The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MA'Z 5, ic36

he fell was an enormity greater than the worst of those
which his implacable enemies prosecuted with so much
cruel industry. The people, in their rage, had totally mis-
taken the proper object of their resentment." O►i both
these points the world has decided against the " saft:'
affirmation of Hume. The sentence of death. passed upon
Lord Strafford was not half so great an enormity, even had
he not been guilty of two of the charges preferred against
' him, as sentence of death procured or passed by himsel4
while Lord Deputy of Ireland, upon the unfortunate Lord
Mount norris, for merely having said in a private company, six
months previously, that he would not submit to be caned as
his brother had been by the same Strafford. Neither was
it such an .enormity as hislevying war upon the King, by
rasing troops and supp;ies without consent of Parliament,
to coerce the Scots. Nor had the people in their rage
mistaken the object of their just resentment. The Consti-
tution had declared the Minister, not the King, responsible,
and Pym was not the person to assist in violating it. If
ever there was an execution which was justified by every
circumstance of guilt fully proven and absolute necessity on
the part of the community, it was that of Wentworth,
Earl of Strafford. The best that can be said of him is
that he was a man of splendid abilities, and that be died
with a composure and a dignity worthy of a martyr in
the best of causes. •

The life of Sir John Eliot is a very creditable piece of
biography. Mr. Foster detects and expos:es many calum-
nies respecting the patriot, repeated by Mr. D'lsraeli in
his lives of the Stuarts. The story about the stabbing of
Mr. Moyle is one these. We think highly of this part of
the work.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING 111WETING.

WF.DNESDAY.
Swe,epstakes of 10 sous. each, h. ft., for three yrs oh ; colts,
Bst. 71b. ; fillies, Bst. 41b. ; the winner to be sold for 100, &c.
T. Y. C.

Mr. Pettit's Menas, 3 yrs, Est. 31b ...Conelly
Lord Chesterfield's Nina Lassave 2
Colonel Peel's f. Hoax, by Bed!unite, out of Zora
Mr. W. Edwards's Firefly
Lord Stradbroke's Water Nymph
Betting---7 to 4 agst Hoax, 3to 1 each agst Water Nymph and
Nina Lassave. Nina made all the play, and won easy by a length.
Handic .p Plate of 50/. A. F.
Lord Lichfield's Arbaces, 3 yrs., 65t... ...... W. Boyce I
Mr. Sowerby's Rioter, 5 yrs., Bst. 131 b 2
Mr. Stephenson's Laud, 6 yrs., fist. 31b
sto 4 agst Arbaces (taken), and sto 4 agst Rioter. Arbaces
made nearly all the running, and won by a length. -
The following are the entries for the Plato to-morrow -:---
The Jockey Club Plate. • B.C.
Duke of Rutland's Darioletta colt, 4 yrs.
Duke of Grafton's Uliek, 5 yrs
Lord Exeter's Luck's All, 4 yrs
Fifty Pounds. T.M.M.
Lord'Lichfield's Arbaces, 3 yrs
Sir M. Wood's ch. f. by Bustard, 3 yrs
Mr. Pettit's Chantilly, 6 yrs
Mr. Sowerby's Shamrock
A Match is made for to-morrow between Lord Chesterfield's
Oberon (Dahlia colt), test 41b., and Colonel Peel's The Professor,
7st. 101 b. R.M. 50, h. ft. Misnomer and Snowball are also
matched.

Tuesday Night.
The Handicap Race, decided this afternoon, excited too little
interest, and was won too easily to require further particulars.
Not so the R. M. Plate, which, won by the same colt, gives a
lift in the odds to one of the outsiders for the Derby (Alfred.)
There were three false starts for it; at the fourth attempt all got
off well except Redshank and Alfred. The Waverley and Lamp-
lighter colts and St. Luke lying in front at a good bat till they
reached the Ab. AI., where they were all three beaten, the Wa-
verley colt being the first to decline. Redshank now came out
with Alfred, and with precisely the same ease as the Handicap,
won his race by a length ; St. Luke a very indifferent third, Lord
Berners' fourth, and the rest beaten off several lengths.
The following horses are named for the Two-year-old Stakes on
Thursday
General Yates's Grand Cairo, (winner last week.)
Lord Exeter's ch. c. by Redgauntlet.
Lord Chesterfield's ch. c. by Priam.
Mr. Stephenson's Fanchon, by Lapdog.
Mr. Wilson's c. by Comus.
Mr. Marson names b. f. Cetus out of Adelaide.
Newmarket, Wednesday. Night.
THE DERBY.
7 to 4 agst Lord Jersey's Bay Middleton—take 5 to 3
16 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Mr. Wags—take 10 to.l
9 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Ebberston
10 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Carew—taken
Offers to take 16 to 1 about Slane, and to take 6 to 1 about the
two.

A Match of 50 sovs., T. Y. C., between The Glama, B.st. 71b.,
and Skim Milk, 8!t. 21b.

. Entry for the Handicap, T.Y.C., to-morrow :
Misnomer, 5 yrs, Bst. 21b . ; Bodice, 4 yrs, Bst. 10Ib. ; Darioletta
colt, 4 yrs, Bst. 41b. ; Lucks All, 4 yrs, Bst. 81b. ; and f , out of
Fortuna, 3 yrs, 6st. 41b.

CHESTER RACES, Mir 3.
His Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas, fbr Three-years oldi 7s'. 21b.';
four, 9st. 21h. ; five, lOst. ; six and aged, lOst. Slh. Thrice
round, rather more than two miles.
Sir R. W. Bulkeley's gr. g. Isaac, 5 yrs...S. Darling 1
Mr. N ' bl. h. Si,. r

anney's bl. h. Sir . illiam, 5 yrs 2
Mr. Farmer's b. g. Timothy, 5 yrs.
Nine Drew.—Sir William the favourite. 4to 1 against Isaac,
6 to 1 against Timothy ; the last-named took the lead ; at the
Castle-pole, last time round, Isaac and Sir William came up,
headed Timothy, and contested the race very severely until within
a few lengths of the ending post, when Darling let out the grey,
and won very cleverly by three lengths. Catharine was weighed
fur this race, and came on the ground ready saddled, but for what
cause, we know not, she was taken off; and several of the Manches-
ter swells have paid for it dearly, having backed her before the
race at 4 to 1. against the field, p. in 6 min. 49 seconds.
A Free Handicap Stakes, of 30 sous. each, 10 says. ft., for three

and four years old; once round and a distance.

T. Y. C.

Mr. Alostyn's ToM Shipman, 3 yrs, 7st. 41b...T Lye 1
s Mr. Thompson's Lord Francis, 4 yrs, 65t. 71b
Sir J. Boswell's Butterfly, 4 yrs, 7st. 71b
Two paid.
Sixty Guineas (clear), the gift of the Members of the City, for 3
yrs old colts, Est. 81b., fillies, Gst. 51b. ; 4 yrs old colts, Gst. 81b.,
fillies, 65t. lib. Heats, once round a distance.
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Mr. Wyatt's FideliO, 4 yrs S. Darling 1 1

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Mr. Ninney's Bravo, by Flexible, 3 yrs - 3 2
31r. Shirley's Fury, 4 yrs
Two paid.

MATCH AGAINST TIME.

Mr. Day, of Wandsworth, a man very well known in the
sporting world, succeeded yesterday in accomplishing two
miles in saddle within seven miles and a half, trotting. The
ground chosen, with the exception of Sunbury Common or the
Rumford-road, is decidedly a good one, although not a dead
level. It is the two miles from near the barracks at Croydon
to the houses on Mitcham Common, better known as the " Blue
Houses." It had originally been arranged by the backer of
time that the match should come off on Wandsworth Com-
mon, but as there is only one mile there that can be possibly
sidered eligible for such a performance, Mitcham was chosen.
Thl backers of time had no objection to allow half a minute
for the turn round at Wandsworth, but Mr. Day would not
to break his speed. At a quarter-past four many had arrived
from Wandsworth, and the match commenced. The first
mile was completed in three minutes fifty-eight seconds. The
second in three minutes twenty-five seconds, thus performing
the distance in seven minutes twenty-three seconds—thirty-
st:ven seconds within the given time (eight minutes.)
The pony stands nearly fourteen hands high, and carried
eleven stone and a half: There was no symptom of distress
at coming in. His action is good, but not high.

PROPOSED HARBOUR AT PORT-

DYNLLAEN IN CARNARVON BAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stn,—Before I left home in America, I -happened to
read a pamphlet written on the subject of a proposed line
of communication between London and Dublin, via Port-
lynllaen, in Carnarvon Bay. I always understood this
country to be pre-eminent for useful improvements, encou-
raged by the Government, as well as the excellent disposi-
tion of parties forming and speculating in every way that
appear advantageous to the country, and of course to them-
selves ; but, in perusing that pamphlet, I was led to be-
lieve that the Irish people had no means whatever of inter-

course with this side of the Channel, and that the produce
of that fertile country could not be brought over for the
supply and consumption of the English market, and, of
course, the same disadvantage would exist in exporting
from England to Ireland—therefore, that no intercourse
existed in the way of traffic. I thought it, Mr. Editor,
very extraordinary that such a portion of the British em-
pire should be thus left so detached and unconnected by
trade, while the intercourse between this 'country and the
remotest parts of the globe has become so familiar to the
mercantile interest. With this view, I readily agreed with
the writer of that pamphlet, wherein he states, " In bring-
ing together detached portions of empires, the greatest
benefactor of the British nation, 'and particularly that por-
tion called Ireland, is the man who effects this. Establish
the interchange of merchants, tradesmen, and what it
ought to be—unprovince, connect, and incorporate. Thus
we shall accomplish by sympathy, and by a reciprocity of
Views, that which legal enactments, and every other means
have, up to the present moment, failed to effect. We
shall introduce into -Ireland the mind, the enterprise, and
the security of England. Industry, happiness, and civili-
zation extend., Disturbance, and the cost of putting down
disturbance got rid of, would open to Ireland as it were a
new world—disclose her resources to the enterprise and
public spirit of England," &c. From these cogent observa-
tions it appeared to me, Mr. Editor, that the Irish people
Must have been hitherto neglected, and left without the
means of interchange, but like a tribe left to themselves ;
their country compared to a pro Vince, destitute of industry,
happiness, and civilization; consequently in a state rude and
barbarous, disposed to revolt and endanger the security of
England. Great numbers come over yearly to New York,
i we find are generally intelligent, active, and industrious.
I thought the society on board ship, and the salubrious air
from the land of Columbus, must have a wonderful effect
for their improvement. The moment I arrived in this
country, I felt most anxious to inquire how the English
Government, and the Representatives of Ireland, could
allow such a state of things to remain, while the remedy
appeared so simple and at hand. Only bring the Irish
people from the north and south, via Portdynllaen, and
by some magic they would become industrious and 'peace- I
able. When to my great surprise I find, Mr. Editor,
that there never was a greater perversion of facts stated,
than is to be found in that pamphlet throughout—l
find the intercourse between England and Ireland is
most extensive and regular, to the mutual advantage of
both counties, so much so, that in Liverpool, Manchester,
and other places where I have dined, I found they depended
on their supply of fish and poultry, &c., from Ireland, as
if they were only to cross the Mersey ; and I am informed
that from all the Irish ports, from Cork along the Channel
to Londonderry, there is not a place where vessels can go
in, but steamers are regularly trading to, viz., to London
and intermediate ports in the English Channel ; to Bristol
and ports in that Channel, and particularly from all parts
to Liverpool ; and nothing can be more regular than the
Post-office Packets on the Holyhead and Liverpool sta-
tions. What, then, is there to be gained or improved by
adopting the proposed new line ? But the writer of the
pamphlet forms his argument on the state of Holyhead
Harbour and the London road in 1807, not being acquainted
with the fact, that every necessary improvement in that
Harbour and on the roads, has been made entirely with
the view to promote the facility of intercourse between Lon-
don and Dublin. That national ornament, the Menai
Bridge, is a proof of this, and I understand a finer road is
not to be found in England. Should steam-carriages come
into use, that road will be found prepared for them. The
plan of railroad already in progress from London to Bir-
mingham, which will be extended to Liverpool, will be
a great improvement ; and I understand there is every pos-
sible advantage to branch another from it to Holyhead by
Chester, Holywell, Conway, &c., being a line nearly sea-
level all along. But it appears, Mr. Eclitor, there is an
extensive slate-quarry at Faestiniog, Merionethshire, con-
tiguous to the proposed line of road, and a joint-stock Coin-
party is now forming to extend it. Are not the advocates
for Portdynllaen deeply interested in that scheme?
Respecting the nautical points, I have obtained much in-
formation from try friends the Commanders of the New
York Packets, who are highly respectable, of great expe-
rience, and practical knowledge of the navigation of this
Qantel,.and- feel the strongest interest in every improve•
ment proposed, tending to the protection and security of
shipping ; they all agree most decidedly on the necessity
of an asylum harbour and refuge port on this side of the
Channel, and that it was a subject of such importance as
to require the greatest consideration in deciding upon the
pert of coast most eligible and convenient for the inward
and outward bound ships, and that no local interest or pri-
vate views should be allowed in the slightest degree to in-
fluence the decision. Those Commanders were much as-
tonished to find that such a wild scheme was proposed ; they
declared that were a good harbour made :,.here, they
never would venture on such a range of coast in stormy
weather, as it is generally thick and dark upon it, with
a tremendous sea, and in their upinion most unsafe
for a Packet Station, with any description of vessels
that can be built. The improvements on steam-vessels are
great; so'is the duty required more pressing, their time more •
limited, and the arrangements most strict, particularly on
the Post-office packets, that their protection should be as
much as possible attended to in the localities of the station
they are upon. My friends of New York saw a plan also
of a proposed extension of Holyhead harbour, which they
very much approved of, and declared it would be the best
artificial harbour in Europe, and would be invaluable for the
protection and security of the trade, as well as a perfect
secure packet station, situated as it were upon a corner, in
the track of the trade, for both the inward and outward-bound
ships—the latter, with the prevailing southerly winds, will
sail freely from Liverpool along the coast as far as the Head,
on rounding which it becomes right an end ; the inward-
bound also in the same manner, with the wind from S.E.,
sail free as far as the Head, but when they round the Sker-
ries find it E.S.E. right an end for Liverpool. When blow-
ing hard, after a long, passage, their crew much fatigued,
open in want of supplies, and not able to keep out, the
whole value of their long voyage is thus brought to a criti-
cal point, where ere they to bear up for ? Holyhead har-
bour is under their lee, Portdynllaen (if a harbour were
made there) is thirty miles off, and to windward no other
harbour under their lee within fifty miles. Under these cir-
cumstances many ships have run in to Holyhead and were
secure, while others kept out and were driven on the Irish
coast, &c. With these observations the senior Commander
of the New York packets wrote an address to the American
Consul here, which was signed by all the other Commanders
then in port,. requesting, in the strongest terms, that he
would exert his best official influence in favor of the plan
for an outer harbour at Holyhead ; and I understand so
.2.enerally and unanimous are the opinions in favor of that
that a Memorial to the Lords of the Treasury has
forw.wletl from the Shipowners' Association, Dock
omrruttce, ,and most of the principal merchants of the
town of Liverpool, to be presented by one of their Mem-
bers. Also a Memorial to the same effect was sent from
the Shipmasters of the port. And it appears the mer-
ehantS and shipowners at Greenock have also adopted the
same plan through their Member. 11.:specting the pas-
sages as stated in that pamphlet, my friends had reference
to the improved edition of Captain I-luddart's Chart, pub-
lished in 1833, which is upon a plain scale. By that sur-

any person may find that the distance from the Kisit
Light Ship to Portdynllaen is fifly-tern miles and a half,
to Holyhead harbour fiwly-five miles and a hay,' and to
the Floating Light off Liverpool ninety :five miles, being
forty-three and a half more than to Portdynllaen.
Admitting that packets can be built equally as good 'fin•
one place as another, and take the rate of sailing stated
in the pamphlet, which is above twelve miles an hour, the
packet to Liverpool would only take three hours and a
longer to get to the Floating Light than the packet
Portdynllaen, and the one to Holyhead three quarters
of an .hour less, besides the local advantages, which is to
Liverpool from off the Head, generally in smooth water,
;with southerly winds, off shore, and in thick weather,
have the advantage of sailing from one head-land to an-
other. And no place has such l►cilitics in approaching
the part as Holyhead. Off Portdynllaen there is nothing
to guide, or to warn, until a vessel would he at the en-
trance. From the foregoing reasons, by the highest nau-
tical opinions, Mr. Editor, the Hon. Members for Ireland
will do well to consult able and disinterested practical
seamen upon the merits of the proposed plans, as they
will be legislating upon a very important question, invol-
ving the safety and protection due to themselves as well
as the brave mariners of this country, who, by their en-
terprise and industry, have contributed so much to the
wealth and prosperity of their native land.

. .
Mr. Editor, yours,
I ive
• rpool, April 18136re.main,
AN AMERICAN.

From the differences which existed for a few woks
past between the pitmen and coal owners of the 'ryne, we are
apprehensive of another strike taking place.
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•
PARRICIDE.—At the last Glasgow assizes a lad,
eighteeti years of age, was tried for the murder of his own fa-
ther, whose skull be fractured by knocking him down with a
%oker. There were some extenuating circumstances adduced,
and the-verdict therefore was Culpable Homicide.