The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-22 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING

London, or so many of them, are found saying, " For
heaven and earth's sake let us have no information of
any kind upon the Suriday:' And to this they have
the hardihood to add a request, that because they
cherish this source of dishonest gain in London, the
honest trader in Liverpool may not be allowed to
stand on a better footing by not having his own Deal
or Dover letter stopped in its progress through the
metropolis. And so fatuous are the small men every
where, and so afraid of lifting up their voices for
Christ's Apostle against a sectarian Bishop, that they
submit in silence to his spoiling of their goods.
"Fourthly,, which is perhaps the strongest of all,
there is the dread of what might come of the rational
employment of a First Day's leisure by the Working
Classes. And to this it is impossible to deny that the
Working Classes themselves have been partly accessory.
There can be no doubt that if the clergy in Spain or
Portugal were to set themselves to procure recla-
mations from the Working Classes for the maintenance
of a fish diet two days a week, or any other of the
restrictions which the majority of Protestants think
unchristian or needless, they would have no difficulty
in carrying their point to a certain extent.
It remains to be seen whether a Ministry to whom
these things can hardly be unknown, will damage the
cause of Christianity and general progress, by giving
way before the bubblyjock of a sacerdotal falsehood,
supported by so many other malevolent designs and
palpable after-blows. If they are to give way on
this question in the Post Office, they must make the
amende for their opposition on the cholera demand ; a
revenue from the Post Office, and a Fixed Duty on
Corn—things well known to go together in the House
of Commons—will be the next to which the adversary
will stretch his hand. It is impossible to deny to any
man the right to push his advantage, when his oppo-
nents have built a wall to run their own heads
against, as the Ministers will have done, if, after bring-
ing on this question by their own choice as to time,
they yield. _

Finally, I return to my suggestion, of the employ-
ment of Jewish clerks. They would, of course, ex-
pect to be released from duty on the Saturday ; which
is a composition not difficult to arrange, if the
rebellion in the Post Office can be got over. The
employes in the Post Office have notoriously been in
rebellion ever since the cheap postage was introduced
by Rowland fill. A true-bred British clerk there,
cannot conceive, to this hour, how two sheets of
paper should be allowed to go for less than twenty-
pence. There is no saying to what pitch a meeting,
with so many supporters. in broadcloth and lawn, may
go. The cry of "No Jews, no Wooden Shoes," may
be raised again in St. Martin's-le-Grand. Perhaps,
if you could contrive to let the Ministers know that
there are Christians to back them, it might help to
make them keep up their courage to the quelling
point.
ONE WHO BELIEVES SABBATICAL OBSERV-
ANCE PROHIBITED TO CHRISTIANS.

CHOLERA AND DIARRHEA.

RETURN OF CASES, Om 19.
THE METROPOLIS.

Deaths.
Cholera. Diarrh.
St. James, Westminster ••• 0 1
Whoreditch ... ... ... 0 3
Bethnal-green 4 1
St. George-in-the-East ..• 0 1
Stepney ... ... ... ....... 2 0
Poplar ... ... ... ..• 1 0

Total ••• ••• ••• 7 6

REMINISCENCES OF THE NEWMARKET
FIRST AND SECOND OCTOBER MEETINGS,
WITH ANTICIPATIONS OF THE HOUGHTON.

"Will you go see the order of the course?
Where the place?

Upon the heath."

SHAXSPERE.
•
" The heath, the heath—the upland heath,
With the pine ridge on the height;
And all below the purple wreath,
Gleaming in rich sunlight."
"'Tomas in October, when fine, days are few,
And the far mountains wax a little hoary,
And clap a white cape on their mantles blue;
Aod the sea dashes round the promontory,
And the loud breaker boils against the rock,
And sober Erns must set at five o'clock."

BYRON.

" Well, come what will, I'll tempt my fortune once."
BEN JONSON.

" He either fears his fate too much
Or hi& deserts are small,
Who dares not put it to the touch
To win or lase it 01."

MONTROSE,

" 'Tis sweet to win, no matter how, one's laurels
By blood or ink, or judgment."
"I've got a deal of judgment,
Though heaven knows how it ever found a lodgment.'
BYRON.
" What should it be? that thus theillfaith can bind?
, The power of Thought—the magic of the Mind!'
The Corsair.

" Let Reason guide me with resistless ray,
And pour on misty doubt resistless day."
JOHNSON'S Vanity of Human Wishes.
" ' ris not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it."
ADDISON's Cab, Act I. Scene 1.
" Oh ! Heaven, oh I Earth, bear witness to this sound,
And crown what I propose with kind event,
If I speak true; if hollowly, invert
What best is boded me, to mischief."
Tempest, Act 111. Scene 3.
" There's pen and ink for you, Sir, when you need—
Let everything be noted with precision.'

Don Juan, Canto. I.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—The First October Meeting furnished a few
facts worth recording, to wit, the defeat of the once in-
vincible Tadmor, not able, I am afraid, to stand another
preparation, for

- " Legs are not steel, and steel is bent,
Legs are not rock, and rock is rent ;"
the victory of Bolingbroke by John O'Gaunt out of
Spangle, over Penang, and Nutshell. for the Hopeful
Stakes ; the very clever win of the Knight of Avenel
by the Doctor, out of Blue Bonnet, in the race for the
second Triennial Stakes, but mark ! not without the
strong inducements of whip and spur could the defeat
of the Epirus colt be accomplished, and then only by
half a length, the latter having but a neck the advantage
of William• the Conqueror, who in turn only just beat
Hardinge. A few pounds would bring the lot together,
but neither among these, or those that contested the

- -
Hopeful Stakes, can I discover the winner of the Derby;
and the bungling triumph of the Goodwood Derby nag
Ghillie Callum, who blundered before atartiag, and was
nearly down on his head at the finish of the race for the
Rutland Stakes, but however recovered himself, and won
easily by a length, beating Nutshell, Fernando, and the
Lover. The pretensions of the son of Gladiator and
Reel, to Derby honours, are by no means despicable, for
notwithstanding his blundering performance in the race
for the Rutland Stakes,
"You takers of tobacco and strong waters,
Mark this!"
he is the flower of the Goodwood flock, and for speed, this
year's debutantes cannot produce his equal: whether he
can stay a distance or not has yet to be proved. .
The running of the two years'-old in the Second
October Meeting, if anything, was more important than
that in the first ; the Clearwell Stakes brought out
Clincher, by Turcoman, out of Clinker's dam, another
candidate for Derby honours; he cut down his horses, in-
cluding Nutshell, in the first furlong, and won in a
canter by a length; but notwithstanding this rather good
performance, he did not find favour in the eyes of the
" knowing ones," who peppered him at 20 and 25- to 1 at
Newmarket, and in town was in such little force, that
as a specimen of many bets, I actually saw a florin taken
to lay 501. to 30s. against him, and offers to go on to an
indefinite amount at the same figure; he shall not run
the Derby course for my money.
The Bretby Stakes were remarkable only for the defeat
of Tingle by Lord Chesterfield's Satire, the former suc-
cumbing to the daughter of Don Sohn and Lampoon by
a neck, heating however the Potentia filly and Kathleen.
For the Bedford Stakes 6 to 5 was betted agst Sisy-
phus, Bst 101 b (3d), and 5 to 4 agst the filly by Nut-
with out of Agues, Bst lib (2d); the majority of the ring
little dreaming that their field lay in a nutshell, went
cautiously to work, but a select few stood everything on
Lord Exeter's nag, who, carrying Bst 71b, won cleverly
by a kngth; this race, together with the other four that
Nutshell has run within three weeks, has made him
very stale; his chance for the Criterion must be " small,
demned small," and if he gets the third place in that
race, I think it will be as much as he can accomplish or
anybody expect. Mr. Henry's Pitslord, backed heavily
for the Derby, made a most inglorious debilt in the Pren-
dergast Stakes, running absolutely third and last to
Bolingbroke (Gibs extra) and Nutshell (31bs extra); the
figure he eut in the race was too absurd to make me
believe it was his true running; the stable containing so
many cognoscenti in horse-flesh, could never make so
great a blunder—the Criterion will decide his fate and
pretensions. _ _

We have now arrived at the last post-house of the
racing season of 1849, the Houghton Meeting, which
commences this day under very favourable auspices, the
weather being fair, the attendance likely to be great,
and the number of quadrupeds arrived beyond all prece-
dent immense.

The only important stake to be run this day is the
Criterion, for which I presume The Nigger, Pitsford,
Nutshell, The Swindler, Hope, Sisyphus, Paul, Cali-
fornia, Windhound, and Tordesillas will be found at the
post. William the Conqueror's appearance being very
dubious, I cannot see anything likely to interfere with
The Nigger's chance, perhaps with the exception of
Pitsford, who, if not first, will play second fiddle to The
Nigger only, Nutshell, The Swindler (a fine, large
horse), and Sisyphus heading the ruck.
To-morrow the game begins with a sweepstakes of
300 sovs. each, &c., which the Duke of Bedford's
Sobraon ought to win; after which the comedy to some,
tragedy to others, of the Cambridgeshire Stakes, for
which there were 162 horses handicapped, 102 accepting,
and probably the tremendous field of forty will await
the starter's orders thirty hours hence, to be selected
from the following:—

yrs. at. lb.
Collingwood
Conyngham
*Diplomatist
Shylock
*Dulcet
*Glendower
The Muor
'Spithead
Fugleman

yrs. st. lb.
Ribaldry 4 6 10
*Joe-&-Sot 5 6 10
Amazement
fhe Old Fox 3 6 8
Rathmines
St. Rosalie
Backbiter
Comet ... 4 6 4
Vasa
Bacchanalian
The Seraph
Glenalvon
*Kissaway
Crucible
i* Quinine 3 5 12
Legerdemain
Crocodile
'Grasshopper 3 5 10
Over fork Over
aby
*Lady Jersey...— 3 5 8
Fitzpatrick 3 5 7
F by Harkaway 3 5 7
3 5 7
Cocktail
*Mint°
Ctrthagenian 3 4 10
*Minimum 3 4 10

Prior of St. Mar- -
garet's 6 7 10
The Sheriff
Beauclerc .. 4 7 8,

*Ol4 Dan Tucker 3 7 7
*Dacia 4 7 7
Bucher

*lieleshea ..... ... 4 7 7

*ltadulphus

*Halton

•Thringarth

*Miss Ann 3 7 2
Glauca

*Telegraph 4 7 0
*Honeycomb

Woolwich

'Cockermouth ... 4 6 10,

*Whitstone 4 6 101

The Lon Duke ... 3 6 10

Vanguard ...... ...3 6 111

Those marked with aster;
runners.

are the most uncertain

For this race

~I
Proclaim an open field, and there shall be,
i trow, no lack of champions."

It would be too tedious to go through the merits of
every individual horse, therefore I'll take a batch against
the field, and endeavour to select the winner therefrom—
" Fortune! fair, but fickle goddess
Befriend me but a moment, but one little moment,
And I shall be the happiest of men."
Collingwood, Shylock, and The Prior of St. Margaret's,
shall represent the top-weights; Glauca, Vanguard,
Ribaldry, Amazement, and Rathmines, the middle
weights; and Legerdemain, Raby, and Rienzi, the light
weights.
Collingwood will run up, so will Shylock; Glauca has
Vanguard and Ribaldry safe; Amazement and Rath-
mines being let loose, cannot well help being in the front;
I am afraid we shall not be gratified by another trick of
legerdemain this year, but if Lord Stanley's filly looks
well at the post, I certainly would take her against any-
thing in the race.
Ruby, I think, will be found too slow for this course;
and Rienzi will not be first, although not the " last of
the Romans." in conclusion, despite the favour shrown
to the R's, I must place the first five in my opinion
thus:—

Glaw•a ..•
Shylock
Collingwood
Rathmines
Raby

Amazem,fnt (my cock boat), Vanguard, Woolwich,
Ribaldry, The Prior of St. Margaret's, and Rienzi,
forming the first flight of the ruck. My opinion on the
remaining races I will give in the following tabular form :