The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-25 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENINO.—Tbere was a vary
flattering attendance this forenoon, and some engage•
menu were made, after a pretty canside,rable degree of
fatigue to the tongue. There was a little inquiry aftet.
the outsider Kingsbridge ; 500 to 10 za3 freely offered,
with takers of 1,000 to 12. The odds vere thus-
-8 to 1 agst Mr. Rilsdal&s Bloomsbury—offered
1000 to 100 ag t Col. Peel's Gibraltar—taken then offered
12 to 1 apt Ccl. Cradoek's Gallipot—offered
100 to 6 agst Mr. Orde's Queen Bee—freely taken
100 to 6 agst Lord Nliltown't Cruiikeen—taken 20 t) 1
100 to 6 agst Mr. Pcinte,'s Ernest the First—taken
500 to 23 agst Mr. Hornby's Champagne—taken
100 to 3 apt Mr. Mastyn's Trustee—taken
70 to 20 the field v. two—offered freely
TIIE DERBY.-100 to 8 was at the very elate accepted
on Rosalie; 17 to 1, bar oneaoffered); 23 to 1 v. Sault
(takers); 1,000 to 12 v. Knutabridge (offered) ; 18 to 1
v. Knight of the Whistle (offd.); also 20 to 1 in ponies.
THE LIVERPOOL, CR GREAT WATERLOO CUP.—(Tues-
day next.)-100 to 8 offered on the field : the celebrated
fo..eyhound Waterloo having "the call ;" 100 to 6 offered
any nomination for the great coursing event.
7 to 2 offered on tho field for the Steeple Chase.

THE LOSS OF THE GOVERNOR

FENNER.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

We arc informed that it is admitted there was not any
light on board the Governor Fenner' and that the people
beard cf her saw the lights of the Nottingham f om fif-
2en' to t 'verity minutes before the collision took place,
and that if the sailing vessel had shown a light, it might
, have been prevented, as only about a minute and a htlf
Aspseti between the steamer seeing the sailing vessel and
the latter running against her.
The steamer Birmingham, which sailed from this port
for Dublin, fell in with the wreck of a large ship at seven
o'clock on Sunday morning, about sixteen miles to the
westwood of the Skerrie.s. The ship was apparently
split in two, her stern being g one, and the cargo all out of
len The wreck was boarded by part of the crew of the
Birmingham, who found two men dead in the rigging.
They also took from the wreck a trunk containing a quan-
4ty of watches and other articles.
There can scarcely be a doubt but that this was the
wreck of the ill-fated vessel Governor Fencer, and that
after she went down she had parted, the cargo having
wank, the hull had again floated.
We saw Captain Andrews yesterday, and he denies
this in tote. lie also informed us that the mate denied
having made any such statement. According to Captain
An,lrews, the steamer's light was seen only a few minutes
LeFore the collision occurred.

The solicitors of the City of Dublin Company yesterday
transmitted the following letter to Captain Andrews:—
" Exchange-elle:, Feb. 22, 1841.
" Sir, —We lose no time in apprising you, as the Master
of the late unfortunate American chip, Governor Fenner,'
that the City of Dublin Steam-packet Conapany,the proprie-
tors of the Nottingham steamer, which, as we are instructed,
by default of the crew of the ship, came irito collision with
tee !atter early on Saturday morning last ; that the Company
hald the owners of the ship accountabe to them for the
N e y heavy loss they have sustai .ed by the damage of the
steamer, and we bay,: to request that you will be so good
as to furnish 113 with the names and residences cf such
owner?. We are, Sir, your obedient servants,
"NORTH and ORRED."
" Captain Andrews, Grecian Hotel."
The following reply was immetliately sem by Captain
Andrews : '(COPY
Liverpool, Feb. 23, 1841.

" Messrs. North and Orred,
" Gentlemen—l herewith acknowledge the re-eLipt of a
letter addressed from you to me, and request, that in my pre-
scut dilemma, you will not pester ma with any more such ri-
diculous nonsense, aq, no doubt, the public in g, nerd, as well
as myself, will perfectly understand your object, but I
have a few words to say in reply. Had you had a
sharp look-out aboard your steamer, the Governor
Fenner' would hove been seen in due time ; had you
hal a compaent person in charge of tie steamer's deck,
when they did see the Governo: Fenner,' common
senac, with but a small share of judgment and
presence of mind, would hese prompted him to rut hie helm
sport, end go to wind7ari. In the next place, I refer you
to Cep*. Steward, of the Notti gbam, who acknowledged,
in presence cf r itnesses, that Le considered me exempt from
any blame; and lastly, had the Nottingham abided by the
rule passed at a meeting of the different Steam Packet
Companie', es I did, at which treeing Samuel Perry,
Esq., was in the chair, and Charles Iver,
Secretary (laying judgment aside), she woted
ilot have cone in eoll4i )n with the Governor
7.7: aner.' And, Gentlemen, as I have resolved every
• Client corir e.t.;cl izh that awful catastrophe shall
e the greate t publicity, I shall publish your letter, as
week as a copy el this, and refuse to receive any private
ceettnurications from pry parties concerned, and no doubt
the underwriters of both ship and cargo will hold you re-
vponeible.— Your obedient rervae.,
Siga,l) "S. C. ANDREWS,
Master of the late erfertunate s1)i? GLvrrnor Fenner,
,:euk by the City of DuLli S cam Packet Company's
amer Nuttirgham, off ilulyhead."

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM Tilt RVENING PAPERS P YrSTERDAY
(From the Standard.)
The adjourned debate on Lord Mnrreth's Irish Ile.
ris t,ation Bill was resumed Ist evening by Mr. Young
is possill', but hardly probable, that it will tnquicate
tp-right. An ordicary Ministerial majority in favour
of the Bill would, however, net secure the adoption of
that feature which constitutes, in fact, its real
principle, the W. clause ; a:though, if the division b!
cg,iinst Ministers, the extinction of the Bill in all its
parts is certain. No one is more entire y aware than Lord
Morpeth himself that the 51. franchise clause cannot
scnibly b 3 carried. It will, however, have served the turn
--
of the Government wit Irish and English mobs, as a
manifesto of their liberality ; and having accomplished the
objet of an electioneering dap-trap, vvill be as quietly
abandoned as was the appropriation tack to their Irish
Tithe Bill. But the Irish people are, we are told, fa-
vourable to the proposed measure, wad as a proof that
they a-e, Lord Morpeth presented last night a peCtion
from Ireland, professing to be signed by 200,000 per-
sons in Its favour. If universal suffrage be held out as
a probability (and there is no sa3inss what measure
may next claim the support of Government, should
Lord Morpe'h's 13111 be entertained), we have no doubt
that petitions much more numerously signed will pour in
upon the House in favour of that measure. But
petitions from Ireland in behalf of a Bill in which the
lowest classes are almost as directly interested,
ore of such easy manufacture, that Mr. O'Con-
nell has only to issue the order and the thing
is immediately accomplished. We should like
to compare the respectability and intelligence of
the 4x!,000 inhabitants of Ulster, who signed the
Petition presented last night by Sir Rob:rt Bateson,
with the one professing to contain more than double
the number of names, which was laid upon tans table of
the House with so much parade by Lord Morpetls ;
end having winnowed the chaff from the grain, to show
bich is entitled to the gravest consideration.
(From the Globe.)
Whether Ireland shall possess an electoral franchise
worthy to be designated " popular," or, the voter he
fettered by restrictions, and driven from court to court
by ingeniously devised objections, unfl he resigns in
despair what he cannot att sin without difficulty or ex-
ercise without danger—this question was again the
subject of discussion in the House of Commons last
Light, when the debate on Lord Morpeth's Bill as
resumed. This is the real question in issue. It mayvi
ho tortured by ingenuity, and glossed over by sophistry
the t'worse may be made to appear the better reason"
by the employment of arts which dishonesty cultivates
for the attainment of its ends ; but, divested of their
xtraneous parts, and resolved into the simple ele-
ments on which their potency for good or evil
e;fentially depend, the two measures now before
Parliament, (the adoption of the one involving ,
ho rejection of the other, present the alterna-
Ivo we have stated. Thb one
.secures to the
honest voter the exercise of electoral rights based on a
clearly-defined franchise, while it guards that franchise
from invasion by those who endeaaourci titre ; the other
to acquire apheri-r
viloge to which they have no valid
loaves the franchise undefined, and the voter to the
chances of whether the Judge to whom lie appeals
the ever-varying decision of Assistant Barristers,
againstbe
cue of the majority or minority of the Bench.,.l:l
the Judges themselves being nearly equally divided i
evinion as to the construction of the franchise in a vast
amber of instances. In addition to this disreputable state
cf the law, which produces painful uncertainty and inflicts
nensive injury on the voter who appeals to the Judge, the
Bill of Lord Stanley surrounds the voter with increased
difficulties in the earliest stages of his progress to the regis-
try ; and, under the pretence of placing obstructieiss
in the path of the corrupt claimant, perplexes the
man whose qualification is valid by the number
of preliminary proofs--.harrasses him with personal
attendances to remove quibbling objections taken
by the agents of political opponents---and subjects
him to heavy costs if, by the omission of any one
of the numerous legal proofs which the Bill of
Lord Stanley requites him to adduce, be fails to
substantiate the claim he has honestly put in to be
admitted as to the registry. With a clearness of
perception and felicity of expression which render his
speech one of the most valuable which has been deli-
vered during the discussion, Mr. Macaulay last night
defined the distinguishing feature of the rival measures ;
exhibiting the deformity and insidious purpose of the
one, and placing in strong contrast to its odious and re-
pulsive character, the just principle and efficient ma
ehinery of the other.

REPRESENTATION OF MA NC El ESTEB.—We
understand that the Maneheiter Tories are making the most
active preparations for contesting the r2presentation of this
horougb, in case of en early dissolution °f Par-
liament. Encouraged by what they consider a division
amongst the Liberal party, they talk of bringing for-
ward two eta.ndidates, namely, Sir George Murray aid
Richard Erkwisl., Esq. (the son-in-law of Edward
Loyd, Esq.) We hope, however, that the Reformers will
selves to be
weakened by divisions, nor
t eic Mue o ruined by supineness and indifference.
Witia proper -00rAions they can certainly defeat their op-
ponents, whet*lslith one candidate or two,—Manchester
Guardian. ?-,:: i 1
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