The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-09 00:00:00

DONCASTER, 1841.

FRIDAY.—Park-hill Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft, fot fillies
-thjethree ye Old, Bst 71b -each ; • the owner of the.secornl to
receive 100 sovs. out of the stakes; St: Leger course. •
Mr. Blakelock's b by Voltaire, out of Black Diamond's clam ;
Mr. Wilson's b by Muley Moloch, out of Silvertail ; Lord
Kelburne's br by Retainer, clam by Ardrossan ; Mr. H.
Wormald's ch by Velocipede, out of Midge ; Mr. Hancock's ch
Evelyn ; Mr. T. 0. Powlett's br fby Muley Moloch, out .of
The Mystery) Mr. T. 0. Powlett's b by Tomboy, out of Te-
sane Sir W. Bulkeley's b by Birdcatcher, dam by Caccia
Pitrth Mr: Wauehope's ch Euterpe ; Colonel Craufurd's bor
lirlimengardis ; Mr. Brooke's ch by Tomboy, out of Luna-
tic ; Colonel Anson's ch Miss Horewood • Lord Eglinton's br
by Muley Moloch, out of Zillah ; Mr. 111urray's br by The
Earl, out of The Young-un's dam ; Mr. Merry 's bl or br by
Retainer, out of Helen Aroon ; Mr. Briskham's b Quick ;
Mr. Osbaldeston's b Queen of Beauty ; 111 r. Clark's br sister
to Imogene ; Mr. Mann names b Miss Betsey ; Col. ,Tliomp-
son's b Flying Gib ; 111 r. Bell's b by Muley Moloch, dani by
Ebor ; Lord Stanley's b Sophistry ; Lord Westminster's Lam-
poon, sister to Touchstone : Colonel Peel's br by Sultan, out
-of Hester ; Lord Miltown's ch m Semiramide by Economist,
out of Pasta.

DONCASTER, 1842.
WIDNESDAY.—The Foal Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft, for
three-yrs-old colts Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 21b ; the winner of
the St. Leger 51b extra. One mile and a half.
Mr. Ramsay's ch c Cabrera, by Tom Boy, dam :by St.
Patrick ; Lord Kelburne's ch f by Retainer, out of Emilia, by
Abjer ; Mr. Kirby'sch c Rover, by Muley Moloch, out of Miss
Thornasina ; Sir R. W. Bulkeley's b c by Beagle, out of Je-
mime ; Mr. Sadler's Barrier; Mr. Sadler's Defyer ; Lord
Westminster's Auckland.

NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1840.
TUESDAY.—Nominations for the Hopeful Stakes :
Mr. Thornhill's b c by Emilius, out of Ophelia ; Mr. Thorn-
bull's b f Sister to Montezuma ; Mr. Bird's b f Cast-off ;
Fulwar Craven's br f Benedata ; Mr. Nevill's llillarine ;
Duke of Grafton's b f by Mulatto, out of Dublin ; Duke of
Grafton's br f by Dr. Syntax, out of Zinc ; Colonel Peel's The
Hunchback ; Colonel Peel's br c Huon, Lord Lichfield's cby
Ibrahim, out of Malvina ; Lord G. Bentinck's Gobemouch.
WEDNESDAY.—Nominations for the St. Leger Stakes.

B f by Augustus, out of CoLrtezan ; ch fby 'Taurus, out of
Leeway ; b f by Ranvilles, out of Zeal ; b c Jeffy, Fitzroy,
Ottoman, Cu rrency, Amurath ; cby Sultan, out of Velvet ; c
by Jerry, out of Lucetta ; c by Sultan, out of Datura, Gibral-
tar, and Grey Milton.

SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1840.
To FSDAY.—Nominations for the Clearwell Stakes.

Mr. Thornhill's eh cby Langar, out of Fidelity; Mr. Watt's
b c by Plenipotentiary, out of Myrrha ; Lod Albemarle's b f
Minaret ; Mr. Wreford's h c by Sultan, out of Margellina ;
Lord Jersey's b c by Ishmael, out of Misnomer ; Lord Jersey's
b f Sister to Glencoe; Lord Orford's Brother to Ascot; Mr.
J. Day's b f Executrix ; Mr. James Wood's b c Paul Potter ;
Air. •Sadler's Diversion ; Mr. Neville's Hilarine ; Duke of
Grafton's bl f Dephi ; Duke of Grafton's b f by Mulatto, out of
Dublin ; Lord Exeter's Brother to Candia ; Lord Exeter's fby
Reveller, out of Green Mantle ; Lord Exeter's f by Sultan,
out of Marchesa ; Lord Exeter's Cesarewitch ; Colonel Peel's
Brother to Whim; Colonel Peel's f by Palmyra, by Sultan,
out of Hester ; Colonel Peel's fby Sultan, out of Garcia; Cap-
tain Gardnor's b c by Camel, out of Cecilia; Lord Chester-
field's f by Sultan, out of Rowton's dam ; Mr. Cooke's b f Es-
perenza ; Lord Lichfield's brother to Phosphorus; Lord Lich-
field's ch c by Peter Lely, out of Margrave's daM; Lord Lich-
field's oh e by Langur, out of Portrnien dam, is Etwan's
Thistle Whipper ; Lord G. Bentinck's Gobemouche. .

NATIONAL DEBT.

(From the Gazette of Tuesday. )

The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury having
certified to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na-
tional Debt, in pursuance of the Act 10 George IV., c. 27,
sec. 1, that the actual expenditure of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland exceeded the actual revenue thereof,
for t,he year ended the 10th day of October, 1839, by the sum
of 803,4631. 17s. 4d. ;

. The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt
hereby give notice, that no sum will be applied by them on
account of the Sinking Fund, under the provisions of the said
Act, between the 7th day of January 1840, and the sth day of
April, 1840.
S. HIGHAM, Comptroler-General.
National Debt-office, Jan. 6, 1840.

DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—On
Saturday Mr. Cove, a boot and shoemaker of Uxbiidge,
made a desperate attempt at suicide. He was a mem-
ber of the corps of Uxbridge Volunteers, and had for
some time been subject to attacks of delirium treinenf,
occasioned by intemperate habits. On Saturday his
wife accompanied him for a walk as far as Hillingdon,
but on the way he appeared much excited, frequently
exclaiming, 4- See, they are coming to take me to Han-
well," meaning the Lunatic Asylum. On his return
home he had not been many minutes in the parlour be-
fore she observed him take down his bayonet and stab
himself three times in the stomach. She immediately
seized his arm, prevented his repeating the thrusts, and
Messrs. M'Namara, Bullock, and Silvestre, surgeons of
the town,. promptly dressed the wounds, which may pro-
bably not prove fatal. On being remonstrated with on
the subject of the rash attempt, he said, " If T had
wanted to kill myself instantly I could have got my gun
and shot myself, or have cut my throat ; but I wanted
to bleed a good deal, that I might have time to repent.'
THE LATE SUICIDE IN THE SERPENTINE.
On Tuesday night the inquest on the body of the man
who threw himself from the bridge over the Serpentine,
on Saturday morning, was held at the Half-way-House'
Knightbridge. The deceased's name, it appeared 1.);
the evidence of his mother, was Rhodes, a glove-cleaner.
He bad lost bis situation through drunkenness, and be-
come very melancholy. Verdict—" Temporary insanity."

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
• (From the, Courier.)
Symptoms have not been wanting for some time past
that the bonds of alliance once so close, have been
sitting loosely of lace both on France and England ; that
the vows of eternal attachment so liberally and loudly..
exchanged between the, leading Government men of,
both countries, are sharing the fate of fickle lovers
oaths ; and that interests have been found not quite
.o mutual and. identical as, when the inter-alli-
ance was first built up, was so fondly imagined.
Sundry have been the breaches in the walls,
once of such compact appearance, and the dry-
rot lurking from the first in the green wood, with
which the lath and plaster edifice was constructed, has
made such progress now as to threaten from day to day
its sudden downfall. So long as England was found, or
,:oatinues to be found, of " squeezable" materials, the
protestations of France will not be failing in feigned fer-
vency, m
and the sturdy old oak will be smothered in the
parasitical • embraces of the ivy, until drained to
the dregs of its juices the clinging runner shall unlock
'its
insidious grasp of itself, and leave the dry and wither-
ing carcass of the noble tree to nestle meaner weeds, or
be preyed on by the lowest vermin of the field. From the
first date of that close alliance the foundations of which
were laid in the abrupt and contemptuous abandonment
by Lord Palmerston of all the oldest and fastest
friends of this. country, England, through a feeble and
Frivolous Foreign Office, has been used and abused by
France for her own sole and exclusive ends, until tit;r7
that. sunk so low in opinion abroad, that accounted so
little formidable in the power of offence, and so compara-
valuelmut arajn4l9enfalja..swort, she ia-4o be
cast. tiff on the leist slkow of reensaney viral as little
ceremony as a worn-out suit. The French press teems
with virulent invectives or cooler and more laboured
diesuasives against the English alliance, not the
Press representing the Carlism or Republicanism, or the
juste milieu, bat more or less the Press of all parties
and all shades of opinion. As with the Press, so with
the public men of France, alt hough in language more
measured, and on occasions fewer, but of greater mo-
ment. On the Eastern question we have seen M.
Guiznt fraternize with M. Berryer, both sympathising
with Russia, and each as strongly opposed as the
other to the policy and views of England. Yet of
all French Statesmen the first, the great Doctrinaire
leader, was once, as longest, the firm unflinching advo-
cate of English alliance, against the host of rabid Car-
lists, Republicans, and Napoleohists by which it was
furiously maligned and repudiated.

(From the Globe.)
" My chief difficulty is Ireland !" was Sir Robert
Peel's memorable apology for his abandonment of the
Premiership, when office was within his grasp.
The Tories seem as much embarrassed as is their
leader by the state of Ireland. Its very
tranquillity, so long denied, and now at length
admitted, is asserted to be more dangerous—more
pregnant with portentous appearances, and more replete
with proofs of criminality in the Government, than re-
bellion itself ! Order, tranquillity, cheerful obedience
to constituted authority, are in Ireland valueless, in Tory
estimation. Strange country! where the existence of peace,
manifest to all, is denied until the denial is found to be no
longer credible even with those most willing to be de-
ceived ;then, by the very organs which affected to deplore
the disturbed state of that country, and which attributed
the falsely-asserted presence of conspiracy, insurrection,
and incipient rebellion, to the Government, tranquility is
there admitted to exist ; but is also asserted to be not
only valueless, but dangerous! " There is tranquillity
in Ireland," at length confesses the Times. But then
cui bono t What is the use of peace in Ireland ? Such
is the sum and substance of three or four elaborate ar-
ticles which have appeared in succession in that alarmist
journal. The following extract contains the gist of the
whole :

" What is the tranquillity of Ireland worth, we pray
you, if it depend on the word of an arch incendiary, to bid
his envenomed hordes of anti- Saxons rest upon their arms
just until the moment arrives when he shall order
them to rouse from their fox's slumber, and fall on ?
What is the false tranquillity of that man worth,
who forbears not in the spirit of peace, but, in the ser.:-
blanee of it, lies in wait for battle? O'Connell and Dr.
Murray between them confess that the peace of Ireland
hangs on a contingency, and that the very hour in which the
Queen shall exercise her prerogative in such a manner as
to withdraw her patronage from them—that the very first
acces,ion to office of .a Ministry which does hot hang its
power on the votes of a majority moved by the will of
Murray, O'Connell, and Co., shall blow the so-much-
vaunted peace of Ireland to atoms?"
Most marvellous discovery in the science of Govern-
ment ! " The peace of Ireland hangs on a contin-
gency !" Does not every good that a Government can
bestow, or a people enjoy, hang, as the peace of Ire-
land hangs, upon " a contingency ?" The existence of
the Monarchy, and the preservation of the people's
liberties, depend upon contingencies. What social
blessing, what moral enjoyment does not ? To assert
the worthlessness of national peace, because it must
cease when war breaks out, is a position which,
stripped of the pompous verbosity of the Journal which
asserts it, is too puerile to provoke any feeling more
dignified than contempt.
(From the Standard.)
Mr. Kelly yesterday closed the defence of Mr.
Frost at the Monmouth Commission by a very powerful
speech. It was expecte.' that the trial would
probably terminate this day. At tho conclusion of
the defence Mr. Frost being called upon in the
usual form to add, if he thought it proper,
his own observations or arguments to those of his leained
advocates, replied with firmness, and with a mani-
fest feeling of gratitude—" My Lords, I am so well
satisfied with what my Counsel have done for me,
that I have nothing to add." The acknowledgment
was prudent and just, for never was a case of defence
conducted with more zeal or with greater ability.
Although still restrained from offering aly remarks
upon the merits or probable issue of the trial, we may
congratulate the Conservative party and the Conserva-
tive press upon the noble position occupied by them dur-
ing the whole progress of the investigation. Though re-
presenting the class most deeply interested in the pre-
servation of order and the security of property—the
class which has never excited the ignorant by enormous
lying, or sought to traffic in the evil passions excited
by distress—the Conservatives and the Conser-
vative Press have, with religious care, abstained
from every act or expression which could even by
remote consequence prejudice the case of the parties
upon trial. They have not taken the opportunity
of the moment, when the leaders of the Chartists are
in jeopardy of their lives, to inflame the public mind
against the principles and practice of the Chartist
Association. They have left it to the Whig-Radi-
cals, the Ministers, and their press, to hunt the
lives of men already secured within the meshes
of the law, by denouncing them as " ruffians." It
is fitting that they who have led men into transgression
should prove the cruel persecutors of those whom they
have seduced. From the first tempter to crime, the
liar from the beginning, " the first Whig," to the
Exeniner's eternal topic—Jonathan Wilde—it has
been the same, and ever will be.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

• (MONDAY EY/Ml:v69
TIMES.—By the adviecs from Hamburg the price
of gold is 428 per mark, which, at the English Mint
price of 3/. 17s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold,
gives an exchange of 13.61, and the exchange at Ham.
burg on London at short being 13. 4, it follows that
gold is 0.26 per cent. dearer at Hamburg than in
London.
The premium on gold at Paris is 7i per mille, which,
at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10id. the ounce
for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25. 34, and
the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.30,
it follows that gold is 0.16 per cent. dearer at Paris than
in London.

CHRONICLE.—The Consol Market in the early
part of the day exhibited much firmness ; the quota-
tions, at one period, were a shade hig,hor than yester-
day, but the market left off flat. Aloney continues
easy, and the large amount of dividends in course of pay-
ment to-morrow must make it still less in demand for
some weeks to come.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND
BIRMINGIIMAM RAILWAY.—An accident, likely to
terminate fatally, occurred on Tuesday morning at the
Euston-square terminus of the above railway. The
down train had just gone out (nine o'clock), and the
engine that works the towing rope had stopped, when
a labourer on the line, named George Collins, and the
foreman of the works, descended into the well where is
situated the horizontal wheel on which the rope coils,
and by which it is connected with the engine. Collins
got upon the. wheel, with his legs between the spokes,
for the purpose of examining and cleaning it. On a
sudden the engine began to work, the wheel revolved,
and, though an alarm of danger was instantly raised,
and the engine almost immediately stopped, it was not
before Collins had both his legs much crushed near the
ancles. The poor fellow was conveyed with all possible
dispatch to Middlesex Hospital.
One of the trawl boats belonging to this poet
saw, one day this week, just outside the Lizard, a fine
whale, blowing up the water to a tremendous height.
This is the second whale which has been seen by the
crew of the same vessel during the last fortnight.—Fal-
mouth Packet.