The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-09 00:00:00

BETTING-ROOM, MAY 8.
DER

6 to 4 agut Emilio,
4 to 1 agst Tancred
6 to 1 agst Nicolo
11 to 1 agst Pantina
20 to 1 agut Fanatic

5 to 2 agst Zinc
5 to 1 agst Spermacetti
5 to 1 apt Pinwire
6 to 1 apt Tint

DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
b to 1 age Sherwood 18 to 1 agst Tancred
r 0 to 1 agst Tinker 20 to 1 apt Palais Royal
12 to I agst Miss Fanny 2.5 to 1 agst Columbus.
t; to 1 agst naming the winners of the Derby and OultS

CHESTER RACES, TUESDAY, May G.
His Majesty's Plate of 100 gs. for 4-year olds, list. 21b. five,
est. 101 b. six and aged, iist.; winners of one plate, match; or
sweepstakes, carrying Sib.; or two, 71b.; and of three or more.
101bs. extra ; thrice round.
Mr. Mytton's ch. g. Euphrates, aged - . I
-
Mr. Clifton's b. h. Peter Lely, 5 yrs. - - - 2
Mr. Brown's ch. c. D'Arcy, 4 yrs. . - - . 3
Mr. M. Jones's b. h. by Weaver, 5 yrs. . - - 4
A Sweepstakes of 201,,,5. each, for three old fillies, list. each ;
once round and a distance, did not fill.
Sixty Guineas (clear), the gift of the Members for the City, for
three year old colts fist. 01b. ; fillies, fist. 61b -; four year
old colts, list. 41b. ; fillies, list. Ilb. ; two mile heats.
Mr. Rogers's gr. c. Sir Edward, 4 yrs - - 1. 1
Mr. Maddy's ch. c. Silurian, 4 yrs - - 2 2
41 Anson 's br. e. by Sir Oliver, am. . - . 3 dr
Mr. Mytton's br. c. Libertine, by Filho da Puta, 3 yrs 4 ilr
Sir T. Stanley's b. f. by Cervantes, 4 yrs. - . idr
A Free Handicap of 30 sovereigns each, 10 sovereigns ft. tbr
three and four years olds; once round and a distance.
Mr. Houldsworth's b. c. by Filho da Puta, 3 yrs fist. 41b. . 1
Mr. Yate's ch. c. Mendax, by Soothsayer, 3 yrs fist. thlb. 2
Mr. Beardsworth's ch. c. Rossini, 4 yrs 7st. 121 b. , - 3
Sir T. Stanley's b. c. by Cervantes, 4 yrs 7st. 121 b. . 4
Sir W. W. Wynn's b. f. by emus, 3 yrs., fist. 21b. - fell.
The Cocking was equal at the end of Tuesday's fighting,
each party having won four mains and two bye-battles. .

The Totnes Races are fixed for the 2d of July. In addition
to the five and ten guinea stakes, there will be a Stewards': ;out
a Ladies' Cup.

TROTTING MATCHES.
Major R. GOUGH'S two matches took place yesterday, at
Ilinton-park, Surrey. They were for two hundred soVereings
each. The first match was to trot his Amazonian'mare three
miles in eleven minutes, and to carry feather weight. The first
mile was done in three minutes and thirty-five seconds, the
second in three minutes and thirty-eight seconds, and the third
in three minutes and forty seconds. The match was won by
seven seconds within the gsven time.
The second match was to trot a horse Lone fide his own prn.:
perty, sixteen miles in one hour, and carry eleven stone. The
match was done over a two-mile piece of ground.
MIN. SEC.
,bIIW. 81F.CL
Ist Two miles in - 6 40 Pith Two miles . 37-
2d -Ditto ditto . . t; 28. 7th Ditto ditto - . 7 411
3d Ditto ditto - . 6 42 Bthbitto ditto - - 8 40
4th Ditto ditto . 6 43
rith Ditto ditto . . 6 40
It Was a close run race,

and won with difficultys6 20.

THE M.

lIKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, ltaY 9.
The arrivals since Monday last are moderate : There is ft dull
Wheat trade to.day, and the prices are hardly so good as last
quoted.—ln Barley no alteration.—Beans sell slowly, as also
do Pease, at last quotation—Oats do not meet bows quite so
readily, but the prices are folly maintained.

SMITHFIELD 3IARKET, MAY 9.
The supply was rafter short this mor.iing, in consequence of
which, the prices of all deicrintions of Cattle were somewhat
higher than last Monday's market.
To sink the Offal, per stone' of Bib. 1
Beef is tki to 4s 441 Veal
Mutton 3s Od to 4s 4e. 1 Pork .... 3a tki to 4a Oil
Lamb ts: Ott to es Oil.
HAY AXD STRAW, PLIt LOAD.
Hay lOs to £4 Os j Clover £3 10s to £4144
Straw £2 10s to £2 14s.

The Dublin Catholic Meeting, on Mr °Tom-
Noa'a 'Motion, appointed a Committee to draw up an Addregs
to his illAJEsTir on the condition of the Irish Catholics, and a
resolution of thanks to Mr. Px.v)IKE T T, in order that they might
both be proposed to the Aggregate Meeting. •

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

;,,,Extracts from the Morning Pqersi May 9.

tiNEW TIMES.]
Consols opened yesterday at 79? i a, and closed
at. 791 4. Spanish' Bonds, too, which in the
course of the day had been at 381, closed at
371 i" The-se prices seem to. be owing entirely
to .the course of operations followed by the great,
speculators, without any political cause to in-
Ilttence the fluctuation. Some extensive sales
were effected by parties, who had previously ope-
rated for a• rise ; and this was enough to produce
the effect that we have noticed. The very idea
of any effectual opposition on the part of the
Spanish Jacobins seems to be scouted even by
2We Times. That Misleading Journal a 'few
months ago taught us to expect nothing but in-
stant annihilation to the French. Army from the
moment it touched the Spanish soil; but now it
turns round upon its deluded readers with the
'following pithy sentence :
" There Surely never was a war that made so little noise, or
was so little distini,mished by events, as this .prestnt war of
France, upon sain : it really bveomes almost ritlieulo4" !!!
la a few days we shall,' no doubt, find this same
Journal abusing the Spaniards by wholesale, as it
did the Neapolitans,aud calling thema set of worth-
less cowards and runaways; for such barefaced ter-
giversation costs The Times no effort; it is native to.
the 'element of shameless self-contradiction. As to
the war's not being distinguished by events : why
what events would The Times have ? In its own co-
lumns we find it stated that Saragossa was occupied
by Count Molitor, Valencia by Gen. Ulmann,
Valladolid by Merlnoond Palencia by Cuevilla
that the troops of Quesnda had advanced to
Armin de Duero ;' that no less. than eight thou-
sang Arragonese in arms had joined the second
French corps ; that Marshal Moncey had taken
possession of Roses, and occupied the city of
Figueras, blockading the citadel. On the other
hand, the Empecinado had been repulsed from
'Valladolid ; the garrison of Pampeluna, attempt-
ing a sally, had been driven back, with loss 4
Ballasteros had lost great part of his troops by
desertion, and was retiring precipitately with the
rest on Valencia, where his retreat would be
intercepted by the victorious Unman'); Mina,
had retired on Barcelona with a small body
of troops ; Morillo had not above two thousand
men under his command in Galicia,; and Abisbal
had encamped at the Pardo, two leagues from'
Madrid, with between two and three thousand
men. If by the events The Times means great
pitched battles, it is very probable that none will
occur in the whole course of the war ; for the
simple reason that the Jacobin faction will never
be able to bring a great army into the field.
They Want, as was candidly confeised by that
worthy patriot the Dulitl de San Lorenzo, those
two little requisites " Iron and Gold !"—By the
bye, we are happy to see that his Grace has the
good sense to stay comfortably in England.
When he first came hither,. The Times, or some
such foolish Journal, told us that his Grace only
took London in his way te the Spanish frontiers,
where he meant to meet the first invader of his
country, sword in hand.

[-r 'rlMl:s.]
We have received a letter from one who inti-
Mates his opinion, and supports it with argu-
mentsrthat the King's Ministers were not sincere
In their execration of the conduct of France.—
We hear, also, that the same opinion is fre-
quently professed in company, and we are there-
fore inclined to say a word or two respecting it.
There is, no doubt, then, that the different mem-
bers of the Administration hate the Bourbon pro-
ceedings with different degrees of hatred, in pro-
portion to their several talents, the goodness of
their hes its or the rectitude of their understandings.
Some fee; strong disgust,some lessoome so infinitely
little, that they could soon be induced to pass the
line, and become approvers of the invasion. It how-
ever appears to us that while the good cause has
the advantage of all their reprobation hurled upon
the bad one, we had better not ransack men's
minds too closely, but, to use a homely proverb,
" leave welt alone." If indeed, while they were
openly execrating the conduct of the Bourbons,
Ministers were secretly affording them help,
or even abetting them, by encouragement in
their flagitious enterprise, a just subject of
complaint would exist against them, and their
duplicity would excite universal abhorrence : but
hitherto even the imputations of their enemies
do not rise to this height. The French King, it
is said, in return for the abuse of British Mini-
sters, has leaded them, with praise : that would
be the prudent course on the part of his Majesty,
even if lie believed that their words and thoughts
coincided, and that they really detested his con-
duct as much as they say they detest it ; for,
whatever harm their present professions may do
bim, their future acts might do him much more,
it he were to biaton his dissatisfaction in crimi-
taatory lauguage.

EstoartiNG posT.] - •
That the reign of violence -and outrage in
Ireland should be prolonged and strengthened,
can no longer excite surprise, when we find that
language is hazarded, even in the British House
of Commons, proclaiming a community of feel-
ing with those desperate bands, who in that
country oppose brute force to the dominion
of the taw. The authority of a certain wise-
ruble popularity hunter, impotent as it is in this
country, light as it must be deemed when ad-
dressed to the minds of civilized and instructed
men, will probably have s Mlle influence when it
read-hes the haunts of the untaught savage, who,
woscious of sufering, and incapable of tracing
it to its causes, hesitates whether he shalt per-
severe in patience and in hope, or wreak his
blind and indiscriminate vengeance on all around
him. There ist we apprehend, no greater
error than that which ascribes the agitations
-and crimes by which Ireland has been so
-mach afflicted to the claims of the Established:
Church. This mistaken opinion has been pro-
pagated with so much industry, and zeal,
that it has produced a state of things which
easy easily be taken fora proof of its correctness.

Ecclesiastical burdens have been so long and so
loudly alledged as the cause of disturbance in
Ireland, that they have at length become the
ready apology and the convenient watchward
to every comlAation of lawless plunderers
and destroyers; which the imperfect organiza-
tion of society and the uncivilised state of man-
ners in many parts of the country have occasioned.
Whoever inquires what the sources of Church
Revenue in Ireland really are, will at once be
convinced, not only that the disturbances so
frequent and so fatal in that country do not
principally arise from pressure of this burden,
but that, in truth, the great mass of the people
are not immediately and directly affected by
it, and that it its entire removal would not
afford them any sensible relief. The Parochial
Clergy in Ireland, as in England, are generally
supported by tithe, and to tithe accordingly
those who devote themselves to the attack upon
every established institution ascribe the disorders
and calamities of the country. Tithe is not, how-
ever, it ought to be remembered, a tax upon the
,farmer or the peasant ; but is essentially a joint
proprietorship of land, under which the landlord
and the Church claim their respective legal pro-
portions of its produce. Whilst the Irish peasant
remains so ignorant of, or so indifferent to the
comforts of existence whilst, in other words,
he retains his present position in the scale of civi-
lization—he will farm his potatoe-garden, as he
now does, upon any terms that may afford to him
and his family the hope of an abject and miserable
subsistence. Suppose tithe should be at once and
entirely abolished,must he not know that his land-
lord would elaim,and that he would submit, to such
an increase of rent as would be fully equivalent to
it? What is it to him, w hateve r may be his religion,
since the question is in the long ruff merely one of
adjustment between the Church and the landlord,
which may obtain an advantage over the other in
the distribution of the surplus produce'? The Pro.
testant Clergyman has the same legal right to
his share of the produce fixed by law, as the
landlord has to his snare, which has been de»
termined with the acquiescence of the tenant
himself. Let the class, of society in Ireland,
which generally rents land, once know as well
what is due to-themselves, and be as capable- of
asserting it as that class of society in England,
and tithe will be no longer spoken of as a dis-
tinguishing and peculiar grievance ; let them
continue in their present dintlition of barbarity
nnd'ignorance, and the total abolition of tithe
would fail either to increase happiness, or to
promote tranquillity.

[IIIIITI9II PIIESA.i
We received yesterday by privatts-e*presss the
French Papers of Tuesday, with the Pilule and Etoile of that
evening. Our private letters state„ as a confirmed fact, that
Molitor, with a part of the second corps of the French army,
was suddenly attacked near Tudela by Ballasteros ; that a san-
guinary engagement ensued, in which Molitor was defeated,
and two French regiments cut 'to pieces; that Saragosa was in
consequence evacuated by the French ; and that Molitor had re-
treated in confusion to the head-quarters of Angouleme at Vit-
toria. This, if true, would be mostimpor tent news indeed, and our
Correspondent assures ue of its truth most confidently. It was'
circulated late in Paris on Tuesday, in the hest-informed circles;
and we cannot distrust it merely because it was not announced
to have reached the French Government by telegraph, or if it
did come by that convey:ince, was of course suppressed. The
very last papers from Bayonne differ materially from the ac.
counts in the Ultra Paris Journals of some days preceding ;
and the fact is, as we have often said, that no reliance can be
placed on two-thirds of the accounts of the French armies
or their movements, appearing under the controul of the French
Minister, in these papers. The Pilote of Wednesday states
the evacuation of Palencia and Valladolid by Morillo's troops ;
in the latter city not a single Spanish soldier remained. Val-
ladolid lies in Leon, near the Douro, 52 miles south-west of
Burgos and 05 north by west of Madrid. Palencia lies also in
Leon; it Is seated on the Carrien, 23 miles north-east of
Valladolid, and 70 south-east of Leon. The Pilate further
states, that the FrenCh soldiers wounded at Logrono had
arrived at, Tolosa. Nothing new had arrived from St. Sebas-
tian or Pampeluna. A defensive Council, composed of eight
persons, capable and worthy of confidence, were formed to as-
sist the Governor in Pampeluna, who was resolved to defend
the place to the last. The Army of the Faith was not recruited
with the facility expected ; not a single constitutional sol-
, tiler had quitted his ranks. The retreat of Morino from
Palencia and Valladolid, the Pilule states, must have
arisen from superior orders, and to be part of the plan of
the Spanish Campaign, which no one yet knows, but which
may easily be supposed. Letters from Perpignan, to the 29th
of April, state, that Count Curial had moved on Besalu, and
his head-quarters were established there on the 28th. Dames
had marched to Alfa ; Moncey had left Perlada on the 28th,
in the mornin, with his staff. The head-quarters of the
Freneh Marshal, it was imagined, would be established further
in advance, and that few troops would be left to blOckade
Figuerai. Letters from Bayonne still speak of all the accounts
from Paris as stating negocuttions between France and Spain
most probable. The Spanish Cortes, it is now said, have decided
on transferring the seat of government to Cadiz. The Etoile
announces, that at the moment they wrote, Amarante, who
was driven out of Portugal, and had entered Spain, must
have effected a junction with the French army at Palencia or
at Valladolid. If this fact be true, the Courier Francais
adds, war between France and Portugal is already declared.—
The Journal de Toulouse states, that an engagement said to
have taken place on the 26th April, at Calahera, between Moll-
tor and Balfaateros, was talked of, and that intelligence from
head-quarters was anxiously expected to know the details. The
same paper states, theta cannonade was heard duling the entire
of the 26th, in the direction of St. Sebastian.. If the latest accounts
front Vienna can be depended upon, Angouleme looks to his
entry into Madrid as the termination of his labours; there, ac-
cording to the communications of the Marquis de Caraman,
the French Ambassador to the Austrian Court, he is to esta-
blish a government in the name of Ferdinand. The Cortes is
to be re-established as heretofore, with the ancient constitution
of Spain, regard being had to times and circumstances. An
army is also to be formed in the magic name of Ferdinand,
which is to subdue Conch: and Andalusia, and bring about a
Spew order of things all through Spain. Dut-the Duke of An-
gouleme will discoVer, we fancy, that his calculations of a
peaceful sojourn at Madrid will be bitterly disappointed when
there, his toil's will be only commencing : (lallicia and Anda-
lusia will remain firmly attached to the Constitution, and he
will ultimately find Spain invincible, when thousands of his
troopps have fallen by theslimate and the sword, and France has
vainly expended millions of treasure in the attempt to subdue a
people, remarkable in all ages for their attaclunent to indepen-
dence, and now determined to be free.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We are not of the number of those who have
no praise but for the times that are past. We think, on the
contrary, the present time, on the whole, better than any for-
mer time. There are, for instance unquestionably a much
greater number of intelligent and enlightened men in this coun-
try now than it has evercontained at any former period. But
while we willingly admit the general superiority of the age,
we are not blind to its defects. There is, in particular, one
feature belonging to it which we cannot contemplate with sa-
tisfaction. We allude to the mental cowardice which pre-
vents men from giving expression to 'their conviction, and
the insincerity which leads them to express what they do
not think. A certain assembly has fully its share of this
want of singleness of heart and pusillanimity. No man
who knows any thing of the world can listen for any
length of time to the language used in the assembly in ques-
tion, without perceiving that the fear of offending in this
quarter, and the desire to please in that, rather than conscien-
tious conviction,, too often actuates the speakers.' There MO
certainly some distinguished exceptions, who scorn to sacrifice
,on the altar of timidity or machiavelism, and of these we think
Mr. Hume unquestionably one. The-unahrinking firmness
with which he grapples with the subjects that come before
hint, with Out turning to the right hand or the left, has in-
deed not been lost, either on the country or on the House.
We doubt, for instance, whether another Member or my stand-

ing in the Clouse could have been found to present and en-
force the petition from Mary Ann Carlile which he brought
forward some weeks ago, though the grounds on which he
supported that petition were such as to make a strong im.
pression on the House, and a still stronger on the country.
—But, taking counsel only froM his own conscience, being
actuated by a sincere desire to rescue that religion of
Which we deem him a sincere believer and friend, from the
odium which false or less judicious friends were throwing on
it, and listening to the counsel of the most eminent advocates
of Christianity, the most illustrious ornaments of the Church of
England, when its higher places were not deemed the almost
exclusiVe portion of the Nobility, he hesitated not to raise his
voice in favour of equal law and free discussion, which were
wounded in the case of this individual. Tee result proved, that'
it was a mere phantom,at whiebothershad taken fright, and the
advocates of persecution and of partiality -were found unequal to a
contest which only exposed them to ridicule.---Last night he pre-
sented a petition from R.Carlile,an ind iv idualwhom an injudicious
activity, has of late brought so much into notice. Alluding to
the prejudices against this man, he stated as the result of his
inquiries respecting him, that " he was one of the best moral
characters in England," that " his- reli,,ious opinion might
differ from that of some other persons, but that that did not
affect his moral character ; and he would dare any one to
contradict him, when he said that as a husband, as a father,
as head of a family, and as a neighbour, Mr. Carlile might
challenge calumny itself." This was cheered by the Mini-
sterial Benches, not probably because they who cheered knew
whether Carlile was a moral or immoral man, but because they
thought Mr. Hiime had g9t on ticklish ground, by allowing the
probability of a notorious infidel being moral. But we are not
to hold religion in less esteem, when we find that faith does
not uniformly produce good works, any more than we are to
deem it unnecessary to the support of morality, because we
find occasionally moral individuals without a due sense of
gion. "An unbeliever (says Bishop Sandeson), awed some-
times by the law of natural conscience, may manifest much
simplicity and integrity of heart; and the true child of Clod,
swayed sometimes with the law of sinful concupiscence, may
bewray much foul hypocrisie and infidelity." It is only in-
juring the cause of religion to attribute more either to it, or to
the absence of it, than is consistent with the truth ; and the
most respectable Christian writers, though they justly observe
that religion and honesty are most frequently found together,
are ready at the same time to allow that they are sometimes
found separate. We never, for instance, heard it questioned
that %Ir. Owen, of New Lanark, is a very moral man. On the
other hand, we have iloebts whether M. de Chateauhriand was
a much more honest Matt when he brought water from the
River Jordan for the baptism of the King of Rome, or is so even
now; that when " shocked at the abuse of some of the Institu-
tions of Christianity and at the vices of some of its professors,
he suffered himself to be inisled.by sophistry, and gave way to
declamation."

LMORNI,NO HERALD.)
The pause of Commons has shown no remiss.
ness in prosecuting the inquiry into the conduct of the Sheriff
of Dublin. There has been, perhaps, even more earnestness
than might have been expected, after the first edge of novelty
and curiosity. had passed away.- In any observation upon this
subject, jusnce and propriety demand that no observation
should be made upon the conduct of the Sheriff of Dublin,
or any •other party inculpated. Moreover, the judgment of
the 'louse upon the conduct bf individuals is not the prin-
cipal result to which those who have any regard for the
tranquillity of Ireland should look forward. The only be-
neficuil—permanently.
.beneficial, result would be, a car-
rec.tion and prevention -of abuses in the administration
of justice between the Crown and the subject—between
citizen and citizen, by altering anti amending the muni-
cipal constitution of Dublin. It is quite clear from the evi-
dence already given, that whilst the Corporation continues to
be animated with its present spirit, and armed with its present
powers, a fair' political trial is hardly to be expected. This
supposition does not imply positive bud faith and conscious
violation of duty in persons exercising corporate func-
tions in judicial matters. But is fairness to be expected
from persons whose judgments are distorted, and whose
passions are envenomed, by religious and political preju-
dice ? Some of the questions put during the examina-
tions *ere of an entertaining simplicity, from the answers
which they drew forth, and the camelion contrast of colours
under which the political opinions of the same persons appear-
ed to different observers. The' same transaction presents
the same difference of complekion. In some instances indivi-
duals themselves were asked to state the precise temperature
of their political blood. The answers remind one of Sir
Anthony Ahaolute, who held himself out as an example of
calm temper. Then, as to the manner in which the Jury was
formed, in one man's estimation, nothing could be more
proper. They were selected for the soundness of their prin-
ciples, and the knowledge of their sharacters. Ask another
to view the same identical transaction, and he tells you it
was a palpable packing of the Jury : anti both, perhaps, speak
with a sort of conscientious regard for trutl4 It has been ob-
served, we believe, by. Mr. Godwin, that impartiality is a virtue
placed too high for the reach of man. If this were true no
where else in the world, it would be true in Dublin, where
there is so muchpolitical anti religions animosity. What, then,
is the course obviously to be pursued ? Nothing Is more
obvious and simple:—bigotry should be deprived of the power
which it abuses, and must abuse, from its nature. This very
Inquiry, as far as it has gone, gives sufficient evidence that'
the Corporation of Dublin is .liadly constituted, and in-
vested with a monstrous extent of patronage and power.
—lt is a nest of jobbing and management. In all but
the elections, it wields the sceptre over the people of Dublin.
—lt would be a great mistake to suppose that the corporate
body in. Dublin might be intrusted with the same power
over the interests of the inhabitants as in London. Both
may be constituted from the same classes of society; but what
a difference between the one and the other.—ln this great capi-
tal, men engaged in the pursuits of laborious industry have
their minds unirnbittered by religious division—enlarged by an
extensive scale of trade ; and though divided by political opi-
nion, 3,et generally incapable of any dangerous or unprincipled
bias, from the enlightened andeonipreliensiVe sense which they
entertain of political and public rights.—ln Dublin it is abso-
lutely the reverse.—ln fine, the Corporation of Dublin snould
be clipped of some of its powers, and rendered less the mono-
poly, or the nursery of mere party._ lee of its greatest vices is
the power of perpetuating its own spirit, by its exclusively and
intolerant constitution.