The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-15 00:00:00

RACING ORACLE.

We were right in our prognostications about Eringo
No horse can be absolutely stationary during an eighl
weeks' frost, unless there is money in the market to back
him. Launcelot, it memory serves me, was reported to
have a curb or an enlarged hock about this time last
year, and he immediately rose from 22 to 14 to 1. It
is singular that curbs should be so popular at Tatter,
sail's, for evidently to this (may we write) defect must
be attributed the rise of Eringo. This horse on Mon-
day, for a moment, resumed the position he occupied in
the Houghton Meeting, that of first favourite. A good
judge, living at Newmarket, writes that his action is si-
milar to that exhibited by the Dey of Algiers when in
training for the same great race—all powerful behind.
He will not, of course, run for all his engagements. The
Rosalie colt seems to stick at 14 to 1 : if he had any
title to that price in November, he ought to be now at
10 to 1 taken. Coronation has a host of enemies, in
consequence, of his very moderate performance with St.
Cloud, at Warwick, as if that could possibly be his form.
He is also kept back from an idea that he will come
out at the Spring Meeting there on Wednesday,
being entered in th Trial Stakes, as well as the fol-
lowing Derby horses :—Hampton, St. Botolph, Protee-
tio,andT
The Star (not Morning Star). Three of
these have never been in the betting, but this does not
prove them to be good for nothing : we must again
refer to the Melody colt. Strange things happen in
racing, but we shall not believe, until we have seen it,
that Mr. Rawlinson, who we have reason to know has
backed his horse heavily for the Derby, will run him
for a miserable 100 pounds at Warwick. Marshal
Soult and Knight of the Whistle are making a good
race, their mutual frier's are so powerful, and con-
sidered so influential, that the devil himself would be
bothered to sly which will see ten to one taken : certes
both will not ; certer, one will. Lord Albemarle's
horse Ralph, like the fox entering his hole, is reported
to go backwards ; not so his rider, who continuing his
straightforward course lights on his head, or other parts,
as the gods may determine ; the performance of Ralph
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When I see Galdor quoted at 40 to 1, I cannot help
remembering a certain horse called Prince Albert, a
favourite at 33 to 1 last winter, the latter was not worth
a groat ; I believe the former comes f: om the same
neighbourhood, but he has never been out.
The Derby betting is entirely uninfluenced by the
ts
appears were
country racer. St. Botolph was beat easily ; never
backed, he of course never will be.
Great operations being usually reserved for the
Sir devoid of interest,
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remember the latter was backed to win a stake of mo-
ti-cd—Mr. King's Hambleton ; a
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odds, averaging Stare
an
ra Gilbert is beating a retreat ;
ging 25 to 1, last autumn. Some
party must stand money on him—query, who ? . A new
outsider was oleooiad
finer colt hai never been seen, but he is not in a Derby
stable.
Warwick Spring Meeting takes place on Wednesday.
March 12. JUDEX.
—Morning Post.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The Queen
was Early in her attendance on Saturday night, in order to
hear the whole of Cimarosa's beautiful music to Gli Orazii
i Curiazii. Her Majesty, in this instance, as in many
others, sets an example it would be well to follow, but
which was not followed by the major part of the
audience. The house was not nearly full until a late hour,
and during the whole evening the pit did not present by
any means a crowded appearance. The opera was beauti-
fully sung, teking it as a whole. Madame Vi
dot was in fine voice, and the other performers went through
their parts with good effect. The ballet requires improve-
meat.
S

ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING IN

HULME.

A crowded public meeting, for the purpose of consi-
dering the tendency of the Corn and Provision-laws,
was held at the Shakspeare Inn, York-street, Hulme,
on Wednesday evening, the proceedings at which were
of a very interesting character. Mr. Naylor was called
to the chair, and in the course of his opening address
expressed his conviction that unless some alteration was
made in the Corn and Provision-laws it would be im-
possible that the commerce of this country could escape
utter ruin. The aristocracy—the great landowners—
had the opportunity- when in difficulties of leaving their
estates in charge of-stewards, and going to the Cont-
inent to retrench and economise. Now why shoull
not we, when in similar difficulties, be enabled to re-
trench also? It was true we could not, like them, go
to the Continent ; but why should not these laws le
altered, so that we might be able to get cheaper food ?
Mr. JOHN BROOKS then addressed the mce-ing on
the injustice of &lowing protection to one portion of
the community at the expense of the other, and pro-
ceeded to show the injurious effects on our commerce
of refusing to take the corn of other countries, who
have nothing else to give, in exchange for our manu-
factures, while the people were actually starving for
want of it.

At the conclusion of Mr. Brooks' addrese, a work-
ing man referred to a statement he had made on the
effects of a depressed trade brought on by these Corn-
laws in throwing men out of work, and asked him
whether be thought it was want of trade that threw
spinners out of work, or the double-deckers and self-
acing mules?

Mr. BatooKs replied that it certainly was not ma-
chinery, -for were we not able. to keep in advance of
our neighbours on the Continent by our invention as
well as industry, labouring, as we did, under the dis-
advantages of dearer food, there would soon be no em-
ployment for the people, either as double-deckers or
anything else. Machines were like race-horses, unless
the breed were improvsd, the competition of foreign
breeders would soon give us the go-bye.—(Appl tuse.)
Mr. Wst. RAWSON said Mr. Brooks' figure of the
race-horse was an excellent idea, and, carried out a
little further, it illustrated admirably our position with
regard to the Corn and Provision-laws, for we stood in
the position of having strained oar ingenuity to the
utmost to improve the breed, while we had entirely
overlooked one very important circumstance to the
race—the weight of the rider !—(Applause)—and
while our competitors were almost equallting us in the
mettle of the horse, we were actually, by the opera-
tion of the Corn and Provision-laws, riding ten stone
to their five.—(Great appla'ise.) Mr. Rawson went
on to show the disadvantages of not improving ma-
chinery by reference to the cotton hosiery trade, where
the machinery now in use had remained unimproved
for nearly two hundred years, and the Saxon, having
the advantage of the same machine with workmen
living on cheaper food, was thus enabled to cut us out
of all our foreign markets, to the entire ruin of the
trade.

A Chartist (who was present) said Mr. Rawson had
made use of an expression about producing " a
right order of things." He wished to know if the re-
peal of the Corn-laws would produce that order of
things ?—if not, it was not worth struggling for, and
they ought to go for the Charter at once.
Mr. RAWSON replied that the evils of legislation
might be likened to a bundle of sticks—the Corn-law
Repealers were for breaking them one at a time, taking
the thickest in the bundle first. The Chartists wanted
to do an impossibility—they wanted to break the whole
bundle at once.—(Applause.)
Mr. COBDEN next addressed the meeting in a mas-

terly speech, showing the importance of this question
to the working classes, who, he said, unless the Corn
and Provision-laws were repealed, however they might
increase in numbers (and they were increasing at 1,000
per day), if stinted as at the present to the produce of
the soil till food arrived at famine prices, would be re-
duced to a worse condition than the Irish. In refer-
ence to the question of machinery, he said it was a re-
markable fact that at the time Adam Smith was writ

ing his celebrated work on political economy, Watt, who

invented the steam engine, was a mathematical instru-
ment maker at Glasgow. Watt then perfected that
mighty machine the steam engine, which was now in
another form traversing the vast expanse of the Atlan-
tic ; it was taken up with the usual energy and inge-
nuity of Englishmen, and applied to every description
of manufacture, and no cou..try bad been able to out-
strip us to this day in the rate of improvements conse-
quent upon it, and yet here were our working popula-
tion starving and miserable for want of employment I
There must be_something wrong.—(Hear, hear.)

What was it ? The reason was, that while our mand-
facturers and capitalists took up the invention of Watt,
our legislators did not take up the laws laid down at
the same time by that other great master-mind, Adam
Smith, for the guidance of commerce!—(Great ap-
plause.) if the produce of our millions of population,
with all the aid, and ten times the aid, they derived in
multiplying that produce by means of machinery, had
been distributed by right laws—the laws laid down for
commerce by Adam Smith—the working classes to this
day would have been in full employment—and more
than that, in the enjoyment of a fair remuneration for
their labour. It was impossible by any powers of pro-
duction, whether by machinery or increase of popula-
tion, to' make the necessaries of life, whether of fond

or clothing, too plentiful, if they were but properly
distributed.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Cobden exposed
the fallacy of cheap food producing low wages, and con-
cluded an admirable speech, of near an hour's length,
amidst greeat cheering, and the meeting separated, ap-
parently highly gratified.—Marichester Times.

DOES the MIND ALWAYS THINK,

Mr. Locke's arguments in respect to this subject are
the following :—That during sleep we are not conscious
of thotight ; that the mind is always active, even with-
out our knowledge ; that we have no ideas but those
derived from sensation and reflection ; that no one can
know whether a person thinks in his sleep except
himself. •

A writer in the Providence Journal cites the follow-
ing facts, recorded by President Dwight, of Yale Col-
lege, to prove, in opposition to Locke's theory, that a
man may walk in his sleep without knowing it ; and
another man m e e him walking, and doing other
things which involve thought, and thus ascertain to a
certainty that the sleeper thinks, while he himself is un-
conscious of it.

A physician in Lambertewn, N. J., found to his
great surprise, on waking one morning, that he was
`without a shirt ; and was unable to discover any
trace of it after searching his room. Having dressed
himself and made particular inquiries, he was
obliged to remain in doubt with regard to the cause
of this singular occurrence. On the following morn-
ing, however, he found himself in a similar predicament,
and was obliged to furnish himself as before, without
the power of making a discovers'. The same thing hap-
pened the three foliowing days ; so that five of his
shirts had, at last, mysteriously disappeared. The mat-
ter had now become so wonderful, that his brother de-
termined to sleep with him, and ascertain, if possible,
the cause of it. In the night, the physician rose from
his bed, without speaking, and left the room. His
brother, who was on the watch, hurried en a few clothes
and followed him, The former took his way towards
the Delaware, where on his arrival he prepared to
bathe ; and placing his shirt in a hole, leaped into the
water. After swimming for some time, be regained the
shore, proceeded homeward, without stopping for his
garment, and went to bed. Tho brother followed, be-
ing convinced he was asleep, and took his place again
beside him in bed without waking him. The next day
on examining the hole on the river's bank, the six shirts
were found, where their owner had deposited them, un-
unconscious, or forgetful of every thing he had done.
In another case there was still greater evidence of
thought during sleep, of which the agent was equally
ignorant. A shoemaker's wife was one night awakened
by her husband's arising in his sleep, and preaching a
sermon of some length. At the close of it he gave no-
tice that, on the following evening, he should deliver
another discourse ; and this he did with such gravity,
that she invited several of her neighbours to attend.
They came on the evening appointed, and were gratified
with his sermon, as we 1 as with the renewal of the ap.
pointmeht on tha next Thursday evening, which he an-
nounced as before. Thus he continued to preach once
a week, and in a manner which his audience were gra-
tified with, until the secret was accidentally divulged
to him, and that put an end to it. The probability is,
that this man could not have formed a sermon in his
waking hours.
An eminent lawyer once told me, that, having a diffi-
cult case to argue, after having devised several different
methods for managing it, he dreamt out one at night,
which on the following morning he recollected, and pre-
ferred to the others so much, that he adopted it in
Court.
The imagination is undoubtedly stronger during
sleep than when we arc awake. While I lived at
Northampton, I was engaged for a time to supply a
winter society, as it is called—that is, an assembly
meeting for public worship—in a part of the town at a
distance from the church. One night I dreamt of
preaching to them, and chose rather a singular text. It
was this—'• Then answered the High Priest, yc know
nothing at all." When I awoke, I remembered the
whole of the sermon, and it was of such a nature that I
determined to write it.—New York paper.

ACCIDENT.—An accident of an alarming na-
ture occurred to Earl FitziAilliarn and his two sons ( Lord
Milton and tie Hon. G. Fitzwiliiam), on W,itincsday af-
ternoon. The Noble Lord and his sons were returning to
Milton House, near Peterborough, in a four-in-hand,
after meeting the hounds at Trapstenr, when a dog
rushed out of a house on the road side, and stized one of
the leaders. The horses wore dreadfully fri,glitei cd, and
became so unmanageable that the coach was overturned ;
but we are happy to say, none of the gentlemen received
any injury.

MEHEMET ALI AND THE SULTAN.

(From the Examiner.)

On Friday night some questions were put to Lord
Palmerston by Lord F. Egerton, Sir R. Peel, and Lord
Sandon, the drift of which was to ascertain whether
the conditions offered to Mehemet Ali had been com-
municated to Lord Ponsonby before the firman was is-
sued, and whether he had approved of them or remon-
strated against them. As usual Lord Palmerston would
not tell, all that could be got from him was the declara-
tion that it was the desire of the Four Purvers that the
Government of Env should be bona fide granted he•
reditarily, but his understanding of the hatti scheriff is—

" That it was intended to reserve to the Sultan the
sovereign right which must belong to him—to confer the
Government of Egypt, and not to evade the bona fide
execution of the previous arrangement, or to set aside
those successors who would be naturally looked upon as
the descendants of Mehemet Ali.— (Cheers)."
We confess our inability to comprehend the mean-
ing of this. It reminds us of the responses of Lord Cas-
tlereagh.
If any inference as to the views of Lord Palmer-
ston is to he drawn from the opinions of the Morn-
ing Chronicle, we should conclude that the conditions
imposed on Mehemet have the full approval of Lord
Pa'merston ; nay, more, we should be disposed to sus
pect, from the partiality exhibited, that his Lordship
stood in the rclation of a parent to the firman. For
one bold example, as to the hereditary government, the
Chronicle says—
" It is said that the conditions of the hatti scheriff
are a violation of the conditions, sanctioned by England,
upon which the Pacha made his submission to the
Porte. In what does this violation consist? The re-
stric*on proposed to be placed upon the hereditary'
grant. Do those who urge this complaint forget that.
in Admiral Stopford's convention no mention whatever
was made of the hereditary' succession ? The Pacha
complained of the omission—but still submitted uncon•
ditionally, trusting to the good offices of the Powers,
and the generosity of his master. There may be harsh-
ness—there may be impolicy—but there certainly is
no breach of faith in not giving all the Pacha expects,
when in matter of fact he was not promised anything."
In effect, then, we have tricked the Pacha, and
having induced him to surrender the Turkish fleet, we
are to te'l him that we never promised him what he ex-
pected in return.
The words were " not in the bond" it may be true,
but. in treating with a fallen foe a great nation does not
read its engagements like a pettifogging attorney, but
equitably observes the implied as well as the stipulated.
_ _ _

And if Lord Palmerston takes his stand on the Con-
vent;on of Admiral Stopford with the strictness of Shy-
lock's adherence to his bond, he has to observe that if
we are not pledged to procure or to recommend the he-
reditary grant., we are pledged to maintain Mehemet Ali
in the Pachalic of Syria—a strong engagement, and one
committing us to support Mehemet AR without any re-
servation saving the Sultat;',s rights.
It is to be remembered that Commodore Napier's
Convention promised the hereditary government, and
that Commodore Napier's Convention was notoriously
approved by Lord Palmerston ; in the Admiral's Con-
vention no engagement as to the hereditary government
was made, and the Admiral was only blamed for his
officiousness in annulling the more favourable arrange-
ment.