The Sun.
London, England, 1823-04-12 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

YORK CRAVEN MEETING, 'WEDNESAY, APRIL 9.
The Craven Stakes (Handicap) for 5 sovereigns each. Gentle-
men riders. A mile and a quarter.--(14 Subscribers.)
Mr. Ferguson's b. g. Tom Payne (Capt. Ramsey) - 1
31r. Ridsdale's b. g. Bishop (Sir. 'l'. Shafto) . - 2
Mr. Dunconibe's b. g. by Driver (Mr. Pigou) - - 3
31r. Ridsdale's br. g. Fitzwalter (the Owner) - U
Nine others started, but were not placed. Ten to four agst
the winner, and won easy.
The Gold Cup, value 70 sovereigns, for horses not thorough
bred, and that have been regularly hunted during the season.
Gentlethen Riders. Two miles.
Mr. Caldwell's eh. h. Speculation (Sir T. Sykes) - 1
Mr. Stewart's Lila (the Owner) - - - 2
31r. Copeland's b. m. Bess (the Owner) - - - 3
Mr. R. Ferguson's b. h. Get-away (Mr. Pigou) - .. 4
Mr. E. E. Boyard's br. h. Wallflower (Mr. Ridsdale) . 4
Three others started but were not placed 6 to 4 agst the
winner. A good race.

A Sweepstakes Of 25 sovereigns each, was won by Mr.
Sterwarea Pecunia, beating Mr. Ferguson'sP Jupiter.
The' Hunter's Stakes of hve sovereigns each, for, horses, &c,.
-not thorough bred, that have been regularly hunted in 11322
and 1029—Gentlemen riders; 12st. each. Ilan:mileheats.(Eleven Subscribers.)
Mr. Ilume's Tom Payne - - - 1 1
Mr. Smith's Jemmy,. Ilorner - - - 2 3
Mr. Worsley's Skipjack - - • - 3 5'
Mr. Stewart s Pecunia - - - - 4 2
Mr. Ferguson's Jenny - - - - sdr
Mr. Duncontbe's Get-a-way - - - odr
Mr. Leake's lloxtonian - - . . 7 4
Two others started, but were not placed. This wits Mfine
rata..---t to 1 agst Tom Payne—after the heat 6t05 on him.

CItOXTON PARK RACES, APRIL 9.
The Sweepstakes of 3 sovereigns each was won by Ld Ran.
cliffe's Truffle, beating Mr. Grant's Logic—only two horses
started—won easily.
The 'lineation Coplow Stakes. 23gs each, 29 subscribers,
h, ft. was won by Mr. Mytton's Ilabberley, beating Mr. Peel's
Pioneer.

The Farmer's Plate of 50gs (with lOgs to the second best.
horse) was won by Mr. Forster's hr. h. (of Bingham), beating
Mr. Forster's ch. h., Mr. Doncaster's, and 13 others.
The Melton Handicap, I'2gs each, h. ft. (with `2ogs from the
racing fund) was won by Mr. Massey's Scrambler, beating Air.
Wharton's Kenilworth, and three others. This race was ex,
trcmely well contested.
The Sweepstakes of 15 sovereigns each, for Hacks, was won
by Mr. Coke's Volunteer, beating Mr. Grant's Diamond.
The Forced Handicap was won by Mr. Myttc n's Habberley,
beating Air. Massey's Scrambler, and tour others.
The Gentlemen of the Burton Hunt have determined to give
a Plate, value 501.. for horses not thorough-bred, belonging to
farmers, to be run for on Thursday in Lincoln Race-week.

TIIE EXTON PARK RACES (RUTLANDSIIIItE).

T H U RSDAY.

The Ranksborough Stakes, for horses not thcrough.brcd, wav
won by Mr. Massey's ch. g. Scrambles, beating Mr. Ward'i
eh. h. Beaumont, and Mr. Platen's Toneham Lass.
A Match for Fifty Sovereigns, one mile; Mr. Fintham's br.
in. Jane beat Mr. trllea's bl. g. Homer.
The Noel Stakes was won at two beats, by Mr. Longdon's
bl. g. Bogtrotter, beating Sir G. Noel's gr. h. Pison and Mr.
Massey's r.
A Match for 450'. was won by Mr. Baker's b. g. Extonian,
beating Mr. Harrison's b. g. by Champton.
The Farmer's Plate of 501.` was won at two heats, by
Sprigg's gr. h. Pison, beating Mr. Ullett's b. g. Random, Mr,
Cost I.l's hi. g. and two others.
. . _

A Match for 501., one ntil—Mr. Christian's br. g. beat Mr.
Davies's b. in.

CORONER'S INQuEsT.—An Inquest. was held
ve t . aliasar
n. Drunkenedeposed
oosl
call,
ea
before Mr. iliGGs, Deputy Coroner for Westminster, at
t night, on
5t7, i
ihea well
rt .
the Unicorn, lienrietta-street, Covent-garden, on Thursday
hotly,
of
trkeneot, ofw °:.n
Sarah Ann Forest,
that he never saw the deceased sober, she watchman,
was a most drunken
dissipated character; on Thursday morning about two o'clock,
he heard a rattle and proceeded to the spot under the Piazzas,
from whence the sound came ; he saw the deceased lying sense-
less on the stones, another watchman was with her ; they took
her to the parish watch-he use, and Mr. Bartlett,, the n4ht
constable, ordered her to be taken below; there were seats
round the cell where they put her, but she would lie down
on the floor ; she was excessively drunk—James Bartlett,
keeper of the watch-house, had known the deceased about
six or seven years; her character was that 0' a drunken dis-
sipated person ; she had been several times m custody, and as
Tothill-tiehla prison ; she was brought to the watch-house: at
before stated, and witness saw her lying on the floor about 3 or
4 o'clock ; she looked up at him, and againt went off to sleep.
She was insensibly drunk ; witness saw her again about H cluck.
she had then removed, and was lying at the upper end of du
eel dead.—Mr. T. Best, surgeon, Tavistock-street, was called
in about 10 o'clock on Thutsday morning; be found the de-
mised dead, and witness believed she died from suffocation.—
She had a bruise on her nose, and her face was altogether disco-.
loured. Witness thought her death was occasioned by into4l-
- " Died from excessive drinking.,"
It is generally admitted dat so unhealthy a
season as the present has not been known for is
great many years. In the fen lis of ncolushiro
the number of deaths is truly appalling.

THE LONDON" JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM. THE 1 %tr.,: MonNING PIPERS,
April 12, 189,3.

[NEW TrAIEL] -
There is an eager looking toward the state-
ment of the Foreign Secretary on Monday next,
when he is to lay on the table the documents of
the negociation carried on between this country
and France. Little doubt seems to be entertain-
ed-that they will prove this country to have taken
her neutral position on the firmest grounds—
grounds which would admit, and even demand
that she should take up arms if British interests
were distinctly menaced, but which will not allow
of our plunging madly into A contest for objects
neither conducive to our welfare nor indeed com-
patible with our true policy. Whatever factious
clamour may say, we are not concerned to pro-
Mote democratical revolutions any more than
we are to promote the cause of despotism. The
honourable middle path, which we have always
steadily pursued, is that of our own happily tem-
pered Constitution ; and perhaps the sentiments
avowed by the British Government and People,
in the present instance, may not prove to have
"been without effect in procuring eventually a
'better
,Constitution for Spain than she has ever
hitherto enjoyed. The satisfactory impcetsion
produced by the recent news both in Frauce and
Englaud is evident from the price; both of, the
Iterates and of the Consols. It was rumoured
yesterday that the Reales had fallen back in some
degree on Wednesday in Paris, but we under-
stand that they closed on that 'day, at 821. 25c.
Ifolly supporting the marked advance of the pre-
ceding days. In our own market Cori is continue
to improve, and closed yesterday at 75 for Ac-
count. Spanish Bonds reached 29i, and upon
this very flattering state of those securities we hear
another desperate effort is to be made at a loan
to the Gentlemen of Seville—the Scrip of which,
we take it, will eventually be worth—a Seville
orange !—Among other indications that thew com-
mercial world entertain not the slightest idea of
any interruption of our neutrality, we may men-
tion that another public sale of saltpetre took
place yesterday, amounting to 100 tons, which
went off at considerably less prices than before.
At the last Company's sale, about two months
ago, the prices were 38s. to 40s. At the sale,
about a fortnight since, they were 31s. 6d. and
yesterday:they were 265. 6d. a '2Bs. per cent.

[THE TIMES.]
.
From the manner in which Mr. Wallap and
the other Commissioners of Inquiry into the
Irish Revenue ha.ve executed their very labo-
rious and complex task, it will be acknowledged
en all hands that the public ure seriously in-
debted to them. We have just looked over the
4th Report by these gentlemen, which' relates
to the subject of the Vniost duties ; and, in
our judgment, there has 'seldom appeared an
official paper of deeper interest to the manu.
facturer and merchant, or one which might
tte rnoro justly described as at once upright,
Comprehensive,and discriminating. The opinion
of the Commissioners goes to the abolition of
long list of Custom-house duties on goods con-
veyed. between Irish and British ports. Of some,
the abolition is to be immediate ; viz. on those
articles, the production or manufacture of which
is limited to one of'the two countries. The re.
duction-of duty on certain other articles, the
manufacture of which is common to both, but
the tax„ (correctly speaking), more agreeable
to the prejudice than conducive to the inte-
rests of either; 'will be accomplished gradu-
ally, though not remotely.' In certain in.
stances, the thity will disappear at the close of
the year 1826 ; in others,. at that of 1f330; after
which there will exist no restraint whatever on
the commercial intercourse between Great Britain.
arid Ireland; The generality of that remark,
However, we perhaps ought to qualify, by except-
ing the two cases of silver plate and printed
books, still. (but we say this doubtingly and
wishing for' information) liable to severe and,
troublesome duties on removal across the Chan-
nel—at, least. they were so, a- few years since ;'
and we cannot find in the report that any allusion
bas been made to them. But we cannot dismiss
this able doeuthent without repeating our sense
of the satisfaction which it communicates. When
carried into full operation by' Parliament, the
advantages of the policy prescribed in it will, we
doubt not, be irs conspicuous in increased,
freedom of trade and economy of the Custom-
houseestablishments, as the spirit and principles
in which It has been framed are creditable to its
authors.