The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-06 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TA UTErtsALL'S—YESTERDAY.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
12 to 1 egst LI Gazza Ladris
20 ti 1 agst Chieftain
20 to 1 agst Cogia
The above bets wore taken to 101. each.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
15 to 1 egst Duke of Bedford's Hesse Homburg--
taken and afterwards offered
20 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Miss Ann—taken and
afterwards offered
CHESTER CUP.
18 to 1 agst Mr. S. Stanley's Confessor—taken
18 to 1 agst Mr. Martinson's Nancy—taken and after-
wards d
20 to 1 agst Mr.J. Pilling's High Sheriff
33 to 1 agst Mr. Parkinson's Grand Duke
33 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Ringleader
40 to 1 agst Mr. Wilkinson's Neasham—taken
40 to 1 agst Duke of Bedford's Hesse Homburg—take
50 to 1
40 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Hippolytus—take 50 to 1
50 to 1 agst Lord Wilton's Lady Evelvn—taken
1,000 to 20 agst Mr. Cooke's c out of Due-an-Darras's
dam—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Gooch's Surprise—taken
1,000 to 15 eget Mr. Farrance's Cardinal Wiseman—t.
Confessor was backed freely in the first instance at 20
to 1, and finally at 18 to 1. The outlay on the other
horses quoted was inconsiderable, and the prices, with
the exception of Nancy, who was less in favour, and
High Sheriff, very nearly the same as on Monday.
DERBY.
8 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Hobble Noble—taken
12 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Augur—taken and after-
wards offered
14 to 1 agst Mr. J. Stanley's Orelio—taken and after-
wards offered
14 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Claverhouse—taken and
afterwards offered
16 to 1 agst Lord Ribblesdale's Lapidist
20 to 1 agst Mr. Stebbing's Alfred the Great—taken
20 to 1 egst Sir R. Pigot's Filius.
A considerable outlay on Lapidist, resulting in an im-
provement of four points, was the principal feature of
the betting on the above event. Augur, Orelio, Clever-
house, and Alfred the Great, were backed to some
amount, but without leading to any noticeable change in
the quotationE.

OAKS.
175 to 25 agst the Duke of Richmond's Red Hind (t).
THE CHESTER CUP ACCEPTANCES.
We are authorised to state that Herbert was left in by
mistake.

INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
EPSOM SPRING MEETING, 1852.
Acceptances for the City and Suburban Handicap.
Aphrodi4 4 yrs, Bst 71b—Alonzo, 5 yrs, Bst 51b—
Prime Minister, 4 yrs, Bst 31b—Bordeaux, 5 yrs, Bst llb
—The Italian, 5 yrs, 7st 111b—Thornhill, 6 yrs, 7st 111 b
—Merry Peal 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Hungerford, 4 yrs, 7st 61b
—Guy Mannering, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Ianthe, 4 yrs, 7st 61b
—Jack-in-the-Corner, aged, Est 131b—Kilmeney (late
Lily), 4 yrs, 6st 81b—Edward of York, 4 yrs, Est 81b—
Diligence, 5 yrs, Est 81b—Lucio, 3 yrs, Est—Odessus,
3 yrs, sst 131 b—B cby Cotherstone, out of the Wry-
neck, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Mary Ann, 3 yrs, sst 71b—The
Brahim, 3 yrs, sst 61b—Sir Charles Napier, 3 yrs,
sst 31b—Greengage, 3 yrs, sst 31b—Julien, 3 yrs,
sst 21b—B f by Lanercost, out of Cytherea, 3 yrs, sst
Lady Isabel, 3 yrs, sst—Flounce, 3 yrs, 4st 1 llb—Mer-
lin, 3 yrs, 4st 10Ib—Butterfly, 3 yrs, 4st 71b—Snarry,
3 yrs, 4st 51b—Surprise, 3 yrs, 4st 51b.
The rest pay 5 soya each.
The highest weight accepting being Bst 61b, it was
raised to that weight, and the others in proportion.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

Worcestershire lads., Mon. Ombersley;—Wed. Ply.
mouth Arms, 'Jewell; Fri. Coventry Arms (High.
green)--710i,

Beivford;hire hds., Tues. Whitfield-10f.
Warwickshire lids., Mon. Hampton Coppice; Tues.
Milford-bridge; Thurs. Lower Shuckburgh; Fri. Upton
House.

Shropshire lids., Mon. Ercall Mill; Thurs. Worthen
.10i.

Lord Redesdale's hds., Mon. Boulter's Barn; Wed.
Wilcote; Fri. Bourton-bridge; Sat. Dean Cross-roads
—lOl.

Wriestland hds., Wed. Hay-gate-10.
Ludlow hds., Tues. Bircher-common; Fri. Cookridge-
coppice-10i.
Ledbury hds., Mon. Perryatone; Fri. Edwin's-wood

Upton-on-Severn harre., Tues. Northend-green.
Mr. Conyer'a hds., Tues. Old Sampford-11.
Crawley and Horsham lids., Mon. Silgate Ledge;
Wed. Nuthurst Village; Fri. Balcombe
Mr. Lushington's hds., Tues. Ringleston; Fri. Stone
Stile Farm-11.
Monmouthshire Mon. Penissa Pluid Toll Bar;
Tri. Skenfrith Bridge-10i.
Mr. Lee Steere's lids., Mon. Plaistow Village;
Thurs. Newbridge House—i 1.
N. W. H. lids., Tues., Rod Lodge; Thurs. Stanton
Park; Sat.
Brighton harrs., Mon. Patcham; Wed. Race Course;
Sat. Duke--10:;.
Brookside harm, Mon., Newmarket Hill; Thurs.
Telscombe Tye-10i.
Southdown lids., Mon. Polegate-10i.

THE ARMY.
The 52d and 633, at Limerick, are picking up lots of
recruits.
The 3d Buffi depot beat up for recruits in the town
of Boyle on Saturday, and they have reduced the stand-
ard height to 5 feet 6i inches.
Last Baturday the 81st enlisted 15 young men at Bor-
risoleigh, who proceeded to Templemore.
The 6th depot at Nenagh has enlisted a number of able
young paupers from the union workhouse.
Several young men employed in the Waterford and
Limerick Railway Extension works have enlisted in the
,
89th Regiment, at Clonmel.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Right Hon. the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir
F. T. Baring, Bart., commences his levees for the sea-
son on Tuesday, the 10th inst., and every subsequent
Tuesday, when Sir Francis will grant interviews to thirty
officers.
Rear Admiral Prescott, C.B.,went out to Spithead
with the gentlemen from the ay Office, in the Ports-
mouth, yacht, and paid the Retribution, steam-frigate,
Captain Warden, six months' pay.
Assistant Surgeon—Dr. F. C. Sibbald (1846) has been
appointed to the Tyne, store-ship, at Woolwich.
Barracouta, steam-sloop, at Chatham, is fitting as an
advance steamer of the first division at Sheerness.
Hydra, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Be'grave, having
had her compasses adjusted, and taken in her powder
and live shells in harbour, went out and anchored at
Spithead on Tuesday evening. She will sail on the 7th
instant, for the Cape, as we have before stated.
Rodney, 92, Captain Graham, C. 8., has Commenced
entering men, to fill up to her sea-going complement, 820.
DOCKYARD.—The following change. have taken place
consequent on the death of Mr. Richard Passley, fore-
man of the ropemakers at Chatham:—Mr. John T.
Taylor, foreman of ropemakers at Devonport, has been
transferred as foreman to Chatham. Mr. W. Snook,
layer at Portsmouth, to be foreman at Devonport, vice
Taylor. John Johnson, leading man at Chatham, to be
layer at Portsmouth, vice Snook. W. A. Flood, acting
leading man, to be leading man, vice Johnson.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—We had a most severe
gale of wind last night, with heavy squalls. The ships
at Spithead, consisting of the Britannia, the Retribution,
the Fury, and the American packet Ocean Queen, all
rode safely, with topgallantmasts on deck and yards
braced to the wind.

At the meeting of the Portsmouth town council held
this week, a proposal was made by Mr. Child; and se-
conded by Mr. Vendenbergh, that the thanks of the
council be presented to Vice-Admiral Le Blanc, Port-
Admiral of Brest, for having so promptly sent out a
steamer, unsolicited, to endeavour to rescue the survi-
vors of the ill-fated steam-packet Amazon. The motion
was carried by acclamation, and the sentiments of the
council were ordered to be engrossEd on vellum and
emblaz ined for presentation to the gallant French chief.
The Britannia, 120, Captain Goldsmith, was to have
been paid advance to-day, but the very foul state of the
weather has prevented Rear-Admiral Prescott and the
officers of the Pay-department from going off to Spit-
head to perform the duty. It is expected Rear-Admiral
Dundas will hoist his flag on board of her on Saturday,
and sail the same or the following day for the Mediter-
ranean.

PORTSMOUTH GARRISON.—A rumour is strongly sup-
ported in military circles here that Lieutenant-General
Viscount Hardiuge, G.C.8., will be appointed to com-
mand-in-3hief the south-western and home districts, a
Major-General being stationed in this garrison. We
give the report as we have received it.
Woo'mica, FEB. s.—Commander Charles G.
Phillips (1848), at present studying steam at the factory
at Woolwich dockyard, and who accompanied Sir John
Ross in the Felix on his searching expedition in the
Arctic regions in 1850 and 1851, has again volunteered
to proceed in any future expedition in which his services
may be approved of by the Admiralty.

FEBRUARY 6, 1852.

the 20th Novembcr, 1851, as per receipt
from National Debt Office, signed by Sir
A. Spearman, Bart., and laid before the

n the hands of the actuary

THE ENGLISH PRESS.
F
.(oyrorinemtahreke7d'anweist2 considerable cm-
The Earl of Dei
phasis in his speech on the Address, that as in these
days the English press aspires to share the influence of
statesmen, so also it must share in the responsibilities of
statesmen. If the first of these propositions be estab-
lished, the second follows as matter of course; and wa,
of all men, are the least disposed to lower the proper
functions or to deny the responsibilities of th© power we
may derive from the confidence of the ['Wolfe. But be
that power more or loss, we cannot admit that its main
purpose is to share the Mows of statesmanship, or that
it is bound by the same limitations, the same duties,
the same liabilities as that of the Ministers of the
Crowr. Tho purposes and the duties of the two powers
aro constantly separate, generally indepeedent, some_
times diametrically opposite. The dignity and the
freedom of the press are trammelled from the
moment it accepts an ancillary position. To perform
its duties with entire independence, and consequently
with the utmost public advantage, the press can enter
into no close or binding alliances with the statesmen of
the day, nor can it surrender its permanent interests
to the convenience of the ephemeral power of any Go-
vernment.
The first duty of the press is to obtain the earliest and
most correct intelligence of the events of the time, and
instantly, by disclosing them, to make them the common
property of the nation. The statesman collects his in-
formation secretly and by secret means; he keeps back
even the current intelligence of the day with ludicrous
precautions, until diplomacy is beaten in the race with
publicity. The press lives by disclosures; whatever
passes into its keeping becomes a part of theknowledge
and the history of our times; it is daily and for ever ap-
pealing to the enlightened force of public opinion—an-
tpc oi Pn4 ihner e' ef aPc ohs sbi be
tl e the
t h e marchpresent or
a'
nedv e
thent f—u
t sut raen dai dg
extending its survey to the horizon of the world. 'The
statesman's duty is precisely the reverse. He cautiously
guards from the public eye the information by which
his 'actions and opinions are regulated; he reserves his
judgment on passing events till the latest moment, and
then he records it in obscure or conventional language;
he strictly confines himself, if he be wise, to the practi-
cal interests of his own country, or to those bearing im-
mediately upon it; he hazards no rash surmises as to the
future; and he concentrates in his own transactions all
that power which the press seeks to diffuse over the
world. The duty of the one is to speak—of the other to
be silent. The one expends itself in discussion—the
other tends to action. The one deals mainly with rights
and interests—the other with opinions and sentiments.
The former is necessarily reserved—the latter essen-
tially free.
It follows, therefore, from this contrast, that the re-
sponsibilities of the two powers are as much at variance
as their duties. For us, with whom publicity and truth
are the air and light of existence, there can be no greater
disgrace than to recoil from the frank and accurate
disclosure of facts as they are. We are bound to tell
the truth as we find it, without fear of consequences—
to lend no convenient shelter to acts of injustice and
oppression, but to consign them at once to the judgment
of the world. Statesmen, it is said, have duties of a
nicer order; they are bound to repress the throb of in-
dignation which will rise at the sight of evils and op-
presions they cannot avenge; they are prone to pursue
particular objects rather than to pledge themselves to
general principles; they are forbidden to risk for an in-
stunt the important interests confided to their care; and,
though the support of public opinion is essential to their
success, it is only by rem and occasional efforts that
they can attempt to guide it.
If the public writer shares in any degree the influence
of the statesmen, he shares at least few of those per-
sonal objects which constitute so large a part of ordi-
nary statesmanship. He is not toiling or sacrificing
the best years of his life and the best faculties of his
nature in the pursuit of personal aggrandizement, for
none can either reward or corrupt the obscure course of
his labours. Even the triumph of his opinions is not
accompanied by the applause of a party or the success
of a struggle for patronage and power. Those opinions
which he has defended, and, so to speak, created, slip
from him in the moment of their triumph, and take their
stand among established truths. The responsibility he
really shares is more nearly akin to that of the econo-
mist or the lawyer, whose province is not to frame a
system of convenient application to the exigencies of the
day, but to investigate truth and to apply it on fixed
principles to the affairs of the world.
The responsibility we acknowledge has therefore
little in common with that of statesmen, for it is esti-
mated by a totally different standard of rectitude and
duty. Of all professions statesmanship is that in which
the greatest laxity of practice is tolerated by the usages
of society. Concealment, evasion, factious cembina-
lions, the surrender of convictions to party objects, and
the systematic pursuit of expediency, are things of daily
occurrence among men of the highest character once
embarked in the contention of political life. We know
not if these be useful or essential parts of statesman-
ship, and we more than suspect that Lord, Grey would
confess by his own experience that they are not so. But
we know that they aro absolutely destructive to the
credit, the power, and the success of a public writer;
and he who would traffic with his pen on such terms
had better take refuge at once among those mercenary
hacks who court the favours of every successive Govern-
ment. Of all journals, and of all writers, those will
obtain the largest measure of public support who have
told the truth most constantly and most fearlessly.
Again, the eyes of a Minister are rivetted upon the
interests of his own country, and his duties can scarcely
be said to extend beyond it. The press owes its first
duty to the national interests which it represents, but
nothing is indifferent to it which affects the cause of
civilization throughout the world. The press of Eng-
land, standing, as it now does, alone in the enjoyment of
entire freedom, would grievously neglect its exalted pri-
vileges if it failed to recollect how much is due to the
common interests of Europe. It may suit the purposes
of statesmen to veil the statute of Liberty, and to mut-
ter some formulary of disiegenuous acquiescence in
foreign wrongs, dictated by their fears rather than by
their convictions; but we prefer to await for our justi-
fication the day when the entombed and oppressed li-
berties of Europe shall once more start into life, and
array themselves under the standard to which we
cling. For to what, after all, are the statesmen of Eng-
land to look for strength and national power, if injuries
and offences rise against us, but to the enlightened re-
solution of the people of England to uphold the princi-
ciples on which our own polity and independence are
founded? Far from thinking that language of too great
energy and effect has been employed to convey to our
countrymen a true and just impression of the political
condition of the great nation which exists within a few
miles of our own coasts, we fear that this sudden change
in the state of France is still but imperfectly under-
stood in all its formidable coast quences to Europe, and
possibly to ourselves. It is the unquestionable duty
of Miuisters to watch over the maintenance of our
pacific relations with other States, and to dis-
alias all that might be erroneously construed into
hostile intentions on our part, while they provide effi-
ciently for the independence and security of Britain
against all contingencies. But it seems to us the first
duty of public writers is to take care that the people of
England are not lulled into indifference to the destruc-
tion of liberty and the violation of political rights in such
a country as France, since that liberty and those rights
wore the chief ph dges of our pacific relations and our
common interests. It is our duty to point out danger,
however remote, whether it consist in the uncertain
policy of a neighbouring State, or in our own disarmed
condition ; and a far heavier weight of responsibility
than we now bear might be laid to our charge if we had
neglected to describe the late occurrences in France in
their true colours, or if we had affected to acquiesce,
from a shortsighted and mistaken policy, in a revolution
which call, for the utmost vigilance on the part of this
country and of the rest of Europe.

ST. MARYLEBONE BANK FOR SAVINGS, No. 7G,
WELBECK-STREET, CAVENDISH...SQUARE. - The twenty-
second annual general meeting of this institution was held
on Thursday, the sth of this month, at the office, No. 76,
Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square; the Rev. John Rums
Spry, D. D., in the chair. It appeared from the several
reports read to the meeting that the progress of the bank
during the past year had been of a satisfactory description ;
no less than 2,526 new deposits having been made in the last
year. 22,176 deposit accounts remained open on the 20th
November last, of which 16,859 held balances averaging less
than 31. Os. sd. each.
The sum in the bands of the Government on

meeting was ••.£344,034 3 5
n the bands of the, treasurer, Sir Claude
Edward Scott, Bart., whose acknowledg-
ment was likewise produced

... 1,750 0 1
... 29 9 8

The balance due to depositors at that date*:345,813 13 2
as per balance-sheets produced

... 344,980 8 0

. _
.---_______
Surplus
... . 5 2
The balance due to depositors has ..sinceB risen to
350,5541.- Os. 7d.
The advices from New York firmness by the escribe increasing ease in the money
market, and Atlantic much
in all descriptions of securities. For money'at call
the highest rates now obtainable were from 5 to 6 per cent.
The message of the Governor of Virginia had been received.
It showed the debt of that State to be 11,921,038, dolls.,
which, under the existing sinking fund, will be liquidated in
the course of thirty-three years. ,
,t,aB
message of Governor Lowe
states the From debt atMaryland 15,29(Au0.
dolls., redeemable at different various periods up to 0
After paying the interest on this, the receipts for
htehseepars.,
year exhibit a surplus of 420,954 dolls. Under these °'
fund
cumstances, and looking at the fact that the
,si9n
of the State, which has now reached 2,25301
increasing in a ratio beyond the amounts of
This reduction I
here-
after to be paid off, the Governor recommends a reduction of
20 per cent, from the existing property-tax.
to
the extent of
d6ehdtolls.,
will affect the receipts of the coming y
149,341 dolls., but allowing for circumstance,thate
mates present an excess of 222,106 dolls.
taken place among
later from California. Some failures havegot
app
ar,here
was the e s
nothing;t i- ,
apparently they were
the cotton dealers at New Orleans,
latest accounts from the
not of much importance.
nautiaorL,ryathaNnVhdicfhordtahtee 1
Mexican frontier were to thTeha6t
Caravajal was again colleting
attempt upon Matamoros. From
alleged purpose of another
that city having been recent local disturbances
Mexico there was no addiaitional news, but the fact of the
immedi-
ately suppressed was confirmed.sA
revolutionary vjoal
LS FOR THE CITY OF LONDON.
INCOME-TAN A
given notice that they will meet on Wednes-
day,
above Act, have
—The Commissioners for General Purposes, acting under the
k in the forenoon, for the purpose of hearing I
at eleven o'clock
appeals under Schedules A and B of the
and determining appeals
all persons who shall think themselves ag-
grieved the 18th inst., at
said Act, from
grieved by
a here-
with respect of lands, tenements, a .
. 0 of
--,
the assessment made by the assessors for the said
parish of
• ea notice and who have delivered in a written
such their intention to the Surveyor of Taxeshe city will be
dis-
trict.
The different parishes throughout t
4ken
alphabetically,
ditanlencS,
for the