The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-08 00:00:00

THIRD DAY.

The Railway Plate—Miss Wilfred filly, Miter
Skelter, Syrup, Chat, First Chance, Second Sight, the
Moor, Retail, the Nautch Girl, Queen of the Gypsies,
Cosachia.

The Selling Stakes—Manufacturer, 3 yrs (1001.) ;
b e by ThiFtle Whipper, 2 yrs (1001.); Carbuncle, 3 yrs
(1001.) ; Little Jack, 2 yrs (1501.) ; Fiat Chance,
3 yrs (1501.)
The Scurry Stakes—Whitstone, Sagacity.
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Sussex St;lces—Lovelace, 4 yrs (501.):; Famine, 5 yrs
(501.); Alpheia, 4 yrs (501); Messman, 4 yrs (501.);
Trebonius, 5 yrs (501.); Emma Dinna, 3 yrs (501.);
Fallow Deer, 4 yrs (501.); Plebeia, 3 yrs (504); blames-
bury, 4 yrs (501.) ; liellenden, 4 yrs (501.) ; The
Drummer, aged (80/.); Syrup, 3 yrs (801.); Reflector,
4 yrs, (50/.).
RIPON RACES—MONDAY.

The Two-yrs-old Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 20 added;
colts, Bst 51b; fillies, Bst 21b; winner 3lbs extra; those
that have started and not won allowed 31bs. T.Y.U.
(3 Subs.)
Mr. B. Haworth's St. Valentine (Holmes) 1
Mr. Hall's Lodona

Mr. H. Stebbing's 111 Coup 3
The Selling Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 20 added. Heats,
One mile and a half.
Mr. Wilkins' bm, by St. Martin, 5 yrs (Arnold) 4 1 1
Sir C. Monck's Gulliver, 3 yrs
Mr. F_esseltine's Fitzwilliam aged 2 3 3
Mr. C. Scriven's Miss Fan, 5 yrs
The City Members' Plate of 501. Heats; two miles.
Mr. J. Gill's Lady Pm-off, 4 yra (Wintringharo) 1 1
Mr. Palmer's Tity, 3 yrs 3 2
Mr. Dawson's Potluck, 3 yrs .- 2 3
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BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY.
EBOR HANDICAP.-8 to 1 agst Blucher (t), Bto 1 eget
Giselle, 10 to 1 agst Van Diemen, 10 to 1 agst Glen
Saddel, 10 to 1 awn Mallon, 100 to *3 agst The Hero,
100 to 8 agst Chanticleer, 100 to 8 agst Ellerdale, 100 to
8 agst The Knout.

ST. LEGER.-55 to 40 on Flying Dutchman, 18 to 1
agst Honeycomb (t), 18 to 1 agst Chatterer (t), 20 to 1
agst Volcano.
DERBY, 1850.-14 1 offered on the field.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC J OURNALS
CHRONICLE.—A man of genius, i
or even of
acknowledged talent and proved integrity, snot an
every-day production; and the electors of Reading
could hardly be expected to supply,
on so short a
notice, a new member duly qualified in all respects
to replace the distinguished poet, lawyer, and orator,
who has recently been elevated to the Bench. But
they might surely have found a candidate of sound
understanding and enlightened views, who would up..hold the great principles of commercial and religious
freedom, repudiate the fallacious doctrine of finality,
and give his steady support to the judicious advocates
of economical reform, without going out of his way
th attach an undue importance to the ballot, or pre-
judging the momentous and embarrassing question of
State Endowment for the Roman Catholic Church in
Ireland. Moreover, the more sagacious and reflecting
portion of them might have come to some preliminary
agreement as to the best method of forwarding the
wishes of the majority, instead of presenting the
unseemly spectacle of divisions and dissensions,
re sting upon no apparent ground beyond local
rivalries or personal predilections and dislikes. We
by no means admit that an occasional difference on
particular topics is discreditable to Liberals or Liberal
Conservatives. Such diversities simply show that
they are in the habit of thinking for themselves,
and of acting honestly on their own matured convic-
tions. On the other hand, the unanimity of the more
violent section of the " Country Party" is a proof
that they do not (perhaps cannot) reason. The late
Sir John Astley could never be made to comprehend
the bearings of any new question before the House,
but his vote was invariably secured by the whipper-
in who boldly asserted that the game-laws were in-
volved in the result of the expected division. Just
so, the fierce and faithful few who still obey the signal
of the Gallant Member for Essex are ready to follow
him, at a moment's warning, on being assured that
they are assisting to fetter commerce or promote
bigotry, or (should even this be beyond their depth)
that they are about to spite Mr. Cobden or to annoy
Sir Robert Peel. Still, although this kind of unity
may be unattainable by persona who seek truth, and
who are not kept together by self-interest or vindic-
tiveness, the sensible townspeople of Reading might
at least have concentrated their forces in favour of
one of the more rational candidates (Mr. Bowyer or
Mr. Norton, for example) ; and the consequence of
their neglect or fully in this respect has been, that
they have actually incurred the disgrace of being
represented by a Protectionist of the white-glove
and lady-killing school, who evidently adopts
Lord Malmesbury as his prototype, and who presents
himself on the hustings with a tuft upon his chin, in
in open defiance of Mr. Place's well-known axiom—
" if you desire to get on with the English people, you
must shave clean." Yet the truth of the axiom was
curiously confirmed on the nomination day. Mr.
Norton, looking at Mr. Stanford, observed—" Then
there was another young gentleman on the other
side, who looked quite a genius. He bore in mind
the promise that gentleman had made to the electors,
a promise which could only spring from one who had
an inexhaustible fountain of self-esteem. He told
1,300 electors, in a town containing a population of
30,000, that he would marry one of their daughters."
Mr. Stanford hereupon exclaimed—" And do it
yet;" an announcement which elicited peals of
laughter, prolonged and heightened (adds our re-
porter) by some one ejaculating, in allusion to the
candidate's magnificent imperial, "He must get
shaved, or they won't kiss him." Mr.
Norton, however, was wrong i . n supposing
that the promise, life Shekspere's circle in the water,
was dispersed into nonentity by spreading. " A
thousand naked men," says Partridge, " are nothing
to one pistol ; for though it is true it will kill but one
at a single discharge, yet who can tell but thaton
may be himself?" By analogous reasoning, a thou-
sand electors daughters are too many for one candi-
date; yet although it is true he can marry but one at
a time, who can tell but that one may be herself ?
The value of the prize, or the amount of the tempta-
tion, is a very different matter; but, according to Air.
Norton, the Reading belle who is destined to become
Mrs. Stanford will find her spouse's house better fur-
nished than his head. Mr. Stanford, sail Mr.
Norton, " was against the encouragement of foreign
labour. Now, if the Hon. Gentleman would go to
his own house in Foley-place, and put out of it all the
furniture that was the workmanship of foreign opera-
pets, the Dresden china, the
tives, the Turkey car
various articles of vertu—if he did that, he would
leave his house nearly as naked and bare as
the young gentleman's own understanding." We
once dwelt, at some length, on the ludicrous
inconsistency of the aristocratic Protectionists in this
particular. They indulge in every foreign luxury ;

and there are few of them who have not spent two or
three years' income abroad. Yet the shopkeepers of
Lonion and the mechanics of Manchester are to be
prevented from buying foreign corn, lest the landed
interest should suffer in their rents ! The Duke of
Richmond's argument practically stands thus :—" If
the people are allowed to buy Norwegian salmon and
American breadstuff3, it will be impossible for me to
keep a French cook, or to take a box at the Italian
Opera." But the cause of free trade was most
effectively advocated by Salmon, the propcser of
Mr. Bowyer on this occasion. One passage of his
speech as really admirable :
"He believed it was to the fact that the rulers of
England had been wise in time, that they now owed it
that they were not in the same situation as the nations
of the Continent—and the greatest enemies of England
were those who would re-impose fetters on commerce ;
who would re-enact the corn-laws; who would subject
the people of this country to the chances of a cloudy sky
in August, or a drizzling rain in Juae; who wend.' shut us
out from the granary of the world, and would forbid the
looms of Manchester and Glasgow and the forges of Shef-
field and Birmingham from exchanging their produce
with the granaries of the Vistula and the Mississippi.
Let them not suppose that these were gratuitous suppo-
sitions—they were the calm and deliberate views of such
men as the Stanleys, tht3 Granbys, the Richmonds, and
the Ilerriesk s of Westminster, and of their humble ad-
mirers in Berkshire—they were the views of m‘ n who
still pursued with vituperation the character of the states-
man who saw the evil that was coming, and who had
the courage to save his country from famine by the sa-
crifice of himself."

A single fact mentioned by that statesman (on the
6th of last month) refutes and confounds the pre-
tended friends and real enemies of British indus-
try :—" Here is a great commercial country,
exporting annually in official value 133,000,0001.
worth of the produce of its industry. You have
imported, during the same time, manufactured
goods to the declared value of 4,722,0001." To
prolong the argument in the teeth of facts like these
would be a pure waste of space, time, and temper ;
yet no political speculator who has marked the
tenacity with which the human mind clings to
antiquited error and prescriptive prejudice, will he
surprised to see a Protectionist succeed at an election.
Reaction, however, is a moral impossibility, when the
progressive policy consists merely in a return to
natural principles. Suppose the Mandarin Premier
of China were to issue a decree forbidding infant
heads to be flattened and female feet to be cramped—
it is highly probable that the Stanleys, Richwonds,
Herrieses, Muntzes, and Sibthorps of the Celestial
Empire would, for a period, prove too strong for him.
He might be deprived of all his tails and buttons, or
be shut up in a cage for life, minus an eye, an ear, and
half his nose. But if the iron-bound shoes and the
flattening boards were once laid aside, the fate of
the Chinese restrictive system would be virtually
sealed, and within half a century the Mandarins
would be wondering at the barbarism, instead of
reverting to the foolish practices of their prede-
cessors. Perhaps Mr. Disraeli, who delights in
Oriental mysteries, will have the goodness to ex-
pound our parallel for the edification of his friends.