The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-09 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.

33 to 1 agst Seahorse (taken).
40 to 1 agst Haco (taken).
50 to 1 agst Mistletoe (taken).
THE DERBY.
25 to 1 agst Marley Hill (taken.)
30 to 1 agst Dervish (taken).
33 to 1 agst Marsyas (taken).
50 to 1 agst Tom, late Mountain Hawk (taken).
The Room will be opened on Saturday for the pur-
pose of comparing bets on the Doncaster events, and for
the despatch of business in general.
COUNTY STAKES, WARWICK.—The objection raised
ag,ainst Conmore was not valid ; the amount of the
stakes won by him at Yarmouth being under 1001.

ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM RACES.
THURSDAY.
MAIDEN PLATE of 401. was won at two heats by Ho-
thorpe, 6 yrs, 9st (Sly), beating the Arrow, 3 yrs, 7st
31b (Cliff), Recruit, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b (Juggard), Mr. Em-
merson's Don John filly, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b (Collins), and
three others.

VISITORS' and TRADESMEN'S PLATE of 50 sovs., added
to a handicap of 5 sovs. each, 2 ft, the forfeits to go to
the second horse. For 3-yrs-old and upwards. Win-
ners extra. One mile and a half. (24 subs., four of
whom pay 2 sovs. each.)
Mr. Land's Odiham, by Pantaloon, 5 yrs, Bst 71b

(H. May) 1
Captain D'Arcy's The Chase, 4 yrs, Est 111 b
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(W. May) 2
Mr. J. Dawson's Jack Leeming, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b

(Barker) 3
The following also ran :—Sleeping Partner, Hothorpe,
Honesty, Lady Blanche, Bradford, Will Watch.
Betting :-3 to 1 agst Sleeping Partner, 4 to 1 agst
Odiham, sto 1 agst Honesty. A capital race from the
half distance with the three placed. Won by a neck—a
head only between second and third—the others beaten
off. The winner pulled up lame. Early in the race,
Bradford came into collision with Lady Blanche, and his
jockey was thrown ; Bradford then bolting down the
course, knocked down a woman and child, who were
much injured.

ROCKINGHAM STAKES of 3 sous. each, with 40 added,
were won at two heats by Sir J. V. Shelley's Herbert,
aged (100/.), Bst 21b (Sly), beating Miss Jemima, 4 yrs
(100/.), 7st 91b (Wakefield) ; The Marchioness, aged
(100/.), Bst 21b (Hornsby), and two others. The winner
was claimed.

SPECULATION PLATE of 25/., added to a sweepstakes of
3 sous. each, for 2.yr-olds and upwards. Optional
selling weights, &c. The second to save his stake.
Once round.
Mr. J. Dawson's Economy, 5 yrs (401.), Bst 41b

. .
(Barker) 1
Mr. Stoven's The Assayer, 2 yrs (40/.), 4st 121 b

(Fordhain) 2
Mr. Smith's Isabella, 4 yrs (401.), 7st 121 b (11. May) 3
The following also ran : Jullien, Salopian, and So-
phistry.
Betting : Even and 6 to 5 agst Economy, who was
post-entered, 5 to 2 agst Assayer, 4 to 1 agst Sophistry.
Won by half a length. Bad third. The others beaten
off. The winner was sold for 65 guineas.
MEDWAY STAKES of 2 sovs. each, with 25 added by
W. Smith, Esq., M. P. ; for 3-yrs-old and upwards.
Optional selling weights. &c. The second to save his
. stake Once round and a distance.
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Mr. C. Dilly's Luxurious, 3 yrs (50/.), 6st 21b
(Fordham) 1
Lord Clifden's Warbler, 3 yrs (751.), Est 101 b (Tovey) 2
Mr. Balehin's Fame, 4 yrs (501.), 7st 31b (Hiett) 3
The following also ran : Friendless Boy, Jullien, and
Glazebrook.

Mr. Land's Mustang went to the post, but did not
get off.
_ _ _

Betting : Even on Warbler, 4 to 1 agst Luxurious.
Won by a head. Bad third.

CURRAGH SEPTEMBER MEETING.
• WEDNESDAY.
WELLINGTON STAKES, 30 sovs, h ft. New Three-year-
old Course.
Mr. Murphy's bl f Twig, by Launcelot, 3 yrs, 7st 31b
(E. Keegan) 1
Lord Waterford's oh c April Fool, 3 yrs, ist 1 Olb
(D. Doyle) 2
SELLING STAKES of 5 sovs, p p, 25 sovs added, for two-
yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 81b.
Lord Conyngham's br f Ben Heder, by Crozier, (301.)
6st 101 b, and 21b extra (Conolly) 1
Mr. Neilson's ch f Bondmaid (501.) 7st 31b
(T. Harrison.) 2
Lord Waterford's ch f by Coranna, out of Elf
(mare un) • (J. Wynne) 3
HER MAJESTY'S PLATE Of 100 gs., for horses, &c. ;
weight for age; three-yr-olds, 9st 91b; four, lOst 111 b ;
five, list 41b ; six and aged, list 71b ; 31b allowed to
mares and geldings. Two miles.
Mr. Rynd's br c Crusader, by Crozier, 3 yrs
(E. Keegan) 1
Mr. Harrison's ch m Chaseway, 5 yrs ...(Harrison) 2
Lord Waterford's b h Bellewetown, 5 yrs
(James Doyle) 3
Won by three parts of a length.
SECOND CLASS OF THE STEWARDS' STAKES, 10 sovs.
each, with 30 sovs added, for two-yr-olds ; colts,
Bst 41b ; fillies, Bst; 31b allowed to untried stallions or
mares ; 51b to both. The winner of the Anglesey
Stakes 71b extra. Anglesey Post.
Mr. Watt's ch c Paddy Heffran (Foley) 1
Mr. E. Orford's br c Banathath (mare un)
(E. Kegan) 2

,ACES—TIIESDAY.
ND PLATE. One mile.

DONCASTER R.
WEIGHTS for the STAN
Yrs st lb
Gladiole 6 8 11
Maidstone
Maid of Team
Valley a 8 7
Calot
Snowdon Dunhill 3 8 6
Billy Richardson 4 8 4
Sir Robert (h b) 6 8 2
Kiteflyer
Antigone
Abdallah
Chedder 3 7 12
Farmer's Boy 4 7 12
Solyman 4 7 11
Humphrey 6 7 11
Beau Brummell
Corybautes 3 7 9
Chilton
Friday
Alfred the Great 4 7 4
Ugly Buck (g) 3 7 4
Thrush
Ann Eliza
Catherine Parr

Yrs st lb
The Puritan
The Proctor
Bracey
Maid of Golborne 3 6 12
Whalebone 3 6 11
Pastrycook 3 6 11
Tested 4 6 11
Nightshade 3 6 11

Pl;cid 3 6 11
Lord Lieutenant 3 6 11
Killarney
Risk (h 13) 6 6 9
Tavistock
Miss Agnes
Cassio 3 6 6
Miss Fortune 4 6 6
Slang
Patience 3 6 5
Goldfringe 4 6 2
Lady Flora
John Bull 3 5 6
Dressmaker ...
, Apricot (g) 3 5 2
Rattlecap

INTERFERENCE WITH THE PRICES OP
GRAIN AND BREAD IN FRANCE.

(From, the Times.)

The French Government appears already to have
discovered some of the mischievous consequences
of its interference with the supply of corn and the
sale of bread, for the Ifoniteur has been made to
declare that it is absolutely false that the Govern-
ment was about to make purchases of corn. Un-
fortunately, very few days have elapsed since its
semi-official organs laid claim to credit for a decla-
ration that prices would not rise, because large
quantities of wheat had already been ordered in the
Mediterranean, and the Government was said to
be engaged in making further purchases. The con-
sequence of this information, whether true or false,
was, that the orders of the private houses in the
French corn trade were to a large extent counter-
manded, and the natu *al channels of supply were
stopped. Meanwhile, purchases to a very large
amount had undoubtedly been made in England,
in the Baltic, and probably in the Levant, for the
French market, and, from the manner in which these
orders were given, we venture to affirm that they did
not proceed from the ordinary houses of business.
On the contrary, these orders were despatched to
foreign markets with so little care and forethought
that they produced the effect of a panic, and prices
rose everywhere in a single week, as we saw at
Mark-lane, about 20 per cent. There seems to be
very little doubt that the French demand was the
cause of this abrupt augmenation, for, although
the prospects of our own harvest have not mate-
rially changed in the last ten days, no further rise
has taken place since the French orders have been
executed. Those persons, whoever they may be,
who have participated in this speculation have
therefore thrown away a good deal of money very
absurdly. They have bought up corn in foreign
markets at the highest price it has reached for
several years, and this has been done at a time
when the French markets were either considerably
depressed, or interrupted altogether, by the uncer-
tainty thrown on the future value of the grain. At
Rambouillet, for instance, and other places in the
neighbourhood of Paris, wheat has fallen in the
last week about 4 francs a hectolitre, which is
between 6s. and 7s. a quarter, and in many pro-
vincial markets no sales could be effected at all.
So that not only has the French farmer been more
exposed in this
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example of the shifts to which the partisans of a
protective system may be driven by fear of the
consequences of their own restrictive laws, and if
all public discussion were not extinguished in
France, the agricultural interest might fairly com-
plain that it is not allowed to compete, even on
fair terms, with its neighbours. In his anxiety to
secure the rem frumentariam of Paris, Louis Na-
poleon would play
a very shabby trick to his prin-
cipal supporters in the rural population by running
up corn abroad and depressing
it at home. But,
as his Government has once attempted to make
the prices of corn and bread depend on its own will
and pleasure, and not on the laws of trade, it is
impossible that the producers and holders of these
commodities throughout the country should feel
any confidence in their future position. To pre-
vent a man from selling the produce of his labour
and his field at its current value is as gross an
interference with the rights of property as the
Socialists have ever recommended ; and, although
all protective systems of import duties are de-
signed to raise prices by artificial means, it is a
new sign of extravagance and delusion to use arti-
ficial means to depress thorn. The sound principle
is that, supposing a scarcity to exist, it is only by
higher prices that the necessary supplies can be
obtained, and it is fortunate for a wealthy country
like France that she can command them with
tolerable certainty by paying for them ; but by no
artifice can she obtain more where there is less, or
make that cheap which is naturally dear.
These remarks apply to the general supply of
corn with which the French Government now de-
clares, we know not with what sincerity, that it
does not propose to interfere. But it unquestion-
ably has interfered with the price of bread, and
that in the most inconsistent and reprehensible
manner. The Echo Agrieole, which is the organ of
the French corn-market, states that the order fix-
ing the price of the quartern loaf is merely a Pari-
sian measure, not intended to affect the country at
large. licit already it has been found necessary to
extend it to Versailles and the environs of Paris ;
and it may be anticipated that the populace of all
the great towns in France will resist paying a
higher price for their loaf than that fixed by the
Emperor for the advantage of the capital. Some
refractory bakers have already been arrested, but
incarceration will not induce a whole class of
tradesmen to sell below cost price. Bakers in a
time of scarcity are entitled to the peculiar protec-
tion of a wise Government, because the populace
generally attributes the necessary augmentation
in the price of bread to a wrong cause, and
not unfrequently vents its resentment on the
unoffending man of dough. But the late mea-
sure of uis Napoleon renders the bakers in
the provinces peculiarly obnoxious to popular
suspicion, because they must continue to sell
their bread dearer than bread is sold at in Paris.
Hence the intimidation of the people will attempt
to do in the provinces what the intimidation of the
Government has done in the capital ; and if this
course be persisted in, and prices remain high, the
public tranquillity will probably be disturbed.
Another inconvenience has arisen from this mea-
sure by its effect on the dealings of the baking trade
with the miller. The practice in France is, that
the miller supplies flour to the baker at a price
varying from 8 to 12 per cent. below the fixed price
of bread. But since the price of bread has been
fixed by the Government not at, but below, the
value of the article, leaving the baker to receive
compensation from the Treasury when he can get
it, the millers naturally refuse to supply flour on
these reduced conditions, and the bakers are unable
to purchase flour at a price which they cannot reco-
ver from their customers. If the price of bread is
121 per cent. below what it ought to be, that amount
more than absorbs the whole profit of the baker; he
therefore would work at a loss, and consequently
he will cease on such conditions to purchase flour at
all. If the Government is prepared to indemnify the
baker for the loss on his bread, that indemnity must
find its way to the miller for the loss on his flour,
and again to the grower of corn for the loss on his
wheat. But the corn-grower and the miller are
not, as the Guild of Bakers are, under the control
of the police of Paris, and consequently they will
either hold back their supplies or seek a freer
market ; the consequence of which must be that
Paris will be worse off than any part of the
country where the maximum has not been intro-
duced. A more complete reductio ad absurdum of
a fallacy in political economy we never remember ;
and this occurs in France, the country in which
M. de Turgot wrote his memorable Letters on
Grain, so long ago that his excellent precepts and
sound principles have had time to be forgotten.
We suspect that Louis Napoleon's conversion to
the doctrines of free trade, and his knowledge of
the subject, very nearly resemble the Christianity
of Tae-ping-wang, the head of the Chinese insur-
gents. He may have got by heart the command-
ments of Adam Smith and some of the precepts of
the late Mr. Porter ; but on any critical emergency
the old Imperialist superstitions have their way,
and he has recourse to an expedient which even
his uncle would hardly have ventured upon, and
which a Minister like Count Mollien would never
have allowed Napoleon I. to commit.

STATUE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL IN WESTMINSTER
ABBEY.—On Wednesday Gibson's statue of the late Sir
Robert Peel was erected in the north transept of West-
minster Abbey, under the superintendence of the
sculptor himself, who has recently arrived in England
from Rome. The statue was sculptured at Rome ;it is
of pure white marble, and stands upon an elegant pedes-
tal of blue veined marble ; it is of the life size, and
draped with the classical toga. The likeness is admir-
able, and the attitude highly expressive, representing
Sir Robert Peel in the act of addressing the Senate, and
marking an emphasis by the pressure of the palm of the
left hand with a scroll which he holds in his right hand.
SUICIDE BY A BOY.—A boy, about 14 yews of age,
named Edward Mortimer, residing with his father, a
tradesmen in St. Paul's, Exeter, committed suicide on
Monday morning last. On the previous day the father
of the deceased gave him some money to pay a three
weeks' milk score, and after the person had called for the
money his sister noticed that he bad still some pence
in his possession, and informed his mother-in-law of the
circumstance. The latter made some inquiries of the
lad as to bow he came by it, and expressed herself to the
effect that she believed be bad told her an untruth,
telling him the truth would come out on the following
morning; he immediately left the room, and in half an
hour afterwards the boy was found suspended to the
bed-post by his silk neckerchief, quite dead.
THE GREAT RAILWAY BRIDGE AT CARMARTHEN.—
The middle of the present month has been named as the
period when the railway bridge, now in the course of
formation on the South Wales line at Carmarthen, will
be ready for the sliding platform. The peculiarity of.
this structure arises from the fact that the Towey being
a tidal river it became necessary to plan a bridge which
should admit the transit of vessels, hence the bridge will
have two openings, one of 55 feet and the other of 35
feet. The larger portion will be drawn up a slight incline
of the rails, and then, by its own weight, fall into place
again. The bridge cannot be finished before the middle
of October.
The telegraphic communication between London and
Perth was completed on Saturday evening.