The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-31 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

GOODWOOD RACES—(TtrEsn,tY.)
The Craven Stakes of 10 soya. each ; for three-year-olds,
ist. ; four yrs, Bst. 41b. ; 5 yrs, Bst, 10lb. ; 6 yrs, and aged,
Bst. 121 b. Mile and a quarter. The new Coun.e. Eleven
subscribers.
Mr. Bowes's Epirus, 5 yrs • (Scott) l
Duke of Richmond's Mus, 6 yrs
Lord Albemarle's Domino, 3 yrs .. 2
Mr. Isaac Day's Caravan, 5 yrs
4
Betting --6 to 4 agst Epirus (taken)-6 to 4 agst Caravan—.
and sto 1 agst 3lus. Mus made play at a good pace, Epirus
folloWing to the distance, where he challenged, and after a short
struggle won cleverly by a length. - Domino and Caravan were
several lengths astern of Mus.
Sweepstakes of 300 sovs. each, h. ft. ; for four-year-old colts,
71b.fillies, Bst, 21b. The Queen's Plate Course,
about three miles and three quarters. Twenty-one Subs.
Lord G. Bentinek's D'Egvil:e, by The C010ne1...( W. Day) 1
Lord G. Bentinck's b. c. 'Ratsbane, bro. to Maley Moloch... 2
Lord Chesterfield's b. f. Caroline Elvira 3
Betting—Even on Ratsbane, 6to 4 agst D'Egville,.. and
5 to 1 agst Caroline Ehrara.
Ratsbane had a lead of several lengths at starting, and kept
it without interrupt to the distance, where the mare, who
had been between him and D'Esrville thrciughout, gave up.
John Day immediately pulled in his horse and D'Egville, with
whom Lord George Bentinck had declared' not to win, ran by
the winning-post a length in advance of him.
The Lavant Stakes of 50 Sovs. each, 30 ft. ; for two-year old
colts, Bst. 71b. ' • and fillies, Bst. 31b.; the winner of the July
or Chesterfield Stakes, or either of the Two-year-old, Stakes
at Ascot, 21bs. extra. Half a mile. (15 Subs. )
Lord G. Bentinck's b. f. Crucifix (Sibs. extra)...(J. Day) 1
Lord Lichfield's Firefly, sister to Phosphorus
Lord Albemarle's ch. c. Exit
3
Betting.. to lon Crucifix, who cut out her opponents at
starting, was never headed, and won in a common canter by
two lengths.
The Drawing-room Stakes of 25 sovs. each, with a bonus, by
an indepentinnt subscription oflo sovs. each ; for three year
Derbyold colts, Bst, 71bs., and--I.4iies, Bst. 21b. ; the winner of the
or Oaks, bibs. ; the second, 4lbs. extra ; the
second to receive 100 sovs. out of the stakes. (Twenty-four
Subscribers to the Sweepstakes, and twenty-five to the
Bonus.) Once round. D. S. C.
Fulwar Craven's b. f. Deception
..(Trenn)
orus,
Mr. Thornhill's b. f. Merganser
.........
..................... Lord Exeter's c. Bosph by Reveller. ............ 3
Colonel Anson's b, c. Nickleby
...........
4
Duke of Richmond's ch, c. Glenlivat
Betting.-7 to 4on Deception-4 to 1 agst Merganser-6 to
1 agst Nickleby—and 7 to 1 agst Bosphorus.
Deception made all the running, followed by Reel and
Merganser, to the top of the hill in coming in, where Reel
gave in, and Bosphorus ran by Merganser, but without the
ability to keep in front of her more than a quarter of a mile ;
Deception's lead in the meantime, remained undisturbed, and
she won in a canter by four lengths.
The Plate was not run out when our express left the course.

REGATTA AT PUTNEY. •
The Thames, above Putney Bridge, on Monday, pre-
sented a most animated spectacle. The beauty of the
morning, so peculiarly adapted for a river match, in conse-
quence of there being the least possible wind out, coupled
with the fact of the whole of the competitors being picked
men, the very best that could be found at any plying place
above and below on the Thames, was sufficient to account
for the most extraordinary attendance we ever remember
to have seen, save only in the Cambridge and Oxford
struggle. The prizes were a purse of sovereigns, filled by
the Noblemen and Gentlemen comprising the London
Amateurs' Scullers' Club, the Guards, the Leander, the
Dolphin, and other crack crews.
At three o'clock precisely the following men went to
their stations :
J.. Phelps, Fulham (red) ; C. Hill, Hungerford (light
blue) ; T. Dyson, Kidney Stairs (green); 11. Shelton,
Lambeth (yellow); Doubledee, Lambet (black);
Freeman, Fulham (white).
At five minutes past three the signal was given, and for
a few seconds only they were abreast of each other.
Phelps then took the lead, and went out a length in ad-
vance of the whole lot. Hill next showed from among
the party, and Shelton and Doubledee scull and scull with
each other. Phelps kept the lead, pressed hard by Hill,
who was nearly on his quarter the whole distance. Phelps
came in first, Hill second, and Doubledee third. Shelton
was fourth, and but oue length astern.
Immediately afterwards the following took their places
for the second heat :
R. Coombes, Vauxhall (red and blue); Everard, Black-
friars (green and yellow) ; Newel, Battle Bridge (black
and white); Pocock, Lambeth (red sleeves, white body) ;
Maynard, Lambeth (white sleeves, brown body) ; Kelly,
Fulham (red and white stripes).
The start was as good as that of the previous beat, all
going away together. Pocock, who was in the middle,
slashed out at once, and took the lead in a style that sur-
prised all, and discomfited many, who began to consider
that he had been' kept in the back ground, and was now
going to carry all before him. His power, however, lasted
but a short time, and his place was speedily taken by
Coombes, who maintained the lead in le most gallant
style, coming in first, amidst loud and repeated cheers.
Newel was close upon Coombes all the way, and came in
two lengths behind him. Pocock was third.
The third heat was looked for with much anxiety.
Coombes was high in repute, and Newel was spoken of as
a likely man to cut out Phelps or Hill. The rain still de-
scended in torrents, but almost all the crews went out
again in the long boats, with not a dry thread upon them.
In this heat the distance was altered—the boats starting
from off the Vice-chancellor's, down to Avis's, and back
to Sprengate's boat-house.
On the gun being fired, Hill had the best of the start
and went in advance, but was soon overhauled by Coombes,
Phelps going in a second, and Hill being smartly chal-
lenged by Newel, who rowed abreast of him some minutes.
In nearing the flag-boat a long cutter touched a skiff,
which swung round and got in the way of the men. Im-
mediately afterwards an eight-oared galley, we believe be-
longing to Newell's party, came right athwart Coombes,
who was leading, and entirely prevented his rowing. A
general confusion ensued, in which the persons who had
been guilty of this shameful conduct had decidedly the
worst of it. hi the melee Phelps came in first, Hill second,
and Coombes next. The umpires consulted, and imme-
dia7tely decided that Coombes was entitled to claim the
first place, Phelps and Hill being next in succession, and
Newell out of the grand heat.
Every attention had been paid to the men at Avis's, and
dry clothing supplied them. Betting still continued brisk.
Coombes first for choice, and Phelps next. 2to I was
taken in several instances against Hill, while Coombes
found admirers enough to back him to win.
The distance in the grand heat was to start from the
Crab Tree, near Hammersmith-bridge, on the Middlesex
shore, down round a boat off Avis's and finish facing the
flag boat off Sprengate's ; and at a quarter past seven, Hill,
Phelps, and Coombes rowed towards the station, attended
by hundreds of boats, as, notwithstanding- the weather,
many other parties had come up to witness the final struggle.
The start which was to decide the event of the day was
almost electric. They were out of sight before many
imagined they were off. Coombes, by his peculiar style of
rowing, took the lead, Hill being close aside. The effort
was extraordinary on the part of Hill and Phelps, but
without success, Coombes rowed faster than ever we re-
member to have seen a stroke taken, and although opposed
to such superior odds in weight, came in a winner at least
six boats a head of the heavieit man, Hill was next, and
there was about the same distance between Phelps and
Hill. Coombes was dreadfully distressed.
The pi izes, which were most liberal, were afterwards
given at Avis's.

'way has just published Lord Brougham's answer
to Lord Londonderry's remonstrance against the his-
torical sketch of the late Marquis of Londonderry. It
is unique in its way. Lord Brougham commences by
paying a compliment to the Noble Marquis for the
calm and fair spirit, and the great abiltiy with which
the letter is written ; and then in the second page
wickedly gives the following proof of his Lordship's
great ability :--" What I have written I have written
of his foreign administration ; and if I am mistaken, it
is an error not of yesterday, but first adopted upon
very mature deliberation, and confirmed by all
subsequent observation and reflection. Permit me
very respectfully to add, that I can find
nothing in your remarks which has even a tendency to
shake that opinion. May I venture to say that I do
not even perceive you to have made the attempt !"
Having satisfactorily disposed of the opinions quoted in
the letter of Sir Walter Scott, Mr. Wyndham, Lord
Ripon, and others, his Lordship proceeds to point out
the blunders into which " the great, and truly amiable
sensibility on every thing which can affect a brother's
fame," had betrayed the writer. Oae of these blunders
is the charge brought against Lord Brougham, for having
offered in 1812, to negotiate peace with America, under
the auspices of a Minister whose foreign policy he had
so violently denounced, and to this his Lordship gives
the following mjld but sarcastic reply :
" I am the more desirous of drawing your Lordship's
attention to this the plain meaning of the passage, be-
cause you have strangely supposed that my own offer to
sniesgteonctiawteithpemacyegwenitehrathl
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Castlereagh's foreign policy. Why, hew could I know
anything on the Ist of August, 1812, of what his foreign
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policy was likely to be, when he had not then been two
months in office ? The book that was to record his
views and his actions towards both other countries
and his own was sealed to all eyes ; nay, its con-
tents were just as little known to himself as to me.
The accident of the next autumn and winter—the pro-
digious and blessed accident of Napoleon's desperation,
and an early and severe winter in the north, out of
which -his Lordship's whole negotiations sprang, were
lust as impossible t - _
be

gimp( ,te to, . foreseen when I obtained the
repeal of the Orders in Council, as any of the events
now slumbering in .11m-bosom of time, svirieksheLl

copy men's minds a hundred years hence, when you
and I shall be forgotten, and our differences of opinion
be unknown even to the small numbers whom they may
interest for a few days of the present year."
Having pointed out some more strange suppositions
and misconceptions, and mistakes, he adverts to the
last charge of having " unnecessarily taken advantage of
the benefit of survivorship ;" or, to use a phrase better
understood, of having kicked the dead lion ; and the
conclusion of Lord Brougham's letter, we think, will
convince the surviving brother that silence on
that point would have been more consistent with
a quality of which certain persons are very deficient' :
" But the rest of the passage is far more unfounded,
in so far as it seems to charge me with waiting till Lord
Castlereagh's death, and then taking advantage of my
surviving him to attack his conduct. Now, all that I
have said of him in this piece (and that qualified by
much defence and much praise) really rises into little
less than panegyric, compared with what I am well
known and imperishably recorded to have said of him
when meeting him face to face, and contending against
him in the conflict of party warfare. Of his foreign
policy I am stated to have thus spoken in March, 1817
(Parliamentary Debates, p. 1012.)
" "I-lose foreign Sovereigns, with whom, after put-
ting down the usurper, he plunged into the deepest. of
all the crimes that stained his course, and gave the
ground for resistinc, him, now execrate and contemn the
man who made himself the accomplice of their infa-
mous projects. I suspect his conscience already
whispers him to what I allude,' &c.
" If at this moment you traverse the Continent in
any direction whatever, you trace his career in the curses
of the nation whom he has betrayed and the mockery of
the Courts who have inveigled him to be their dupe.
There is more and perhaps worse which I will not quote.
" I have already endeavoured to express my feeling.
of concern at being compelled, in my own defence, to
set your Lordship right by referring to invectives which
it gives me pain to look back upon, although they were
perhaps excused at the time by the party heats which
called them forth, and by the sense of duty which com-
pelled me to give vent to feelings of indignation at the
treatment received by the people and their rulers, of
nations sacrificed to the Settlement of Europe.'
" I willingly close this letter with assuring your
Lordship of the high respect and consideration with
which I have the honour to be.
" Your obedient and humble servant,
" BRO UGHAM."
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THE LORD MAYOR'S VIEW OF
THE RIVER THAMES.