The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-23 00:00:00

LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER.

CHESTER TRADE CUP.
The business done this last week has been very trifling, most of
the principal speculators having left for the Newmarket Craven
Meeting. Magician has been most in demand, having been sup—
ported at 10 to 1, Mersey has met with takers at 12 to I, and'Cliit
Chat at 20 to 1. Offers have been made to lay agst. Combat
since his defeat at Newmarket at 100 to 4. Lord Stafford is re-
ported to be on the sick list. So little has been done that they
do not require any particular notice, and may be considered at the
prices quoted on Monday last.

CATHOLIC OATHS.
TO THE RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF

EXETER.

MY LORD—As the Earl of Shrewsbury has given notice
that after the present recess he will call the attention of the
House of Lords to the subject of the Roman Catholic oath ;
and as I make no doubt but that your Lcrdship will upon that
occasion repeat the observations which y,ou have already so
frequently made upon the same subject ; anc: as I believe that
the whole matter in controversy can be very briefly disposed of
by a short reference to some general principles, which to me
appear to be entirely incontrovertible, I t,,ke the liberty for
these reasons of requesting your Lordship's attention to the
following questions :
Is not the legislative power identical with the Sovereign
authority in every State? and has not this power beets con.
ferred upon the legislative body in order that it may, from
time to time, enact such general regulations as may, in the
judgment of the Legislature itself, appear to be most con-
ducive to the universal happiness of the whole community,
in the actual circumstances of each particular contingence ?
Is it not, therefore, the paramount duty of every legislature
to discharge the functions for the performance of which it has
been exclusively called into existence? and does not this
paramount obligation to exercise the supreme power, accord-
ing to its original destination, constitute the indestructible
essence of the legislative character ?
Is it possible to discharge this paramount duty without the
most unlimited freedom of deliberation? and is not, therefore,
an unbounded and sovereign discretion an essential property
in the comprehension of every legislature?
Must not the same obligation to legislative action which
irresistibly coerces the whole body of the legislature, be also
compulsory upon each individual member? and must riot
each member be indefeasibly entitled to an unlimited freedom
of deliberation as long as he Acts in conformity with whatever
may be the actual distribution of the legislative power among
the several portions of the legislature itself?
Is it not, therefore, the first and greatest of the obligations
imposed upon every member of the legislature to contribute,
by all the means in his power, to the enactment of every law
which, upon the fullest consideration, he believes to be cal-
culated to advance the happiness of the community; and to
contribute with equal activity to the rejection or the repeal of
every other?

Is not every promise which cannot be carried into effect
without violating an existing obligation of a higher character
teterly null and void in the first moment of its creation ?
Is nai; therefore, every undertaking which professes to
restrain' the freedom of legislative action essentially immoral
and absurd, ,inasmuch as it cannot be effectuated, except, first,
by the violator: of a higher obligation than that which is at-
tempted to be qyosed by the restriction ; or, secondly, by the
destruction of the ulharacter in which the restriction pretends
to be imposed and as4l,:ried ?
of entering into any such an engage.
Is not the impropriety
ment (whatever the amoun:
of that impropriety may be) ex-
ceeded by that of abiding by ,an undertaking which is absurd
and immoral in its own nature ?

Is it not, therefore, the duty of the Legislature to abolish
the necessity for entering into an engagement which, perhaps.,
cannot he assumed without some impropriety, but which cer-
tainly cannot be effectuated without a much greater ?
Is there any other consistent course wl:ich common sense can
suggest except to repeal the Emancipation Act ?
Is that possible ?

I have the honour to remain,
Your Lordship's obedient servant,
DAVID LEAHY.

Devereuz Chambers, Temple.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF HORTICUL-

'PURE.

Nothing could surpass the beauty of the various prodne-
tions of the hot-house, the conservatory, and the garden, ex-
hibited by the members and contributors to this Society on
Saturday, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. The various
specimens were in fine health and vigour, and evinced the skill
of those by whom they were reared. Indeed a more beauti;
ful exhibition could scarcely he witnessed. Tints and colours
of all sorts laid on by " Nature's own true and cunning hand,"
and certainly surpassing, in luxuriance am'. delicacy, anythMg
the present season has yet produced. The full band of thc-
Horse Guards (Blue), which was stationed in the rooms,
added very much to the gratification of the day, by performing
some very fine pieces of music.
The attendance of fashionables was very good. Among
them we saw—The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Duchess
of Marlborough, Marquis and Marchioness of Cliolmondeley,
Marchioness of Conyngham ; Countesses de Salis, Lisburne,
and Clarendon ; Earl Brownlow, Earl Howe's family, Mrs.
Howley, the Lady of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishops
of Winchester and Exeter, the American Minister, the Dean
of Carli'le, Lady Murray, Hon. Mrs. Ashley, &c.
The following is the

AWARO OF PIZIZFS.

Victoria Gold Medals—Mt'; Barnes, gardener to G. W.
Norman, Esq., for a collection; 11r. Glenny, Worton, ditto.
Adelaide Gold Medals—Mr. Ferg,::sson, gardener to P. C.
Labouchere, for a collection ; ditto, cut flowers; Mr. Bruce,
gardener to Boyd Miller, Esq., for a colketn:.n•
Large Silver Mcduis—Mr. Vernon, gardener to J. Wells,
Esq., for a collection of ericas ; Messrs. Lane and Son Berk-
hamstead, for Chinese roses; Mr. Hill, Hammersmith, for a
collection of plants ; Mr. Dunsford, gardener to Baron Dims-
dale, ditto ; Mr. Pressley, Bromley, for crisus racemesus;
Mr. Steel, Richmond, for cut camellias ; G. Glenny, Esq.,
Isleworth, for a collection of camellias; Mr. Upright, gar-
dener to C. Ridge. Esq., hovea celsi; Mr, Redding, gardener
to Mrs. Marryatt, for a collection.
Adelaide Silver Medals—Mr. Vernon, for a collection
pansies ; Mr. Howard, gardener to the Duchess of Gloucester,
Kennedy a Marryatti ; Mr. W. Hunt, gardener to Miss Trail!,
Bromley, for tropoolum tlieolorum ; ditto, for acacia decipens ;
Mr. Rogers, Eaton-square, for box of pansies ; Mr. Brown,
Slough, for Gesneria Suttonii ; ditto, statice arborea ; Mr.
Upright, collection of plants ; ditto, ezalia Smithii coccinea;
Mr. Gaines, Battersea, collection of plants ; ditto, auriculas ;
Mr. Dickson, for collection of auriculas : Mr. Dunsford, for it
bouquet ; Messrs. Corsten and Son, for collection of hya-
cinths ; Mr. —, gardener to Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton.
tow,rs, specimen of lluellia ; Mr. Steel, Richmond, cut camel-
lias ; Mr. Redding, tropolum tricoloruru ; Mr. Upright,
genista, new species ; Mr. Macorthy, collection of by acitiths ;
Mr. Redding, acicia cordata ; ditto, a bouquet ; Mr. Naylor,
collection of hyacinths ; Mr. Wilimer, collection of auriculas ;
Mr. Cuthill, collection of plants ; Miss Lumsden, Bayswater,
wax flowers ; Miss Tucker, Bloomsbury, ditto.
Small Adelaide Medals—Mr. Hunt, for oncid:am luridum ;
ditto, rhododendron campanillatum ; ditto, hybrid ; Mr. M'Cul-
loch, gardener to J. Du Pre, Esq., Keen's seedling strawber-
ries; Mr. Macarthy, gardener to J. Elliott, Esq , collection of
hyacinths ; Mr. Dickson, specimen of erica re:orta ; ditto,
seedling auricula ; Mr. Myatt, rhubarb ; Mr. Redding, camel-
lia myrtifolia ; ditto, bouquet ; Mr. George Graves. for col-
lection of plants; Mr. Buck, cineheria floribunda; Mr. Lid-
gord, auriculas; Mr. Dunsford, seedling rhododendron ; Mr.
Brown, tropeolum tricolorum ; Mr. Upright, a bouquet ; Miss
Chambers, wax flowers.

EXECUTION IN FRANCE.—The King having re-
jected the petition for pardon presented by Baudelet, the con-
vict at Brest, who, a short time since, murdered a Sister of
Charity attending the infirmary of the hulks, the wretched
culprit was bremllit to the guillotine on Tuesdly list. The
fatal machine was erected outside the principal gate of the
Iligne, or prison of the convicts, 3,000 of whom were ranged
in order to view the execution, guarded by the troops of the
garrison, the marines, and two pieces of cannon loaded with
grape-shot. Upwards of 10,000 pelple were assembled to
witness the scene. Baudelet, although affected to tears when
his counsel 'came to take leave of him, proceeded to the scaf-
fold with a firm step and determined countenance, atkridAl by
his confessor, to whom. hon ever, he paid no attention. Wh. n
he approached the ladder he smiled, and in-winted the platform
seiih groat precipitation. On being bound to a plank he cm_
plained that the straps hurt him ; but in a few minutes he
c, ase 1 to exist.

HERNE BAY .1 URTLE.—On Saturday, two fisikr-
men of Herne Bay found, near Reculver, a very fine turtle,
weighing nearly 100 lbs., in excellent ecndition, which at
faexcited their alarm, they not knowing exactly what it
was; they, however, summoned sufficient courage to attack
it with then- oars, and having killed it, bore it to the bay in
triumph.—Kent Herald.