The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-27 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER 27

be unacceptable ; but the time is coming in which it
will be a truism, and it is well for all the privileged
to be prepared for that. We speak truth with no in-
tent of harshness, but for the truth's sake, and for the
necessity of telling it. We shall be told how meritorious
and modest have been the Princes in giving up the
Commandership. in-Chief for the Colonelcies ; we shall
be sorry if they accept the sop, still more grieved if
.they permit the bargain to be made a merit of. This
Is the very time when true legitimate greatness is to
stand against pretence by unselfish magnanimity.
Let those who have this fine game to play tremble
to lose it. Justice and modest self-denial must
bind the loyal allegiance of the meritorious to a
state in which the favoured have already so many and
so mighty advantages. Last of all, the Duke was
Chancellor of Oxford • and the University, according
to time. honoured custom, is tuft-hunting to
catch a successor. Of co ursge,oinwghean the monks
user:
a new appropriation dreading
their natural propensities ifoonr
Who bellows f
ofco thte.ir fatth reuvwenerfui
are redoubled. courting r
an
Oxford big-wig ? What crop 800 pro,ectieenplike
that of fellowships ? The Earl
of
Derbyclear to monopoly..s
is as natu-
rally the idol of this class as the 8
fireworshipper. There are such men" thatL of the
Lord Fosse
in existence, men who have extended the very con-
fines. of science by their liberal andmenenlighted
there are Herschels, Brewstere, and
what
theirht equals
in other pursuits of learning and science—
right have they to expect prime honoursunfrduom the
University of Oxford ? Have its practice
prin-
ciples any thing in common with theirs ? The University chose the Duke of Wellington not for any
honour that it might desire to pay him, but for the
substantial advantage of countenance which it might
secure for itself. It will repeat the bargain, amid
the jeers of that part of the world that cares to notice
its proceedings, and afford another proof of what it is,
and what it ought not to be. A word with our co-
temporaries over the water. The Pays is angry, nut
only with the English journals, but with the Assem-
Mee Nationale, for doing honourable justice to the
Duke of Wellington's character. It is scandalized
at a comparison of Wellington with Napoleon. We
have little doubt that M. Guizot, who wrote the
article in the Assembles Nationale, meant to convey a
very powerful inuendo to the present Government of
France in setting the character of Napoleon in some-
what a true light by this comparison, most favourable
to the English General. The Assemblee has already
received a private unofficial warning for its indiscre-
tion. A public and official one might have been
too much even for French liberty of the press.
But let us put this one consideration to the Pays,
so indignant at a comparison which we feel dues
Napoleon at least as much honour as his com-
peer. The French journalist has, no doubt, read the
accounts of Bonaparte's battles in the writings of those
who were devoted to his glory. We have studied
them in the same books, and we should be glad to
know the combat, of all those that have rendered the
name of the Emperor what it is, in which he would
have been pleased to see Wellington in the command
of the opposite army ? Read Savary, and then say
bow many of the great battles which Bonaparte won
Wellington would have allowed him to win if he had
been at the head of the contending forces ? 'Would
Austerlitz itself have been one ? We propose a not
very impossible test to diligent and impartial readers,
to men who inquire that they may be instructed
and satisfied, and we propose as evidence the testi-
mony of those most adverse to us. Let the dispute
be carried on upon this almost mathematical basis,
or let it drop. We do not seek, proud as we are of
the British General, to make the occasion of honouring
his memory an opportunity for irritation to France.
We should pray that we might bury all animosity
with the ashes of our mighty champion. We should
trust that we shall never have to sigh for the revival
of his glories in another. Look at what the world
is doing in
peace; these two nations of France and
England in especial. Look at our national manufac-
tures, at the erection of a new cotton factory at
Bradford, covering six acres of ground, of another
of like dimensions contemplated at Bolton, and both
containing only small parts of a great accession of
steam-power, amounting to the calculated strength of
13,717 horses, in the course of one year. Look at the
comfort exemplified by the 700 cottages built round
the Blackburn factory for the workers. Look at
France, with its cabinet-work, receiving unexampled
orders for what it can execute best from all parts of
the world, but in no small degree from England.
Look at the evidence of the lamented Mr. Porter, on
the wine-trade, and the probability, by the mere
sense of the measure, of our extending our commerce
largely with the French wine-growers by a great
reduction of duty. Look at Australia, already yield-
ing to us, and to all who choose to seek it (French-
men, if they please), much more annual treasure,
gained by mere toil, than the plunder of India ever
afforded to tyrannous avarice, and with the hope,
too, of a grander future, of which gold is only the
means and harbinger. Behold ! and answer if the
world can now have any future but that of peace ;
or if the cliaturbor of ito tranquillity oun merit any-
thin; but its Anmingled and unmitigated execration.
—Weekly Dispatch.

SPORTIN G NOTES.
No. CCCXV.
NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The number of meetings this week, though
amounting t() seven, does not come up to the average of
the last two or three weeks. Pains Lane is marked for
to-day and to-morrow ; the Newmarket First October
(in September, by the bye) for Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday ; Chesterfield, Wednesday and Thursday;
Weaverthorpe, Wednesday ; Western and Upton-on-
Severn, Thursday ; and Brecon, Thursday and Friday.
Six out of the seven meetings possess only local attrac-
tion. The seventh, at head quarters, will be the nucleus
of the metropolitan division.
The Trial Stakes of 10 soya. each, A.F., will as usual
be the first race to-morrow. This stake, with the 10 and
20 sous. Sweepstakes over the T.Y.C., does not close and
name until this evening.
The Third Triennial Produce Stakes, D,I. (two miles
and 97 yards), out of its seventy-three nominations, will
have some five or six at the post, namely, Hernandez,
Midas, Ariosto, Lamartine, Aaron Smith, and perhaps
the Ban, Leybourne, or Abderhaman. The betting for
this race has been almost exclusively confined to HER-
NANDEZ and ARIOSTo, who, tooled by Batler and Nat,
will undoubtedly be first and second. Laniartine, with
A. Day up, and Midas, with Norman, will probably be
the next two.

The Beckenham Stakes of 300 sovs. each, h ft, T.Y.C.
(five furlongs 136 yards), will probably be contested by
a trio, namely, Filly by Touchstone, out of Kitty of
Coleraine, Estrella, and one of Lord Eglinton's; the first
named, not improbably turning out the winner.
The Grand Duke Michael Stakes of 50 sovs. each,
A.F. (one mile two furlongs and 24 yards), up to yester-
day booked one of the greatest certainties in creation for
the winner of the St. Leger, has given us yet another
lesson of the mutability of all earthly, and especially
turfy, affairs; the wires having yesterday flashed up
the startling announcement, that Stockwell had fallen
lame or broken down. The consequence of this is,
that nuns has become the favourite at very short
odds; and, under the guidance of A. Day, is expected
to find his way past the post first, although I fancy
that Lord Ribblesdale's starter will give him his work
to do.

Sylphine, notwithstanding her 6lbs extra, has but to
show for the Hopeful Stakes (half a mile) to frighten
seven-eighths of her opponents out of the field.
Tho match for 200, T.Y.O , between Catalpa, 4 yrs,
Bst 71b, and Flirt, 3 yrs, 7st 71b, ought to be won by the
latter.

The Fifth Triennial Produce Stakes, run on Wed-
day, in the absence of Pharos and Catherine Hayes, who
are said to be non-starters, will be won by PELION.
The St. Leger stakes aro a certainty for FRANTIC.
The Fourth Triennial Produce Stakes, run on Thurs-
day, is little better than a match between LONGBOW and
HOBBLE NOBLE, although the field will probably amount
to some eight or nine.
Elmsthorpe will win the Rutland Stakes, Pharold not
improbably occupying the second place.
Koh-i•noor, the crack for the great race at the Hough-
ton Meeting, received his quietus in the market on Fri-
day evening, his miserable performance in the race for
the Chesterfield, at Manchester, being the immediate
cause. Ho never possessed the slightest chance, in my
opinion, of winning either the Manchester race or the
Cambridgeshire.
Sharavogue, who has been in groat request, and was
second favourite for the Cesarewiteh, made such a,
wretched exhibition of himself at Leicester, in the race
for the Ladies' Plate, that he has been sent right out of
the market.
Mr. Wadlow has sold Trifle, by Sweetmeat, out of
Village Lass, to Mr. T. Parr, for 200 Isom and half the
Ladies' Plate at Leicester, some 36 sous, more.
At the Eglinton Club Races, Kingston's easily-
accomplished victory over Stilton—which, by the by,
was of the Alice Hawthorn kind, as he took the
lead,
was never approached, and won, with lots of weight to
spare, by half a dozen lengths—has led many to infer
that his chance at Bst 41b is not out for the Cesarewitcb,
and that he is quite as good as Faugh-a-Ballagh
ever was.
• The betting this morning is rather heavy, at the fol-
lowing prices:—Third Triennial-6 to 4 each apt Her-
nandez and Ariosto. Grand Duke Michael-5 to 2
agst Fllius, taken freely. oIT rl-6 10 4on SylPhih''.
pa
Triennial—Eves on Pelion. St. Leger to 1 on
Frantic. Fourth Triennial-6 to 4 each
agst Hohbie-2
Noble and Longfellow. Rutland-6 to 4on Elmsthorpc.
I am. Sir, 80,,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

Sept. 27.

ACCIDENT ON BOARD TSB CITIZEN A STEAMBOAT.
—On Saturday, about noon, as the Citizen A steamer was on
its passage from Chelsea to London-bridge, the stoker was
doing something to the machinery when his left hand was
drawn in between the crank and the frame of the engine,
and before it could be stopped, his hand was frightfully
broken and lacerated. On the vessel reaching Blackfriars-
bridge, one of the firemen procured a cab, and the stoker was
conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hozpital in a fainting state.
It was then found necessary to amputate three of his fingers,
and it is feared the whole of his hand win have to be re_
moved.

RALLYING CRT OF THE BI OOMER,c,-..“ On--for-
ward—to the breech I".—Age.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET' FIRST OCTOBER MEETING.
In the subjoined outline of the engegements fur the
ensuing •meeting au asterisk is prefixed to the horses
now at Newmarket.