The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-06 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGEN CE.

BRIGHTON RAOES.—THURSDAY.
Mwelt, 50, h ft. T. Y. C.
Duke of Bedford's Bordeaux, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b (Pettit) 1
Mr. Guy's The Moor, aged, Bst 71b .........(Rogers) 2
Betting-9 to 4on Boldertux. Won by a length, the
Moor having run out-at the finish. Run in 1 min. 18
secy. -

Sweepstakes of 100 soya. each, h ft; for two•year-old
colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. T. Y. C.
Mr. Thelluson's Ratuplan (A. Day) 1
Sir J. V. Shelley's Lucy Banks o (Rogers) 2
Betting-5 to 4on Ratalpan, who won by a length.
Run in 1 min. 19 sec.
The Brighton Cup of 200 tan, added to a Sweepstake
of 10 soya. oacit; three-year-olds, 7st 91b; four,
9st lib; five, 9st 71b; six and aged, 9st 101 b; mares
and geldings allowed 314 winners extra. The win-
ner to be sold for 600 soya. if demanded, &c., and
allowances if to be sold for less; the second horse to
receive 20 sovs. out of the stakes, and the winner to
pay 25 sovs. towards expenses. Old Course.
Ld. %Vsterford's Sharavogue, 6st 10Ib (3001.) (Doyle) 1
Mr. Stephenson's Pan, bat 1011) (300/.)...(Charlton) 2
Mr. I. Day's Waterfall, 7st 121 b, (3000( Wakefield) 3
Mr. Cooper's lantbe, 4 yrs, Bst 21b (300)...(A, Day) 4
Mr. Douglas's Spot, 6 yrs, Bst 111 b (300)(W.Abdale) 5
Betting-6 to 5 agst Pan, 3to 1 agat Sharavogue, 5
to 1 each apt Spot and ianthe.
Won by two lengths, Waterfall a very bad third. Ran
in 4 min. 25 eec. The winner was claimed.
The Marine Plate of 100 sovs. (handicap), for all ages;
the winner of any race after the publication of the
weights to carry 51b extra. T.Y.C.
Sir W. Booth's Timid Fawn, 4 yrs, 7at 91b (Charlton) 1
Lord J. Scott's Kiltneney, 4 yrs, 7st 111b...(Barker) 2
Lord Chesterfield's llunaphr.y (car.7st 8113 (Fiarroan) 3
Mr. Drinkald's Thornhill, 6 yrs, 7st 121b...(A. Day) 4
Mr.R. lit_ ad Sir Robert, syrs, Bst lib...(Abrahams) 5
Betting—Even on Kilmeney, 4 to I'agst Timid Fawn,
5 to 1 agat Tbornhid, and 7 to 1 eget each of the others.
The race, which was entirely between the first two,
was won by tt short head. Run in 1 min. 14 sec.
The Brighton Biennial Stakes of 10 Soya. each,with 100
added, for °Lai, Bst 71b;
T.Y.C.
fillies, Bat 41b; winters extra.
Mr. Wauchope's Catherine Hayes, Bst7lb...walked over.
Duke of Richmond's Stella saved her stake. •
The Grand Sand Plato of 100 sot's., added to a Handi-
cap Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each; winners extra.
The winner to pay 15 soya, to the fund. One mile

and ft quarter.
MiAjor MAri3 n's Convulsion, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (Charlton)lekardo
Mr. Magentii.'s Surprise (11 b)3 yrs, sst 1 lib (Corrol) 2
Ovven's Stamford, 4 yrs, 6st (Rickards)
Lord Exeter's Phlegra, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b (J. Mani)) 0
Mr. Paynt.'s Catalpa (carried 7st 81b) (Fletnian)
Mr. E. Jones's Tonic, 4 yrs, 7st 61b (Preece) 0
Mr. Meikhum's Evadee, 3 yrs, 73t . (Aldcroft)
Mr. Oliver's Ischia, 4 yrs, Est 41b (Ashmall) 0
Ir. Meiklam's Paddy Bird, 3 yrs, Est 31b (J. Goater) 0
Mr. J. Oliver's Ethelwolf, 3 yrs, bat (Kendall) 0
Mr. ThOmpson's Blood Royal, sst 1010 (T. Sherwood) 0
Betriag-4 to 1 agst Stamford, 6 tot each ag..t Con-
vulsion, Catalpa,
.and Blood Royal, 7 to 1 each apt
Paddy Bird and Ethelwolf, and 8 to 1 agst any other.
Won by a short half length, Stamford a bad third. Run
in 2 min. 11 sec. _ _

Tbe Licensed Victuallers' Plate of 50 sovs. (Handicap).
T.Y.C.

Mr. Messer's Grasshopper, 6 yrs, 6st 71b ...... (Hiett) 1
Mr. S. Darling, jun.'s, Puritan, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (Carroll) 2
Mr. Payne's Faux Pas, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Flatman) 3
Mr. Bingley's Christiana, 6 yrs, Tat 71b (Preece) 0
Lord Clifden's Hothorpe, 4 yrs, Bst 41b (Sly) 0
Mr. Harvey's Prestige, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b ...(Simpson) 0
Mr. Rogers's Leybourne, 4 yrs, 7st 101b...(J. Mann) 0
Lord Clii'den's Billy 13,5 r, 4 yrs, Tat 101 b (Charlton) 0
Mr. Reeves's Abdatlab, 6 yrs, 7st 71b.. (A. Cowley) 0
Lord Waterford's Miss Hayes, 5 yrs, 7st 71b (Doyle) 0
Mr. E. R. Clark's Piumpatead, 7st 51b (T. Sherwood) 0
Mr. Endsburgh's Ham bletouisr, 7st 21h (G. Mann) 0
Mr. Le Terriere's Amber Witch, 63t 121 b (Aldcroft) 0
Sir W. Booth's Tremble, 3 yrs. Est ..........(Kendall) 0
Mr. Mare's Kitty of Coleraine filly, sst (S. Steggles) 0
Betting-5 to 2 agst Kitty of Coleraine filly, 7to 1
each agst Faux Pas and Leybourne, 8 to 1 each agst
Prestige and Amber Witch, and 10 to 1 each agst
Grasshopper and Puritan. Won by a length, the second
beating the third by half a length, Amber Witch fourth.
Run in 1 min. 15 sec.
The Sussex Plate of 50 Bove., added to a Sweepstakes of
3 soya. each; two yrs old, sst 21b; three, 7st 61b;
four. Sst 711); five and upwards, Bss 12lb; mares and
geldings allowed 31b; winners extra; the winner to
be sold for 100 sovs., and allowances if to be sold for
less. Half a mile.
Sir C. Resilient's Flounce, Est 111 b (401.) ...(Carroll) 1
Mr. Barnarci's Lady Isabel, 6st 111 b (401.) (Arthur) 2
Mr. Lawrence's Heroine, 7st 71b (401.) (Ellett) 3
Mr. Shrimpton's Arlette, 5 yrs,7st 71b (401.) (Brice) 0
Lord Waterford's Roller, 4 yrs, 7st (401) (Doyle) 0
Mr. S. Scott's Gaiety filly, Est 111 b (40/ )(A. Cowley) 0
Mr. Cameron's False Alarm, sst 10to (400 (Palmer) 0
Mr. Rogers's Ley bourne, 7st 121 b (60l) ...(Flatman) 43
Mr. Buries Last Chance, sst 101b(401.) (T. Sherwood)
Duke of Richmond's Buckhoubd, 7st (401.) (Charlton) 0
Mr. Le Terriere's Amber Witch, 7st 21b (Aldcroft)
Mr. Bingley's Christiana, 7st 21b (401) ...(Preece) 0
Mr. Hewitt's Merlin, 3
yrs, sst 10:b (401.) (Kendall) (3
Mr. Wortlel's g by Idas, sst 101 b (40/ )...(J.Goater)
Mr. Sherring's Rage, 2 yrs, 4as (401) ...(Fordham) o
Betting-4 to 1 agst Heroine, sto I each agst Ar-
lette, Roller and Rage, 6 to 1 agst BuJithound, 8 to 1
against Leybourne, 9to 1 sgst Lady Isabel. Won by
half a length; a neck between second and third. Run
in 51 sec.
The course was again very fully attended, and the
card, if it lacked a " Brighton Stakes" to give it import-
ance, afforded some very close contests, and an abun-
dance of sport. The fields, in some instances having
been small, time was well kept. and the cheap excur-
sionists, many of whom were obliged to leave on Wed-
nesday, long before the termination of the racing, were
enabled to save the return train, without losing any of
the sport.
WEDNESDAY'S RACES.—THE TRIAL STAKES..--In
our return of this race we accidentally omitted to state
that the betting on the deciding heat was 5 to 4 on Little
Savage, who won a remarkably fine race by a head.
LATEST ST. LEGER BETTING.
3to 1 aget Songstress (t. sto 1 agst Daniel O'Rourke
freely.) 15 to 1 agst Harbinger.
4 to 1 agst Stockwell.
etew. General Anson
Stewards for 1853, and Lord Chesterfield for the
a2nodtothlealgisotn. Captainugur'
Rous
Augur.
The Hen
are the
Club races.

The races commence this-day (Friday) at ono o'clock.
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RACES.--FIRST DAY.
The Champagne Stakes of 10 soya. each, h ft, for two
yrs old. Six furlongs. (9 Subs.)
Mr. W. Palmer's Exact, Bst 41h (Wells) 1
Mr. Taylor's fby Orlando, out of Gametal-a, Bst 41b 2
Mr. Mmoicy's Romeo, 86t 71b 3
Won in a canter.

The North Staffordshire Stakes (Handicap) of 10 sous.
each, five ft, and three only if declared, 100 added if
three start. (29 Subs., 15 of whom declared.)
Mr. Lengshavv's Wilmot, 5 yrs, Est 10Ib (Wells) 1
Mr. Cop2lann's Candlewick, 5 yrs, 6st 81b
Betting-3 to lon Candlewick. Won by a ntek
The Scurry Stakes of 3 soya. each, h ft, and 25 added.
Heats, three-quarters of a mile. (3 Subs.)
Mr. Walters's The-Colonel (late Welch Harper) 3
yts (401.), Est 41b
Mr. Walker's Alma, 5 yrs, (20/.), 7st 31b 3 2
Mr. Carr's Lady Jane, 3 yrs, (201.), sst 91b
The first heat was won in a canter, and the seoond by
half a neck.
The Tradesmen's Plate (handicap) of 50/. A mile and
a half.
Mr. Jennings's Remunerator, 7st 101b...(W. Sharpe) 1
Mr. Shirley's Miss Fanny, 4 yrs, Bst 71b
Mr. Brickley's Royal George, 3 yrs, 6st 2lb 3
Mr. Martin's Shilmalier West, 5 yrs, 7st 10Ib 4
Mr. Jone's Wee Wee, 3 yrs, Est 61b 5
Won by halt a length.
SECOND DAY.—The Workmen's Plate of 501. TWO

____ ___
The Borough miles and a half.
Mr. Peace's Stranger's atuglater, 5 yrs,
3
Mr. Copeland's The Director, 3 yrs, Sat 1071sbt (IW3lbell.s.).
21
Mr. Copeland's Lady Bibins, 6 yrs, Est 10th
110 and three. One m •
.s ot 5 m
sons,b eortalse', ohyn:catiwt,‘,'.v:efrfti
.5Y 0. /. , added -
_quarters.
Ntr. 'leaning's Remt.
aerator. 5
Kr 2
. Lon Wilmunt, 8,4 2113
Mr. Peace's Ghelstb Sing}, 4 yrs, Sst 6th ............ ... 3
~
. Won by a length.'
yrs, ist 101 b (Sharpe) 1
A liurdle
by the
pre°. (Tasker) beaot quarts
r-
' ofthe Vale, Ploughboy,
4.; Queen
f"1"' 9' ken) a ,w-n in the,,e3hf:;:ts,
cil3'xtlrevraa.:l:)6t
and'Uttoxerer. Siak'e
(I'f
"ve.
"eh'
The Handicap of 5 sous. each. Old 30 added, OEO
mile .ntd a halt, Was won
by,Mr. Copeland's Thunder-
bolt (live Colonei). ..;
t. - yrs, 65t. 101 b (Stanway),
_lyating
Mr. ,t'adl-w's -Ady Bibinu, 6 yrQ, sst 41b, Mr. Walker's
George,
A 3
Yl Thenlr La' ', '''c' t,;l3'':°o'''9l'itti Bst,t3t: .on
.BS:it Stakes etAls
l. ofb b,
1 (usseotkva.lnes eachPa 3,
;B: o 37
a l
once round and a tlialanee, were won by Marn.dClospe'r'idad.e(ilt:
beating Mr.
Martin's Shilmalier West, 5 yrs, B,st 41b, by a neck.
r'll`).l.relS3tral.. gei's Daughter, 5 yrs, 8,4 4th, and

FRIDAY EVE

COMTE DTORSAY.
Alfred Comte d'Orsay died at Paris on Tuesday
last. and perhaps no raDn of ruined fortunes and
blighted hopes ever left so large a number of admiring
and attached friends to mourn his loss. The solution
of this social phenomenon is, that his disposition was
singularly kind, sympathizing, and affectionate;
and
although som3 of the selfishness of the man of the
world clung to him as the inevitable result of his
course of life, he never contracted the hardness and
insensibility of that character. Ils time, his influ-
ence, his firm judgment, and his purse
(so long as
there was anything in it) were always at the service
of those who wanted them ; and the foolish and wrong
actions from which he saved hundreds by timely aid
or spirited remonstrance, will form an ample set-off
haveh been
to tose wch, we fear with only too much reason,
imputed to himself.
He was born towards the commencement of 1798.
His father was General Comte d'Orsay, a distin-
guished soldier of the empire, from whom, however,
we believe, he inherited little beyond his gallant spirit,
his handsome person, and his name. His only sister,
the Duchess de Grmmont, married, when very
young, into one of the historic French families, and
we need hardly add, is one of the most beautiful and
accomplished women in Prance. He would, Conse-
quently, have wanted hardly any advantage anllowed the
age which
birth or connexion could bestow, had his beenlife
v
spent in his native country, and had he followed
originally des-
tined. Unhappily for him, and for some others whose
fate, in their own despite, was inextricably blended
with his, he ceased to reside in France before his
military profession for which he cva
career had well commenced, and he left the army
under circumstances which, after every
allowance
has been made for the peculiar nature of the tempta-
tion to which he yielded, must be admitted to have
cast a temporary cloud upon his name.
It is through no less a person than Lord Byron
that Count D'Orsay's name became first associated
with the notabilities of his age. It seems that, in
1819 or 1820, the Count had paid a visit to London
of some month
io 'ns s d
duration, and had kept a journal of
his observat an impressions there. In April,
1823, B vron became acquainted, at Genoa, with Lord
and Lady Blessington, with whom D'Orsay was
then travelling, and it would appear from the follow-
ing letter that the journal was then submitted to the
noble poet's persual :
~ I return the Count * *'s Journal, which is a very
extraordinary production, and of a most melancholy
personally, most of the personages and so-
truth in all that regards high life in England. I know,
or knew
desks which be describes, and, after reading his re-
marks, have the sensation fresh upon me as if I had seen
yesterday. I would, however, plead in behalf of
some ptions, which I will mention by-and-by.
The roost singularee thing is how he should have pene-
tratedtileme -aienwsott theex fact, but the mystery of English ennui,
nd-twenty. I was about the same age when I
made the seine discovery in almost precisely the same
circles (for there is scarcely a person mentioned whom
I did not see nightly or daily, and was acquainted more
or less intimately with most of them)—but I never
could have described it so well. 11 'cut etre Francais,'
to this effect."
A few days afterwards, Lord Byron addressed
d'Orsay himself as follows:
"My dear Count . . . . (if you will permit me to ade
dress you so familiarly), you should be content with
writing in your own language, like Grammont, and suc-
ceeding in London as nobody has succeeded since the
days of Charles the Second and the records of Antonio
Hamilton, without deviating into our barbarous lan-
guage—which you understand and write, however, much
better than it deserves.
" My ' appi.obation,' as you are pleased to term it, was
very sincere, but perhaps not very impartial; for, though
I love my country, I do not love my countrymen—at
least, such as they now are. And, besides the seduction
of talent and wit in your work, I tear that to me there
was the attraction of vengeance. 1 have seen and felt
much cf what you have described no well. I have
known the persons, and the reunions so described
(many of them, that is to say), and the portraits are so
like that I cannot but admire the painter no less than his
perforraance.
"hut I am sorry for you; for if you are so well nc-
quainted with life at your age, what will become of
never mind---en avant !—live while you can; and that
you when the illusion is still more dissipated? But
you may have the full enjoyment of the many adaan.
tapes of youth, talent, and figure, which you possess, is
the wish of en—Efiglishman—l suppose, but it is no
treason; for my mother was Scotch, and my name and
my family are both Norman; and as for myself, I am of
no country."
D'Orsay's acquaintance with Lady Blessington, which irresistibly swayed the whole current of his
life, is said to have commenced about 1822, at Va-
lence, where his regiment was then quartered. She
was then exceedingly handsome, and be was led away
a willing captive by seductions from whose thrall he
never appears to have made so much as one deter-
mined effort to break free. The first great sacrifice
imposed upon him—and to a man of his undoubted
courage and sense of military honour it must have
been a terrible one—was the abandonment of his
profession when his regiment was ordered into active
service, on the occasion of the French invasion of
Spain, under the Due d'Angouleme, in 1825. Even
a call of this peremptory kind could not tear him from
the side of the enchantress, and, from gratitude as
well as from affection, he remained content to her
death. To compensate him in some sort, a marriage
was made up, under Lady Blessington's auspices,
between him and the daughter of her Lord. It
was an unhappy and most unfortunate union ; and
no partial or indulgent feelings
should induce us to be unjust
towards the living.
towards the dead
Lady Harriet was in the first blush of
d 3
and she was pre-erninently endowed with
beauty, grace, talent, and accomplishment. It is im-
possible to imagine a more truly feminine, gentle,
and winning creature, or one better qualified to aPt
predate her husband. She did appreciate him, and
the misfortune was that he never appreciated her;
indeed, he never lived enough with her to know the
value of what he was throwing away. Her youth, hardly
fortune
was very large, and the greater part of it was left at
his disposal. It is supposed that he received—or that
his creditors or assignees received—in one shape or
•
m her Irish estates.
another, more than 100,0001. fro
This is the part of his story
to gloss over ; but it is too
notorious to be ignored in
any biographical notice making the smallest preten-
sion to authenticity.
His social and intellectual qualities are those on
which his friends and admirers will be most eager. te°
and extended information, profound knowledge
dwell. It was not merely that he
possessed varle"
of the
springs of human action, tact, fancy, versatility, and
all the numerous qualities, or shades of qualities,
which go to make up that composite and indefinable
thing called wit. He was the best-bred man we ever
knew ; and good breeding of the highest order is not
to be acquired by study, like an art. Its perfection
consists in never giving pain, either from ignorance
or designedly. It therefore requires the most exqui-
site fineness of perception to discover what is pleasing
or displeasing to others, and the most imperturbable
good nature to turn the discovery to good
account, so
s
always
as to diffuse agreeable emotions and promo"'
friendly feelings. It was d'Orsay's unceasing
every
aim, particularly at Gore House, to make
influence over
one, at home and at their ease ; and he r.
sure to address his conversation, "did
rally and unaffectedly, to any shy and embarrass.ne
member of the company, till he saw that any Passg,
to as hwkwardness or embarrassment was at an end.
his own circle of intimates was un-
bounded, and it was fairly earned by the soundnessiffi. and disinterestedness of his counsels when any Elided
oleo, that brougt
the conduct ofpersons of
culty or misunderstanding caused him to be appealed
mediator or adviser. We incline to thin hese
it was his practice of giving advises and of directing
-'weight and P°s .
about
coolness which long
Basted between him and Louis Napoleon, who,;ft king
than any Public man living, is in the habit °IA Nay
Wits a thorough Bonapartist, and a firm
counsel exclusively with his own mind. rin the
oleon over
sPell-like power of the bare name of Nalis -
uniformly
Frenchmen. His most earnest wishes were
the coup
with the Prince-President ; but be regarded
nerte to use
'la
(re tas having been effected en pure .
he last that
his own expression 'and he contended to:
a higher,
Louis Napoleon might have attained .
enviable position,
nobler, more useful, and more truly e---and without
without the breach of a single obligation! ..
id moralist.
an approximation to what the most rig
would denounce as a crime.
a had been the
When the old Earl of Norwich, W..°
re-appeared at
wit of Charles the First's Court, re-ao-ted a dead
Whitehall after the Restoration, be was voted have voted
bore.. No extent of prejudice could ever pleasing
d'Orsay less than a most cultivated and
to France
believe
member of society ; but on his final return
could be
three years before his death, few Frenchment Englishmen
deemed his incontestab'e social superiority.. was
brought to acknowledge what most
He was
only the
always regretting England, and; I and the never
artistic and literary life of Paris, her family, that
i failing attachment of his sister and
persisted in calling
at all reconciled him to what he
his " .expatrietion" from our shores To ccnclude, it
may induce many
erring and mie •
this
dulgent towards the memory' of
accomplished gentiensae,
to be essured thas,aitst'h-i:ifil fast British
led, but kind, generoue and Acf impressions in
moralist. to be in-
, prejudtses or our
Et:gland bore
t '
, atnnoey to our overflowing with
tiresomeness, his last we‘ Plied to °v
_3 ,
our honesty,
cherished r;collectiorofour
es
and cur truth --Chroeiele: eischore - ~

t urvey of
THE 0,
officer of the Corps has,. within the
e Ordnance Engineering
I.ist. day or two, been in this neighbourhood making the pre.
held yesterday on
ilitimellinasrY oh.ieryetions previous to commencing the Govern-
---,NAxcE SURVEY OF SCOTLAND.--An
THE SUlCinn I AT
N aLAIDEN•LANF•—An inquest was
the district.—Ke/so Nail.
pr,prietor of the dining-rooms, Maiden-lane, who committed
suicide by precipitating into a watlr cistern. Ver-
dict—Temporary insanity,