Hospodar, having established a cross against the pilot of Coræbus, the race was adjudged to Mr. John Osborne, with Lord Alfred.... The Hopeful Stakes of £15 each, £10 forfeit, three-year-olds ; colts 8st. 71b., fillies 8st. 31b. &c., &c., Mr. Inman's Horatio walked over for.... The Ebor St. Leger of £25 each, three-year-olds ; colts 8st. 716., fillies 8st. 21b., &c., &c. ; course a mile and three quarters, seventy-nine subs., according to the electric telegraph, was won by “ Pumicestone," beating Marley Hill. There is no such nomination as “ Pumicestone" in the Racing Calendar's entry for the Ebor St. Leger, therefore it may be convenient to say the colt so called is the Earl of Welton's b. c., sire Çotherstone, dam The Duchess of Loraine. It was a very severe race ; won by a head. 2 to 1 on the loser. The County Plate of £100, added to a sweepstakes of £15 each, £5 forfeit, for all ages, weight for age, forty-three subscribers, course T.Y.C., nine runners, four placed, was won by Captain Harcourt's Ellermire, two years old (Aldcroft), beating King of Trumps, Ephesus, and Hospodar, and five others not placed, among them Virago, with 2 to 1 on her. Won by a head. The Lottery Plate of £25, added to a sweepstakes of £5 each, for all ages above two years old, course one mile, was run for by Mr. Gibbs's Motley, three years old (Wells), beating Revolver and Goldfinch. A confusion in the weighing stand, and the exhibition of Dagobert's number, left him first in the odds when the field started, among which he did not show. The result was a “blow up.” Match for £100 cach, course a mile and a half, Mr. Jones's b. f. Réveillée, three years old, 2 to 1 on her, won, defeating Remunerateur in a canter by ten lengths. For the Bramham Park Stakes_reduced to a match-of £100 each, £30 forfeit, Mr. Snewing's Dan Cupid walked over, receiving £10 from Mr. Greville's Bessus. Thus the day's sports ended.

Friday opened with the Consolation Scramble of £50, added to a handicap stakes of £5 each, course T.Y.C., twenty-two subscribers; thirteen went, and three were placed ; Mr. Morris's Comfort-an appropriate title for the foremost-three years old, 6st. 5lbs. (Mundy), beating Sir Rowland Trenchard (2), and Bourgeois (3)—betting, 3 to 1 against the winner-by three lengths in a canter. The Colt Sapling Stakes of £50 each, £30 forfeit, for two-year-olds 8st. 7lbs. each, course T.Y.C., twelve subscribers, four at the post, Lord Derby's Crown Pigeon-2 to 1 against him—won by a neck. Twelfth year of the Great Yorkshire Stakes, £10 each, with £100 added for the second, three-year-old colts 8st. 7lbs., fillies 8st. 2lbs., &c., &c., course a mile and three-quarters, one hundred and fifty-eight subscribers, brought eight to the post ; three placed, thus : Lord Derby's Acrobat (Templeman) 1, Lord Zetland's Ivan (Job Marson) 2, Mr. G. Barton's Arthur Wellesley (Holmes) 3. Gamekeeper, Merry Monk, Champagne, Aribbas, and Tros, not placed. Odds, 9 to 4 on Acrobat : won easily by a length. The Gimcrack Stakes of £10 each, with £100 added, for two-year-olds, colts Sst. 7lbs., fillies 8st. 21bs., &c., &c.; course one mile ; forty-two subscribers. Thirteen runners ; three placed. Mr. Wilkinson's Nettle (Job Marson) 1, Captain Harcourt's Dame Judith (Aldcroft) 2, Mr. Edwards's Sarabando (Wells) 3. The Professor, Le Fripon, Monge, Jack Sheppard, Scipio, Cockspur, Lord Alfred, colt (sire Cotherstone, dam Polydora), Flatterer, and Cossey not placed. The winner was not in the betting Her Majesty's Plate

of One Hundred Guineas, for all ages above two years old, mares, course three miles, Sir Charles Monck's Huncamunca, four years old (job Marson)—with 5 to 4 on her--won easily by half a length ; Adelaide 2; Ammonia and Peggy not placed. The Members' Plate of £50, for all ages above two years old, course one mile and a half, was won by Mr. T. Hesseltine's colt (sire Fitzallen, dam Miss Burn's dam), four years old (Charlton), beating Sister to Bolton (2), Phenix (3). Haxby, Westwood, Lady Lambton, and Poetess not placed. The Tyro Stakes of £5 each, with £25 added, for two-year-olds, Priestcraft won, beating General Picton (2), Malcolm Filly (3), and eight others. Lord Derby's Boiardo walked over for the Knavesmire Stakes of £100 each, for three-year-olds, five subscribers, and the Knavesmire August Meeting terminated. It was not a brilliant tryst, but one at which no malice might say—“York, you're wanted."

As what Lord Palmerston called, at that loosish dinner at the Reform Club, “an eminent agriculturist,” as what we may further write “ an excellent country gentleman,” and as one well known throughout the world for the John Bull spirit which has ever distinguished him, we may introduce the portrait of Sir Charles Napier to the notice of our subscribers. In doing this, we shall, we are sure, best consult the Admiral's own taste by letting his services speak for themselves, and by turning to pedigree and performance as the best commentary on the subject we have selected.

Sir Charles Napier was born on the 6th of March, 1786, and is the eldest son of the Hon. Charles Napier, of Murchiston Hall, in the county of Stirling, a captain in the Royal Navy, by his second wife, Christian, daughter of Gabriel Hamilton, Esq., of Westburn, Lanarkshire. The gallant Admiral is grandson, by a first marriage, of Francis, fifth Lord Napier, brother to Colonel Thomas Erskine Napier, and cousin to Lord Napier, R.N., who died in China, in 1834.

Sir Charles went into the navy as a first-class volunteer before he was fourteen years old. His life has been one of continued activity in his profession, and involves an infinite variety of services to the state. He entered the navy on the 1st of November, 1799, on board the Martin sloop, commanded by the Hon. Matthew St. Clair, employed in the North Sea ; and, in the spring of 1800, removed to the Renown, 74, the flag-ship of Sir John Borlase Warren. He next proceeded to the Mediterranean, where, in 1802, he was a midshipman of the Greyhound. After various other employment, he became a Lieutenant in November, 1805. In March, 1807, he was made Acting Commander of the brig Pultusk. In August, 1808, he removed to the Recruit brig, of 18 guns, in which vessel he fought a smart action with and put to flight the Diligente, French corvette, of 22 guns and 140 men. In this encounter he had his main-mast shot away, and was himself severely wounded ; his thigh indeed was broken, but he nevertheless refused to leave the deck. In 1809, he served with great distinction in the reduction of Martinique, and in the capture of the D’Haupoul, 74. In the first of these, he considerably shortened the siege by the manner in which, with only five men, he landed, scaled the walls, and, in open day, planted the Union Jack on the ramparts of Fort Edward. In the latter engagement, his services were sufficiently appreciated, to have him at once posted to the prize.

Passing over a variety of brilliant services, we come to the year 1813, when, in company with the Furicuse, 36, which had on board the second battalion of the 10th Regiment, under Lieutenant-Colonel John Pine Coffin, Captain Napier, in the teeth of the fire of four batteries and a tower mounting ten 24 and 18-pounders, two 12-pounders, and two 9-inch mortars, succeeded in taking possession of the island of Ponza. His services in the brilliant expedition against Alexandria drew from Captain James Alexander Gordon, the conducting officer, a remark in one of his despatches " that he owed this officer more obligations than he had words to express." Captain Napier had been in command of the Euryalus, and, in June, 1815, she was paid off, when the gallant captain was nominated a C.B. He was not again called into activity until 1829, when, for three years, he was employed in particular service in the Galatea, 42. In 1833, he succeeded Admiral Sartorius in the command of Don Pedro's fleet, and gained a signal victory over the more numerous fleet of Don Miguel, off Cape St. Vincent, a service for which he obtained the title of Count Cape St. Vincent, with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword. In 1839, Captain Napier took the command of the Powerful, 84, intended for the Mediterranean, where, in the following year, hoisting the flag of Commodore, he became second in command under Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, of the force engaged on the coast of Syria. On the 10th September, 1840, he effected a landing at D'journie, on the Syrian coast, in a manner which called forth the eulogy of his admiral. In the course of the same month, he defeated a body of the enemy at Kelb. son, and on the 27th he bombarded, and necessarily stormed, with a force of not more than 900 allies and 500 Turks, the town of Sidon, protected by a fort and citadel, and a line of wall defended by 2,700 men, all of whom were made prisoners. On that occasion, at the head of the British Marines, he broke into the enemy's barracks, and obtained possession of the castle. On the 9th of the following October, he entirely routed an Egyptian force, stationed, under Ibrahim Pasha, in a strong position on the mountains near Beyrout. The result of the forward movement, which had immediately preceded this success, was the surrender of Beyrout itself, and the effect of the victory the entire submission of the army of Soliman Pasha. After co-operating in the memorable attack at St. Jean d'Acre, he proceeded to take charge of the squadron off Alexandria, where he landed, and concluded a con