The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-19 00:00:00

TUN DKRHY.

3 to 1 agst Mr. S. Stanley's Rat-trap—taken
6 tot agst Mr. Greville's Mango—tak. and afterwards offered
8 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Hybiscus—take 9 to 1
9 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Achmet—taken
9 to 1 agst Lord Suffield's Caravan—taken
14 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Mickle Fell-15 to 1 taken
15 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wisdom-16 to 1 taken
17 to 1 agst Lord Berners's Phosphorus—taken
20 to 1 agst Captain Gardnor's Benedict—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Mahometan—taken and after-
wards offered
20 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wintonian—taken and afterwards
offered
50 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Jereed—taken and afterwards offered
40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Critic--taken
2000 to 40 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's The Pocket Hercules--taken
4000 to 50 agst Mr. Theobald's Sir Frederick—taken
10000 to 200 agst Rat-trap, Egeria, and Henriade winning the
three events--taken
500 even on Wisdom and Mickle Fell
175 to 50 agst Mango and Achmet—taken

THE OAKS.
7 to 4 agst Mr. J. Day's Chapeau d'Espagne--taken 2 to
3 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Egeria—taken
5 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Vacuna—offered
ST. LEGER.
750 to 100 agst Duke of Cleveland's Henriade—taken
750 to 100 agst Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff--taken

MANCHESTER RACES.—WEDNESDAr.
The Wilton Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added. One mile and
1 a quarter. 7 Subs.
Sir J. Boswell's General Chasse, 6 yrs, 9st. 21b ...Holmes 1
Sir J. Boswell's Sunbeam, 4 yrs, Bst. lib
Mr. E. Peel's Cantata, 3 yrs, 6st. llb ...
3 to 1 on the General, who won easy.
Produce Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. Mile and a quarter. 6
Subscribers.
Mr. Houldsworth's Combat, Bst. 61b Darling 1
Mr. W. Turner's The Fairy, Bst
4tol on Combat. Won by a length.
1 A Free Handicap, of 10 soya. each, with 30 soya. added, for four
years-old. Mile and a quarter. 4 Subs.
Captain Bunney's Mersey, 6st. 10Ib Dodgson I
Mr. T. Walters's King Cole, 7st. 81b
Mr. Allen's Promise, 7st. 81b
6to 4 each asst lersey and Promise, and 5 to 2 agst King
Cole. Won by less than half a head.
The King's Plate of 100 gs. Three miles and a distance.
Mr. Arrowsmith's Miss Rowe, 3 vrs Lye 1
Sir J. Boswell's General Chasse, 6 yrs
Hon. T. 0. Powlett's Wentworth, 4 yrs
3 to 1 on the General, who was beaten after a slashing race by a
head.

ST. ALBAN'S RACES.—TNURSDAY.
The Borough Member's Plate, value 50 sovs. ; three yrs old, 7st ;
four, Bst. 71b; five, 9st ; six, 9st. 51b ; and aged, 9st. 71b.
Mares and*Feldings allowed 31b ; half-bred horses allowed 71b.
A winner in the present year to carry 41b. Heats, two miles.
The winner to be sold for 150 sovs. if demanded, &c.
Mr. H. Stracey's ro. m. Boddice, 6 yrs F. Butler 1 1
Mr. S. Smith's b. h. Mozart, 5 yrs
Mr. Matthew's ch. m. Sister to Desperate
Mr. Smith's br. h. Ruinous, 5 yrs
The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. A Sher-
man's bi. h. h. Fitzwilliam, aged (h. b. ), and Mr. Garrard's gr.
f. Lady Grey, by The Colonel, dam by Friend Ned, 4 yrs (h. b.)
The No-Man's-Land Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added from
the Fund ; three yrs old, ist ; four, Bst. 71b ; five, 9st ; six, 9st.
51b ; and aged, 9st. 71b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b, and
half-bred horses 71b. Heats, once round and a distance. The
winner to be sold for tAO soya. if demanded, &c. 6 Subs.
Mr. King's b. h. Hectic, 5 yrs Sligh 1 0 1
Mr. Shelley's ch. h. Reuben, 4 yrs 0 1 2
Mr. Green's br. g. Harlequin, 6 yrs
Mr. J. Fairlie's b. c. Nelson, 3 yrs
The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. Lambden's
b. g. Revealer, aged, and Mr. Sowerby's ch. c. Domino, 3 yrs.
The Tally-Ho Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 20 added from the
Fund, free for any horse, list. each. Heats, once round and a
distance. Two leaps over hurdles in each heat.
Mr. Matthews's Vandyke, aged Simmons 1 1
Mr. D. Seffert's br. g. Lottery, aged
Mr. J. Fait lie's gr. c. Spicey, aged
Mr.

.... , ..racey's b., g. Pro Tempore, aged
Mr. Stevenson's ch. g. True Blue, aged 3 0
Mr. Green's b. h. Jack Straw, aged, started, but was not placed.

AQUATICS.
ROYAL YACHT SQVADRON.—At the first general meeting,
held on Saturday at the Thatched House Tavern, the follow-
ing members were elected :—F. Horner, Esq., Heron yacht
of 46 tons ; G. H. Ackers, Esq., Dolphin schooner yacht,
210 tons ; G. D. Patterson, Esq., Zadura yacht, of 32 tons ;
Major C. Vivian, M. P., Owen Glendwr yacht, of 113 tons;
Joseph Copley, Esq., Witch yacht, of 70 tons; and R. Meik-
lam, Esq., Crusader schooner yacht, of 120 tons. And the
following honorary members :—Commander W. H. Henderson,
R.N. ; Hay, Esq., Consul General at Tangier; T. B. G.
Scott, Esq , Consul, Bordeaux; Captain H. Sturt, R.N. ;
Commander the Hon. F. Pelham, R.N. ; Captain J. Camp-
bell, R.N. ; Rear-Admiral S. C. Rowley, R.N. ; and Captain
C. Boyle, R. N. Four Cups, value 501. each, were ordered
to be sailed for at Cowes in the month of August ; one to be
sailed for by yachts of the seventh class, above 115 tons, on
Monday, August 14 ; one Cup on Wednesday, August 16, by
yachts of the fourth class, from 50 and under 70 tons; his
nijesty's Cup, value 100 guineas, to be sailed for on the
King's birth-day, Monday, August 21, by yachts of the second
class, from 40 and under 45 tons ; one Cup on Wednesday,
the 23d August, by yachts of the fifth class, from 70 and under
90 tons ; and one on Saturday, the 26th of August, by yachts
of the third class, from 45 and under 55 tons The annual
ball will take place at the Squadron House, Cowes, on Mon-
day, August 14, in honour of her Majesty's birth-day. A
grand display of fire-works from the Parade, West Cowes, on
the evening of the 21st of August. The members will give a
dinner to their excellent Commodore, the Earl of Yarborough,
at the Clarendon Hotel, London, on Saturday, the 3d of June,
at half-past seven, on which occasion Vice-Commodore the
Earl of Belfast will take the chair.

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Startling as the following facts may appear, the
reader• may rely on their perfect authenticity. The farm of
Airdrie, %N hich contains almost every variety of soil, including
a section of the giant Criffel, has been for some time in the
natural possession of the proprietor, R. A. Oswald, Esq., of
Auchencruive. Since a former tenant emigrated, Airdrie has
been managed by Mr. :'Cracker,, who, among other bestial,
has a favourite female slow-hound. The present has been a
most disastrous lambing season, and although Kirkbean is a
mild coast parish, even there the loss of stock has been very
very great. For a number of weeks the shepherds have been
as much exposed as his Majesty's Mail-guards, when the coun-
try is blockaded, feeding weak ewes and picking up deserted
lambs, which they carry to their master's or their own houses,
where they are nursed as tenderly and carefully as orphan
children who are reared, from necessity, on the pan and
spoon. The slow-hound noticed what was going forward,
and, though fourteen months have elapsed since she suckled
pups, strange to say, milk returned to her in such quantities,
that she has already been the means of succouring and saving
more than sixty woolly nurslings that might otherwise have
perished. Night and day she may be seen lying on sheep skins
before the kitchen fire, with half a dozen lambs around her,
distinguishing the weakest from such as are somewhat
stronger, and devoting to them the most assiduous at-
tention. Repeatedly, when some of the invalids have got a
little round, they have been re. conveyed to the bill side with
the view of mothering them ; and nearly as often the bitch
when left free has not only sought out and distinguished her
former nurslings, but carried them home again with the greatest
care,dolthough the distance is more than a mile.—Dumfries
Courier.

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Brighton Railway Company (SteVenson`s)
London cad Birmingham Railway Company
London and Greenwich ilailwav Company
National Prorincial Bank of England

PRlci..s OF STOCK.; TI-II; DAY A l' ONE O'CLOCK.
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PRICES OE SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK

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BELGIAN 1, UNDS—BausseLs, MAY 17.
Actual Debt, 2!i; per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. 100.4
Loan of Thirty Millions 914
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 99
Society of Commerce, 454 per Cent l3l
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 139;1
Brussels Papers, May 18.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MAYO.
Five per Cents. Metalliques • lO5
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares
—Allgemeine Zeitung, May 14.

insist upon its au'opiio-n-. A dark night--7. a strong
marine escort—and a war-steamer or two would (16 thQ
business. Let Don CARLOS live—and in England too, if
be desire it; We are ,the more eager to press this subject
upon the attention ot Lora beqilFl.7P 019 fol-
lowing debree; signed by Don on the lull, inst:,
whiet: appears in ine 117;ecine0aY night; mist
convince every person, that in the opinion Of thd Pretendei
himself, his cause is all but hopeless. He is evidently re-
ddeed to. the last extremity, inasmuch as we find him bid-
-1.1:h !--:"Ott4itiitiUji*lishiftlr tote crown of ISpain.
He offers what they have unrestrictedly refused—liheftt
of the Press, freedom of religious sects, and of opinions.
Such offers were only wrung from him in the last extremity
ofdisaster j drul are to be regarded, not as proofs of his
conversion to liberal ideas, but as evidences of his impend-
ing ruin, The decree is as follows i—
" Bpaniards,—At the death of my brether, when men
equally adroit and perfidious:, led astray by their political
Ideas, Caused to burst forth a civil war, of which the cease=
quo-ices have been so unfortunate for you, I hesitated not for
an insttnt to throw myself among you. I believed that my
presence only could stop the effusion of blood, and that no
person would dare to dispute with me my 'right to the throne
of my fathers.
" Three years of war and of experience have convinced me
that a throne could not be solidly established, if the Prince who
occupied it were not etnbued with large and elevated views,
and a great spirit of toleration and conciliation,
" It is this conviction that induced me to attend 1111mi-hit=
tingly to the formation of a code which I am ready to give to
you, and in which will be set down all your political rights—
that is to say, freedom of religious creeds and political opinions,
completed by the liberty of the press.
" Such is, I am persuaded, the only means of putting an end
to the misfortunes that desolate the country, and afflicted this
long time my paternal hearth.
" You may already perceive the fallacy of the promises put
forward by usurpation to enrol you under its banners—false-
hood, misery, scandalous dilapidations, all have combined to
ruin and oppress you.
" Rally then round me, and happiness shall be your lot, you
shall be free, and enjoy all the same prerogatives; for I desire
nothing but your welfare, and promise you an eternal obli-
vion of all that has taken place during those three years of
desolation and disaster.
" Done at Estella, May 10, 1837. " I, the KING."

Madrid Papers to the 11th inst. have been received to-
day. The intelligence they bring is of a more cheering
character than the accounts received yesterday from that
capital. A despatch from Don MARCEL'S° ORAA, Gene-
ral-in-Chief of the Army of the Centre, announced to the
Government the defeat and dispersion of the rebels under
CABRERA. In the engagement the Carlists lost a whole
battalion made prisoners, a hundred horse, and a convoy of
stores and plunder. Brigadier-General NOGUERAS was
preparing to attempt ache recovery of Cantavieja, whose
treacherous betrayal to the Carlists by the garrison, after
the murder of the faithful Governor, was recently reported
in this Journal. ZURBANO had also succeeded in blowing
up a Carlist powder manufactory near Vittoria, the loss of
which, it was said, would prove most injurious to the cause
of the Pretender.

MENDIZABAL had likewise succeeded in obtaining the
necessary supplies of money. On the 10th an order for
20,000 sets of uniforms was sent by express to London. In
the Cortes a motion was brought forward to institute an in-
quiry into the disturbances in Catalonia, but it was post-
poned till more correct information could be obtained. Du-
ring the late disturbances in Barcelona nearly a hundred
persons were killed. The local authorities are doing all in
their power to fix the odium of this massacre upon the English
soldiers, not on• of whom we have reason to believe fired a shot,
or stained a bayonet with the blood of any human being. The
British troops confined themselves to the defence of the
fortress, which they never quitted till order was esta-
blished. Our Consul was the only Englishman that dis-
tinguished himself during the fray, and we are confidently
assured that to his praiseworthy exertions is Barcelona in-
debted for the prevention of much bloodshed, and the de-
struction of much valuable property, as well as several public
edifices. Nevertheless, as a proof of the anxiety of the
authorities to divest themselves of all blame in these
transactions by the crimination of the English, we give in-
sertion to the following address signed on the Bth inst., by
six Commissioners of the National Guard for each of the
cities of Mataro, St. Felice, Palamos, Rosas, Figueiras, and
Girona—making in all thirty-six signatures ; and forwarded
to Madrid by express for presentation to the QUEEN
REGENT. Its presentation is entrusted to the Deputies
of the Province :
" TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN REGENT.

" Madam,—The National Guards of Girona, Rosas, Pa-
lamos, St. Felice, Mataro, and Figueiras, could not remain
silent in the midst of the events which, during the 4th inst.,
deluged the capital of Catalonia with blood. How much
soever revolt is to be condemned, the occurrences at Bar..
celona evidently prove that the military agents in the ser-
vice of your Majesty are but executioners. Much as the
National Guards may be disposed to lament in silence the
fate of the innocent, and well-affected as they may be to the
actual commanders in Catalonia, still they cannot behold
without indignation that English soldiers, calling themselves
our allies, should steep their bayonets in the blood of
Spaniards. These cruel auxiliaries have deserved the
implacable hatred vowed against them by the National
Guards; the military chiefs who have called these foreigners
to their assistance were but cowards—Madam—traitors;
and the day is, perhaps, not far distant when they will pay
the forfeit of their crimes. Madam, the blood shed on
the 4th cries aloud for vengeance ; it is the blood of our
brothers, of true Catalonians; and we doubt not that your
Majesty, ever ready to listen to the vows of all true Spaniards,
will act with rigour towards the executioners. We humbly
beg of your Majesty to re-place the civil and military autho-
rities of Barcelona, by men combining patriotism with hu-
manity ; we demand that, with the least delay possible, the
English vessel stationed in the port of Barcelona for the
last two years and a half may be withdrawn, or at least
that orders may be given, forbidding a single man to be
landed on the soil of Catalonia. This, Madam, is what the
National Guard expect from your Majesty ; and that, not only
in the interests of the Spanish nation, but of the throne of
your august daughter. But should your Majesty, influenced
by evil advisers, refuse to listen to our prayers, the National
Guard of the cities of Girona, Rosas, Palamos, St. Felice,
Mataro, and Figueiras will see themselves forced to refuse their
service and support to those new Counts Espana, monsters,
more to be feared than those enlisted under the banners of
the Pretender. We humbly deposit our address at the feet of
your Majesty.'
" The National Guards of the principal cities of Catalonia
have written to the Baron de Meer, refusing to acknowledge
their obedience and sanction to the military authorities."

New York Papers of the Ist inst. havt. been received,
from which copious extracts—commercially speaking, ot
great importance—will be found in another part of The
Sun. We regret to say that up to the date of their de-
parture from the United States, our anticipations of a great
improvement in the commercial relations of the southern
Banking establishments were not realized. The evil has its
root in the speculating mania which afflicts the commercialists
of the New World.

Brussels and German Papers have been received, with
advices from Constantinople of the 26th of April. They
contain not a word of news worth communicating.

Mr. Sergeant TALFOIJRD brought forward the question
of the Law of Copyright last night in the House of Com-
mons. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman's speech on
this occasion was eloquent in a high degree, and characte-
rised throughout by a lofty strain of thought and feeling.
He commenced by taking a view of the law as it stood in
the reign of Queen ANNE, and as it stands now ; showed
with what injustice and severity it bore on those whose lite-
rary interests it affected ; and suggested a remedy as fol-
lows :—" The main object of the Bill which I contemplate
is, the further justice to learning, by the further extension
of the time during which authors shall enjoy the direct
pecuniary benefit immediately flowing from the sale of their
own works. I shall propose, subject to modification, when
the details of the measure shall be discussed, that the term
of property in all such works of learning, genius, and art
shall be extended to sixty years, to be computed from the
death of the author ; which will at least enable him, while
providing for the instruction and delight of distant ages, to
contemplate that he shall leave in his works themselves
some legacy to those for whom a nearer, if not a higher
duty, requires him to provide, and which may make death
less terrible." This is but justice--bare justice—to authors ;
and from the manner in which the Learned Sergeant's pro-
positions were received by the House—especially by Mr.
SPRING RICE, who paid a deserved compliment to the judi-
cious and eloquent way in which they were introduced-
-we have no doubt that the Law of Copyright will be
promptly altered for the better. And indeed it is high
time that such should be the case, for in its present state
the law falls with the most severity on those whom it
was originally intended to befriend the most. Legislation
fences in by all sorts of provident securities him who has
been the artificer of his own fortune by law or physic, or
trade or commerce ; but leaves the literary man who has
written works that "the world will not willingly let die"
in a great measure to shift for himself. After a brief lapse
of time, the intellectual productions which he had spent
the best years of his life in bringing to maturity, and the
pecuniary advantages of which should be reaped, as a mat-
ter of mere justice, by his immediate descendants, revert

to the public—become general propea:;•': They may be
I.O.ridged--putilated—interpolated—just as suits the e3pstiee
of the boolkt'eller who re,publishes them, or the age to which
tliey were addressed. Pass but a.few years, and, were the
existing Law of Copyright still allewed to remain ire state
OW; re should probably find the Scotch neirel4 abridged,
s as to br;ng thetli -.nithin saleable limits ; and the vvorks of
WOniasiVoirrri repubiishtcli wait the emission of one-half'
the °. Et-eel-54:4C And those to whom these great men's fame
are most dear, shall hate tid power to prevent this wanton
aggression on their reputation ! It Was hilt the other day
that poor,GoPww died, in a state of comparative destitu-
-4 ,
tide, twiitriobt tlifi^tl the c9pyright -of some of his best
works, and seen ditch tieentrie ptiblie property, when they
should, on every principle or eqUlty, have t';;..longed to his
own family, to benefit their Exchequer fur many a year to
come. Extend, then, we say, to the authors the slme pro-
tection that you extend to other inemhers of the commu-
nity, Give them the assurance that when " building the
lofty rhyme," they are building not only for their own fame,
• but for the benefit of those who immediately come after
them, and you will give a stimulus to intellect that hitherto
it has never known, at least in this country. Make the
great poet—the great historian—the great novelist—or the
great philosopher—who have worn array the best years of
their lives in your servicc—make the last moments of these
men happy by the reflexion that they have not toiled in vain ;
that they have not wasted the midnight oil in vain, but
have, by their incessant exertions—ill repaid under the most
auspicious circumstances contributed to secure a just
competence to these who survive them. Sergeant 'FAL-
FOURD'S Bill proposes to effect this ; wherefore we feel that
ewe cannot praise it too highly. To no Member of the
House of Commons could such a Bill be intrusted with
greater propriety. Himself an author of high and deserved
celebrity, familiarly acquainted with many of his ablest
literary Contemporaries ; generous and considerate in his
character ; ever the friend of destitute literary excellence,
and thoroughly intimate in all its bearings, with the law
which he proposes to remedy--Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD
is the man of all others whom, had 1-79 had the option, we
should have selected for such a task.

The Tories, it appears, are already hard at work to
thrust one of their own kidney upon the electors of Glas-
gow. No sooner was the failure of the great mercantile
house with which Mr. OSWALD is connected known than
they sprung into the field, and commenced a canvass more
remarkable for the want of decency and good feeling which
it indicated than for the success with which it has been at-
tended. They had their candidate ready too, and in this
respect, we are sorry to observe they have an advantage
over the liberal party, who do not seem to have made up
their minds as to the person who ought to be brought for-
ward. When will the Reformers learn the lesson which is
so uniformly and so successfully practised by their enemies?
When will they learn to sacrifice private opinions and indi-
vidual prepossessions, and to merge every other considera-
tion in the good of the cause ? If ever there was a mo-
ment when it was the duty of liberal men of all shades to
unite against the common enemy, the present is that mo-
ment, and Glasgow is the spot from which the example
of such a union will radiate with the most cheering and
beneficial effect. It is now full time that the cock-a-whoop
tone of the bawlers about re-action should be lowered, and
that the country should have a proof on which it can rely,
that the popular sentiment in favour of national improve-
ment, however it may, in a few instances, have been over-
borne by the skilful application of undue influences and
other causes, is yet strong and steady. It is the duty
of the people of Glasgow to afford this proof. It
falls to their lot to rescue the cause of Reform from
the discredit which would be thrown upon it, were
the example of the recreants of Westminster to be
followed by the inhabitants of Scotland's commercial capi-
tal ; and we trust it is reserved for them, not only to do
this, but, by inflicting a signal chastisement on the beardless
puppet whom the Tories are exhibiting as their future re-
presentative, to crush at once the presumptuous hopes which
the faction indulge of again mounting to power, and giving
a retrograde direction to public opinion.

After the disgraceful exhibition which Mr. M'GHEE
with his forged letter made at Exeter-hall last year, we
should have thought that a sense of shame would have
prevented him from attempting a second time to impose
on the credulity of the frequenters of that place of
public amusement. It appears, however, he is again to ex-
hibit in company with his friend Mr. O'SuLurvaN—DEN'S
Theology, a death's-head and cross-bones, and a map of
England, all studded over with black crosses to show the
rapid spread of Popery, and excite by deceit and falsehood
one class of his MAJESTY'S subjects to mortal enmity
with another. Though there will be no forged letter
this season, the same system of falsehood—the same
unfair mode of making charges, and the same denun-
ciations against a body of Christians, will be repeated,
and all these mixed up, with the most hypocritical
cant, and the most solemn asseverations that they are influ-
enced only by the sincerest love for the welfare of their
fellow-countrymen. The course which these men have
hitherto pursued, is quite alien to the feelings and habits of
Englishmen ; and perhaps nothing but religious bigotry
could make the people so far forget their national predilec-
tions in favour of even-handed justice and fair play even to
an enemy, as to countenance such atrocious proceedings.
If they would consult their reason for a moment, they
would see the injustice, the cruelty, and the diabolical
wickedness, of summoning a public meeting for the purpose
of calumniating one-third of the people of the United
Kingdom, without allowing them to say one word in their
defence. It is singular enough that this is the only country,
perhaps, in which a practice so incompatible with the usual
habits of the people could be carried on with impunity. In
France such firebrands would be expelled the country—in
Russia a repetition of the offence would doom them to the
wilds of Siberia—and in America the people would most
probably take the law into their own hands. In England
alone, where the people have been so long famed for their
love of justice, obedience to the law, and religious feelings,
is it permitted for one sect to heap insult upon another, and
create the most deadly feud between men whom, whether in
a religious or a political view, it ought to be the object of
all Governments to induce to live in peace and harmony.