The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-25 00:00:00

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TAT rERsALL's —YEsTERDIT.
Mcst of the subsaiibdrs haling le!t for Newmarket,
little or nothing was done; we have, therefore, only the
following brief quotations to return:—
NEWMARKET THREE YEARS OLD TRIENNIAL.
7 to 4 agst Colonel PeLl's Tadmor
5 to 2 agst Sir J. Hawley's Vatican
1,000 to 10 agst Mr. Farrsnce's The 0:d Fox
NEWMARKET TWO YEARS OLD TRIENNIAL.
2 to 1 a,s-,st Lord Eglintort's Knight of Avenel
3 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Hardinge
GRAND DUKE MICHAEL STAKES.
5 to 2 on Sir J. Hawley's Vatican—taken
4 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Honeycomb—taken
100 to 10 agst Tadmor and Ghillie Callum both win •
ning—taken
CHESTER AUTUMN HANDICAP.
4 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Chatterer—taken
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
15 to 1 agst Mr. Nicholls's Woolwich
16 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler's Ribaldry
20 to 1 agst Mr. Stebbings's Melton
20 to 1 apt Captain Archdall's Rhesus
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
12 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Glenalvun—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklatn's Raby
20 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Evelyn
30 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Legerdemain
DEBBY, 1850.
10 to 1 agtt Lord Eglinton's lot—taken
14 to 1 agst Mr. Henry's Pitsfurd—taken
45 to 1 agt.t Mr. W. Edwards's Bolingbroke—taken
NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING.
NEWMARKET, MONDAY NIGHT.
ENTRIES &C., FOR TO-MORROW.
Handicap. T.Y.C.—The Fiddkr, 4 yrs, Bst 81b—
Sagacity, 5 yrs, 7st 91b—Highland Fling, 3 yrs, 7st 21b
—Jest, 4 yrs, 7st—Cigarette, 3 yrs, 6st 101b—Ione,
3 yrs, 6st 71b—Conch, 3 yrs, 6st 41b. Six others paid.
The Hopeful Stakes.—The following are scratched:—
Irish Birdcatcher colt, CY.staside filly, Sergius, Dego,
Gosling, Maria colt, Rebecca filly.
Grand Duke Michael.—Only Champion, Vatican, and
Honeycomb left in.
Match. T.Y.C. 200.—Bishop of Romford's Cob
receives forfeit.
100, h ft. D.M.—Beauvale pays.
100, h ft. Suffolk Strikes Course. Goodwood pays.
WEDNESDAY.
Two yrs old Triennial.—Rybinsks, Total Rclipse
filly, Compass, and Bastilia are struck out, and itis de-
clared doubtful if Ghillie Callum will start for this race.

..• '-'"

Total

CRICKET.

ELEVEN OF ENGLAND V. TWENTY•T%VO OF STOCKTON

AND DISTRICT.

This grand match was resumed on Saturday at Stock-
ton-on-Tees, and at the departure of the post on that
afternoon the game stood as the subjoined score indi-
cates:—

ENGLAND.-FIRST INNINGS.
F. Pilch—b Joy
Clarke—st Morton, b Anderson ...
G. Parr—not out ...
Gny—st Morton, b Anderson
N. Felix, Esq.—c Baldwinson, b Anderson...
A. Mynn, Elq,—b Joy ••• ••• •••
Hillyer—b Anderson
Martingell—c Scarth, b Anderson...
Letby—c Joy, h Rapley ... •••
G. F. Cooke, esq.—b Rapley...
Hinkly—b Raptcy •••
81, w 23, nb 0 ...

Total „.
STOCITON-FIIIST INNINGS.
J. Baker-1 bw, b Clarke ... ...

R. Scarth—b Hillyer ••• •••
P. Stockdale—b Clarke ... ..• ..•
J. %V. Coates, jun., Esq —b llillyer •••
W. Thompson, Esq.—b Hillyrr •••
Baldwinson—c Martingell, b Mynn...
Joy—b Hillyer ••• ••• ••• •••
Lambert—b Hillyer ••• ..•
H. Beresfoid, Esq.—o Hillyer, b
Anderson—b Mynn •••
Morton— b Mynn ..• •••
Lancaster—b Ilillyer ••• ••• •••
Thompson—b Martingell ..•
Rev. U. Miister—b Myun ..•
Shepherd—b llillyer •••
Rapley—b Hillyer ••• .•.
M. Pilkington, Esq.not out ..• •.•
A. H. Faint., Esq.—b Hinkley ...
C. Trotter, Esq,—b Ilinkley ••• ..•
F. Thompson, Esq.—c Guy, b Hinkley ...
Salmon—run out •••
Hornby—b Clark
Byes, 22

Total ... ...
ENGLAND.-SECOND INNINGS.

Pilch—not out ... ... ... ...
Clark—b Anderson ... ...
Parr—b Rapley ... ... ••• •••
Guy—b Lambert ..• •••
N. Felix, Esq.—s Morton, b Anderson ...
A. Mynn, Esq.—c Faber, b Joy ... ..•
Hillyer—s Morton, b Anderson ...
Martingell—c Baldwinson, b Anderson ...
Letby—s Morton, b Anderson ...
G. F. Cooke, Esq.—b Anderson ...
llinkley—c Faber, b Anderson
Byes, 2; wide, 14; no balls, I ...

Total ...

ELEVEN OF ALL ENGLAND V. TWENTY-TWO OF DIA•
NINGIZAM.

On Monday the grand cricket-match between the
Eleven of all England and Twenty• two of Birmingham
commenced in the field adjoining the Reservoir at Edg-
baston, about a mile-and-a-half from the town. The
pla3 ing continued until five o'clock, when the following
result of the day's play was declared:—

BIRMINGHAM-FIRST INNINGS.
Norton, Esq.—b Hillyer
Jordan—run out
Edwards, Esq.—c Felix, b Clarke
Taylor, Esq.—b Hillyer
Baker, Esq.—b Clarke ...
Nixon—c Felix, b Hillyer
F. Tinley—c Felix, b Clarke
Sopp—b Hillyer
Roby—c Martingell, b Hillyer
C. Butt, Esq.—c Parr, b Clarke ...
Langley—b Clarke ...
S. Mallaby, Es q.—b Clarke
Deacon—hit w, b Clarke ...
Eades—b Hillyer ... ... ...
R. Fulford, Esq.—b Hillyer
B. Gilpin, Esq.—rua out ...
Wigley, Esq.—b
J. Mousley, Esq.—b Clarke ...
T. H. Gem, Esq.—b Clark ...
Bensom, Esq.—b
Goddard, Esq.—b Clarke ...
J. Evans, Esq.—not out ...

ENGLAND-FIRST INNINGS.
F. Pilch—not out .• ••• •••
G. F. Cooke, Esq.—c Sopp, b Tinley
IL Vernon, Esq.—b Nixon ...
Martingell—not out ... .•• ..•
G. Parr ... ... ... ...

Guy ... ~.
N. Felix, Esq.
A. Mynn, Esq.
Chatterton
Hillier
Clarke ...
Bye

EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1849.

SECOND EDITION OF "KING ARTHUR,

AN EPIC POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS
By Sir Edward Bzilwer Lytton
Our admiration of this splendid effusion of genus
—the masterpiece of one of the most remarkable
minds of this generation—has been nobly verified. Its
popularity. has already commenced; and that popu-
larity, we are satisfied, is not ephemeral, but vi ill
prove, on the contrary, of an elevated and enduring
character. On the occasion of its first appearance we
endeavoured to subject the poem of "King Arthur"
to such a severe and scrutinizing analysis that we find
but little left for us to say now, beyond the simple
announcement of its republication. It is due, never-
theless, to the illustrious author to remark that the
present edition has undergone a very careful and
laborious supervision; and that wherever any reason-
able objections have been entered in the way of cri-
ticism, there the text has been submitted to emenda-
tion. We are proud to know that we ourselves may be
numbered amongst. those reviewers whom Sir Edward
Bulwer Lytton has thus honoured with his coinci-
dence. The plenary spirit with which the literary
journalist reverently proffered his suggestions has
been shared by the poet in the collation of his
original manuscript. "King Arthur" must now win
for itself the admiration to which it is entitled by its
numerous and exquisite beauties. Henceforth its
fame must rest upon its own intrinsic excellence.
All that its creator could effect in its regard has been
accomplished—the last touches of his pencil, still
glowing with the warmth of novelty, and still bloom-
ing with the freshness of adolescence, have been im-
parted—whatever was crude or jejune has been
ripened by correction—the work, so far as the
capacities of the writer are concerned, has attained
the period of its completion. Conscious of this,
we do not consider ourselves premature when we
tender, as we do, our most earnest felicitations to Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton on the fulfilment of his des-
tiny, on the achievement of his highest success, and
the attainment of his loftiest ambition. In him the
future critic cannot fail to recognize a brilliant evi-
dence that the most extreme versatility is not incom-
patible with the most felicitous adventure. Yearning,
as he has undeniably done throughout his career, to
acquire celebrity as a man of letters, our author has
obtained the most signal triumphs not in one alone,
but in all the various and, until now, apparently
incongruous departments of literature. In prose and
poetry, in romance and biography, in fictitious and
historical narrative, as a lyrist and as an essayist, as
a bard and as a dramatist, in comedy and in tragedy,
he has successively advanced andsuccessfully retreated.
Unlike Sir Walter Scott, he has commenced with
prose fiction and terminated with heroic and chivalric
poetry: And his last production has surpassed all its
predecessors. In the preface to " King Arthur," Sir
Edward very judiciously exclaims—" On this foun-
dation I rest the least perishable monument of those
thoughts and those labours which have made the
life of my life." Each perusal of a poem which we
have read more than once assures us that in so
speaking he has formed a correct estimate of his
powers and of their performances. It were well
for his renown, as a novelist, if the same pure
and rarified atmosphere had been always re-
spired by his imagination, during the intervals of
the composition of his earlier writings, as
that atmosphere which he has breathed in his poetical
and of late also in his prose productions. It were well
if the sensual genius of French romance had never
exercised over his fine, but occasionally distorted, in
tellect its pernicious fascination. It were well if some
of the more youthful novels of Bulwer had been cha-
racterised by the sweet and wholesome morality of
the last two novels of Lytton—by the unsullied merits
of " Harold," and the gentle and humanizing tone of
the " Caxtons." Now that the collected works of
this distinguished man are being re-issued in a form
such as will extend their popularity by scattering
them more widely throughout the population, we
would most earnestly suggest to him the increase of
his labours of emendation. Five of his admirable fic-
tions have already been completed in the cheap edi•
tion ; and yet our respectful suggestion comes not too
late, seeing that in none of those five do we recog-
nise the necessity for corrections such as those to which
we are alluding. In saying this, Sir Bulwer Lytton
will perceive that we are not among the hypercritics
whom he has so very logically refuted in the mas-
terly pamphlet penned by him as a vindication from
their aspersions. Our hint at emendation is directed
along a very different channel. For, with him,
we are satisfied that the delineation of great
and tragic crimes, such as those committed by
Lucretia, and such as those wrongfully imputed
to Aram is strictly within the province of a literary
moralist; and that, if handled as he has endeavoured
to handle them, they are calculated to exercise a
bitter but salutary influence over the community of
readers. What we cannot, however, regard as bene-
ficial in this or in any other analogous walk of lite-
rature is that roseate and impassioned delineation of
vice which ravishes the heart and intoxicates the
brain with its voluptuousness. Tell us not that our
feelings in this particular are the feelings of a prude,
and that our objections are the objections of a fribbler
in morality. Talk not of the lessons of virtue incul-
cated through the medium of these bewitching por-
traitures of depravity. We are neither blind to the
truths of common sense nor deaf to the arguments of
right reason—we know, and feel, and see that the
effects of this fictitious licentiousness, especially when
accompanied by the seductive tones of eloquence and
clothed with the resplendent decorations of genius,
are not to be counteracted by an ejaculation of re-
morse, or by a sentence expressive of awe for reli-
gion, however cleverly turned or sententiously arti-
culated, We are conscious, moreover, that the noble
intellect of a man like this stands in no need of any
such meretricious assistance. That a writer with a
corruptible reputation, as for example Charles Paul de
Kock, should have recourse to such tricks of passion to
win his way to the darker nerves and pulses of
humanity, to make them thrill and throb at his bid-
ding, is not surprising. But that a man gifted with
such extraordinary and diversified faculties should
condescend to the emulation of minds so inferior;
that he who can at pleasure place his band upon the
noblest chords of our nature and make them vibrate
to the measure of his inspirations, should ever, even
for a moment, interrupt the melodies of a lyre dropt
from heaven t " the lascivious breathings of a
lute" picked from the kennel, has been to us
matter of earnest regret and deep astonishment.
Hence we have spoken. Our regard, or rather we
should say, our admiration for the genius of Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton prompts the suggestion. We
would see his collected works, fraught as they are
with beauties, purified from those casual blemishes.
Without making any invidious catalogue of the
passages we yearn to know have passed under his own
generous emendation, we may refer as examples to
an incident befalling Ernest Maltravers and another
occurring to Lumley Ferrers. Our anxiety to wit-
ness this expurgation has been enhanced by the con-
trast afforded by the two latest of the prose and pceti-
cal productions of the poet-novelist of England—the
pure and beautiful story of the " Caxtons ' and the
untarnished splendour of " King Arthur." Of the
latter, as a superb national epic, we do not hesitate to
predict that its appearance will hereafter be ranked
among the most memorable literary events of our,
generation—an anticipation which is fully justified
when we reiterate that it is the masterpiece of Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton.

THE TOWER-WATER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

STR,—The Tower of London, which, prier to the
draining of its moat, was notoriously one of the most
unhealthy garrisons in the country, has since taken a
much higher position in a sanitary point of view, still
it has had to contend against a disadvantage of no
ordinary kind, namely, a deficiency of water.
Through the columns of The Sun the proposal for
the removal of the moat (or ditch, more correctly
speaking) first emanated—and through the same
medium let it be known that the latter evil no longer
exists. A communication has, during the present
week, been made between the fortress and the Ar-
tesian well at the Royal .Mint, by which means a
bounteous supply of pure spring•water will be con-
stantly available to the troops therein stationed. I
need not expatiate on the value of such a blessing at
such a time, and am persuaded that you will be deeply
gratified to hear such news.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Sept. 22, 1849. AQWEIUS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Can England do nothing to testify her ad-
miration of the heroic Garibaldi, who is described, in
a letter written by a lady at Rome, as being " as
good as he is brave, and more of a French cavalier
than all the French army put together." I would
suggest that a penny, or sixpenny subscription be
got up throughout the kingdom, and that with the
proceeds (which I have no doubt will be considerable)
a sword, designed after the old Rman fashion, be
purchased avid presented to the General, with this, or
a similar inscription :

THE FEOFLE OF ENGLAND
TO

GARIBALDI,

THE

DEFENDER OF ROME.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
LIBERTA&

Ilfracombe, Sept. 24th, 1849.

THE SILK TRADE OF CHESHIRE.—It is gratifying
to state that the staple trade of Macclesfield and Congle-
ton; the two great seats of the silk trade in Cheshire,
continues in a thriving and healthy condition. Weavers
are in demand, and all the dye-houses arc in full and
constant employment. The silk trade, up to a late
period, had been in a drooping state, and- the working
classes engaged in it bad suffered much and seveyo pri
vation. At present the 'Awning population are in com-
paratively easy circumstances, and the cheapness of food
adds much to their domestic comforts.