The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-23 00:00:00

FILE SUN, LONDON,

SPORTING NOTES.

No, CCXC.
THE EGIIAM MEETING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—Trie majority of the stakes at this meoticg
holdeu on the famed Runnymede do not close until this
evening. 'The list shows five-races for Tuesday, and the
sAmo number for Wcdriesda,y; four out of these only
have yet closed.
The Surrey and Middlcir.x Stakes, two miles 220
yards, ought to he carried of; by HESSE HOMBURG; but
if it ehcuid not be thought by the Captain worth run-
ning for, BILBERRY will, in probability, secure the
stakes. _ _ _

The King John Stakes of 25 s.ovs. each, 10 ft, with
50 added, notwithstanding the mighty names of Ciuens
and Pharos being enrolled in the list, will be won by
Goss, who has an allowance of 3ibs., Bountiful, in all
likohnood, being the second animal.
The Runnymede Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, &c.,
over the mile count?, will probably produce the most
interesting race of the first day. Dame Tattle, Lady in
Waiting, Hatabletonian, and Merry Peal, have all shown
forth lately in a very favourable light. Longinus at the
weight-8g for a five years ald—and over the length in
which ho was to most advantage, must be highly dan-
gorouc; in fact, if I look to him or LADY IN WAITING
to produce the winner, with Merry Peal and Dame
Tattle in the third and fourth positions, I think I shall
about foreshadow the result. _ _

The only stake closod on Wednesday is that 'yclept
the Ilagna Charts, for two and three years old. This
ought to be won by Mr. Clarke's POETESS; for, with her
allowance as a mare, and 51bs as having been beaten
more than once, she will only have to carry Bst 61b;
which, I think, bad as she is, she may be able to do.
After her Titvistock looks as good as any thing.
The betting this morning on the Egham events is as
follows:—Surrey and Middlesex Stakes—Even on Besse
Homburg, 2 to 1 agst Bilberry, 3 to 1 each agst Con-
stantine and Edward of York. King John stakes—
Even on Gossip, 4 to 1 each sgit Cineas. Bracelet, and
Bountiful, 5 any other. The Runnymede Slakes-5 to 2
agst Lady in Waitin!, 3 to 1 agst Dame Tattle, 4 any
other. I am, Sir, &e.,
Aug. 23. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

COURT Ci RC ti L AR.
OSBORNE, SATURDAY.

Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
with their Royal Highnesses Princess Louisa, Prin-
cess Helena, and Prince Arthur, embarked at Tri-
nity-wharf, in the Royal steam-yacht Fairy, at a
quarter-past four o'clock yesterday afternoon, and
proceeded to Cowes-roads, to witness the regatta and
aquatic sports which took place there.
The Royal party returned at half-past six o'clock.
The Countess of Desert, Lord Colville, and Colonel
Bouverie were in attendance.
Duke George and the Grand Duchess of Mecklen-
burg, attended by Madame Jaffimovitch and M.
Chrontschoff, arrived at a quarter before seven, on a
visit to the Queen.
SUNDAY.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert, accompanied by the Baroness Spetb, and at-
tended by the Countess of Desart and the Hon. Mary
Seymour, drove out yesterday afternoon in the neigh-
bourhood of Ryde.
Lord Colville was in attendance on horseback.
The Royal party returned to Osborne at half-past
seven o'clock.

Lord Milford, Mr. Caesar Hawkins, President of
the College of Surgeons, and Mr. W. A. Eade, bad
interviews on Saturday with Mr. Secretaryr Wal-
pole, at the Home. office.
The Cambridge University Commission had a
meeting on Saturday at the official residence of the
First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street.
Present—the Bishop of Chester, the Dean of Ely,
Professor Sedgwick, and the Rev. W. H. Bateson
(secretary).
Dispatches were sent from the Colonial-office, on
Saturday, to the Governor of New Zealand. Dis-
patches were received on Friday night from the Go-
vernors of the West India Islands.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, AUG. 21.
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA.

SAILING MATCH FOR THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON
_ _

CUP, ♦ALUE 100 GUINEAS.
At eleven o'clock the following yachts started with a
nice little breeze from the N N.B.:—

Mosquito cutter, 50 tons, Lord Londesborongh.
Aurora ditto, 45, Le Merchant Thomas, Esq.
Arrow ditto, 102, T. Chamberlayne, Esq.
Lavrock ditto, 72, Capt. C. namlyn Williams, R.N.
Gloriana schooner, 134, Joseph Free, Esq.
Claymore ditto, 138, A. Campbell, Esq.
Alarm ditto, 248, Joseph Weld, Esq.
The wind was in favour o, the smaller vessels, and the
cutters hung well together, the schooners hanging on
their quarters, so that there was scarcely a minute be-
tween them on rounding the Nab, the Arrow at 12.44,
the Mosquito 12.45, Aurora 12.48, Lavrock 12,501,
Claymore 12.51 i, Gloriana 12,52, Alarm 12.54. The
wind decreasing, the schooners made but little ground;
the cutters got into Shanklin Bay, when it fell stark
calm, and the committee, with the commodore, in the
Medina steamer, which accompanied the yachts, decided
soon after two o'clock on terminating the race and
agreeing with the wind for that day. The Mosquito
was at this time the first vessel, the Arrow the second,
the schooners a mile astern; the orders were no sooner
given than the anchors were let go. Soon after a light
breeze sprung up from the S.E., enabling the yachts to
return to Cowes Roads by the road they went out.
They aro to start again on Monday morning, when we
hope there will be a stiff breeze.
The following yachts are at the station:,—Her Ma-
jesty's yachts, the Victoria and Albert, the Fairy, and
the Elfin; the Xarifa, the Earl of Wilton, Csoema mseordpoernet;
the Capricorn, C.R. M. Talbot, Esq,, M.P.,Vice-Comrno-
dore • Alarm, Joseph Weld, Esq.; Bacchante, Pearl, Eliza-
beth,'Wizard, Amazon, lone, Nymph, Stella,
Osprey, Constance, Gauntlet, Lavrock,Turquoise, Gip -;
Queen, Susan, Aurora, Arrow, Camilla,, Spider, Cygnet,
Claymore, Mosquito, Nautilus, Dolphin, Plover, Ripple
Freak, Fancy, Leda, Beatic, Frisk, Pandora, Mariia`u
Sybil, Lotus, Flower of Yarrow, &c., &c. At one time
we counted thirty-two schooner yachts, and nearly sixty
cutters and pleasure vessels. The steam-packets with
difficulty thread their way through them.
Aug. 22—A fine day, with a slashing breeze from the
N.E.; such a spanking breeze to-morrow, and we may
calculate on a fine day's sport. Barometer, 30.01.

A FRAGMENT.
Night fades away, and Morning's gradual birth
Sheds bloom and freshness o'er the awakened earth,
Gladly the wild lark flutters towards the Day,
The diamond dew-drops glitter on the spray,
And the rose-petals open to the sun,
Blushing—like Beauty—at being gazed upon.
R. S. M.

HER MAJESTY'S JOURNEY TO BALMORAL.—GLOU-
CESTER, SATURDAY.—To-day a special meeting of the town
council of Gloucester has been held, to take into considera-
tion the measurese3 tiwt
ehhein on
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the Midland Railway, has placed himself in' communication
with the Mayor of Gloucester, and the necessary arrange-
ments are in preparation for the fitting reception of her
Majesty. In consequence, however, of the unruly conduct of
the public on the occasion of the last visit of her Majesty to
Gloucester (in the autumn of 1849), no persons, except offi-
cials, will be admitted upon the railway platform on her Ma-
jesty's arrival. It has been resolved by the council to-day
that an address shall be presented to her Majesty and Prince
Albert, and this will constitute the principal feature of the
demonstrations of leyalty to be made on the occasion of the
expected Royal visit. Accommodation, however, will be
provided along the line of railway adjacent to the station for
the public to view the Royal progress.
COMPOSITION OF PARLIAMENT.—The new House
of Commons comprises the large number of 101 barristers
and 18 attorneys returned. Of merchants, manufacturers,
and wholesale dealers there are 99, and to these classes may
also be added 20 bankers and 2 brewers; while of occupations
more sparingly represented may be mentioned 1 architect,
James Bell; 1 builder, William Cubitt' 3 engineers, Messrs.
Locke, Stephenson, and Peto ; 3 medical men, Messrs. Hume,
Brady, and Michel. An exact estimate can scarcely be
formed of the railway influence, but 11 magnktes of that in-
terest are certainly present in the persons of Messrs. Glyn,
Hudson, Waddington, Laing, M'Gregor, Chaplin, H. Brown,
Cobbold, Coffin, Hawkins, Stephenson, and Ricardo. Smaller
directors and endless shareholders will be found among all
classes in the House. The army is fully represented by 67
of its members, while the navy can only count 13. The
Irish Peers present in thea y,
lwLaow e;10n Housec k ,and Palmerston,
are Earl A ne s
andley ,
Viscounts Barrington,G
Lord Hotham. Since the Reform Act not a Parliament met
without some popular Member being returned for two places,
and having to take his choice between them. But no such
occurrence marks the present Parliament. Knaresborough,
however, has returned a superabundance of Members, from
the accident of equality on the poll ; and death has occa-
sioned three vacancies, in the cases of Messrs. Duncuft,
Watson, and Granger. The closest contest has been
Youghal, while in the large numberbf 167 places there was
no contest whatever.
Tue ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. -- Among the
fashionable audience present at the performances at the
Royal Italian Opera on Saturday evening, we observed the
Prince and Princess Masimo, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl
of Munster, the Countess of Kinnoull and the Ladies Eliza-
beth and Auguste Hay, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney,
Viscount and Viscountess Maidstone, Viscount Clifden,
Viscount Dungannon, Lord John Nay, Lord Henry Gordon
Lennox, M.P., Lord and Lady Francis Gordon, Lady Bate-
man and the Hon. Miss Banbury, Lord Frederick and Lady
Augusta Gordon Hallyburton and the Misses Kennedy
Erskine, and the Hon. Louisa Carey, Lord Frederick Fitzroy,
Lady Macfarlane, Lady Elizabeth Bulteel and Miss Bulteel,
Baron de Steinberg, Mr. Justice Talfourd and Lady and the
Misses Talfourd, the Hon. Major Pitt, the Hon. Major
Needham, the Hon. G. Mlles, the Hon. G. S. Jerningham,
the Hon. H. L. Bathurst, the Hon. Arthur Hay, the Hon.
Mr. Hanbury the Hon. E. S. Russell, the Hon. C. Hay, Sir
Henry ebb,'Sir George Armytage, Sir Abdy, Sir
James
Ferguson, Sir Charles Marshall, Sir E. Page Turner,
Sir Frederick Trench, Sir J. Paul Joddrell, Colonel Freestun,
M.P., Colonel T. B. Lawrence, attaché to the American Le-
gation, &a,

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KENNINGTON. COMMONe—The disgraceful scenes
perpetrated on this common for some years will soon be put
put an end to, as workmen have now commenced operations
under a recent Act, passed to make it a public park. A
large piece of the common, exactly opposite the Horns
Tavern, has been enclosed with a hoarding, for the purpose
of making a lodge, in the form of one of Prince Albert's cot-
tages, exhibited at Hyde-park, . All the filter and rubbish
will be screwed near that portion of the common required to
be levelled, and the arranging of the walks and planting of
, the usual time for removing
trees will take place in October
trees.

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, A UG. 22.
The Europa has arrived, with advices from Ne w
York to the 11th inst., arid 726,000 doll?. in specie.
Tile Pacific arrived out on the Bth.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald, writing on the 10th, says that President Fill-
more teed idr. Secretary Webster had had a violent
altercation relative to the fisheries question, and that
Mr. Webster was about to retire from the Cabinet.
In confirmation of this, several waggon-loads of fur-
niture belonging to Mr. Webster had been shipped on
board a Boston packet. Mr. Webster had written to
a friend that he would visit Washington to wind up
his business, and retire.
In the House of Representatives, on the 10th, the
Speaker laid before the House a message from the
President of the United States in reply to a resolu-
tion asking what has been done on the subject of the
fisheries on the coast of British North America. He
gives no information different to that heretofore com-
municated to the Senate. The message was referred
to the committee on foreign affairs.
A schooner, which arrived at Boston on the 9th
from Prince Edward's Island, reported the seizure
of the schooner Lion for fishing off the islands. The
vessel was reported to have been in a calm at the
time, and fully three miles from land.
The fishing schooner Florida was seized and taken
into Charlotte Town on the sth.
The New York Herald says the fisheries question
had become the chief topic of discussion throughout
the country. " There appears," it says, "to be but
one opinion as to the final result of the controversy,
and tumhsianataysit.psh,eectilrhtnaj
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caution is exercised by both Governments, the finale
of the flare•up on the part of our provincial neigh-
bour mey really terminate more seriously than was at
first apprehended. We have a rumour from the fish-
ing banks that one American vessel has actually been
fired into, which may or may not be a fiction ; but
at all events, if the statements of the passengers and
crew of the American schooner Lion, of Brookhaven,
which was seized off Prince Edward's Island, be
correct, the British are certainly carrying things
beyond their proper limits. Those on board of the
Lion at the time state that she was becalmed, and
fully three miles from the land. This must be in-
quired into with promptness, and, if the story is
correct, she must be released. According to a dis-
patch from Boston, another schooner, the Florida,
was captured and taken into Charleston on the sth
inst."

The Boston Advertiser of the 7th publishes a state-
ment of the captain of a fishing-vessel arrived at Co-
hasset, to the effect that an American fishing-vessel
had been fired into and sunk by a British cruiser, for
refusing to come to when ordered.
The Boston Transcript of the 7th says that the
condemnation and sale of the American schooner
Carrel had been ascertained to be wholly illegal, as
the seizure was a mistake, and intended for another
vessel.
A dispatch, dated Warrington, August 9, says—
" Mr. Webster returned to this city this morning.
Commodore Penny was to have an interview with
Admiral Seymour on Saturday.
The fishing question will, in Mr. Webster's opinion,
be settled.
The Administration does not wish Congress now to
pass the measures about light-duties. They wish to
reserve the question.
Havannah advices to the 2d inst. state that great
excitement prevailed in consequence of the alleged
discovery of a political conspiracy, in which a number
of influential persons were said to be engaged. A large
number of seditious documents were reported to have
been found, and the persons accused of circulating
them had been arrested.
The markets were generally unchanged, and but
little business was doing.
The Herald says there is reason to believe that the
Japan expedition has been abandoned.
On the 9th the Senate requested the President to
communicate all the correspondence that had taken
place between the United States and Peru regarding
the Lobos Islands. The President had not replied to
the Senate, but a letter from Mr. Secretary Webster
to Captain James Jewell, master of the barque Phi-
lomeia, had been published. It appeared to be in
reply to an inquiry as to whether citizens of the
United States could take guano from the Lobos
Islands without infringing on the rights of other
nations. The following is a copy of Mr. Webster's
letter :
" Department of State, Washington, June 5,1852.
" Sir,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 2d inst. inquiring whether citizens of the
United States can take guano from the Lobos Islands,
which aro situated near the coast of Peru, without in-
fringing upon the rights of the citizens, or subjects, or
Government of any other nation. In reply, I have to
inform you that if those islands should lie within the
distance of a marine league from the continent, or if,
being further than that distance, should have been dis-
covered and occupied by Spain or by Peru, the Peru-
vian Government would have a right to exclude there-
from the vessels and citizens of other nations, except
upon such conditions as it might think proper to pre-
scribe. There can be no doubt that the title of Peru to
the Chincha Islands, whence guano is now chiefly taken,
is founded upon the basis of discovery and occupancy.
That article was taken from those islands and used as a
manure by the Peruvians anterior to the conquest of Peru
by Spain. It continued to be so taken and used through-
out the Spanish dominions in that country, and this
practice has been kept up to the present day. Al-
though those islands are uninhabitable, the custom
of resorting to them from the neighbouring continent
for the purpose of procuring guano may be said to have
constituted such an occupancy of them as to give the
Sovereigns of the continent a rieht of dominion over
them under the law of nations. This department, how-
ever, is not aware that the Lobos Island were
hat t either
discovered or occupied by Spain or by Perus , or the
guano on them has ever been used for manure on the
adjacent coast or elsewhere. It is certain that the dis-
tance from the continent is five or six times greater than
is necessary to make them a
theredpen herdenc and,h teof pur-
On
suant to the public law•
probable that Benjamin Morrell, jun., who, as master of
the schooner Watson, of New York, visited those islands
in September, 1823,
may justly claim to have been their
discoverer. He gives a tall account of them in his nar-
rative, published in New York in 1832. Under these cir-
cumstances, it may be considered the duty of this
Government to protect citizens of the United
States who may visit the Lobos Islands for
the purpose of obtaining guano. This duty will
be more apparent when it is considered that the con-
sumera of Chincha Island guano in this country
might probably obtain it for half the price they now pay,
were it not for the charges of the Peruvian Government.
letterl
to shallctehnesesetqoucerntalyry
a vessel of war be ordered to repair to the Lobos
Islands for the purpose of protecting from moles-
tation any of our citizens who may wish to take guano
from them. communicate
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the iNcaatvey , a
and copy
suggof thisest that
" I um, Sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
" DANIEL WEBSTER.

" Captain James C. Jewell, Master of the
barque Philomeia."
" P.S.—lt is considered important that this letter
should not be made public at present?'
The Secretary of the Navy directed Commodore
M'Anley, of the Pacific squadron, to send a war vessel
citizens
The
Governmentg h t bo e f
Peru
lvhomi
to those islands to protect the interests of American
there.have lately, however, en-
deavoured to give proof to the United States Govern-
ment that they have exercised, long since, rights of
ownership of the Lobos Islands.
Mr. Joseph R. Ingersoll, of Philadelphia, bad been
nominated as Minister to England.
In the money-market exchanges had been in good
demand, London being quoted 1101 to 1101, and
Paris 5 15 to 5 13k.
Stocks had been active, and railroad bonds were in
request by capitalists.
The accounts from all the cotton growing districts
were extremely favourable, and the market continued
remarkably buoyant ; the stock on hand being small,
prices had advanced id. and per lb. The sales
for the preceding three days amounted to 9,400
bales. The " fall" trade bad scarcely commenced,
but sufficient had been done to denote a healthy, pro.
fitable business.
The sales of tobacco during the se period in-
cludes 73 hhds. of Kentucky, at &i came 7ic.; 40
hhds. of Savannah, at 35e.; 620 bales of Mayure, on
private terms, &C.
Scotch pig iron continues in great request, and is
sold at an advance, 100 tons have realised 21 dolls. at
six months.

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and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They supersede every
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Race-
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Solomons, Opticians, have invented invaluable preserving
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