The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-19 00:00:00

Three only were placed.-6 to 4on the Field.

ROAN TROTTING MATCH for 500 SOVEREIGNS.
This match, upon which many hundreds were pending, took
place on Thursday, over the Mile-and-half,Range, Ashburn
Park, Bedfordshire, before a numerous field of anxious sports-
men. The mare was bred in Lancashire, and the horse by Mr.
B. Standish, and they were considered the fastest in England
under 15 hands. The match was to trot against each other,
and to start at the opposite ends, Each mile and a half was
done as follows, with feather weight :
The Horse did the Min. Sec. The Mare did the Min. Sec.
Ist mile and half, in 5 50 Ist mile and half, in 5 42
2d ditto - - 5 52 2d ditto - - 5 50
3d ditto ' - 6 2 3d ditto - - 6 12
4th ditto 7 4 4th ditto - 8 4
sth ditto - 6 1 sth ditto - . 532
6th ditto - - 6 2 6th ditto - - 5 40
7th ditto - 5 52 7th ditto - - 8 2
Bth ditto _ - 5 58
9th ditto . - 6 4
10th ditto - - 620

The mare was pulled up in
the Bth round, as she could not
be kept in temper, although
she sbewed best speed.

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MATCH TO NOTTINGHAM AND BACK.
Mr. Abernethy, who started from Shoreditch on Wednesday
to go on foot to Nottingham by a circuitous route, and to re-
turn, making 260 miles, in four days, perfbrmed half his dis-
tance and halted four hours at Northampton late on Thursday
night, in good condition. The pedestrian, when our informa-
tion left, had two hours over his time to do the second two days
in, and he fen confident of success. He is 5 feet 7 inches high,
25 years of age, and travels in flannels only, and thick shoes.
He has travelled much on the high roads to Scotland.

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.
MEETINGS OF HOUNDS IN THE ENSUING WREN.
The Surrey Pox-Hounds, on Monday, at Addington Lodge
Bottom ; Thursday, at the Half-moon, Godatone Road ; and
on Saturday, at Botley Hill.
The Sanderstead Harriers, on Monday, Wednesday, and Sa-
turday, at the Kennel.
The Cheshire Hounds, on Monday, at High Leigh ; 'Wed-
nesday, at Booth's Obelisk ; Friday, at Alderley Edge ; and
on Saturday, at Ouseley Ford.
Sir R. Puleston's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Carden ; and on
Thursday, at Twemlowes.
The East Sussex Fox-Hounds, on Monday, at Swine's Hill.

RIOTS AT HERTFORD.

HERTFORD, OCT. 17.

The Sessions for the Borough of Hertford have
just closed, without the smallest criminal cognizance of two re-
cent occurrences within the scope of their jurisdictinn ; one of
which appears almost to have frightened a Chief Justice (of
Ely) out of his wits, and the other, however alarming in its na-
ture, to have passed away almost as a matter of course—the
first, the riot in the town on the night of the new Mayor's din-
ner ; and the other, the " gunpowder plot," as it is ludicrously
called, at the East India College in this vicinity. Professor
Christian, the Chief Justice of Ely, unfortunately for his
peace of mind, Alined at the new Mayor's dinner a few days
ago at Hertford, where was also Lord Cranborne, one of the
Members for the place. It is an ancient custom in this Bo-
rough,—whether one " more honoured in the breach than the
observance," is another question,—that• when the Members
dine on certain festive occasions within the corporate bounds,
they shall pay a visit in person, or appear by the golden proxy
of " their Sovereign," at several clubs held in the borough by
the " independent electors"—independent, indeed, they are of
the election, in the most comprehensive meaning of the word, and
for reasons which Lord Cranborne can very well explain ; but
still the periodical visit, or the sovereign in lieu thereof, is a
sine qua non with the clubs, and the performance of the cere-
mony is indispensable—it is therefore always complied with
The redemption of the bond does .not, however, appear to ac-
quit the subscriber, and Lord Cranborne, who has been for
some time unpopular amongst particular classes, is occasionally,
in his visits to Hertford, exposed to rather an unpleasant re-
ception from certain persons among the inhabitants. The par-
ticular mode of rude annoyance practised against his Lordship,
is using an exclamation of " potathes and red herrings," when
he appears in the streets ; and on the late Mayor's day they
actually thrust a herring into his mouth, or against his face.
It is not meant by this insolent practice to convey any re-
flection upon his Lordship's hospitality, or taste for good
living ; but the fact is, that some time ago Lord Cran-
borne, being dissatisfied with the manner in which the
parochial affairs of his neighbourhood were conducted, so far
as related to paupers, undertook the office of overseer him-
self at Hatfield, performed its duties personally, and practically
administered measures of parochial economy and , reform :
among these the introduction of potatoes and salt herrings for
the food of the poor formed a prominent arrangement, and al-
though there are parts of the King's dominions (the south of
Ireland for instance) where a large class of the inhabitants
would idolize the Magistrate who exerted himself to secure for
them a gratuitous supply of such food, yet' the Hatfield folks,
accustomed to the more nutritive farming diet of Hertford-
shire, from that moment set their faces against Lord Cranborne,
became advocates foi any economy but his, and seized the op-
portunities already mentioned of insulting when he appeared
in the county town. All this would have passed away as the
ordinary noise occasioned for the moment by some idle malcon-
tents hooting at the object-of their dislike ; but Professor Chris-
tian, who was goihg homeward from the Mayor's dinner, and
who seems to have lost his spirits where others are in the habit
of gaining them, encountered what he considered to be a dan-
gerous and tumultuous mob. The uproar of these " rioters"
seems to have had the same power, for the moment, over the
nerves of the Professor, that the poet ascribes to the charms of
love, which _ _ ,

deprive, by their strange influence,
" The brave of courage, and the wise of sense :"
for, instead of repairing to the other magistrates whose com-
pany he had just 'left, he suffered the mob to continue their
illegal proceedings, if such they were, and limited his magis-
terial interposition to the simple act f subsequently writing a
letter to the Mayor and Magistrates, denouncing the mob, and
describing it as composed chiefly of adults, 200 or 300 in num-
ber ; dictating to the Magistrates the imperative necessity of
making an example upon the occasion ; and discharging at the
mob with his wrath, the appalling provisions of a few dozen of
penal statutes ; as if the civil power were ignorant of the Profes-
sor's edition of Blackstone, and the addenda of the later acts
against tumultuary assemblies. The new Mayor ( Dr. Ord) ap-
pears not to have taken Professor Christian's injunctions and in-
terference in good part, and whatever may be the public security
obtainable by the active operation of the statutes quoted by Pro-
fessor Christian, his worship the Mayor seen to have thought
them altogether inapplicable to the facts of the case at Hertford;
for he denies in his answer that there was any thing like the
riot which Mr. Christian alleged, and he states that the mob
consisted chiefly of boys. The Mayor also broadly insinuates,
by the way of a retort courteous, that the noise which so alarm-
ed the Professor was occasioned by the (not very legal) circum-
stance of his coachman using his whip freely upon the shoulders
of some of the crowd, who had the bad taste not to relish such a
joke, and who retaliated in their own way at the instant. The
Mayor, however, adds, that two or three persons were in cus-
tody for this disturbance such as it was, and would be dealt with
according to law. The correspondence was carried on between
the parties in rather a novel manner, considering that one of
them was no less a personage than his Majesty's Chief Justice
of the Isle of Ely, and the other the Mayor of the Borough of
Hertford; that the subject was an alleged riot which shocked the
gravity of a judge ; and the motive of writing the attainment
of a judicial inquiry: for the correspondence was opened by Pro-
fessor Christian, by a letter to the chief and other Magistrates in
the columns of a county newspaper a week ago, and was answer-
ed through the same medium (an odd substitute as a place of
record for the Crown-office) by the Mayor on Tuesday last.—
The Mayor, indeed, appears, judging from the result, to have
had a decided advantage over the Learned Professor, for the
Hertford sessions closed yesterday evening--no bills were pre-
ferred against these " formidable,rioters, and the two persons
who were in custody, were, in the absence of all prosecution,
discharged upon their own recognizance. It is reasonable to
presume, that if the riot were of the character described by the
Professor, the magistrates of the bortiugh and of the county
would not have suffered the offenders to escape with total im-
punity. The facts seem to have remained with the Mayor, and
the law with Professor Christian—a fair anatomical distribu-
tion, the one being a doctor, and the other a judge. So much
for the riot at Hertford : now for " the gunpowder" plot on the
neighbourin moor.
g The East India College, near Hertford—an establishment not
uniformly remarkable for the efficacy of its discipline, has again
within the last fortnight become the scene of insubordination,
and it is singular enough that Mr. Christian, who was himself
for some time a professor at this College, and who must, con-
sequently, feel an interest in its well-being, who was then, and
is still. a Magistrate of the county', and a resident in the neigh-
bourhood, did not direct his attention to the late tumultuary
disturbance in that establishment, and prescribe for the masters
there as he did with less apparent necessity for the corporation
of Hertford. It seems that a short time since, in the absence,
through indisposition, of Dr. Le Bas—a person dignified with
the lofty appellation of Dean of the College, the Rev. H. Wal-
ter, who had the superintendence of the establishment, laid
some fresh imposition or restriction upon some of the boys for
refractory conduct, or neglect of Collegiate discipline,—at least,
this is the ostensible origin assigned by some to the late dis-
turbance. This was so little relished by the youths, that they
beset Mr. Walter by all those little annoyances which school-
boys so well can practise ;—his person was threatened, with in-
sult—his windows were broken—and the students, in large
bodies, combined for executing a more extended project of de-
struction, the precise nature of which has not yet been actually
ascertained : it was probably nothing more than a plan to create
alarm in the minds of the Masters, by the appearance of a dan-
gerous process of annoyance, the terror of which was augment-
ed by the uncertainty of its effect. The Students at Hertford
College are just at that age (from 14 to 18) when youth are apt
to imbibe the sentiments of the poet, that
" A nobler task their riper age affords,
" Than scanning syllables, and weighing words."
The first direct act of insubordination manifested on the late
occasion was in consequence of the shuting of one of the college
gates at what the boys deemed too early an hour in the even-
ing ; various attempts were made to pick this lock, which was
at one of the back gates, but which, from its strengh and
construction, effectually resisted their efforts; the students,
though baffled in their first attempt, and though additional
bars opposed fresh obstacles, were yet not defeated, and
they adopted a new contrivance to accomplish their pur-
pose ; they procured some gunpowder, which they made
up in the manner best calculated for success, and which
they ingeniously inserted through an aperture in some of

the challiherl of the lock, and then applied to it A match
formed of combustible paper of slow communication, so as to
admit some lapse of time between its being set and the explo-
sion. When the powder became ignited, the lock was shattered
by the slibck : this took place late in the evening, and neces-
sarily occasioned some alarm. The insubordination of the stu-
dents was not, however, confined to this act of violence, for they
contrived to insert a blacking bottle, filled with powder, into
one of the pipes which act as a drain in the'college square :
this was alto exploded, by means of a match or train, near
midnight; the noise necessarily caused much alarm, but no
mischief was accomplished, not indeed at such a place or
hour could any have been effected by the explosion : it
merely rent the spot, and threw up some gravel. Besides
those secret machinations, there were open acts of aggres-
sion ; bodies of the students distributed themselves in given
positions', from which they sallied forth, broke the college
kmps, and then shattered several panes of glass in the
.houses of the learned Professor Le Bas and the very Reverend
the Dean, Mr. Walter. Only one of the rioters was caught in
the act, apd he has been merely sent from the college for two
terms. The Professors, upon inquiry, were unable to bring
the charges home to others, though, from the extent of the
plan of annoyance, suspicion fell upon numbers ; they however
adopted a course more comprehensive, though not so efficacious
as decimation, yet equally capricious. There are between 70
and 80 students at the college, and of these about 20, upon whom
suspicion fell have been sent home to undergo a species of in-
definite rustication. The penalty thus inflicted, though of un-
certain extent at present, is considered by the parties as a sort of
holiday ; and many of them, from the interest of their con-
nexions, expect to be shortly recalled with the loss of a term or
two. There the matter rests at present, and perhaps the difficulty
of making a selection, where such numbers appear to have been
engaged, will secure impunity to the parties. Expulsion is here
attended with disqualification from ever serving the East
India Company in any capacity; and when it is considered that
the students are the sons of men of some interest and connexions,
that they are sent here at some expense, in fact, to undergo a
probation, which ensures to them ultimate provision in lucra-
tive situations, it is not extraordinary that such a penalty.. is
selddin inflicted, and that even when inflicted some expectation
of ultimate evasion of the consequences is entertained.
It would seem, from the frequent recurrence of these acts of in-
' subordination, unchecked as they appear to be by the discipline
of the college, or the penalty of expulsion, here a most severe
punishment, if the rule of the East India Company be really en-
forced, for no writer can be sent to India without the previous
probation of four terms at this college, and if expelled he is
declared disqualified from holding any office whatever in the
service of the Company. It would seem, then, that experience
refutes the utility of this establishment as a place of education
and discipline ; the insubordination it has manifested exceeds
that in any other establishment throughout the kingdom. The
Hertford establishment is not without the usual rules and sta-
tutes for enforcing college discipline; but, unlike the great en-
dowments for education which adorn the country, there appears
something imperfect in the mode of their application. Perhaps
the error is in the system of the College itself. Instmd of a Col-
lege with endowed professorships, a large school, upon a school
plan, with masters, not professors, constantly residing among
and associating with the students, instead of having separate esta-
blishments from them, would probably be found a far better sys-
tem for promoting that education which, is deemed so indispen-
sable for the servants of the East India Company. It is per-
fectly clear that the recurrence of these juvenile combinations
evince, if not an imperfection of system in the establishment
itself, at least an inadequate application of discipline, which
must defeat every beneficial object expected from the founda-
tion of such an institution. It is to be presumed that the
particulars of the late disturbance are before the Directors
of the East India Company, and that whatever may be
their decision as affecting the present offenders, they will
seriously re-consider the college system itself. As a source of
patronage, there can be no doubt of the advantage to some par-
ties of this college, with its train of professorships and emo-
urnents ; but as a
.place for education and discipline, a well-
planned school, with suitable masters, and summary though
less formal means of coercion, would, it is thought by many,
conduce to more satisfactory and useful results. Then the high
sounding names of professors, and collegiate terms, and large
salaries, must be abolished—sources of patronage must be
dried ; and who in these times will venture to oppose to such
gratifications any thing so comparatively insignificant as secur-
ing the proper demeanour and discipline of boys, whose provi-
sion for life is already cut out for them ?

,
b The followino. is Mr. Professor Christian's Letter above al-
luded to :--

" TO Dlt. ORD, THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN, AND CORPORA-

TION OF THE TOWN OF HERTFORD.
" Gentlemen,—l had the honour to dine with you on Mon-
day last, and though, since I was a householder in your town,
16 years ago, I have been frequently a guest at public dinners,
I never had the pleasure of being at one where there was such
a perfect harmony and unison, in the hearts, hands, and voices,
of all present.
" Throughout the whole kingdom there never existed a more
profound calm from the turbulence of party-politics; and every
one present, I am sure, will think with me, that all the Noble-
men, the Members for the county and town, and one who had
been so connected, were drank to and cheered, and they return-
ed thanks with the sincerest personal attachment and marked
Friendship. This was the case with one and all.
" When the venerable High Steward left his Chair to return
home, he was so heartily cheered that it most manifestly affected
him deeply, and he returned the compliment at the door in so
elegant, dignified, and impressive a manner, that it will never
be forgotten by the youngest person present. The rest of the
Noblemen, and men of rank, as they retired, were all saluted
in the most respectful and affectionate manner.
" I stayed atter all these, till Mr. Dignum sang an excellent
song, the chorus of which was, " England expects every man
will do his duty." After this, I took leave of my neighbours at
the table, and went down stairs by myself, musing upon the
great gratifications of the day, and Lord Nelson's excellent and
well-timedsaentiment, when, to my utter astonishinent, I found
myself inclosed in a most brutal mob, anti had very nearly
been crushed by a horse, which reared higher than I had
ever seen a horse do before in shafts; it came down to the
ground again so near my feet, that I rushed through the crowd
with all the haste and strength I could, to the side of the
street under the Bank, from which place I made the best of
the way I could to Mr. Austin's shop door. All the way I
went there were honist and honourable people out of the cur-
rent of the mob, crying " Shame, shame ! It was a disgrace
to the town of Hertford !" It certainly will be an eternal dis-
grace to the town of Hertford, unless it be removed by bring-
ing the authors of, and actors in, this infamous proceeding to
the punishment they deserve. I inquired what was die obect
of this riotous assembly, when I was told it was a mob assem-
bled to insult Lord Cranborne. They were running back and
forward, roaring out Red herrings," Red herrings !' I have
heard that at Hatfield Lord Cranborne had procured a quan-
tity of red herrings for the poor—a proof of his good under-
standing and disposition. " Man cannot live by bread alone."
Red herrings and potatoes are an universally favourite dish,
both with the rich and the poor. Every one who has seen Lord
Cranborne only at public meetings (and his familiar friends
join in the strongest confirmations) must admit, that 'a more
generous, cheerful, and affable young nobleman, does not
exist, one whose disposition and manners are more calculated
to conciliate friends, and less likely to excite irritation and en-
mity amongst his equals or inferiors in rank.
" This was the first English mob I have ever seen or heard,
in London or in the country. I have seen great crowds of
men, but have never seen before a number of Englishmen ak,.-
tuated by a base, wicked, and illegal intention.
" The rioters were between two and three hundred. They
appeared to me to be all full grown men. I did not observe
any boys. Many of the ringleaders must be immediately
apprehended ; rewards ought to be offered for the discovery
of those who were not known from the darkness of the night,
though it was a bright moon-light night. This is a fit case for
the county magistrates to act. in. This case proves the wis-
dom of our ancient Constitution ; our ancestors foresaw that
there might be cases in which it would be fit that the magis-
trates of the county should protect inferior jurisdiction. The
offenders may be comnaitted either to the county gaol, or to the
House of Correction. It is the practice throughout the kingdom,
which is agreeable to law, to send all who are to be tried at the
next sessions to the House of Correction, and those who are to be
tried by a judge at the assizes to the county gaol. The law of
hard labour is common to both, though the preparation for it
has yet unfortunately been made only in the House of Correction.
But that a Member of the House of Commons cannot come to
dine with his constituents at an annual dinner, and return
home without danger of his life, is a great crime against
a Constitution and Government of England ; and I do not
doubt but the Attorney-General will think it a case peculiarly
fit to be prosecuted at the public expence. You, Mr. Mayor,
and the Aldermen of the Corporation, have only at present to
collect evidence against and to apprehend and commit all you
can for this atrocious outrage. The offenders may be bailed—
the bail, by the Bill of Rights, must not be excessive, but it
ought to be such as not to admit their flight from justice, and
furnish them with a passport to another country.
" I was extremely &aril, that I was advised by medical gen-
tlemen to set off on Tuesday morning to the sea-side with an
invalid family, or you would have had my zealous endeavours
to bring such a number of detestable delinquents to just punish-
ment. The last sentiment I heard in Hertford was—' Eng-
land expects that every man will do his duty;' and I trust we
shall all have courage to do it both in peace and war, and that,
in the words of an excellent oath, ' without favour or affection,
prejudice or malice.'—l have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
your obedient obliged servant,

" ED. CHRISTIAN."

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM TUC DAILY 'MORNING PAPERS,
October 19, 18'22.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We received last night, by a particular chan-
nel, the Pitote of the preceding evening (Thurs.
day.)—The Spaunish insurrection seems now to
be fast hastening to its close. The Journal de
Toulouse says the Royalists of Cataloi►ia are in
a cruel position. Mina was advancing on Urgel,
while Zarco del Valle were marching on the
Conque de Trernp, and Milans on Olot, and a
speedy battle, decisive of the -fate of the De-
fenders of the Faith, was inevitable.—An account
is given of a remarkable correspondence between
the Baron D'Eroles and Don Ramon Gayan,
Governor of Cardona. The Baron, by way of
inducing him to surrender the fortress, and to
accept his terms, informs him, that in the
coarse of the month seventy-five thousand
French would enter Spain at three different
points., The answer of Don Ramon was such as
became a good citizen and brave soldier. lie
tells. him, " that if European fanaticism and
tyranny should form a conspiracy against them,
they would be able to withstand it as they did
in the war of independence ;" and he reproaches
him with disgracing himself by joining men who
make religion a cover for the perpetration of
crime, and of whom the most have suffered pu-
nishment for their misdeeds both before and since
the Revolution. The evidence of a design to
invade Spain, to co-operate with the Spanish In-
surgents, is but too'clear ; and if Lord London-.
derry had lived the attempt would no doubt have
been made. - The immense preparations, how-
ever, have been thrown away ; the Defenders of
the Faith must.now be left to Their fate ; and
bitter reproaches they will no doubt vent against
the French Government and the Moly Allies who
have deserted them, and against Mr. Canning.—
The account of a brilliant advantage gained by
General Espinosa against the Army of the Faith
on the 4th is confirmed.

[BRITISH PRESS 3
Au Official Report of the military state of
Spain is given in another part of our Paper.—
(See THE SUN of yesterday.)—To an ordinary
reader it appears a simple, honest, and ingenious
exposition of the danger and difficulties of the
country, without any effort to disguise or under-
rate them.. This is the true way to obtain public
confidence, and excite extraordinary exertions to
meet the crisis. A Ministerial Print of last even-
ing is, however, of a contrary opinion. It affects
to consider it an admission of " national cala-
mity, of inevitable national ruin." This view of
the subject is just what Sc,e should• expect from
the organ of the Ministers, who claimed merit
for assuring the agriculturists that they were rich
when they were actually starving; NI ho pro-
claimed that the distress of the country was only
an " ignorant impatience" of taxation. The
Government of Spain would betray the interests
of 'the country if they undertrated its wants, its
difficulties, and its danger. It is only by placing
the actual danger fully and honestly before the
country they can expect to produce competent
exertions to meet it.