The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-23 00:00:00

THE BRIGHTON STAKES.

(From the Brighton Gazette.)
The following correspondence has been published :
" Harcourt House, Aug. 8,1839

" My Lord and Gentlemen,—Having been informed
by my trainer, Jchn Day, jun., that the decision of
Captain Rous on the Brighton Stakes yesterday—that
Ratsbane, in running for the same, went on the wrong
side of a post—is alike inconsistent with the fact, and
at variance with the main body and the respectable part
of the evidence brought before him, resting upon the
testimony of strolling gipsies, and contrary to the evi-
dence of the leading jockeys who rode in the race, I
find myself under the painful necessity of appealing
against a decision so come to, and of respectfully re-
questing that you will order the Brighton Stakes to be
withheld, until I shall have an opportunity of submit-
ting the matter to some other tribunal.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord and Gentlemen,
" Your most obedient humble servant,
" G. BENTINCK.
To the Earl of Chesterfield, the Hon. Capt.
Rous, R.N., Col. G. Wyndham, Stewards
of Brighton Races."

" Brighton, Aug. 9, 1839.
" My Lord—We have received your letter written on
the faith of an ex perle statement from J. Day, jun.
" After a minute investigation, we are perfec►ly satis-
fied with our decision, and we have ordered the stakes
to be paid to Mr. Shelley.
" We have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your obedient humble servant,
" G. WYNDHAM.
"To Lord G. Bentinck," " 11. S. ROUS."

" Harcourt House, Aug. 10, 1839.
" Gentlemen—l have the honour to acknowledge
your letter of yesterday's date. Should it appear that
J. Day, junior's, statement to me is an ex parte state-
ment not founded on fact, I shall be perfectly satisfied
with your decision on the Brighton Stakes, and shUll be
glad to apologise for having for a single moment ques-
tioned the fairness and justice of it ; but if, on the con-
trary, as represented to me by John Day, junior, the
four jockeys, who rode the four leading horses at that
period of the race, when and where it is alleged that my
horse Ratsbane went on the wrong side of the post, are
all prepared to deny upon their oaths the fact to be so,
whilst the contrary allegations rest upon the assertion
of the cider of Tawney Owl, who, from the circum-
stance of his horse having bolted out of the course in the
early part of the race, combined with the thick fog which,
prevailed, was not near enough to be in sight even of the
leading horses, supported merely by the evidence of two
gipsies, procured by Mr. Shelley and his trainer, I shall
be under the painful necessity of appealing against a de-
cision so came at, to the superior justice of a Court of
Law.

" I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
" Your obedient humble servant,
'To the Hon. Capt. Rous, "G. BENTINCK."
Col. Wyndham."

INTERVIEW WITH DR. CIIAN

NING.

The following account of a visit recently paid to the
c debrated Dr. Channing, is quoted from " No. IV." of
a series of " Letters from America," addressed to the
Editor of the Scots Times, by an intelligent traveller,
we believe Captain Fullarton, of Overton, in Ayrshire.
" New York, June 13, 1839.
" Dear Sir,—You mnst allow me once more to
carry you back to Boston, where you recollect I re-
mained fully a week, and where I had the pleasure of
being introduced to the distinguished Dr. Channing,
a favour I owe .to Mr. Edmund Quincy, son of the
President of Hayward University, with whom I became
acquainted during my stay here. We paid a forenoon
visit to the Doctor at his own house in Mount Vernon-
street, in the beautiful neighbourhood of the State-house
an.l Park. He had been affected with a cold and con-
ned to the house, but received us with cordiality and
kindness. I could not but deem myself lucky in
having lately been in the West Indies, as I found
Dr. Charming greatly interested, indeed, in the
affairs of the recently emancipated colonies there,
and the few meagre particulars which I had in
Tn y power to communicate, seemed not unacceptable
to so exact and careful an inquirer. As in many in-
tances of men of great intellectual endowments Dr.
Channing possesses no physical superiority in the
ordinary sense over the general condition of the race.
He is rather below the usual stature, and of a corres-
ponding slender habit of body. His complexion is
sallow, with a profusion of light sandy-coloured hair,
slightly silvered by Time, though by no means yielding
quickly to the advancing foe. The upper part of the head
is finely expanded, though but of the ordinary propor-
tion in size ; the eyes bright and concentrated ; and
the general expression of countenance indicative of
decided habitual cautiousneqs, bordering on distrust,
such as long habits of study and abstraction never fail
to produce. The under part of the face is the least
classical and regular, the chin being short and slightly
receding. In manner, Dr. Channing partakes not a
little of the characteristic coldness of his countrymen ;
nevertheless there is a perfect simplicity and unaffected
plainness in his demeanour, which quickly dispels, and
more than compensates any disadvantage which may be
felt to arise from this cause. No trace of the priestly
theologian remains about him. In every feature and
lineament of mind, the philosopher and man of letters
is indelibly impressed. There is no mistaking the
field in which his life and labours have been spent.
His mind is inseparably identified with his works—they
are one and indivisible ! Dr. Channing has never
dreamed of adding to his reputation by anything merely
personal or extraneous to these. To an ordinary mind,
conversation with him is quite a task and a trial,
yet the fascination of his greatness forces you to desire
to continue the " pleasing chastisement." The disco-
very and advancement •of truth is clearly the great mo-
tive of his existence, and every page of his writings
shows his appreciation of moral beauty to be of the
purest and most exalted order.
" He had just been reading a treatise, written ex-
pressly for the education of the present Emperor
of Russia and his brother, which he said pleased
him much by the manner in which the author ventured
to inculcate sound principles of liberty into the minds of
his Royal pupils. There were several cases of elegantly
bound books in the parlour where we were sitting, and
from the few observations made on the subject, you
could perceive the extensive and varied nature of the
Doctor's reading. I think he has been in England ;
but seemed unacquainted with Scotland and the
Scotch. He said he had formed his notions of it
from the descriptions in Ossian, and of course con-
ceived it enveloped in eternal mists ! Under this
impression, too, he fancied it must be a very un-
' healthy country, and said he was astonished to
find that the Highlanders were long lived ! With the
result of emancipation in the West Indies he expressed
himself greatly satisfied. It was an experiment, how-
ever, which he wholly disapproved of at the time, and
owned it had quite belied his fears. The peaceful and
orderly manner in which the poor negroes had conducted
themselves under very trying circumstances, he re-
marked, were calculated to raise the highest ex-
pectations of their future progress and amelioration.
I alluded to the edition of his works at present
publishing in Glasgow by the Messrs. Hedderwick, and
he expressed himself highly pleased with it. I re-
marked, perhaps somewhat abruptly, Doctor, you are
aware they are reprinting your works in Glasgow.' He
replied very quickly, Yes, Sir, and a very fine edition
it is. lam greatly satisfied with the Parts I have got
of it indeed.' He asked me whether I knew the pub-
lishers; and I was happy to be able to answer in the
affirmative, and to bear my humble testimony to the
high character of these gentlemen, both in their private
and professional capacities."

About one o'clock on Wednesday afternoon a
fire broke out dri the premises of Dr. Hume, Curzon-
street, Mayfair. Two engines belonging to the County
Fire Office in R,gent-street, in an incredibly short time
reached the spot, promptly followed by those of the
brigade, &c., and there being a plentiful supply of water,
the fire, which was occasioned by an ignition of soot in a
foul flue, was in about an hour completely extinguished.
Dr. Hume, who is at present in Scotland, is said to be
fully insured.
DISCOVERY OF A HUMAN SKULL IN AN
OVEN.—Wednesday morning, about eleven o'clock, as
some labourers were employed in pulling down a house in
Oxford-street, near Holles-street, one of them, named
Turner, on removing an oven, discovered at the extremity
thereof a human skull, with a number of bones lying by its
side. The house was many years ago in the occupation of
a baker, but for a long period the oven has not been used.
Information of the above was immediately forwarded by the
constable on duty at the spot to the station-house in

Marylebone-lane.
RUDE LIGHT.—The comparative expense of
this light, as given in evidence before the Committee by
Dr. Farraday, who, according to the evidence, has made
extensive experiments on the subject,' on account of the
Trinity House (page 35), stands thus, for equal light 7,
" Bode light, 101(1., sperm candles, 28i." On Wednes-
day evening, when the Bude light was tried to determine
ihe quantity required for the house, Mr. Gurney directed
the lamps to be.burnt at only two-thirds their power. The
light was then generally thought enough for the business
of the house, and should such quantity prove sufficient for
general use, the expense of it per night would be only
About a fourth of the present cost of the 268 candles.
M. Zanino Volta, the able engineer of Como,
who, in conjunction with M. Bruschetti, of Milan, obtained
in 1837, from the Austrian Government, a privilege of
fifty years for the construction of a railroad between Milan
ind Como, is now negociating with the Swiss Cantons of
the Grisons and St. Gall an enterprise which would vie in
magnitude with the Thames Tunnel, viz., the piercing
through the Grisons' Alps. Impressed with the com-
mercial importance of the passage of the Splugen, and at
the same time with the various obstacles which it presents,
he thinks it possible to pierce through that mountain, and
establish in the passage thus effected a railroad, the
northern portion of which would end either at Wallend-
stadt or even at Schmerikon, on the lake of Zurich ; and
the southern would be connected with the Como and Milan
Railroad. M. Volta does not dissemble the expense and
difficulties of such an undertaking, but insists on the im-
mense advantages that would accrue from a horizontal
road accessible at all times, and not nearly so long and fa-
tiguing as the present one. As galleries above half a
league long have already been bored, he deems that there
is no reason why longer ones still should not be pierced.
An examination has proved that the granite rocks to be
gone through can be easily blown up, and that by a new
process the operation may be rendered easier still. M.
Volta, reckoning that thirty years will be required to exe-
cute the works, demands an exclusive privilege of a hun-
dred years, with liberty to establish companies in order to
procure funds or to transfer his privilege to other parties.
In return he engages to execute 8,000 metres in the comae
of five years, and the whole line, crossing the territory of
the Grisons and Saint Gall, in thirty yeera. Moreover,
M. Volta engages to pay 10,000 francs into the cantonal
coffers of the poor for 0444 Jenr, of unjustified delay in the
construction of the first kilooetre, or proportionately in the
completion of the whole road over the Swiss territory, or
else to resign entirely his privilege.
POLISH JEWS.--A few words with regard to
the Jews in Poland. From the moment of crossing the
border of Lithuania, I had remarked in every town and
village swarms of people differing entirely from the other
inhabitants in physical appearance and costume, and ia
whose sharply.drawn features, long boards and flowing
dresses, with the cold black eyeS end oriental costutra s of
the women, I at erice recoc'nised the disposed and wander
ing children of lirael. Oa the S:.-e,"nid destruction of
rusalem, when the Roman general drove a pleuglauvei the
site of the Ternyle of Solomon, the politieli existence
of the Jewish notion was annihilated; their land' was
portioned among strangers, and the descendants of
Abraham were forbidden to pollute with. their
presence the holy city of their fathers, Ira the Roman
territories their petition for the"m7.uction oti taxation re
ceived the stern answer of the Romeo, " Ye demand
exemption from tribute for your soil; I will lay it on the
air you breathe;" and, in the words of. the histarian,
" Dispersed and vagabond, exiled from their native seal
and air, they wander over the face of the earth. without a
king, either human or divine, and even as strariger4 theft
are not permitted to salute with
at their
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land " History fnrnishes no precise receriia of' the end
gration or of the first settlement of ihe Israelites in the
different countries of Europehaibibt:lbtlefowrorlcdentaurie: they
wouldhare
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rn
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, strange,
unsocial and isolated people, a
nued miracle. At this day they are found
all the civilized countries of Europe and America, i the
wildest regions of Asia and Africa, and within the
walls of China; but, after Palestine, Poland •
la regarded
as their land of promise : and there they pros;
ex-
traordinary spectacle than in any country where their race
is known. *Centuries have rolled on, r.evolutions. have
convulsed the globe, new and strange opinions have di-
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Teirkish Empires.

A covey of patridges are frequently to,bo seen
basking in the sun or. a large coal heap in."-fid belong-
ing to Mr. jeseph Parndeli, at Dell Qn.aYi near this city.
The birds are strong. and closely resemble black game
when on the wing.—Brighton .Gazette.