four cases of idiopathic tetanus in the course of my experience. One occurred in my own child. Three of these esses com- menced with lock- jaw. I have had experience by per- sonal practice. The fourth case commenced in the body; after swallowing easily the spasms came on. I have made a post mortem examination of two persons who have died through strychnine within the last two years. I had not seen either of the patients before death, and it was in both cases by chemical analysis that I ascertained that death had been occasioned by strychnine. In the first case the post mortem examination took place forty- two hoursl'aftcr death, and in the other thirty hours. The body had not been touched when the postmortem, examination commenced. The appearances of the body after death were— general surface not unnatural of external violence. The eyelids were partially o tho expression of the face distressed. The muscles were flaccid, and could easily be moved, the feet wer arched. The heart had been drained out by the he over the table. In the second case the patient twenty years of age, the muscles were quite flacc weather was not hot, so the appearance could not produced bv atmospheric influence. The legs and somewhat stiffened. The heart was perfectly flac the right side contained blood ; there was also some left side. I have experimented upon upwards of sixty They were dogs, cats, rats, mice, guinea pigs, rabbi and toads. The witness described at some length the the poison on the various animals. There is very little ence in the stiffness produced by strychnia compared wit poisons. I have known an interval of half- an- hour tetwee paroxysms in the animal. I have found the heart invari full on the right side, and very generally the left ventr firmly contracted, and the blood usually dark and fluid. I ha experimented largely with poison producing sudden death 0 animals, and I have written on the subject. In the case o sudden death of an animal by poison the blood is often fluid after death, but not generally, and it happens also in sudden death from other causes. The symptoms of Mr. Cook on Sun day night I attribute to great excitement, and, taking the sym toms as described on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, they not resemble the symptoms I have seen produced by stry nine poison. He had more power or voluntary motion— su as sitting up in bed, moving his hands about freely, swallowin talking, and asking to be rubbed and moved, and also the su den occasion of the convulsions, and the greater length of time which occurred from the taking the pills supposed to contain strychnine before the symptoms occurred, were greater than any I have known from my experience. I have never seen an animal vomit after taking strychnine nor scream voluntarily. Where there was so much spasm there would be inability to vomit. Emetics in such cases have been given without effect. The post- mortem examination of Cooke differed materially from those I have made of deaths resulting from strychnine— the heart, it was stated, was empty and uncontracted. The state of the lungs and brain appeared to be different from not being congested. The subsidence of the paroxysms in my experience have been gradual. I have experimented on bodies of various animals at various periods after death, and when decomposi- tion has set in. lip to the 43rd day, to discover strychnia. I have never failed to discover it where I have known the animal has died from it. I have experimented in fifteen cases at least. In my judgment the contetns of Cooke's stomach was in a favourable condition to produce strychnia by analysis, if it had been there— it would have given a little extra trouble, but t would not have affected the result, and the same applied to- the liver, kidneys, and spleen subsequently sent up for exami- nation and analysis. In the various experiments I have made on animals, I have seen a corresponding amount of strychnia found in the bodies by the analysers, and I have seen them de- tect it in the blood. I have seen it done by Mr. Herapath, of Bristol. No amount of putrefaction of an ordinary time w ould destroy its detection, but I do not say that it is indestructible. I have found it after forty- two days. By the Attorney- General: He experimented with Morley and some few alone, and the symptoms were generally alike. The experiments made conjointly were with Mr. Morley, and with reference to the Leeds case, and some with re- ference to this one. I cannot say who first corresponded about this case. I submitted the one which I have read. The dose which I have given has generally been half a grain to two grains. In a dog or cat half a grain will kill. Some animals are more susceptible than others. The limbs are generally first affected. In the case of the lady at Leeds, the feet were not more curved than was due to the ordinary rigidity of death. That was stated at the time. There was a distinction between the different parts of the body. I disagree in the opinion of Dr Morley in what he stated as to the rigidity after death. I believe, from the heart being empty, coupled with the other facts, that Cooke's death was not from strychnine. The fact of the heart being empty would depend upon the way the post mortem examination was made. In Cooke's case at the post mortem examination the chest was opened first. I cannot ac- count for the emptiness of the heart. I ascribe Cooke's death to convulsions. Excitement may induce such a condition of the brain and system that convulsions may come on at a future period enough to cause death. He did not die of apoplexy. I I do not think that morphia caused his death, but it might have accelerated it. Morphia would not be a proper dru; toad- minister to a person suffering from the irritability that Cooke was. From what I heard of the attack Cooke said he had in the night. I believe he was suffering from delirium. Any convulsion may be considered tetanic, if you mean by that term an outstretching of the limbs. When convulsions terminatein death consciousness is absent. I do not think, from the symp- toms described at Cooke's death, that the paroxysm was one of tetanus. I never knew a case of tetanus where rigidity was continued after death. Tetanic paroxysms are distinguish- able from other convulsions at the time of death. I know no case where in convulsions consciousness wrs retained to the last. Convulsions from strychnine are called tetanic, and very properly so. In cases of strychnine the spasms are more \ jo « 50 L I F E ON T H E TURF. - n- op 0. 3( 0 lent than in ordinary tetanus. I have not said, nor do I infer that this was in any sense a case of tetanus. Mr. William Herapath, of Bristol, was called and examined by Mr. Grove : X have been connected with chemistry and toxicology for upwards of thirty years. I have been experi- menting upon strychnia. I never saw a living subject. I am not in practice. I am not an analytical chemist. I have seen a body after death which had been poi- soned with Btrychnine. It was about three days after death. I made two tests, bi- chromate of potass, sulphu- ric acid, per- oxide of lead, or the puce coloured oxide, oqi Jhird, sulphuric acid and per- oxide of manganese. I also jaqio ade a fourth test. The last two produce a copper colour of - janip rchnine, and the third a purple, passing to red. Other tests jo sV ® ® B other colours with oommon strychniue, but not with pure ' sSorj ' siinine. The process of the test is to obtain the poison. • si « uuu « B case of the human body referred to I made evident the 0H1 no ppuine by the colour test. I have experimented on ani- uo pu « ' p. an extent sufficient to establish the principle. I have 0J9AV suuu. d two cats. I gave one grain of strychnine in a solid uoaq OA" 1! ut I could not get the animal to take it voluntarily, oq? pu- c ' p't it in the food and found the cat dead in the inoqu S « AV ; the body was contorted. Lord Campbell: Rigid ? Sm2u « q pv'ly so. The head was turned round to the side, the ^ uqaouios truding, and the iris expanded so as to be almost in- Apoq oql J' In the urine which had been ejected I found strych- p v ' pauad I also found it in the stomach. I found it by the . ivui ou^ est. The second case was also a cat. I gave the same in a solid form, and it swallowed it. The animal re- ery quiet for fifteen or sixteen minutes with but few s till thirty- five minutes, when it had a terrible spasm, the animal for about three hours when it had a se- pm, and then I thought it would have died, but it and remained trembling all over. During two hours the animal was in a peculiar state; touching it had I. of electrifying it all over. The slightest touch pro- fcs effect. I left the animal for three hours, thinking recover, but in the morning I found it dead in the ' durated, contorted condition the former animal had und. I examined the body thirty- six hours after death r ind strychnine in the urine, in the stomach and upper ' nes, in the liver, and in the blood of the heart. In all I have examined I have found the poison. In caseB e strychnine has been taken it has been discovered, and I re also found the nux vomica. In one case the animal had len buried two months. I have experimented with strychnia ixed purposely with putrifying matter, and detected it in all ' cases. I am of opinion, as a chemist, that where strychnia has been taken in sufficient quantity to kill, it will be found. I have heard the evidence respecting the jar taken to Dr. Taylor, and I think if strychnia had been there it ought to have been discovered. The experiments I have just mentioned were made in Bristol. I have made experiments in London of a - similar . nature. Cross- examined by the Attorney- General: I am ot a physiologist. I made a chemical experiment on the th of the present month with a view to this case. I have ex- perimented about nine times. I have experimented on the tis ues of both a cat and dog. I gave the dog a grain. I had a strong opinion from the newspaper reports that strychnia had been given in this case, and I might have said that Dr. Taylor had not taken his right way to find it. I am perfectly satisfied that if a 50- 1,000th part of a pure grain had been taken it ought to have been detected. I can put ten grains in a gallon of water, take a drop of that water, and detect the presence of strychnia. I can find even the one thousandth part of a grain. I found it in one and a half ounce of fluid in a dog. He had given one grain. Mr. Rogers was next examined, and said I am Professor of Chemistry to the St. George's School of Medicine. I have made one experiment on an animal. It commenced at the end of the year, and finished a short time ago. It was a dog, and I gave it two grains of strychnia between two pieces of meat. The dog died, and three days afterwards I removed the stomach, and took some of the blood, which became putrid in about ten days ; and I then examined it to discover the strychnia. I separated the strychnia, but I cannot say how much; but I knew it was present by three tests. A month or five weeks after I proceeded to analyse the stomach and its contents. It had become decomposed. Strychnia was found in large quantities. I have heard the evidence relative to the jar icontaining| the stomach of John Parsons Cooke, and I am of opnion that if strychnia had been contained in the jar it ought to have been found. If the stomach had no contents, the washings of it wouldgive a result. I have made no expe- riments, but as the poison resists putrefaction it would have been found in the body even at this ime. Time would make no difference. Dr. Henry Letheby examined by Mr. Kinnealy : I am a Bachelor of Medicine in the London Hospital. I am also a medicarofficer of health to the City of London. I have been engaged for some time in the study of poison and of its action on living bodies. I have often been employed by the Crown, I may say in every case tried at this court for the last fourteen years. I have heard and attended to the evidence given of the death of Mr. Cooke. I have witnessed many cases of the lower animals poisoned by strychnia, and several persons poisoned by nux vomica. The symptoms of the animals I have seen do not accord with this case. I have never seen so long a time elapse before the symptoms have come on as in this case. The longest interval I have noticed in animals has been three quarters of an hour, and then the poison was administered under disadvan- tageous circumstances, in order to prolong its effects. It was administered on a full stomach. I have seen the poison take effect in five minutes, and in all the cases I have seen a quarter of an hour is the average time before the poison exhibited itself. In allanimalsand human beingsl have seen, the system has been in an irritated state, so that the slightest excitement, such as an effort to move, a noise, or breath of air will set them off into convulsions, I don't believe it at all probable that a person to whom strychnine had heen given, and in whom it had exhi- bited itself, would be able to pull a bell; it would bring on spasms, and he would bs convulsed. It was not likely that a person in this nervous irrittation would submit to have his neck rubbed. When a case of strychnine does not terminate fatally, the first paroxysm is follow'ed by others less powerful : there would not be an entire cessation of the symptoms. I have seen antidotes administered in cases of ntix vomica. Strychnine is most easy of detection. The loosest period at which I have detected it has keen one month— that was in de- composed remains. If strychnine is pure, I can detect the 12,000th part of a grain. I can detect the tenth part of a grain in a pint of any liquid, whether pure or putrefied. I have detected it in a pint of the most putrid liquid, when it has been standing three months. Upon an animal I recovered all but a very small portion of what I had given. I could po- sitively detect its presence in bodies where it had been. I never failed in those animals so poisoned. I always found the left side of the heart full of blood. The physical cause of that I hold to be the fixing of the muscles of the chest, and the blood being unable to relieve itself through the lungs, remains in the heart. The lungs would be congested from that cause. I agree with Dr. Taylor as to the muscular contractions pro- duced by the poison. I agree with Dr. Taylor that the absorp- tion tskes'place in the blood, but not that it becomes changed to such an| extentthat'itis undiscoverable. Not any mixing of the contents of the stomach with the intestines would prevent the possibility of an analysis being made and the poison detected. It m ght be detected from the mucous membrane of the sto- mach. If a dose of antimony was taken in brandy and water it would no: produce any burning sensation. It does not possess Hi at property. I have studied poison for eighteen years.— Cross- examined by the Attorney- General: I am not a member of the College of Physicians. I used to be employed by the Crown. The last case was in 1851, when I stated that arsenic had been taken four hours before death. I was the cause of the accused being respited. Some of the medical profession challenged my opinion. I hold the same opinion now. I have operated upon five animals within the last two months. I have given one grain in a pill, and sometimes upon the tongue. In the case of a dog who had it given upon a full stomach, the poison kneaded into hard bread, the symptoms did not come on for three quarters of an hour. The least noise or breath of air will cause a recurrence of the paroxysm. I have known animals die in the first paroxysm. I have said that I should not feel surprised that a person should be able to sit up in bed and ring the bell. I heard the account about his death, and think it quite likely, but have not seen symptoms that con- vinces me of that result, There was nothing in the symptoms exhibited by him upon the night of his death differing from those of tetanus by strychnine. One of the symptoms is an increase of breathing, and a difficulty when the spasms came on, and sitting up would be a most likely position for a person in bed. The symptoms of Cooke's death are quite irrecon- cileable with anything I have ever heard. ( Great sensation.)— Re- examined by Serjeant Shee : Such convulsions might arise from some cauBe which an early examination of the spinal cord might have developed. Cooke's death is utterly irreconcileable with every cause of death, either natural or artificial. Touching an animal during the premonitory symptoms would bring on the spasms. I did not think that I had displeased the Govern- ment by the case of arsenic alluded to. I have been engaged since. In thrt case Dr. Pereira came to me and asked me to write a letter to him to the effect that there was a possibility that the poison might have been taken more than four hours, and I did so, but denied that it was probable. The respite came one hour after my letter. Robert Edward Gay, examined by Serjeant Shee : I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. In October, 1855, I attended a person of the name of Foster, who was labouring under tetanus. The symptoms were those of an ordinary cata- ract. Upon the fourth day an increasing stiffness of the muscles and feet came on, and upon the evening of that day the jaw was locked, pains came on in the muscles of the bowels and legs, he became convulsed with violent contractions of arms and hands, with a difficulty of swallowing, which so increased up to the tenth day that not any food, solid or liquid, could be taken, and upon anything being attempted to be fed with a spoon he became violently convulsed, as also did feeling the pulse. He complained of great hunger, and said " What should he do if he could not eat ?" He was kept alive by injections. About the twelfth day he became insensible and weaker, and convulsed until the fourteenth day, when he died. He had been an omnibus conductor, and suffered from a sore throat. The disease was an inflammatory sore throat, from exposure to cold. He became tetanic from his extremely nervous and anx- ious disposition. He had a large family. His sister died a week before of a pulmonary sore throat. Cross- examined by the A ttorney- General: This is one of the ordinary cases of edethatic tetanus. It is always progressive. This patient only had re- missions of the severer symptom. There was always a twitch- ing of the muscles. The insensibility was produced from con- gestion of the brain brought on by the convulsions. Saturday.— Tenth Day. All this day was occupied by a continuation of medical evi- dence of a similar description as given above, and the examina- tion of witnesses proving minor details of the case. One of the witnesses proved that Palmer had not time to go from London, where he then was, to Rngeley to purchase the strychnine deposed to as having been sold by New ton on aparticularday. The defence is now closed, the Attorney- General replied, and Lord Campbell sums up to- day. The impression in the town appears to be that the medical testimony for the defence has raised such a doubt in the minds of the jury, on the question before them, as will justify a verdict of acquittal. A Row IN A THEATRE.— A company of amateur theatri- cals, it is said from Sunderland, announced last week, by placard and hills, that our theatre would be opened for the Whitsuntide holidays, under the management of Mr. A. Reeves ; and on Monday night, in accordance with the an- nouncement, the house was well filled. The performance was to commence with Sheridan's play of The Wife—" sup- ported by the first talent of the day;" but shortly after the commencement of the piece it was evident that, in whatever direction the talent of the company might be, it was cer- tainly not in acting, for few if any of them appeared to have mastered their parts, and the majority fairly broke down. The audience began to be noisy, and this increased till a regular " row" ensued; and then one of the company stepped to the footlights, and, in order to appease the wrath of the " gods," offered some apology, urging, in extenuation of their conduct, the short time they had been allowed for rehearsal. This, however, would not suffice ; and the indig- nant pit and boxes rushed on to the stage, driving the un- fortunate Leonardo Gonzagci, Duke of Mantua— the hero | of the play— and the rest of the noblemen and counts be- , hind the scenes. The police were at this juncture called in, I and endeavoured to clear the stage, but without effect, and in the darkness ( for nearly all the lights had been by this time extinguished) numerous fights and struggles occurred, causing a scene of indescribable confusion. 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Deputy Chairman— HENRY BLAIR MAYNE, Esq. Secretary— WM. YOUNG, Esq. Agent for Newcastle— Mr J. WINKS, 34, Market- street. AN Account of the REFORMATORY INSTITU- TION, for JUVENILE OFFENDERS at METTRAY, in France, from the Pamphlet of M. AUOUSTIN COCHIN, L. L. D., ( with Two Illustrations,) and an Introduction, by the Rev. GEORGE HANS HAMILTON, M. A., Chaplain to the Durham County Gaol and House of Correctiou, Vicar of Berwick upon- Tweed. ',* Any profits derived from the sale of this Publication will be appropriated in aid of the Funds of the Newcastle, Northum- berland, and Durham Society, for the Repression pf Juvenile Crime and Reformation of Youthful Delinquents. LONDON :— WHITTAKER & CO., AVE MARIA LANE; ANDREWS, DURHAM. RICE ONE SHILLING. ELECTRO- PLATED SPOONS, FORKS, & c. T> EID & SONS have always on JL\ Hand a large Stock of ELECTRO- < f PLATED SPOONS, FORKS, & c., of the BEST LONDON MANUFACTURE, in three Qualities of Plating. Warranted Hand Wrought. 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LLEE, NO, 135, PILGRIM STREET, Newcastle- • upon- Tyne, begs to inform the public in general, that his present large and enormous STOCK of SECOND- HAND GOODS, consisting of Joiners', Carpenters', Masons', and Smiths'Tools, a variety of Turning , Lathes, Musical and Ma- thematical Instruments, together with an assortment of Double aud Single barrelled Guns and Pistols, Cart and Gig Harness, Riding Saddles, and Ladies' Side Saddles, & c., & c., Scales and Beams, Weights of every description, Shop Counters and Drawers, Flour Binns, Coffee Mills, and Gas Fittings, & c., & c., Shop and Ship Stores, Beer and Ale Pumps, and a large quantity of Tarpaulings fit for general purposes, and several Spring Carts, Rules, Tape Lines, Spiri, Levels. Picks, Spades, and Shovels, and all sorts of Labourers' Tools, together with thousands of other articles too numerous to mention. Observe that the above articles may be obtained at L. LEE'S, GOLDEN KEY, 135, Pilgrim Street, next door to the Bird and Bush Inn. Early application for any of the above goods will be to the advantage of those who wish to be suited with any of the above- mentioned articles, as Mr. L. L. cannot say how long they may remain on hand, " first come, first served," as the whole of the articles being second- hand, will be sold at reasonable prices, so, discerning public, come and judge for yourselves. Bellows, Anvils, Vices, and Fitters' Tools. AGENCY FOR VALUABLE MANURE.— A Manufacturer is open to appoint a few respectable Agents for his Manure, which commands a ready sale, as its goodness is certified by more than 1,000 Testimonials f. om all parts of the United Kingdom, and by many farmers who have used it several years. Address, with occupation and references, R. T., at Mr E. COLYER'S, Printer, 17, Fenchurch Street, London. ALEXANDER RHIND, WOOLLEN DRAPER and TAILOR, begs respectfully to inform his Friends and the Public, that he has returned from LONDON, PARIS, and the different Markets, with an entire New Stock of WOOLLEN CLOTHS, VESTINGS, TROUSERINGS, & c., which will be ready for inspection in a few Days. 25, GREY- STREET, NEWCASTLE- UPON- TYNE. JAMES WALLACE & CO., 20 & 22, MOSLEY STREET, NEWCASTLE- ON- TYNE. PARTIES Furnishing will find every article requisite for Household purposes at the above Establishment, at all Prices and of the best Quality. J. W. fc Co. also invite attention to their Extensive Stock of FRENCH MODERATEUR LAMPS, which, for brilliancy of Light and beauty of Design, cannot be surpassed. GENUINE COLZA OIL. TO THE LADIES OF NEWCASTLE AND GATESHEAD NEW YEAR'S GIFT. WILLIAM PETRIE, Hairdressei and Perfumer, Market- street, Newcastle, and Wellington- street, Gatechead, will give any Lady ONE LESSON in HAIRDRES- SING free of charge. Ladies intending to avail themselves of this offer will be pleased to forward to AY. P.' s Establishments two days' notice of their intended visit. W. P., with a view of further shewing his appreciation of the favours he has received from the Ladies and Gentlemen of New- castle ant^ Gateshead, begs to inform his kind patrons that he will CLEAN any HAIR BRUSHES which may be sent to him for that purpose, and return the same FREE OF CHARGE. Ladies Hair Cut and Dressed for 6d. Children's Ditto Ditto 3d. Hrice Is 6d. A MEDICAL ESSAY on Premature Decay of Body and Hind, with remarks on marriage, and instructions for the prevention anil cure of disease, niustrated, Ry a physician of many years' practice at the hospitals here and abroad. " A Safe Guide U> Suffering Humanity.' MEDICAL TIXSS.; Parties desiring any of above works will please eeclo6e stamps for amount and address R. PERCY. Publisher, 30, Holwyell Street, London, who npplias Newspapers < Lc. as usnal Price Is 6d. THE ART Of DRESSINGwith ELEGANCE & PROPRIETY ; to A which is added, the Secrets of a Lady's Toilet; the Recipes of the Court Beauties— how to efface wrinkles, enjoy youth and beauty, & t. NEW ALE AND PORTER ESTABLISHMENT. 45, HEAD OF DEAN STREET, NEWCASTLE. J. WANLESS BEGS to return his sincere Thanks to his Customers and the Public for their very liberal patronage and sup- port he has received during the period he has been in the above Business, and respectfully invites their attention to the various assortment of Ales and Porter which he is selling at the follow- ing low Prices:— ALE. PORTER. Per Doz. per Doz < L s. d- 6 Barclay's Lond. Stout.. 5 6 6 „ „ pints 3 3 6 „ ,, porter 4 6 3 ,, „ pints 2 9 6 Reid's Lond. Stout ... 5 6 9 „ pints 3 3 0 ,, „ porter 4 6 3 ,, ,, pin's 2 6 3d. per Doz- allowed for Cash Allsopp's India Pale.... 5 >, ,, pints 3 Bass's „ ... 5 ,, ,, ... 3 Edinburgh Mild ... 4 „ „ pints 2 Table 3 „ . pints 2 GUTTA PERCHA AND AMERICAN OVERSHOE BOOT AND SHOE EMPORIUMS, No. 20, DEAN STREET, 79, CLAYTON STREET, and 6, NEW BRIDGE STREET, NEWCASTLE- ON- TYNE. G. TAYLOR, Proprietor of the above Establish- A* ments, begs to return his grateful thanks to his Friends and the Public generally, for past favours, and to announce his return from the Markets, with a Stock of Goods suitable for the ensuing Season, which, for Quality and Cheapness, cannot bo surpassed. One Trial is respectfully solicited to prove the truth of his assertions. Great Reduction, of the Best American OVER SHOES LAW UNION FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. CHIEF OFFICE— 45, PALL MALL, LONDON. CAPITAL, ONE MILLION STERLING. The Fire and Life Department are under one Management, hut with separate Funds and Accounts. Chairman— SIR WILLIAM FOSTER, BART. Vice- Chairman— JAMES PARKER, ESQ., Baddow Houso, near Chelmsford. QN reference to the Balance Sheet and Report of the Direc- y tors for the first year of the company's operations, it will be seen that the amount of business in both departments has been unusually large, and that the expenses have been proportionately small. The INCOME OF THE COMPANY Exceeds £ 10,000 per annum, and is rapidly increasing. In the FIRE DEPARTMENT the business is confined to the best classes of Insurances; the discount allowed by the Government on the duty is returned to the Insured, being equal to a cash bonus of 10 per cent o n the premiums on first- class Insurances. In the LIFE DEPARTMENT nearly the whole of the profits is given to the insured. The profits are divided every five years, and may bo received in cash, added to the sum insured, or applied to the reduction of the premiums. Copies of the Directors' Report and Balance Sheet and forms of propo- sal will be sent post- free, and every information given on application to the Secretary, at the chief offices, or to any of the Loca I Agents. AGENTS FOR NEWCASTLE- UPON- TYNE. E. D. Welford, Esq., Solicitor, 70, Grainger- street. George Brewis, Esq , Solicitor, 59, Grey- street. J. A. Bush, Esq., Solicitor, • 15, West Parade. Mr Isaac Pattinson, Auctioneer, 21, Groat Market. WILLIAM WILSON AND CO., 38, GREY STREET, NEWCASTLE- ON- TYNE, HAVE always on Sale Gentlemen's Hats of first- rate quality and style ; also, Cloth, Tweed, and Fur Caps in very great variety. The whole are of their own manu- acture, and sold at moderate prices. In the Press, and shortly wil ba issued- " PVERY LADY HER OWN DRESSMAKER. By Madame De- • c* lperee. Price 2s 6d with models. A Also, N ESSAY ON THE EFFECTUAL TREATMENT Of RUPTURE WITHOUT THE AID OI TRUSSES. Price Is. RUPTURES. Br HER MAJESTY'S ROTAI. LETTERS PATEST. WHITE'S MOC'- MAIN PATENT LEVER TRUSS, • REQUIRING no steel spring round the body « is recommended for the following peculiarities and advantages :— Ist, Facility of application— 2nd, Perfect freedom from liability to chaff or excoriate 3rd, It may be worn with equal comfort in any position of the body by night or day— 1th, It admits of every kind of exercise * ithout the slightest inconvenience to the wearer, and is perfectly concealed from observation. " We do not hesitate to give this invention our unqualified approbation, and we strenuously advise the use of it to all those who stand in need of that protec- tion which they cannot so fully, nor with the same comfort, obtain from any other apparatus or truss a from that w hich we have the highest satisfaction in thus recommending—" Church aud State Gazette." Recommended by the following eminent surgeons W m. Ferguson, Esq., F. R. S., Professor of Surgery in King's College. Surgeon to King's College Hospital, & c.; C. G. Guthrie Esq., Surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital ; W. Bow- man, Esq., F. R. S., Assistant Surgeon t- oKing'sCollege Hospital; T. Cal- laway, Esq., Senior Assistant Surgeon to Guy's Hospital; W. Conlson Surgeon to the Magdalen Hospital ; T. Blizard Curling, Esq., F. R. S., Sur- geon to the London Hospital; W. J. Fisher. Esq , Surgeon- m-£ hie to the Metropolitan Police Force ; Ashton Key, Esq., Surgeon to Prince Albert; Robert Lishton, Esq., F. R. S., James Luke, Es;;., Surgeon to the London Truss Society; Erasmus Wilson. Esq., F R. S., : nd many others A descriptive circular may be had by post, and. he t uss, which can- not fail to fit, can be forwarded by post, on sending i e circumference of the body two inches below the hips, to the inanufa<- u- er, Mr WHITE 228, Piccadilly, London. Price of a Single Truss, 10s., 21s. fid., and Sis. Gd. postage, Is. Price of a Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 42s , and 52s. 6d. Postage Is. 8d. Post- office Orders to be made payable to JOH. 1 WHITE, Post- office Piccadilly. ' " PLASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE- CAPS, & c.- The material of which these are made is recommended by the Faculty, as being pe- culiarly ELASTIC and COMPRESSIBLE, snd the best invention of fiivingeflicient and permanent support in ali cases of WEAKNESS and SWELLING of the LEGS, VARICOSE VEINS, SPRAINS, Ac. It is porous, light in texture, alld inexpensive, and is dra^ pi on lik an ordinary stocking. Price, from 7s. Gd. to I6s. each. Postage 6d MANUFACTORY, 22S, PICCADILLY, LONDON, 50 L I F E ON T H E TURF. mO PARENTS AND YOUNG FEMALES.- A Lady ^ many years in an extensive business of Embroi- dery and Fancy Needlework, carried on in a very healthr village, eight miles from London, has vacan- cies for a few apprentices and impprovers. Premiums moderate. Letters to Mrs. J. Giles, to be left at 6, Great Russell- street, Bloomsbury. TO SMOKERS. TRY BRYANT'S BILLIARD MEER- SCHAUM PIPES AND BOWLS, Super quality only). They colour exceedingly rioh. 34, RED LION STREET, HOLBORN. COTTAGE MANGLE, 55s. No Household should be without this economical and valuable little machine. An Illustrated and De- scriptive Catalogue will be forwarded Post- free, on ap- plication to WJI. DBAY and Co., Engineers and Agri- cultural Implement Makers, Swan- lane, London. BY HER MAJESTY'S ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. MAJOR'S REMEDIES FOR THE HORSE, the <*•*• best and most effectual ever discovered, super- seding the " burning iron," and the torture of the . " cautery." MAJOR'S BRITISH REMEDY for the cure of ringbone, spavins, splints, < fcc. Price £ 1. 15s. MAJOR'S RESTORATIVE and INFLUENZA DRINKS. Now in* extensive use for recovering young and debilitated horses. Price per bottle, con- taining Six Drinks, 10s 6d.; with twelve ditto, 17s 6d. MAJOR'S SYNOYIT1C LOTION ( the remedy No. 2), for grogginess, weak joints, sprains of the back sinews, ruptures of the sheaths of tendons, sus- pensory ligaments, shoulder lameness, and inflamma- tion ; also for the cure and prevention of breaking down, & c. In bottles, large size, £ 1 Is.; small 10s 6d each. The above invaluable remedies can now be for warded to any part of the United Kingdom. Pre- payment by cheque or post- order, payable to Joseph- Major, Post Office, Charing Cross. Address, J. MAJOR, Horse Infirmary, British Yard, Cockspur Street. BROWN AND SON'S CELEBRATED SPHERICAL SPECTACLES, In every variety of mounting, in glass or pebbles. Eye Glasses, Telescopes, Microscop. s, & c., with every article in the Optical Trade. New Glasses fit into old frames. PAIR OP SOLID GOLD SPECTACLES AKD NBAT CASB POR A POUND. SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS OP EVERY DESCRIPTION, ALWAYS ON HAND. Trusses and Surgical Bandages, Laced Stockings, Knee Caps, and Socks, made to measure. 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EP. begs to return his best thanks for the • flattering support he has received since he com- menced Business, and to assure his Friends and the Public that no exertion shall be wanting, on his part, to merit a continuance of their kind favours. N B — Always on hand a Variety of the very best NEW PATENT LEVER WATCHES. CLOCKS and WATCHES made to Order on the Shortest Notice. CLOCKS and WATCHES CLEANED and RE- AIRED by Experienced Workmen. JEWELLERY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, BOUGHT, SOLD, AND EXCHANGED. On- Nov. lst will be Published IN One Vol. 4to, highly Illustrated, and Ele- gantly Bound in Half Morroco, Price One Guinea. THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY ELUCIDATED, By the Rev. JOHN COLLINGWOOD BRUCE, L. L. D., F. S. A,, Corresponding Member of the Society of Antiquarians of Scotland ; of the Imperial Society of Antiquarians of France; and of the Society of Antiquarians of Normandy, & c. LONDON: JOHN RUSSELL SMITH. TVEAFNESS and NOISES in the EARS. EX- TRAORDINARY DISCOVERY. Institution for the Cure of Deafness, 9, Suffolk Place, Pall Mall, London. ,, , „ Just Published, Price 7d. by post, Certain Mode of elf Cure. Any partially or extremely deaf person an perraanenty restore their own hearing. Distress- ing noises in the head relieved in half an hour. This book has cured hundreds, living in the most distant parts of the world, without absence from home or business. It is published by FRANCIS ROBERT HOUGHTON, M. D., Member of the London Loyal College of Surgeons, May 2, 1845 ; L A. C., April 30, 1846 ; Consulting Surgeon to the Institution. SENT FREE to any part, on receipt of letter, en- closing Seven Postage Stamps. A HINT and HELP, for the benefit and protection of deaf persons, a stop to quackery, extortionate fees and charges. By this new Discovery, totally Deaf sufferers are enabled to hear conversation, without any ear trumpet or instru- ment, for ever rescuing them from the grasp of the extortionate and dangerous empiric. It contains startling cures, deaf persons having cured themselves, many instantaneously effected. ALL LBTTBBS to be directed to Dr, Hoghton, 9, ufTJtt Place, Pall Mall, London, SUPERIOR WATCHES, SHIP CHRONOMETERS. ENGLISH AND FRENCH CLOCKS. £. s. £. s. I rSilver Patent Lever Watcnes 4 4 to 6 6 Gold Patent Lever Watches.. 10 10 to 21 0 | £. s. £. s. I Geneva Silver Watches 2 15 to 4 4 I Geneva Gold Watches 6 .6 to 10 10 LISTER & SONS, Watchmakers to the Queen, Chronometer Makers to the Admiralty, 12, 14, and 16, MOSLEY STREET, NEWCASTLE. September, 1855. AT ANGUS'S GUTTA PERCHA AND INDIA RUBBER DEPOT, 95, GREY- STREET, NEWCASTLE ( OPPOSITE THE MONUMENT). GANGUS has much pleasure in announcing that he has just received a large consign • ment of the celebrated AMERICAN OVERSHOES, with ROUGH SOLES to PREVENT SLIPPING which in Shape and Finish far surpass all others, and at lower Prices than in previous seasons. G. A. by special arrangement can offer these goods to the Trade on equal if not better terms than most London Firms. Where, also, every Article in Vulcanized INDIA RUBBER and GUTTA PERCHA Manufacture may be obtained at the Manufacturers' Prices. An immense Stock of WASHERS for STEAM PIPE JOINTS, PUMP BUCKETS, VALVES, TUBINGS for ACIDS, & c., always on hand. WATERPROOF COATS, FISHING BOOTS, & c. Elastic Stockings, Knee Caps, and Bandages, for Swollen Legs, Varicose Veins, & c. G. A. Agent to the Patentees. A RTHUR GRAINGER'S CELEBRATED CHEAP ENVELOPES AND FIEST CLASS A. STATIONERY. Extracts from Correspondents' Letters continued. " We are much pleased with the quality of No 5 Case. The Note Paper, & c., we foundfirst- rate.." " j beg to enclose you a post- office Order for£ l 5s 6d, for Stationery. The quality was excellent, and quite to my liking." " I like the Envelopes much, and have no doubt the Note Paper will prove as good as in former imes." " The Stationery you have sent has given me great satisfaction." " The Rev. H G begs to enclose P. O. O. and Stamps for £ 25 2s 6d for Stationery received this morning; and it gives him great pleasure to expesn his opinion, that it is of the best description he has ever received from any Establizhment in London at the prices." A. GRAINGER has great pleasure in stating that he has a number of other Testimonials from persons of the highest respectability, all of the same import. A. G.' s celebrated Envelopes are sold at 3s 4d and 4s 6d per 1000.: Note Paper Is 6d, 2s 6d, 4s, and 4s 6d per ream. ( N. B.— The Paper at 4s 6d is one most extensively used, having a beautiful surface, a good colour, and very thick in substance, whichjeannot fail to give satisfaction to all parties using it.) The much used Bullion Pens, manufactured expressly for A. G. by the principal maker in England, to be had by post at 6d per dozen. All descriptions of Papers, Envelopes, Account Books & c., & c., securely packed for the country, and delivered, free of charge, at any Railway Station in the Kindom. All ordera to be accompanied by Post- offiee Order, payable at High Holborn. Parcels sent off the same day as that on which the order is received. List of Prices free by post on applica- tion. Address— ARTHUR GRAINGER'S Whosale, Retail, and Export Paper Wharehoues— 308, High Holborn, 9, Holborn Bars, City, and 10, Fitzroy Terrace, New Road, London. . 30,000 NERVOUS MIND AND HEAD SUF- FERERS, From Noblemen to Mechanics, after having tried all advertised and other remedies without a cure, have, during eighteen years, been obliged to apply to the Rev. Dr. WILLIS MOSELEY, 18, BLOOMSBURY STREET, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, and 50 are not known to be insured. Means of Cure only to be paid for, and a relapse prevented for life. Novel observations— a Pamphlet on Nervousness franked to any address if one stamp is sent; or, for thirty- six, Twelve Chapters on the only means of Curing Nervous or Mind Complaints. " The best book on Nervousness in our language."— Professor SAVAGE, Surgeon. WHEAT MANURE, & c. GH. RAMSAY'S WHEAT MANURE. Four • to six cwt. per acre is a sufficient dressing, and has been largely used for the last six years. No Fold- Yard Dung is necessary. No testimonials printed, but reference to parties, by letter, who have used it. ON STOCK. BONE DUST MANURE. DRILL, or HALP- INCH BONES. DISSOLVED BONES. SUPERPHOSPHATE OP LIMB. AGRICULTURAL SALT. NITRADB OP SODA. SULPHATE OP AMMONIA. VITRIOL, Or SULPHURIC ACID. Also, MANURES, for old grass, clover seeds, barley and oats. Apply to Mr GEOBGP, or W. W. GIBSON, Hexham. Mr ARCHD. DICKSON, Alnwick. Mr J. R. HARDY, Morpeth. Messrs CROSSMAN and PAULIN, Berwick. Mr J. W. 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Creosoted Timber has now been tested for fifteen years, having been subjected to every influence calcu- lated to affect its durability, yet no instance of decay has ever occurred, although it has been placed in situ ations where unprepared Timber has been destroyed in less than two years. . It has been extensively used in most of the principal Railways and Harbour Works, as well as many Coal Mines, during the last ten years, with perfect success, and is daily becoming more in request. Every information can be had on application at the Office, DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE INN, DUKE STREET WEST, NBWCASTLE- UPON- TYNE, THOMAS TOWNS, PROPRIETOR. WINES AND SPIRITS Of the Finest Quality. R. SNOWDON. Looking Glass and Picture Frame Manufacturer, HOUSE AND MARINE DECORATOR, IN ORNAMENTAL COMPOSITION AND PAPIER MACHE, 61, GREY- STREET, NEWCASTLE ON- TYNE. SOUND AND ROBUST HEALTH TUT AY bfl enjoyed by the use of KAYE'S 1U WORSDELL'S PILLS, universally admitted to be the best Restorative Medicine in existence. Their renovating and invigorating qualities render them in- valuable to & 1k who, from weakness of digestion, exposure to impure atmosphere, residence in low and damp localities, sedentary habits, or other causes, have become subject to physical debility or extreme nervous sensitiveness. These Pills, wholly composed of Vegetable Substances, are a fine stomachic, and a mild yet efficient aperient. Thousands, after trying other medicines in vain, have testified to the benefits received from their use. Sold, at Is. l£ d., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. by all Medicine Vendors. Wholesale Depot 22, Bread- street, London. TT7" ANTED— Servants of every description, " Male and Female, may hear of suitable Situations by applying personally, or by letter stating in what capacity, length of character, if married, or single, & c. 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MATHER begs also to call attention to the above as the safest Depositors for Plate A full STOCK of the above, and also of Cases, at J. MATHER'S WAREHOUSES, Entrance— OLD 14, DEAN- STREET. CHEAP WATCHES. THE cheapest and best WATCHES to be had anywhere will be found at W. WILSON'S old noted cheap Watch and extensive Pawnbroking Establishment, 105, Pilgrim Street, four doors below Blackett Street. W. W.. from his constantly coming into the pos- session of large quantities of Watches by forfeitures, and always purchasing with ready money, has peculiar facilities for selling cheap. MONEY! MONEY!! The utmost advances made upon every description of valuable moveables, and the greatest confidence may be placed, as transactions are never thought of after their being made. N. B.— Private entrance— first six doors in High Friar- lane, the West End of which is a little below Street NOW READY, OKETCHES OF PUBLIC MEN OF THE NORTH ** Boards Is 6d, cloth 2s 0d. In the list of Sketches will be found those of:— The Bishop of Durham. Earl Grey. Mr. Justice Cresswell. The Dean of Durham. George Hudson, Esq,, M. P. The Recorder of Newcastle- upon- Tyne. Sir John Fife, Knt. The Mayor of Sunderland. The late Mayor of Newcastle- upon- Tyne. Joseph Pease, Esq. Mr. Charles Larkin. The Rev. George Harris. The Town Clerk of Newcastle- upon- Tyne. London: Office of Life on the Turf, Strand. A PARTMENTS TO LET, furnished, suitable for a ** Single Gentleman, at 52, Upper Seymour Street, Portman Square. TO ALL BAD WRITERS. TMPROVED SYSTEM OF PENMANSHIP, by * Mr. MARTER, at ihe Writing Institution, 93 Farringdon Street, Fleet Street, tity. Persons of any age ( however bad their wriiing) can, by taking EIGHT LESSONS, speedily acquire an expeditious and Avell- formed > tyle of Penmanship, adapted either for business, professional pursuits, or private corres- pondence. Terms, 10s 6d. The New Style of Writing, particularly adapted for LADIES, solely invented by Mr. Marter, taught in six Leisons for 10s 6d. Young men prepared for the Public Offices, and Mercantile pursuits in general, and then introduced to situations. HOLLOW AY'S PILLS. TTOLLOWAY'S PILLS FOR BAD DIGESTION • d and DISORDERED STOMACHS— The fame of these wonderful Pills is sounded throughont every part of the habitable globe, for their peculiar proper- ties in curing bad digestion, disordered stomachs, liver complaints, headaches and dimness of sight; as like- wise for restoring strength and vigor to the weak, and those of debilitated constitutions. In warm climates they are invaluable, as testified by the immense sales in the East Indies, where the natives of different castes take very little of any other medicine than these ex- traordinary Pills. Sold by all Medicine Vendors throughout the world, at Professor HOLLOWAY'S Establishments, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden Lane, New York; by A. Stampa, Constantinople; A. Guidicy, Smyrna; and E. Muir, Malta. NORTHERN COUNTIES PHOTOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION. 44, NEWGATE STBEET, ( Fourth Door front, Grainger Street ) SOLE PROPRIETOR,— W. S. PARRY. PORTRAITS, In every variety of Style taken Daily, FROM 10 TILL DUSK. Female attendance for Ladies. A free Exhibition open daily. WILLIAM PETRIE, LADIES AMD GENTLEMEN'S Hair Dresser, Peruke Maker, and Perfumer 28, MARKET STREET, ( Opposite Richardson and Coxons,) NEWCASTLE- UPON- TYNE, AND No. l, WELLINGTON- STREET, GATESHEAD. Select British and Foreign Perfumery always on hand. A larye assortment of Combs, rushes, Cutlery, & c. HSMITH, Newspaper Office, 9, Exeter • Change, Strand, supplies Clean Copies of the TIMES, POST, and HERALD, posted on the Evening of Publication, at 20s per Quarter ; Second Day, 14s ; ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, 7s. A List of all the London Papers, with the Prices, sent by enclosing One Stamp. N. B.— Orders made ayable to H. SMITH rand Branch, London. " FAMILIES, Private and Public Establish * ments, & c., in Town or Country, or at any dis- tance, can be suited, free of charge, with honest and respectable Male or Female Servants in any capacity, by stating what sort of Servant is required, and full particulars, to George Willis, Postman Address Office, 44, Upper George Street, Bryanston Square, Londo . THE QUEEN'S HEAD HOTEL, GATESHEAD. TUfR. WILLIAM LOVE, late of the Prince o UA Wales, Edinburgh, has the honour to announce to the Public that he has just entered upon the above Establishment, recently erected in the HIGH STREET OF GATESHEAD, On a scale commensurate with the rapidly- growing importance of the borough, and intends to conduct it in a manner worthy of its facilities and conveniences as a FIRST- RATE COMMERCIAL and GENERAL HOTEL. The great experience which he and Mrs Love have enjoyed will enable them to consult the accommoda- tion and comfort of their Patrons in every particular; and no exertion shall be wanting, in every department, to give entire satisfaction. A stock of choiee WINES, SPIRITS, and other LIQUORS, has been laid in, and cannot fail to be uni- versally approved. The BED- ROOMS are of first- class character. WARM BATHS may be had on short notice. An ORDINARY will be served every TUESDAY and SATURDAY. An ASSEMBLY ROOM offers an ample accommo- dation for Balls, Public Dinners, Entertainments, & C., and may be hired for any suitable purpose what- erer- The spacious and well- ventilated STABLING is everything that could be desired. With great confidence, therefore, the support of the nobility, gentry, and other ^ habitants of the district is respectfully solicited ; and it will be the unceasing study of Mr and Mrs Love to justify and preserve the encouragement which they may receive. Queen's Head Hotel, Gateshead, Dec. 20. Printed by EDWARD DAVISON WELPORD, residing at 15, Addison Road, South, Kensington, at his printing office, 18, Exeter Street, Strand, in the parish of St. Paul, Covent Garden; and published by him at 291, Strand, iu the parish of St. Clement Danes, in the count y of Middlesex.