The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-25 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1849.

Wolatanton
Wolverhampton and 6tesdon
Worcester ... •••
Wycombe ... •••
Total ... ...

1 1
33 4
2 2
2 0

• • •

533 173

Perth ... ..• •••
Dundee •••
Stirling ••• •••
Arbroath
OldiMachar (Aberdeen)
Wilton (11awick)
Kerriemuir
Kinghorn ••• •••
Dunhamline ... ...

Total

5 0
2 0
3 0
3 0
1 0
2 0
1 0
1 0
2 0

122 41
533 173
21 0

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
Most of the subscribers having left for Newmarket,
tle or nothing was done; we have, therefore, only the
following brief quotations to return :
tTEWMARXET THREE TEARS OLD TRIENNIAL.
7 to 4 agst Colonel Peel's Tadmor
5 to 2 agst Sir J. Hawley's Vatican
,000 to 10 agat Mr. Farrance's The Old Fox
NEWMARKET TWO YEARS OLD TRIENNIAL.
2 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Knight of Avenel
3 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Hardinge
GRAND DUKE MICHAEL STAKES.
5 to 2 on Sir J. Hawley's Vatican—taken
4 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Honeycomb—taken
00 to 10 agat Tadmor and Ghillie Callum both win-
ning—taken
CHESTER AUTUMN HANDICAP.
4 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Chatterer—taken
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
15 to 1 agst Mr. Nicholls's Woolwich
16 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler's Ribaldry
20 to 1 agst Mr. Stebbings's Melton
20 to 1 eget Captain Archdall's Rhesus
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
1 egst Lord Exeter's Glenalvon—taken
1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Raby
1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Evelyn
1 agat Lord Stanley's Legerdemain
DERBY, 1850. •
10 to 1 apt Lord Eglinton's lot—taken
14 to 1 agst Mr. Henry's Pitsford—taken
45 to 1 agst Mr. W. Edwards's Bolingbroke—taken
NEW MARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING.
NEWMARKET, MONDAY. NIGHT.
ENTRIES &C., FOR TO-MORROW.
Handicap. T.Y.C.—The Fiddler, 4 yrs, .Bst 81b—
Sagacity, 5 yrs, 7st 91b—Highland Fling, 3 yrs, 7st 21b
—Jest, 4 yrs, 7st—Cigarette, 3 yrs, 63t 101b—Ione,
3 yrs, 6at 71b—Condi, 3 yrs, 6st 41b. Six others paid.
The Hopeful Stakes.—The following are scratched:—
Irish Birdcatcher colt, Castaside filly, Sergius, Dego,
Gosling, Maria colt, Rebecca filly.
Grand Duke Michael.—Only Champion, Vatican, and
Honeycomb left in.
Match. T.Y.C. 200.—Bishop of Romford's Cob
receives forfeit.
100, h ft. D.M.—Beauvale pays.
100, h ft. Suffolk Stakes Course. Goodwood pays.
WEDNESDAY.
Two yrs old Triennial.—Rybinska, Total Eclipse
filly, Compass, and Bastilia are struck out, and it is de-
clared doubtful if Ghillie Callum will start for this race.

12 to
20 to
20 to
30 to

CRICKET.

ELEVEN OF ENGLAND v; TWENTY-TWO OF STOCKTON

AND DISTRICT.

This grand match was resumed on Saturday at Stock-
ton-on-Tees, and at the departure of the post on that
afternoon the game stood as the subjoined score indi-
cates:—

ENGLAND.-FIRST INNINGS.
F. Pilch--b Joy ••• ••• •.• •••
Clarke—st Morton, b Anderson ... ...
G. Parr—not out ... ••• ••• •.•
Guy—st Morton, b Anderson ••• •.•
N. Felix, Esq.—c Baldwinson, b Anderson...
A. Mynn, Esq•—b Joy ••• ••• •••
Hillyer—b Anderson ••• •.• •••
Martingell—c Scarth, b Anderson... •••
Letby—c Joy, b Rapley ... ... •••
G. F. Cooke, esq.—b Rapley... ... ..•
llinkly—b Rapley ... ... ... ...
81, w 23, nb 0 ...

Total ... .
STOCKTON—FIRST INNINGS.
J. Baker—l bw, b Clarke ...
R. Scarth—b Hillyer
P. Stockdale—b Clarke ...
J. W. Coates, jun., Esq.—b Hillef
W. Thompson, Esq.—b Hillyer
Baldwinson—c Martingell, b Mynn...
Joy—b Hillyer
Lambert—b Hillyer
H. Beresford, Esq.—c Hillyer, b Hinkly
Anderson— b Mynn
Morton—b Mynn
Lancaster—b Hillyer
ThOmpson—b Martingell
Rev. H. Maister—b Myun ••• •••
Shepherd—b Hillyer
Rapley—b Hillyer
M. Pilkington, Esq.—not out
.ao• •••
A. H. Faber, Esq.—b Hinkley
C. Trotter, Esq,—b Hinkley
F. Thompson, Esq.—c Guy, b Hinkley ...
Salmon—run out ...
Hornby—b Clark ...
Byes, 22 ..• ••• ••• ••• •••

Total ...

ICNGLAND.-SECOND INNINGS.

Pilch—not out
Clark—b Anderson ...
Parr—b Rapley
Guy—b Lambert ... ••• •••
N. Felix, Esq.—s Morton, b Anderson ...
A. Mynn, Esq.—c Faber, b Joy ...
Ilillyer—s Morton, b Anderson ... •
Martingell—c Baldwinson, b Anderson ...
Letby—s Morton, b Anderson ...
G. F. Cooke, Esq.-13 Anderson ...
Faber, b Anderson
Byes, 2; wide, 14; no balls, 1 ...

... 26

... 161

Total

... 43

... 36

I•
••

... 0

... 22

... 184

... 10
... 2

... 2

... 77

ELEVEN OF ALL ENGLAND V TWENTT-TWO OF DIR.
NINOTIAM.

On Monday the grand cricket-match between the
Eleven of all England and Twenty-two of Birmingham
commenced in the field adjoining the Reservoir at Edg-
baston, ►bout a mile•and-a-half from the town. The
playing continued until five o'clock, when the following
result of the day's play was declared:—

BIRMINGHAM -FIRST INNINGS.
Norton, Esq.—b Hillyer
Jordan—run out ...
Edwards, Esq.—c Felix, b Clarke
Taylor, Eiq.—b Hillyer
Baker, Esq.—b Clarke
Nixon—c Felix, b Hillyer
F. Tinley—c Felix, b Clarke .. ..•
Sopp—b Hillyer •••
Roby—c Martingell, b Hillyer
C. Butt, Esq.—c Parr, b Clarke ...
Langley—b Clarke ... •••
S. Mallaby, Esq.—b Clarke
Deacon—hit w, b Clarke ...
Eades—b Hillyer ••• ..•
R. Fulford, Esq.—b
B. Gilpin, Esq.—rue out ...
R. Wigley, Esq.—b Hillyer
J. Mousley, Esq.—b Clarke ...
T. H. Gem, Esq.—b Clark ... ..•
Bensom, Esq.—b Hillyer
Goddard, Esq.—b Clarke ...
J. Evans, Esq.—not out ...
Byes ...

••• 9

... 12

... o

... 2

... o
... o
... o
... o

... 3

ENGLAND-FIRST INNINGS.
F. Pilch—not out ..• ... ...
G. F. Cooke, Esq.—c Sopp, b Tinley
H. Vernon, Esq.—b Nixon ...
Martingell—not out ...
G. Parr ... ... ...

... 0

2

... 1

Guy••-
N.
Felix, Esq. ...
A. Mynn, Esq....
Chatterton
Hillyer
Clarke
Bye

... o

... o

. . 0

... o

•II • 0

... o

... 0

SECOND EDITION OF "KING ARTHUR

AN EPIC POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS.
By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton.
Our admiration of this splendid effusion of genius
—the masterpiece of one of the most remarkable
minds of this generation—has been nobly verified. Its
popularity has already commenced; and that popu-
larity, we are satisfied, is not ephemeral, but m ill
prove, on the contrary, of an elevated and enduring
character. On the occasion of its first appearance we
endeavoured to subject the poem of "King Arthur"
to such a severe and scrutinizing analysis that we find
but little left for us to say now, beyond the simple
announcement of its republication. It is due, never-
theless, to the illustrious author to remark that the
present edition has undergone a very careful and
laborious supervision ; and that wherever any reason-
able objections have been entered in the way of cri-
ticism, there the text has been submitted to emenda-
ti On. We are proud to know that we ourselves may be
numbered amongst, those reviewers whom Sir Edward
Bulwer Lytton has thus honoured with his coinci-
dence. The plenary spirit with which the literary
journalist reverently proffered his suggestions has
been shared by the poet in the collation of his
original manuscript. "King Arthur" must now win
for itself the admiration to which it is entitled by its
numerous and exquisite beauties. Henceforth its
fame must rest upon its own intrinsic excellence.
All that its creator could effect in its regard has been
accomplished—the last touches of his pencil, still
glowing with the warmth of novelty, and still bloom-
ing with the freshness of adolescence, have been im•
parted—whatever was crude or jejune has been
ripened by correction—the work, so far as the
capacities of the writer are concerned, has attained
the period of its completion. Conscious of this,
we do not consider ourselves premature when we
tender, as we do, our most earnest felicitations to Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton on the fulfilment of his des-
tiny, on the achievement of his highest success, and
the attainment of his loftiest ambition. In him the
future critic cannot fail to recognize a brilliant evi-
dence that the most extreme versatility is not incom-
patible with the most felicitous adventure. Yearning,
as he has undeniably done throughout his career, to
acquire celebrity as a man of letters, our author has
obtained the most signal triumphs not in one alone,
but in all the various and, until now, apparently
incongruous departments of literature. In prose and
poetry, in romance and biography, in fictitious and
historical narrative, as a lyrist and as an essayist, as
a bard and as a dramatist, in comedy and in tragedy,
he has successively advanced and successfully retreated.
Unlike Sir Walter Scott, he has commenced with
prose fiction and terminated with heroic and chivalric
poetry. And his last production has surpassed all its
predecessors. In the preface to " King Arthur," Sir
Edward very judiciously exclaims—" On this foun-
dation I rest the least perishable monument of those
thoughts and those labours which have made the
life of my life." Each perusal of a poem which we
have read more than once assures us that in so
speaking he has formed a correct estimate of his
powers and of their performances. It were well
for his renown, as a novelist, if the same pure
and rarified atmosphere had been always re-
spired by his imagination, during the intervals of
the composition of his earlier writings, as
that atmosphere which he has breathed in his poetical
and of late also in his prose productions. It were well
if the sensual genius of French romance had never
exercised over his fine, but occasionally distorted, in-
tellect its pernicious fascination. It were well if some
of the more youthful novels of Bulwer had been cha-
racterised by the sweet and wholesome morality of
the last two novels of Lytton—by the unsullied merits
of " Harold," and the gentle and humanizing tone of
the " Caxtons." Now that the collected works of
this distinguished man are being re-issued in a form
such as will extend their popularity by scattering
them more widely throughout the population, we
would most earnestly suggest to him the increase of
his labours of emendation. Five of his admirable fic-
tions have already been completed in the cheap edi-
tion ; and yet our respectful suggestion conies not too
late, steing that in none of those five do we recog-
nise the necessity for corrections such as those to which
we are alluding. In saying this, Sir Bulwer Lytton
will perceive that we are not among the hypercritics
whom he has so very logically refuted in the mas-
terly pamphlet penned by him as a vindication from
their aspersions. Our hint at emendation is directed
along a very different channel. For, with him,
we are satisfied that the delineation of great
and tragic crimes, such as those committed by
Lucretia, and such as those wrongfully imputed
to Aram is strictly within the province of a literary
moralist; and that, if handled as he has endeavoured
to handle them, they are calculated to exercise a
bitter but salutary influence over the community of
readers. What we cannot, however, regard as bene •
ficial in this or in any other analogous walk of lite-
rature is that roseate and impassioned delineation of
vice which ravishes the heart and intoxicates the
brain with its voluptuousness. Tell us nut that cur
feelings in this particular are the feelings of a prude,
and that our objections are the objections of a fribbler
in morality. Talk not of the lessons of virtue incul-
cated through the medium of these bewitching por-
traitures of depravity. We are neither blind to the
truths of common sense nor deaf to the arguments of
right reason—we know, and feel, and see that the
effects of this fictitious licentiousness, especially when
accompanied by the seductive tones of eloquence and
clothed with the resplendent •decoretions of genius,
are not to be counteracted by an ejaculation of re-
morse, or by a sentence expressive of awe for reli-
gion, however cleverly turned or sententiously arti-
culated, We are conscious, moreover, that the noble
intellect of a man like this stands in no need of any
such meretricious assistance. That a writer with a
corruptible reputation, as for example Charles Paul de
Kock, should have recourse to such tricks of passion to
win his way to the darker nerves and pulses of
humanity, to make them thrill and throb at his bid-
ding, is not surprising. But that a man gifted with
such extraordinary and diversified faculties should
condescend to the emulation of minds so inferior;
that he who can at pleasure place his hand upon the
noblest chords of our nature and make them vibrate
to the measure of his inspirations, should ever, even
for a moment, interrupt the melodies of a lyre dropt
from heaven for " the lascivious breathings of a
lute " picked up from the kennel, has been to us
matter of earnest regret and deep astonishment.
Hence we have spoken. Our regard, or rather we
should say, our admiration for the genius of Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton prompts the suggestion. We
would see his collected works, fraught as they are
with beauties, purified from those casual blemishes.
Without making any invidious catalogue of the
passages we yearn to know have passed under his own
generous emendation, we may refer as examples to
an incident befalling Ernest Maltravers and another
occurring to Lumley Ferret's. Our anxiety to wit-
ness this expurgation has been enhanced by the con-
trast afforded by the two latest of the prose and poeti-
cal productions of the poet-novelist of England—the
pure and beautiful story of the " Caxtons ' and the
untarnished splendour of " King Arthur." Of the
latter, as a superb national epic, we do not hesitate to
predict that its appearance will hereafter be ranked
among the most memorable literary events of our
generation—an anticipation which is fully justified
when we reiterate that it is the masterpiece of Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton.

THE TOWER—WATER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—The Tower of London, which, prior to the
draining of its moat, was notoriously one of the most
unhealthy garrisons in the country, has since taken a
much higher position in a sanitary point of view, still
it has had to contend against a disadvantage of no
ordinary kind, namely, a deficiency of water.
Through the columns of The Sun the proposal for
the removal of the moat (or ditch, more correctly
speaking) first emanated—and through the same
medium let it be known that the latter evil no longer
exists. A communication has, during the present
week, been made between the fortress and the Ar-
tesian• well at the Royal Mint, by which means a
bounteous supply of pure spring-water will be con-
stantly available to the troops therein stationed. I
need not expatiate on the value of such a blessing at
such a time, and am persuaded that you will be deeply
gratified to hear such news.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Sept. 22, 1849. AQUIEIUS.