The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-15 00:00:00

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Comfort is the daughter of Order, and has descended
in a right lino from Wisdom. She is closely Lilted to
Carefulness, Thr&, Honesty, and Religion. She bas
born educated by Good Sense, iknevolence, Observation,
and Experience; and she is the mother of Cleauline6s,
Economy, P,:ovident F,4-ethought, Virtue, Prosperity,
and Domestic litippiness.
On the other band, Muddle belongs to the ancient end
di,honoutable family of Chaos; she is the child of In-
difforrnce 'and. Want oc Principle;• has been educated
alternately by Dawdling; Hurry, Stupidity, Obstinacy,
and Extravagance; is secretly united to Self-Conceit;
and is the parent of Procrastination, . Falsehood, Dirt,
Waste, Disorder, Distraction, and Desolation.
It would not be easy to detail in all its force the
misery which is caused by the early neglect of orderly
habits on the part of young women. It is a source, not
only of frightful unhappiness in families, but of great
public vice; for after all, the world is made: up of those
whose characters have been formed for good or evil by
the early training and example of mothers. This is a
subject, indeed, of great importance, which those who
have the education of children committed to them ought
never to lose sight of.

SPORTING NOTES.
No. CLXXXVII.
THE WARWICK SPRING MEETING, &c.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

' Sin,—The present week by its excess of sport fairly
inaugurates the season of 1852; all the meetings that
have preceded that of Warwick having been of the hy-
brid kind. The flat races and steeplechases of the pre-
sent week are fairly divided, two days for each. Besides
the sport at Warwick, Charlbury puts forth a small
bill of fare for decision to-morrow; the principal event
being the Snowball Stakes, which the Screw, or Tough
Torn will win, with The Parson's Daughter, and the Re-
jected handy.
The good people of St. Ives considering their essay at
steeplechasing in December last, when Outcast won, a
successful effort, have determined on trying another
day's amusement on Wednesday. The principal event
is a Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sovs, each, with 20
added, over about' four miles of good hunting country.
Atalanta, Chapelgorie, and Advance will, in my opinion,
be the foremost horses in the race; and if Advance does

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not win, one of the other two I think will.
On the 18th, we have the Grand Military Steeple-
chases at Leamington, and on the following day War-
wick and Leamington Grand Annuals, which I shall
defer commenting on until to-morrow or the next day.
Also, on Friday, the Weatherby Steeplechases are
announced to come off. The Handicap Steeplechase of
10 sovs, each, h ft, will bo run at half-past two, and con-
tested by the majority of the acceptances; among whom
the names of the following well-known hunters appear:
—Wild Hero, Blue Bonnet, Barrister, Heroine, Sailor,
Screw, Falcon, and Susannah. There seems to be no-
thing at the weight (lost 21b) likely to touch Barrister,
whom I select as the winner. Should he, however, be
destined to be beaten, the Screw or Susannah will pro-
bably be the animals to do it. Falcon will run vory for-
ward. The Farmers' Stakes, ont of about a dozen run-
ners, will fall to the lot of the Queen of the Wiske, A.
or Sailor.

Having glanced at the cross-country sport set down on
the list for this week at the little meetings, I shall turn
my attention to to-morrow's bill of fare at Warwick,
where the sport, I understand, is to commence at half-
past one, with the Trial Stakes of 10 goys. each, with 50
added, the mile course. In the hurry of the moment,
when much pressed by time last Friday, I stated
that the Trial, and one or two other stakes
that have been entered for some time, had
not then closed ; to rectify this bhinder I
shall now touch upon those that I missed on that occa-
sion. For the last three or four years the favourite or
favourites have not in any one instance turned up the
trump card: this year I think will be an exception
to the rule. As far as an imperfect account will allow
me to judge, this stake will be contested by the follow-
ing :—Tho Prime Minister, My Fancy, Koh-i-noor,
Aphrodite, Black Audrey, Odessus, and perhaps Maria
Day colt and Le Juif. PRIME MINISTER, over a course
that but little exceeds his own fancy distance, ought to
bo perfectly at home; and as he is in tolerable fettle, I
shall take my Derby fancy of last year to pull my judg-
ment through. Should fate, however, have a slip in
store for him, to Aphrodite or My Fancy, whom I should
otherwise place second and third, I must look for first
and second. The Woodcoto Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 5
ft, five furlongs, will probably have a field consisting of
the following:—Huff; Start, Filly by Epirus, Hannah,
Filly by Oakley, Molasses, and perhaps Whalebone and
Youthful-days, about which last-named two I know
nothing. If Colonel Wyndlianee filly was not running,
comparatively with the majority of her competitors, at a
. disadvantage of 51bs, I should say his start on the turf
with ber would be very likely to realize her dam's name
and surprise the ring; as it is, I am given to understand
that the fillies by Epirus and Oakley may possibly be
anything but bad specs.
Since dotting down my remarks last'week on the
Willoughby Handicap I have been informed that, in ail
probability, Selina will be sent instead of Clothworker;
in which case I shall take Mr. Parr's animal and Agis:,
to occupy the first and second places.
The Free Handicap will be contested by Miss Julia,
Ribaldry, Grief, Woodlark, the Reaper, First Fruits,
'Robert, Iracundus, and perhaps another. The race must
of necessity by beteen Ribaldr3, Grief, First Fruits,
and Iracunclus • and if GRIEF does not win, I shall look
to the couple of four years old for the winner.
The Five Sovs. Stakes brings to-morrow's sport to a
conclusion.

For the last day or two a retrograde movement has
been gradually taking place with respect to Cariboo for
the Northamptonshire Stakes; he has fallen from 6 to
15 to 1, and but little doing about him. This is not
owing to any supposed illness or accident on the part
of the horse, who is doing strong work, bat to the
serious indisposition of Mr. Groville, who, however, has
happily not, as was reported on Saturday, yet reached
that final bourne from which there is no return.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.
March 15, 1852.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING ON SATURDAY.
WARWICK TWO YRS OLD STAKES.
2 to 1 agst Catherine Hayes—taken freely
WARWICK HANDICAP.
sto 1 agst Ethelwolf—t 1 10 to 1 agst Selina—t
6 to 1 agst Cnmus—taken
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
8 to 1 agst Chief Justice—taken
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
20 to 1 offered agst Hesse Hamburg
CHESTER CUP.
18 to 1 agst High Sheriff 40 to 1 agstHesseHomburg
20 to 1 agst Scarecrow taken
40 to 1 agst Neasham—t 50 to 1 agst Unity—taken

CLOUDS AND THEIR SILVER LININGS.
By E. E. M.S.
(From the British Museum.)
Dead leaves, but yesterday, along the lane
Were rustling drearily, or sodden'd lay
In drifted heaps around; as if in pain,
The earth's old face grew furrowed with decay.
,The orchard boughs with brittle moss were wrapped,
The ruby berries withered on the thorn,
With clogging snows the village roofs were capped,
The mill-wheels fast in ice were yester-morn.
But since the magic of soft show'rs to-day,
What vernal glimpses feast our dazzled eyes!
As through the perils that beset his way,
The Indian, wond'ring, hailed Potosi's prize.
A Abeagmenotlfesuahnolierth, and dsmtheeewthheedelis
earth's
free!
rugged face;
Among the dead leaves, violet blooms we see,
Beneath the brittle moss bright buddings trace!
The snows have nurtured on the cottage roof,
Green tints to glad us with the news of Spring;
Thenyou cerulean woof,
rains upon its sable wing.
Bore
elohomeating that hid
Await ye, then, World-weary ones! albeit
The
A ms,
at your each
orr auynoe
of
npsreioomnia feseet shroud 0,
Success may blossom in the very clouds!

* The Spanish discovery of the mines of Potosi. An
Indian pursuing a deer, to save himself from slipping over a
rock, seized a bush with his hand; the violence of the
wrench loosened the
earth round the root, and a piece of
silver attracted his eye.

Marqui
TUE
RECENT ELOPEMENT IN HIGH LIFE.—The
having come to a right frame of
mind, s of Londonderry,
has agreed to present theltev. Mr. Law, who recently
eloped with his daughter, Lady Adelaide Vane, to a living
of about 6001. per annum.—Carlisle Journal.
FAMILY LIKENEBSEB.—To trace a family likeness
for a century is not at all uncommon. Any one who knows
the face of the present Duke of Manchester, will see a strong
likeness to his great ancestor, through six generations, the
Earl of Manchester of the Commonwealth, as engraved in
Lodge's Portraits. The following instance is more remark-
able : Elizabeth Hervey was Abbess of Elstow in 1501.
From her brother Thomas is descended, in a direct line, the
' present Marquis of Bristol. If any one will lay the portrait
of Lord Bristol, in Mr. Gage Rokewode's Thinyoe .Hundred,
by the side of the sepulchral brass of the Abbess of Elstow,
figured in Fisher's Bedfordshire Antiquities, they cannot bat
be struck by the strong likeness between the two faces.
This is valuable evidence on the disputed point whether.yor-
traits were attempted in Sepulchral brasses.--From"°tej
and Queries.

The mortal remains of the late
Lady Margaret
Milbank will be removed to-day from Eaton-place, for in-
terment in the family family, at Thorpe
Penne, Yorkahire, vault of the Milbank

looking mistress herself, stands before you. You enter,
stumble over t!lc, broom or a dust-pan, surrounded by a
clump of dusters, Of course you are told "We are so
busy with toe cleaning," or "-the wsh," ,
or something
else. But it always was so, at whatever time you called
at that house.
We need not proceed much farther with the House of
Muddle. Its rooms are comfortless, even though the
furniture be good. The spirit of order is absent, and
the spirit of cleanliness .is absent with it. Domestic
confusion pervades the parlour, the kitchen, and the
sleeping-chamber; and when these are combined in one,
as in the houses of the poor, the case is still worse.'
The " head" of the house has the look of a care-worn
drudge. A visit there gives you not an atom of plea-
sure, but only seems to throw thinks into worse confu-
sion, from the desperate, but unavailing attempts made
to put them in order. Of course, where there are child-
ren matters are worse; but, as an Irish lady once ob-
served—there was no denying that the muddle where
there were young children was much worse; but yet, as
far as she could perceive, a muddle where there were no
children was Devc.r any better!
We must crnclude by giving ties ganeologies of the
two heroines (,f our brief sketch—Comfort and Muddle