The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-09 00:00:00

HUNTINGDON RACES.-WEDNESDAY.

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The Ladies Purse of bOL, by Subs of 2 sovs eaeh, with 10
added from the fund. Heats, once round. The winner to
be sold for 100 MA'S, &c.
Mr. W. Smith's b g The Unknown, aged, 9st 21b,
(Buckle) '
Mr. Smith's eh c The Pedlar, 4 yrs, Bst 71b 2 2
Mr. Uwsley's ch in Victoria, aged, 9st 21b 3 3
A good race.
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Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 15 added from the fund, for
3 yrs old colts, fillies, and geldings. The winner to be sold
for 3001. &c. Heats, once round.
Mr. Drage's b c Johannus, Bst 51b
Mr. Roger's b c Peon, Bst Mb 3 2
Col. Peel's bc by Longwaist, out of Hermesid, Bst blb 2 dr

Well-contested.

AT ATIIENS.—Mr. George Robins is unques-
tionably the Napoleon of " The Fifth Estate,"—as Auc-
tiondem has recently been termed,—for his territorial con.
quests extend on every side, and übiquity alone can cha-
racterise his genius. One day we see bias in the centre of
the metropolis, presiding over palaces and princely esta-
blishments—anon he is to be found in the fertile valleys of
the west, revelling amidst cultivated gardens, umbrageous
woods, smiling meadows, and scenes of more than Italian
beauty ;—and again, before we have time to recover from
his glowing descriptions, we hear of him in the mountains
of the north, lording it over vast tracts of lake and moun-
tain scenery, or with a breath disposing of feudal castles
and baronial halls. To these wonders we have long been
accustomed,—and have ceased to feel surprise at the rapi-
dity or energy of his movements;—but that he possesses
the means of still exciting our admiration he has given us
ample proof by bringing within the sphere of his controul
the most beautiful, and at the same time the most remote
parts of Europe, and compelling the distant regions of the
Sew world to acknowledge his sway. In his latest achieve-
ment he has extended his dominion to the classic soil of
Attica, amid the groves of Academus, and over the shores
of the Agean. There, where the shadow of the Acropolis
falls upon the plain, where the immortal ruins of the ancient
fane of Grecian worship still greet the traveller's eye,—in
that _ _

Bright clime of battle and of song,"
the home of the heart to all who bold the memory of Greece
in affection, has he established a new throne. We do not,
, however,
mean to imply that Mr. Robins has at last re-
ceived, in the sovereignty of Greece, the meet reward of
his labours, but simply that he now has at his disposal a
valuable estate near Athens, the characteristic beauties and
advantages of which we fear to mar by using words of our
own to describe. Nor should we have interfered at all
with his province of description, had we not been forcibly
struck by the strange chances which " the whirlgig of
time" brings about, not the least remarkable of which is
the fact of an Athenian villa, on the site where, haply,
Socrates or Plato may have dwelt, being sold by auction
in Covent Garden. His advertisement of Athens is deci-
dedly his best composition ; it is too long for insertion
here, but we cannot refrain from quoting a single passage,
that leads to a most happy quotation. After stating that
it would require the pen of Byron to do it justice, and, the
naneederYeonserillenCe that he approaches his task in fear
trembling, he goes on to say that the chateau, which is
placed in the Olive Grove, and commands a splendid view
of the Acropolis and the city, is suited to a family not very
large, bu whose minds
the glory of that once faamreedmcibtuy_ed with reminiscences of
" Shrine of the mighty an it be
That this is all rernair fis theei: ?
he concludes by this ejaculation-- Oh I that the pen of
the great bard could at this moment lend
til its influential aid
and direct the one that now falters in vaiu attempt to
a moderate portraiture of the landsce
g
Po—but this
hopeless," &c.—Morning Herald, Aug. s.

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IS Majesty the. KING of PRUSSIA,
having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED
DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which
(though they are NO LOTTERIES), offer many possi-
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LARGE FORTUNES,
HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH,
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OUS to giving any order,-the PROSPF!CTUS and PAR-
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lino to

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P.S. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions
from NINE POUNDS TEN SHILLINGS and upwards,
to TEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS.
A RISE IN THE PRICE of the SHARES for the
NEXT DISTRIBUTION will vet), soon take place, there
being only few of them on hand, and nearly all cleared off.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
The " Ladye of Lambythe," increases nightly in attraction,
and elicits rapturous acclamations of crowded audiences,
Last night but one of the Veteran Dovvton.
TO-NIGHT (FRIDAY)
Will be acted the Old English Drama of
THE LADYE OF LAMBYTHE.
Eva, Mrs. Vining. Katherine, Miss Grant.
Lucie, Miss Martin.
Walter More, Mr. E. F. Saville.

Wilbert, Mr. Dale,

John the Jester, Mr. Smith.
After which, Shakspeare's
HENRY THE FOURTH.
Falstaff, Mr. Dowton.

To conclude with the last New French Drama, called
DIANE DE CHI VRI, THE BLIND GIRL.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1839.

We see by the proceedings of the Town Council
of Birmingham, that the members are much dis-
pleased with Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S new Police
Bill for that borough, which is called insulting and
despotic. They are all in a rage at it, and say
that it excites no other feeling than abhorrence
and disgust. We are not sorry for this. The
Birmingham Whigs and psuedo Radicals were
in a prodigious hurry to profit by the riot
which the Magistrates caused to get a police
to keep the Chartists in order, and they are now
likely to repent their haste. They have realised
the old fable of the horse and the stag, and begged
the Minister to bridle and saddle them, that they
might run down the Chartists. But the Ministers,
having got the bit in their mouths, and being firmly
seated.on their backs, will break them in -to their
own purposes.
We-refer to this very instructive lesson as an il-
lustration of the liberticide policy of the middle
classes in every part of the kingdom. They are
alarmed at the claims of the people ; they are
anxious to retain their monopoly—to exclude the
masses, and so they make common cause with the
aristocracy and the hierarchy in establishing a des-
potic, a centralized, and a Frenchified Government,
in order to keep the masses in obedience. The
horse sacrificed his liberty to gratify his
desire of vengeance ; the middle classes
sacrifice their liberty to play the tyrant.
The horse sought to run down an animal of a dif-
ferent species, but they are desirous to run or keep
down their own brethren. They are anxious to
imitate the idle aristocracy—they admire the
pompous priesthood ; and to maintain these classes
in luxury and idleness, or in performing labours
that are more injurious than beneficial, the middle
classes lend themselves- to oppress the labourers.
Without workmen they could not live, much
less prosper ; but they could live and prosper, as
is proved by the United States, without a nobility
and a State priesthood. Unhappily for themselves,
the middle classes take a different view, and join
the landowners, the tithe eaters, and the tax
consumers, in keeping the lower classes in
a degraded and enslaved condition. In their
present terrors obliged to sacrifice their
own liberty to avoid civil war obliged
to supplicate the assistance of a large standing
army in time of peace, and a new-fangled police to
keep political agitation in check, and put down
certain political opiniors, they may see the conse-
quence of their own acts. The new police imposed
on Birmingham is a type of what the middle classes
have everywhere to expect, for it is what they have
everywhere called for.
But after sacrificing their own independence and
the liberties of the country, will the 4-niddle classes
secure their objects ? Will they be able to retain
the lower classes in their present dependent condi-
tion? Will they be able to put down the opinions
of the Chartists ? The Globe believes chat the
levellers include a large proportion of the
restless part of the working classes. If such be. the
case, what effect will the punishment of LOVETT
and COLLINS have on their opinions ? It
will strengthen their conviction by a sense
of additional injustice. The law r has been
eminently successful ; the ATTORNEY-GENERAL
is puffed up like a peacock ; and the Tory and
quasi. Liberal Journals are pointing with exultation
to the powers of the law. We admit its success.
We grant its energy. We acknowledge that it has
attained the immediate object. But what is next
to be done ? We ask with earnestness and anxiety
what will the Government next do ? Will the
convictions reconcile the Chartists to the Constitu-
tion ? Will it extend the franchise ? Will it give
employment and good wageS to the people ? Will
it make them contented ? Will it convince them
that the Parliament is the• .incarnation of wisdom,
and that patience under the misery it inflicts is the
chief human virtue ? None of these effects will
follow by the success of the law. Hundreds
and thousands of the million and a quarter
of people who signed the National Petition
will now embrace the principles of the Char-
ter with all the fervency of faith. A senti-
ment of honour will rally them under that standard.
Where there was one demagogue leader in the days
of Mr. HUNT there arc now a score, and soon there
will be a hundred. Persecution, whether political
or religious, only serves to make opinions known,to
gain converts to them, and to fix them the firmer
in the mind. Thus the prosecutions and the con-
victions of which so much is boasted will
but increase the number of the Chartists, add to
their fervour, and augment the terror which already
prevails. Again then, we ask, what is the next step
to be taken? We know not, but it seems to us

impossible either by coercion to satisfy or by art
to dispense with the working classes who constitute
the bulk of the population, The middle classes
will not be relieved of their alarm, and every year
will add to the number and discontent of the people.
They will find, therefore, that they have sub-
mitted their backs to the saddle and their mouths to
the bridle without the least chance of running
down Chartism by any such means.

The sentences against the men convicted at
Warwick will be found in another part of The
Sun. HOWELL, JONES, and ROBERTS are sen-
tenced to death, and left for execution. Judgment
of death was recorded against ASTON. Mr. COL-
LINs and Mr. LOVETT are severally sentenced to
be imprisoned in Warwick gaol for one year. If
putting the guilty to death could undo their deeds—
if it could in any way repair the wrong they have
done, we should not have a word to say against exe-
cuting the, three offenders : but as we are afraid
that it would rather provoke than check crime,
we hope, the sentence will not be carried into exe-
cution.