The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-28 00:00:00

THE GOODWOOD STAKES.

7 to 2 agst Lord Eglinton's Dr. Caius, Bst'2lb—t
8 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Exit, Est 111 b—off
8 to 1 agst Mr. Smith's The Maid, Est 111 b—t
8 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Welfare, Bst 71b—off
8 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Henri Quatre, 9st
41b—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. Goodman's Orelia, Bst 81b
10 to 1 agst Mr. Jones's Portrait, Est 71b—taken
11 to 1 agst Mr. Gardnor's Monops, 7st 21b
15 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Confusionee, Bst—
taken and then offered
15 to 1 agst Bosphorus—lfered
50 to 10 against Orelia and the Maid, taken. Henri
was at first laid against at 10 to 1. We did not bear
Isabella and one or two others in the South bettings
named. Dr. Caius, Henri, The Maid, and Portrait were
most in demand. Offers to take 30 to 1 Dr. Caius wins
this event and the cup.
THE GOODWOOD CUP.—Maroon was offered against
yesterday at 12 to 1, at night two points less were takes,
but 8 to 1 was snapped in a good channel at the opening
of business at noon ; a point less would have been taken
since. Charles was backed in scores at our price, and
may be considered on a par with Pocahontas. Offers
during the evening to lay 5 to 4 three beat the field.
The field against any two freely offered.
7to 2 agst Mr. Greatorex's Pocahontas, 7st 111 b—t. 4to 1
4 to 1 agst Mr. Johnstone's Charles XII., Bst 131 b— t.
7 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Maroon, Bst 51b—taken
8 to 1 agst Duke of Orleans's Nautilus, Est 121 b.—offered
8 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Colwick, Bst 31b—offered
Vapour was named, but no price transpired. • None
of the other Goodwood events were touched upon to re-
quire comment.

BADEN, JULY 18.—The Grand Duke gave
an audience to-day to a deputation of the Second Cham-
ber, which waited on him with the sanction of the two
Chambers, to the Project of law for the prolongation of
the Customs' Union. His .Highness, in answer to Dr.
Bader, the spokesman of the deputation, said, " I had
no doubt that the two Chambers would unanimously
agree to this proposal ; they are certain of my approba-
tion whenever they study the true interest of the coun-
try. I am convinced that our participation in the Custom-
house will, in the result, be of very great advantage to
my subjects."

A. GENUINE PATRIOT AND PO.

LITICIAN.

With candour in his heart, truth on his lips, and ho-
nour in his eye, no opponent could dispute his words, no
supporter distrust his designs. The great mission of his
calling, the advancement of justice, morality, and civili
zation, would demand none but the most simple as well
as the most honourable measures, for purity of motives
presupposes purity of means. His ambition would be to
found an empire of superior intelligence and happiness ;
to dispel error would be his particular talent, and at his
approach, cunning, duplicity, ignorance, suspicion, and
fear would depart in dismay ; honesty and knowledge
would be the attributes by which he would cause his age
and his country to shine brightest above former days,
and he would bequeath to future times the difficult task
of rivalling excellencies which had hitherto been deemed
unattainable.

Such a one might, perhaps, tell us, that legislation was
not intended to be applied to the minutiae of man's daily
pursuits, wants, and enjoyments; that legislators rendered
themselves liable to suspicion when they meddled with
matters evidently most profitable to themselves. That those
governments were most perfect whose interference was but
rarely needed in ordinary affairs; and that in humble imi-
tation of the allwise Ruler of the universe, human rulers
should aim at simplicity—not at complication ; at liberty--
not at restraint; that too little legislation was the prefer-
able extreme; that unnecessary legislation generated dis-
respect to the makers and administrators of laws, and
challenging infringement became a fertile source of new
crimes.

Of monopolies like the Corn-law, he might, perhaps,
say that they would generate, if effective, a preponde-
rance of political interest, frequently unmanageable, and
threatenine, to disturb the equilibrium, which the vast
variety of 6 mental and bodily powers, the constant
development of fresh intelligence and skill, new wants
and new gratifications, seemed best calculated to main-
tain, as in the universe so in the state. That laws, re-
gulating the supply of food—that the Corn-laws might
not inaptly be ranged with the melancholy musings of
the learned friend of Imlac and Rasselas !—that the
attempt, justly to apportion the supply of food to the
wants of a constantly fluctuating mass of people, would
presume the regulation of the weather and the distri-
bution of the seasons, and the insane fancy, that the
sun would listen to our dictates, and pass from tropic
to tropic by our directions—that the clouds, at our call,
would pour their waters, and the Nile overflow at our
command—and that we could restrain the rage of the
dog star, and mitigate the fervour of the crab. Alas :
in mere fond delusion might we not find (as has been
found in the administration of all such laws) that some
of the elemental powers would refuse our authority, and
that (how true is the application) multitudes had perished
by tempests which we found ourselves unable to prohibit
or to restrain. Alas ! do not let us lay the flattering
unction to our souls, that we could administer this great
office with exact justice, and make to the different nations
of the earth an impartial dividend of rain-and sunshine
What must be the misery of half the globe, should
we limit the clouds to particular regions, and confine
the sun to either side of the equator ? What must
be the suffering of half the people, should we confine
plenty to the other half ? What the pinings and miseries
of the sucking babe, the sickly mother, the famishing
poor, the aged, tottering, and hungry, the feeble in mind
and body, when we let the interests of the strong, the
bold, the pursuing, the vigorous, the powerful, and
wealthy prevail, and by the nice adjustment of a half-
penny in the average price of 735., prevent the enjoy-
ment of wholesome bread for a whole week, as was the
case in September, 1838? What our repentant pangs,
should we finally discoverthe impossibility of making a
disposition by which the world can be advantaged,
though we turn the axis of the earth, and sometimes va-
ried the ecliptic of the sun!
Quitting the mighty lessons of the great moralist, he
might tell us, " Look around, and ponder on the inces-
sant change of every thing human," before we persevere
in rules and laws affecting every grain of wheat that is
grown, and every mouthful of bread that is eaten. Be-
hold the rapid whirlpool of events, the quick succession
of unforeseen circumstances, the daily birth of hidden
causes and effects thought impossible. Printing, an art
once unknown, now furnishes a few hours and for a
few pence an unmeasured supply of mental food, such
as the power of Alexander or Cmsar could not have
procured nay, which even the mightiest imagina-
tion of ancient days had not extent to conceive !
Law has not protected—nay, it has opposed with
all its delays and oppression—the progress of rail-
roads, yet we roll in a few hours from one end of the
kingdom to the other ! Ten thousand glide now
in splendid barges daily along our rivers and
seas, where formerly a few individuals could scarcely
be collected, to maintain a slow, a perilous, and an incon-
venient weekly traffic. Far mightier powers than steam
are as yet more or less dormant—carbonic gas is kept as
a giant sleeping, chained up in safety, until more ma-
nageable, but galvanic action serves us with the speed
of thought as a means of transmitting news, and assists
in reducing the perilous and poisonous toil of manufac-
turing processes to safe and easy performances. " Na-
vigation, mining, engineering, and architecture, have ad-
vanced more by means of steam in a few years than they
did under the fostering patronage of princes and sove-
reigns during as many centuries. Every minute we live,
every breath we draw, every hour that passes by, every
season that rolls on, must convince us that we foresee
little, know nothing, and legislate in the dark— that
the world runs on with railway speed, and that we fol-
low with the silly solemnity of a Lord-Mayor's coach ;
for 'such is the true nature of the sliding rule, by which
You tacasure out distress and famine to the people with
the exact nicety of a half-penny in seventy-three shil-
lings."—Morlll•ng paper.

R. -..,
SIR 11.. PEE
. AT TANIWORTH.—Sir Robert,
it seems, cannot always do what he likes with
named Robinson, who :
his own. Durini, late canvass he called on an elector
following dialogue took keep an inn in the town, and the
lam paying my respects') , Well, c ldl ,0 M
notr.
pasßobinson,s
your
ItOeth—e. electors ; and, although
I know you are on the other sid‘e
door ; I wish to shake hands with you, to show I feel
nothing but friendship for you. " Very good, Sir
" Sixteen and sixpence, Mr.
Robert ; then, perhaps, pull pay me that. sixteen and
and sixpence ?" " 0
.you
Whatowe
sixteenm e . '
steward knows very well ; he ordered a re , your
Robinsonsixpence
did
dinner
for some of your tenants, and because they
he would not pay for the number I provided nfoort ti, "ll come
Mr. Hill" (turning to the steward, who ace.; 0,
the great man in his canvass), "pay M H
r. _ob accompanied
inson, by
all means ; and pay him interest. Good morning mi.
Robinson." Mr. Robinson, however, was not paid, and
being a sturdy fellow, and knowing something of Sir
Robert and his steward, he attended at the nomination—
to Sir Robert's no small annoyance,for at the end of some
of his well-turned periods about his love for his neigh-
bours, kindly feelings for the poor, &c., the portly pub-
lican saluted him with "Why don't you pay me my six-
teen and sixpence ?" and " Why do you turn your la-
bourers oft at Michaelmas, and send them upon the
parish, instead of keeping them all the year round ?"
This was too much. lentlemen," exclaimed the
proximate Premier, with his usual dexterity, but with
not quite his usual dignity, " that foolish overgrown
fellow thinks, by these interruptions to alienate my affeo-
tions from the people of Tamworth (! ! !) ; but I can
tell him," &c. The laugh, of course, was turned
against Mr. Robinson—if not the virtuous indignation of
" the people of Tamworth ;" but he gained his point.
The chances are, that he will be paid his " sixteen and
sixpence."— Globe.
COLONIAL BISHOPRICS.—In the course of a
sermon preached on Sunday last at St. Peter's Church,
Globe-road, Mile-end, by the Rev, Thomas Jackson,
that gentleman stated that very shortly the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, aided
by the Church Missionary Society, intended sending
out bishops to Jerusalem, New Zealand, and the coast of
Niger, the expenses of which would be defrayed out of
the funds of the Societies.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
ROME ClRCUlT.—Maidstone, July 27.
The Learned Judges arrived here yesterday, and
opened the Commission, after which they attended divine
service at All Saints' Church.

The calendar contains the names of 40 prisoners, of
whom two are 'oharged with rape, five with aiding and
abetting one of the other prisoners in committing a rape,
one with manslaughter, one with cutting the thruat of his
wife, with intent to murder her, five with felony, and the
remainder with larcenies of various descriptions.
Of these prisoners two only are well educated, twelve
can read and write imperfectly, five can read imperfectly,
and twenty-one can neither read nor write.
In the Civil list there are 18 causes put down for trial,
of which one only is a special jury case.