The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-13 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER--FILIDAY EVENING.
Fitzroy, we understood, was laid against twice, at 1,000 to
15, for the interesting race of Wednesday. The horses most
in force were Broadwath, Orelia, Sleight-of-Hand, Bolus, and
Retriever. We did not hear either the Doctor or Cruiskeen
mentioned; our quotations must, therefore, be considered as
nominal. It would appear, that the position Sleight-of-Hand
is placed in a Newmarket has acted as an impetus, for few
were disposed to offer a fraction beyond 100 to S ; his stable
companion with 81b. extra, although a " Lord Mayor," had
not a follower ; we should think 25 to I would have been wil-
lingly laid; 5 to 1 was offered against the " Irish division ;"
and 7to 1 very freely, bar the son of Recovery. The prices
must be expected to vary every hour, or as often as the trains
reach, which may bring the Liverpool betting. From private
letters, we have every reason to suppose it will be a very ex-
cellent meeting. The ground is in the best order.

TILE LIVERPOOL CUP.
4i to 1 agst Mr. Parkins's Broadwath
9 to 1 agst Mr. Allen's Orelia
12 to 1 agst Major Hay's Retriever—taken
13 to 1 Lord Grosvenor's Sleight-of-hand—taken
14 to 1 agst Mr. Me,klam's Modesty
15 to 1 agst Fulwar Craven's Deception—off.
20 to 1 agst Lord Miltown's C -uiskeen
22 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Lord Mayor—lake
25 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Charles XII
25 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsay's The Doctor
25 to 1 agst Mr. Mestyn's Trustee
25 to 1 agst Mr. Wormald's Bolus
25 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Sampson—off.
33 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's St. Bennett—off
33 to 1 agst Mr. Knox's George—off.
33 to I agst Mr. Graydon's Roscius
100 to 1 agst Mr. Tren's Fitzroy—off.
The field versus four.
GOODWOOD CUP.
5 to 1 agst Lanercost—then offered
8 to 1 agst Deception—taken
9 to 1 agst Romulus—taken, and
11 to 1 agst Harkaway—taken

THE LATE MR. WARDE, THE ACTOR.—Mr.
James Warde, whose real name was Prescott, the son of an
officer of high rank in the British army, thought fit, when he
first took to the stage, to assume the name of Warde. He was
born in 1792, and having received a liberal education, his father
obtained for him a commission, the half-pay of which he con-
tinued to enjoy, at all events, until the year 1825, about which
date, we believe, he sold it. He never reached a higher rank
than that of lieutenant of artillery. He evinced a youthful
theatrical propensity, and early in life went upon the stage in
the provinces, but he did not appear in London until his 26th
year, when he played Leon, in " Rule a Wife and have a Wife "
at the Haymarket. He afterwards became a considerable favour-
ite with the town, and although never entitlei from his talent
permanently to represent the very highest characters of the
drama, for one season he filled the place of principal tragedian
at Covent-garden. He was always more than respectab!e,
and his Macbeth had many ardent admirers, and was thought
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mund Kean slid it well only in portions ; Charles Kernble
spoiled and equalised it to mediocrity by attempting to render
it too entire, and Macready (with all deference be it spoken) can-
not prevail upon London audiences to adopt his notion and per-
sonation of the character. Of Charles Kean we say nothing
now, because he is, as it were, upon trial in the stupendous task.
WardeC was good by not endeavouring to do too much, and by
refraining from exaggerating errors where he knew he could
not accomplish excellencies. He expired on Thursday last,
after a long illness ; and as his life, since be came on the boards
v,as one of struggle against pecuniary difficulties, partly occa-
sioned by want of ordinary prudence, we fear that his circum-
stances, at the time of his decease, were far from easy. At
one period he obtained a weekly salary of 171., and while en-
gaged in the metropolis, we believehe was never paid less than
eight guineas.per week.— Observer.
SURREY YEONIANRY.—The usual prize (an
elegant sword) awarded by the colonel and officers of the
Surrey Yeomanry Cavalry to the best swordsman in the regi-
ment, gained this year by Mr. Charles Wagliorn, of Ewell.
t, was
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lion of Grenadier Guards, who hail been tried for disobedience
of orders in not attending di ill, &c. was marched into the mid-
dle of a square formed at the Wt•lllugtott loarraa, St. James's
Park, when the sentence of the Gault Martial was read. ahieli
cwideinned him to one hundied lashes. The man was imme-
diately tied up and received the whole number.

(FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.)
(From the Morning Chronicle )
The withdrawal of Lord Stanley's bill may be looked
upon as the signal for the cessation cf further hostilities for
the session on the part of the Tories, and the postpone-
ment, until some more favourable period, of the system of
▪ ' " obstruction," every expedient of which bad been inef-
fectually exhausted. Curiously enough, this public mani-
festo of the inability of the Tories to wrest the reins of
' government from the hands of their cppenents, was ushered
cinalled up
by aneolnabo:r.ateforarmtiele rnof
ctdbmeinTisitariaesti,onattteom-mptoirnrgowto,
doex-
plain away the fact that ministers had a " clear, decided,
and unquestionable majority" in the House of Com-
mons, and to show that Sir Robert Peel could, if
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so with a perfect certainty of being adequately sup-
s ported--" in the first place, even by a majority of the
• present House of Commons, but still more ceitainly,
and much more decidedly, by those who elect the House
of Commons, by the various constitueacies of the empire."
Is it possible that there can be a class of country squires
so blind and besotted, or a class of country parsons so pre•
judiced and ignorant, as to make it worth while for an in-
' fluential joernal of the " great Conservative party" to cater
for their entertainment fictions which, to every man of
ordinary sense and informetion, must appear in the last
degree puerile and ridiculou'? fray', if our assertion is
false that Ministers have " a clear, decided, unquestionable
majority" in the House cf Commons, how is it that they
arc in power et the present moment ? Is it from any for-
bearance on the part of their opponents? Is it from any
lack of will on the part of Sir R. Peel and his followers to
trip up the heels of the present Government, if they could
only find or make the opportunity—from any retiring
modesty, or any reluctance on the part of such distinguished
Statesmen as Messrs. Herries and Holmes to assume the
responsibility of office ? Let Sir James Graham's motion
on the China question answer.
(From the Times.)
The Canada (so called) " Union" proceeds in the
House of Lords with tolerable celerity towards its parch-
ment consummation, which now, we take far granted, will
be the passing of the Bill—yes, its consummation, so far as
parchment gee s. An Act of Parliament is as easily manu-
factured as a Privy Councillor or a Peer of the realm. But
to enforce such an Act—to give it efficacy—to insure the
obedience of the subject—to make a parchment union a
substantial union, practically binding on the nation, and a
real guarantee for the efficacious working of its own pro-
visions—that is a matter which must depend on powers
extrinsic to the Act itself—namely, on the suitable-
ness of the measure to the condition, the interests,'
and feelings of the country for which it is intended ;
or, in other words, on the predominant will and spirit of
the Canadian people. Rapid as may be, therefore, the
Parliamentary progress of this very doubtful Bill, there is
nothing done towards its practical execution or enforce-
ment until we shall have assured ourselves what sort of
entertainment it is calculated to receive at the hands of
the colonial subjects of Great Britain. Amongst, how-
ever, the objections to the Bill which have proceeded from
Noble Lords in Parliament, we must in justice to our own
feelings declare, that those which have been put forwa-d
by one of the ablest and most autheritative members of that
assembly—we mean Lord Ellenborongh—do not command
our concurrence. The Noble Baron appears to be more
aggi ieved by what he considers the injustice done to Lower
Canada than by any other vices in the whole measure.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
The approaching close of the Session brings with it, as
usual, the standing Conservative imputation of being bar-
ren of results—an imputation in which we feel it to be a
matter of conscience to cffsr a few words. The Tories,
taking advantage of their own wrong, in befft'ng the
Canada Government Bill, and the Irish Munic pal Bill
(through the medium of their organs, the Times, Courier,
and Standard), accuse the Ministers of " doing nothing :"
that is to say, they accuse the men whom they endeavour to
render incapable of carrying good measures, of being n in.
capable." A pickpocket, who steals a watch, might after-
wards as vi ell accuse the victim of riot possessing one. To
the taunting phrase of an incapable Gucernnat nt, insulted
truth' justly replies—the measures ec see r ffeen d by
this incapable Government are such as no Tory Ae'e
ministration ever felt *elf endowed with the vigour
and the courage to propose :—The English nluilicipal
Bill—the English Tithe Bill—The An=essment of Irish
Tithes—the Irish Poor Law—(a still more difficult gees-
lion than the Englisb)—the Abolition of the Imprisonment
for Debt by Mesne Piocess. The Englieh Registration
Bill may also be added. Those Ministers whose heeds are
said to be so weak, have shortened, by no sriy two years,
the noviciate of African liberty; they have struck a deadly.
blow at the slave trade of other couetries ; they have pre-
pared new paths for commercial enteeprise in Turkey and
in Russia ; they have commenced for literature neget is-
tions for the greatest boon it can receive—aa international
law of copyright ; they have established the great principle
of popular education, without exclusion of religious differ-
ences ; and they have passed a measure obtaininq.for every
' class of the people, the commercial, literary, and social
benefits arising from the cheapest possible intercourse by
correspondence—preceding, in this, the most vigorous and
most populous states in the world.
(From the Morning Post.)
It appears to us that Ministers made a very shabby figure
the other evening upon Mr. Tom Duncombe's motion
' respecting the punishment of political offenders. We
think it was hardly right of the Conservatives to let them
off so easily upon that occasion. Mr. Hume, who, unlike
his patron, Mr. O'Connell, sometimes speeks the truth,
blurted out, in his random way, by far the most genuine,
unsophisticated, and pithy observation upon Ministerial
conduct which the whole debate afforded. Speaking of the
way in which the seditious agitators have of late been
treated, Mr. Hume said that "the conduct of the Noble
Lord (Lord J. Russell) was most ungrateful, for he had
risen to office by those means which he now condemned;
%hen out of office he had been brought back by
them, and perhaps might be very willing to avail himself
of them again, if he were out of office." We hold this to
have been a most just rebuke, and we wish we bad to re-
cord it as having fallen from some gentleman of influence
on the Conservative side of the House. We are very sen-
sible of the good services of these gentlemen upon many
important occasions; hut we must take the liberty of say-
ing that they are but too patient with the pompous hypo-
crisy which is so often and so cffensively displayed from
the Ministerial benches. We da not see why the Conser-
vatives, while asserting the propriety and necessity of
punishing political offenders, should refrain from dwelling
upon the shameful inconsistency and cruelty of thcse pseudo
statesmen, who climbed into power by the encouragement
of such crimes as they are visiting with unusual harshness
of punishment. _

(From the Morning Herald.)
Since the day that Chief Justice Tindal made a judicial
request that the press should observe a profound silence
on the exec of Edward Oxford, until it should have been
prcnounced upon by the verdict of a jury, we have ab-
stained from writing one word on the subject. Not se
some of the Government journals, which, having their vile
party purposes to serve, cared net how the facts of a case
on the eve of trial might be falsified, and the interests of
justice tainted. But the case has now Leen fully beard in
a Court of Criminal Law, presided over by three of the
Queen's Judge's. All the proofs of crime that could bo
brought against the person accused of a treasonable and
deliberate attempt to assassinate the Queen were adduced,
and their applicability to the guilt of the prisoner enforced
by the zeal, ingenuity, legal acumen, and eloquence
of the eminent lawyers who fill the h;gh effices
of Attorney and Solicitor General, aided by the no less
distinguished talents of the conservative ex-Attorney-
General Sir Frederick Pollock, and the experienced ability
of Mr. Adolphus in the practice of criminal courts. And
what has been the result ? The conviction of the prisoner
for the crime of political association? No. The estab•
li-Imcnt of the exiszence of a deep-laid conspiracy of which
the atrocious assassin," as he was generally called, was
the desperate agent? No. The judicial confirmatien of
O'Connell's " Orange plot " to alter the succession to the
throne? No. The result of the trial has dissipated into
thin air all the monstrous fabrications of the Downing-
street and O'Connellite press. No person in this country
ever went to trial on a charge affecting his life, and calcu-
lated to render his memory odious for ever, under a heavier
weight of pre-judgment than the boy Oxford. His life
was indeed nearly hunted down as a political sacrifice
before he was brought to trial at all.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

(SATURDAY EVENING)
TIME S —Concessions on the part of the Bank of Eng-
land seem to be the order of the day. Two of the joint-
stock banks in the City, the London and the Union, have
been permitted to open a drawing account. They have
also resolved to allow parties who keep accounts with them
to discount bills, and for sums smaller than heret9fore
permitted in their practice. The latter alteration is bor-
rowed apparently from the mode of transacting business
by the Bank of France. These are changes of some mo-
ment in themselves, as giving increased facilities to the
Government ; and it may be received as a tolerably sure
indication when the Bank of England condescends to
court popularity, that very sound and good reasons exist
for it, which can scarcely be other, in its present position,
than that the Directors do not feel perfectly at their ease
in regard to the inquiry going on into the administration
of their affairs in times past.
HER ALD —The high and advancing prices of Sugar
arising from deficient crops in the West Indies and short
stocks of colonially grown at home, will shortly render it
both expedient and profitable to take foreign sugars out of
bond for home consumption even on payment of the high
duty of 635. with the new surcharge of 5 per cent. A
good deal of excitement was caused in the City by the
seizure of a parcel of white (claycd) Havanas landed
from a Spanish ship direct, and entered for home con-
sumption at the commencement of last week. The
Custom-house officers pretended that as " white" it
came under the description of "refined" sugar, the
duties on which are prohibitory. It is however suffi-
ciently notorious that this description c.f sugars were
never so construed before; and moreover that there
is
not one single refinery establishment for sugar in the
whole island of Cuba. These white sugars are made by
one and the same process and at the same time as the
brown sugars of the same island, as is well known in the
Boardly o
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trade and among all merchants trading with that country.
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which is extremely leisurely in the performance of its
functions, but in the meantime it will be a source of trekble
and annoyance to those interested, as well as of some ex-
pense, for when leave is obtained to amend the entry, as
it is called, a "satisfaction fee" has to be paid to the
officers for the sezure, although that seizure was wrongful
and should be declared illegal. The Board in fact ought
to make compensation for the damage inflicted by en un-
justifiable seizure on the merchant. As it is the " sr.tis-
faction fee" is in many respects a temptation to the officers
to exceed their duty.

DOVER, JULY 12.--Their Royal Highnesses
the DuLo an,i Duch,ss of I\scolours are expre.ed to arrive e.
Boulo;ne this evening, and to embark to-roorrew morning fur
ofiver, so that. they will probably reach London to-morrow
evening or Titeaday morning.