The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-27 00:00:00

I am, Sir, your (Nedient servant.

Wolselcy, April 26, 1838. C. WOLSELE Y.
P. S. I met the Baronet at the Concentric dinner; "
looked a little askance at one another, and in about a math
after, we met in London, at the time Hobliouse tuts put LIP by
the Baronet for Westminster, and the good old Major Cart•
wright flung over the left shoulder by the worthy Baronet.
Mr. Northmore, of Clive House, Devon, and myself, sub-
scribed 501. each, and having got 251. from other quarterlt
the old Major was started. We neutralized the votes of tha
Radicals, and seated Mr. LAMB for Westminster, and from
that time Sir Fraacis and myself have of course been very
PARTICULAR friends !

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protection keeps pace. Those who depend upon chance
generally find their reward in disappointment ; whcreg they
who trust to thuir own energies by duly exercising the itoresight
with which providence has endowed them, wilt ue independent
alike of the frowns or smiles of caprie;.ous fortune. It vi"
but :he other day that we drew attention to a very respect'
able Society of Travellers established at Glasgow for their:
mutual bents it ; and to-day we have seen the prelial•lnarY
prospectus cf a similar association, but upon a far there ex'
tended scale, under the title of The United Society
Mercantile Travellers, which is intended to embrace
classes engaged in commercial pursuits.
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The United Society of Mere,- -ead;ers and benefactors.
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/le Sun, which travels everywhere'
CHARA "
—,I*.ER OF THOMAS HOOD'

We have great pleasure in quoting the following elogt ent
tribute to the literary merits of one of the most origin
humourists of the day. It is from the last number, just Pub-
lished, of the " London and Weaminster Review." iet We have now done with Hood's works ; but while drawing out our bt
catalogue rnisonnee of the various merits which are assembled in theme'
their author has been so often and so pleasantly with us, that a paragrlso
—ere we part from the reader, counselling him not only to buy but'
to ponder,—may be devoted not impertinently to personal remernbrince.
i
We began by stating our conviction that few writers were so impofec
understood as he of the ' Comic Annual' is : few, we may add' 14:49
;
been more sparingly known in the world of society. Hood has never
sought the tinsel honours of Lionship. A shape of slight figure, with
pale and pensive countenance, may, indeed, have flitted through s°cle
ty
occasionally without causing any remark ; none of the Lady worry
mores, or Capel Loins, who make themselves ridiculous, and th
literary proteges disrespectable, by their senseless ecstacies—even dreswi
ing that that slight figure was moving to and fro, to gather sinWie: o
humour and folly and absurdity, but not in the spirit of a Syenrtri
vi
that the rarest conceit could twinkle through the spectacles ".-
gave a decent gravity to those eyes, or that the most luxuriant Ythi:
sies, and the most irresistible repartees could drop—rich as oil, if
always as sweet as honey,—from the corners of that most itnPat
looking mouth. But we know better; and as the sea divides him g
lln"
us, may say as much without any fear of our friend interposing
to prevent us. We have sat by his side through the small hours,
listening to the tales of ghosts, remembered, improved, or improvised'
such as night watchers in the nineteenth century are rarely petnlitted,er
enjoy. We have heard him—apart from the listening circle—_accornr—
d
the long-winded tale of a traveller with such a running fire of MACS 50_7;
d
comments aside as the brethren of the Row would give geld to gather too:
print. We have watched him snprovoke the component members of g
ciable rubber in that moment of intense interest, when the game 7'3
on a card,—that odd tricks have been forgotten, trumps wasted, :12
four hands thrown down, in an universal paroxysm. We
have
streial
his Yoriek spirit sending forth its sparkling bubbles, in despite of
_co
and vicissitude ;—for may we not allude to these, when in his prels
to his last new undertaking, our friend has himself pointed they
His education as an engraver has given him an eye of singular keenness
—his genius, a fancy ever ready, and a wit rarely blunt, rarely indebted
~iic
to
to others for its weapon, and these are as much manifested in his chili
intercourse with his friends as in his more ceremonious commerce
hlu_
the public. There is not a page in all his works more thoroughly
r
morous than the account we once heard him deliver, of a larbut;
r
at the Comic Annual,' when at the eleventh hour, like Mozart over
to
overture to Don Giovanni, he fell asleep, and continued (he declares)
been
plying dictate, for some good ten minutes, ere his amanuensis, who had discerned
plying the pen for half an hour, herself scarcely less somnolent,
the least change in his diction;—the least abatement of his fluency.
so
There is no dilemma recounted by Mrs. Twigg, or Mrs. doneS,h
con.
diverting as those with details of which his familiar letters from the
tinent are filled. But with these the world will perhaps one day be r",O
i.
fled, and it would be unfair, by attempting them in our feebler pl)'..afe'
forestal the new Pilgrim of the Rhine.' Here then we leave him--au..
thor and man—well pleased if the foregoing pages have supplied any Ii
to the right understanding and appreciation of his affluent and origina
hurried

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL' S—YrisrxßDA
r.
None of the Derby favotlrites were in demand except Ore/
Momus, who obtained the call of Young Rowton, without a
making
any advance on Monday's quotation ; after the 600 to bOO bet wha.
;
made, 10 to 1 was laid in ponies against Young Rowton, and
seemed to be on the decline, but just at the close of the r°°nl t
point less was taken, so that the two horses left off nominally d
the same price. Conservator, Bullion, Amato, Dmdalus,
Chymist were backed g the old prices. Fifty pounds were
out upon Bretby at 30 to 1, a trifle below the market price; ;to
ts
friends are not very numerous. In the early part of the d• Y:ineas
1 was taken with some spirit about Bamboo for the 2000 G;
Stakes, but as the afternoon advanced the layers of the odds 5
ns
creased in number, and at the finish no one would take less Oa"
dds, to 2. Grey M o
Momus was in considerable force at Monday's
able
and Saintfoin and Alemdar were just, in sufficient favour to
at sky
us to make a quotation. Although she was not mentioned
0,,y0
definite price, we shottld imagine, from the repeated offers
_takloasti
8 to 1, that Gleussra is quite as good a favourite for the "7 to 1
Mr. Batson's ;illy (now called Vespertillo), against which buck ed
was offered currently. Brown Duchess and Larnaca were
for small sums, but we did not hear any odds offered agst NinvY
or Callisto. Closing prices :
• TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES, C.?. (TUESDAY „rityr
2 to 1 agst Lord Suffield's Bamboo—offered
5 to 2 agst Lord G. Bentinek's Grey Momus—taken
4 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Saintfoin—take 5 to 1
ed
5 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's lot—taken and afterwards offer
'ME DERBY.
7 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Phoenix—taken
9 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinek's Grey Islomus—take 10 to 1
9 to 1 agst Mr. 131and's Youngs Rowton—taken
11 to 1 agst Lord Suffield's Bamboo—tale 12 to 1
11 to 1 agst Mr. Armitage's Nonplus colt—take 12 to 1•
16 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lon—taken
16 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Alemdar—taken
17 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's The Early Bird—take 20 to I
„reed
13 to 1 agst Sir. H. Coombes's Cobham—taken and aft. offer
20 to 1 agst Lord G. I3entiock's D'Egville—taken
22 to 1 agst Captain Berkeley's Bullion—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Conservator—taken ea
u„al
30 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Bretby—taken and a
- -
30 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Amato—ditto
30 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Richard Roe
30 to 1 oust Mr. Worral's Dormouse—taken
35 to 1 agst Sir J. Mills's Volunteer—taken
40 to 1 agst Sir, Thornhill's Saintfoin—offered
40 to 1 agst Gen. Grosvenor's Daldalus—ditto
50 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Chymist—taken
50 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Tranby's dam colt
2000 to 20 agst Mr. J. Day's Brother to Aleppo—taken
2500 to '25 agst Mr. Ford's Quo Alinus—taken
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Sowerby's Caligula
1000 to 15 agst Jagger—taken
1000 to 10 agst Mr. Buckley's Torn—offered. 1000 to 5 agst St. Vitus—taken
1000 to 80 on Phoenix agst Bamboo—taken
600 to 500 on Grey Momus agst Young Rowton—taken ak
•
800 to 20 agst Baraboo and Callisto winning Derby and Oaks."t
THE OAKS.
7 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Vesportilio—offered
8 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Glenara—taken
9 to 2 agst Duke of Grafton's Unique—taken 0 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Rowton dam filly-o"e"rea
10 to 1 agst Mr, J. Scott's Mary Gray—taken
11 to 1 agst Lord Suffield's Callisto—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Brown Duchess—taken -
20 to 1 agst Sir G, Ueathcote's Larnaca—taken
oft
The following horses arrived at Miekleham, near EPrr:' rle'
Monday from Newmarket :—Richard Roe, liretby, Aloe Caro,
Moue Adam, Nonplus colt, and Cobham, all in the Derby; ,5 sea
mElima filly, out of Rowton's darn ; filly out of Speculator,„er•
nedustry, all in the Oaks ; and a two-year old filly out of We''
BA TH

SPRING RACES, TV, EDNP SDI r•
1,02.5ei
The Lansdown Trial Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., for -arter.
that never won (matches excepted). One mile and a -
10 Subs. 1
Mr.W. Bruges na. b. e. Spectre, 3 yrs, 7st. 71b S. It°g
ers
Sir L. Glyn na. ch. c. by Buzzard, out of Prunella, 3 yrs, 79t- 71b1b 3
Mr. Bristow's br. c. Whirlwind, by Cardinal Put!, 3 yrs, 7Et•
Won by a head. for
The Weston Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft., with 20 added duce
two-years old colts, Bst. 71b ; and fillies Bst. 41b ; the
of untried mares or horses allowed 41b. The straight hale '"
9 Sebs.
Mr. Wreford's b, c. by Camel, out of Margelline ......... J.Dgi
Captain Williainson s br. g. by The Coloael, out of Tyro c''':ifer-
The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr.
beet's b. c. by Sultan, out
of Benefit (mare untried) ; and
Sadler's b. f, by Defence, out of Lady Stumps. kes of
The Lapies' Silver Cup, value 30 sous., added to a SweePsta_ ay*
6 sovs. each, for horses not thoroughbred; the second it'
his stake. Gentlemen riders. Ono mile and a half and a
tance. 14 Subs. 1
Mr, Faster's b. h. Combat, 5 yrs, list. 3113„....31r. r 2
Mr. Galpin's b. g. Arctic, 5 yrs. (h. b.) llst ...............
Captain Chambers's b. g. The Cardinal, aged, list. 41h ........ 20'
The Bath Stakes (Handicap) of 20 sovs. each, Is. ft., .1
added. One mile and a half and a distance. 16 Subs.
Mr. G. Worrall as. Barney Bodkin, aged, tslst. 91b......Dick50° 9
Mr,
F.
Crib-r.% b. c. Doncaster, 4 yrs, 7st. 71b ............•.........
SweepstP.'ses of 15 sovs. each, 5 ft., tor horses of all denomin.
The last half mile. Gentlemen riders. 5 Subs. w.
Mr, Foster's b. h. Combat (h. b. ), 5 yrs, llst. 91b-Wr•
Sadler ~.
Mr. 4. Bayly na. Lucretia (h. b.), 3 yrs, 9st. 71b ...............
Mr, Hobson's bl. c. Snarley Yow (h. h.), 3 yrs, 9st. 71b .........

The Austrian Count and Countess MongelrAs and
suite arrived at the Clarendon Hotel yesterday, ft,m, Vienna.
The Duke of Devonhhiro will. not leavr, Chatsworth
until the ensuin,, 7e4, Exterior buildings, forming a spaci-
ous aleuve, arc 1444 kW() up in front of Devonshire House,