The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-25 00:00:00

VENING 14-,PITioN•

'MANCHESTER SPORT iNG IN TEL-
LI G EN CE,

Tunswa'sr EVENING.
The list day or two have furnished two cr three highly
ni,--ortant alterations in even's to corn? off. Yesterday, throu.,th
letter received by Mr. Bake, from the trainer of Kete, first
d:your:to for the Oaks, and w,itten at the desire of Mr. Pow-
tstt, the room were apprised that the filly had, on Saturday
morning, " met with an accident which !eaves little chance
of her surviving." The request was to wake ihe same
.known " immediately in Manchester;" and the honourable
gentleman, by so doing, must be considered to have acted to-
sards the spsrting world most satisfactori'y. Kedge won the
Champagne Stakes at Doncaster, and was every week gaining
trnirers. The last bet we noticed was 7 to lin fifties.
:Nothing has been done upon Lampoon since; 12 to 1 is
,ffezed v. any other; two points were accepted on Ermen-
Aardis at noon.
THE CHESTER CUP, P.P.
8 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury—offered
JO to I agst Col. Cradock's Gallipot—take 11
13 tot agst Cob Peel's Gibraltar—offered
14 to I agst Mr. Orde's Queen Bee—taken
IS to 1 agst Mr. Flintoff's The Plover—take 20
20 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's Calypso—offered
20 to 1 agst Major Hay's Retriever
20 to 1 agst Mr. Hornby's Champagne
25 to 1 agst Sir T. Stanley's Cowboy
40 to 1 agst Mr. Price's Prince Albert
40 to I agst Mr. Osborne's Little Philip—offered
100 to 5 agst Lord Eglinton's The Young-un
100 to 6 agst Mr. Painter's Ernest the First—offered
100 to 6 agst Mr. Goodman's Bedford—take 18
100 to 6 agst Mr. Price's Tuley—offered
1 COO to 20 agst Mr. Griffith's Lugwardine.
Offers to back Bloomsbury at Bto 1 for "a sum," throwing
,n an outsider.
'I'IIF DERRY.—Coronation is offered against at 9 to 1 ; 200
to 9 was laid e. Cameleon yesterday ; also 3,000 to 200 v. the
Duke of Wellington. The lion of yesterday and to-day is
Van Amburgh. His rise at Tattersall's is " prodigious '—
nearly 30 points in one short week. It is said he had the best of
the much-looked-for t, ial ; 35 to 25 to 1 was freely accepted
last night ; at noon, 20 to 1 ; he left off with layers of 18 to
1; 4' to I was offered against Mr. Scott's lot-9 to 2 was
wanted , 50 to 40 Van Amburgh v. the Knight, taken ; also
220 to 10 a. the later, offered.
THE CIIKSTER Cur.-5 to 1 was laid at even, and then offered
against Bloomsbury ; 10 to 1 is the highest offer against Galli-
pot, anything beyond being willingly taken. Queen Bee's
party shows daily more zeal, 14 to 1 has been freely accepted ;
the offers against several horses were freely made at noon. The
only outsider we noticed supported was Lugwardine ; 100 to 3
vas taken, also 500 to 10 twice.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TRH EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The subject of Secondary Punishments underter t
considerable discussion last night in tl.e House of Corn-
Mons. The question wa; brought forward by Lord
illahun, in a speech of more Ea.) two hours' durttion,
with which his Lordship prefaced a res,dution, ulti-
matoly adopted by the House, expressive of an opi-
nion, that ti e ia-ge increase in the nurnher of co lvicti
permanently confined on board the hulks in Grezt
Britain, although such comicts had been sentenced

t-o transportation, is highly inexpedient. The fleets-
sily of making some important change in the t, eat-
recut of convicts sentenced to transportation, in or-1
der to render that punishment more severe in its cha-
:azter, and consequently better calculated to deter
.rem the commission of trim', induced Lord J. Rus-
ad% when Secretary of State for the Home Department,
to issue regulations for carrying that important object into
tf,ct. With a view to more nearly proportion the
punishment to the crime, his Lordship contemplated the
separation of those convicts who were sentenced by the
Courts to seven years' transportation from those sentenced
to transportation for longer periods, or for life. By a
.oinute, dated Jan. 2, 1839, his Lordship proposed
:hat convicts sentenced to seven years' transportation
should be, as far as practicable, employed in the bulks
and dockyards at home, and at Bermuda. This propo-
F:tion was received as the bases of a new plan ; and the
Home-office directed that in the ensuing year accom-
modation should be provided on board the hulks for
double the number of prisoners that had been pre-
'ously received on board such vessels thus in-
creasing the number from 1,789 to 3,500. By a
,:alculation appended to the minute of Lord J. Russell,
it appears that the number of convicts actually trans-
llorted in 1837 was 3,660 ; and that of these upwards
ct two-thirds were sentenced to transportation for seven
years. Taking this calculation as correct, it is obvious
that, unless checked by Parliamentary interference or
modified by the Executive, the number must continue
i:u increase in an alarming ratio, until the number con-
gregated in these receptacles of crime and misery
would be threatening to the health and lives of the in-
mates ; while from the difficulty, if not impossibility,
of providing suitable employment and introducing
among them effective classification and salutary dis-
cipline, the hulks would become schools of vice to the
cumparative novices in crime, from which they would
coma forth, at the expiration of their sentences, to prac-
tise with greater adroitness and success the lessons which
they hal received from older and more proficient prac-
t.toners of fwlonry. Thus, instead of diminishing crime
—the great end which ought to be proposed by the
Ilailletion of punishment—the cottrary would he found
o result from such a system, and the hulks be but a
preparation for the higher class of cffene.os to which the
attaches the seve, er doom.

(From the Standard.)
Ministers last night sustained another defeat. The
snuestion, it is true, upon which they were worsted was
net a vital ore, according to the lately adopted scale of
cpriestions, though an important one, nor to is the house
it
lull. Still a defeat, after a speech by the Colonial Secre-
tary, the Ministerial leader ; by the Under Secretary, re-
:sic:seating the Home-office ; and by the ex-Secretary of
War, expectant of a scat in the Cabinet—a Minis-
scroll defeat, we say, in defiance of such exett;ons, does
not say much for the stability of the Government.
Whether Ministers failed from want of prudence in
taking a weak pare, or from want of a sufficient indc-
endent support, their feebleness is in either case de-
.nonstr-tsd. The motion discussed referred to the pre-
ference to be given to transportation, as a secondary
punishment, before imprisonment in the hulks
or penitentiaries. Lord Mahon maintained the
effiratative of such a preference, in a resolution
very directly censuring t':e present p:actice of the
liome-oflice. Toe subject is not one promising
eruct' of interest or enterrrimmeat, but netliing is
lenoeless in the hands of a man of skill and genius, and
L ,rd Mahon enforced and illustrated his motion in a
Sri gularly eloquent and interesting speech. As his
lanrdship, by the confession of el", exhausted the
subject, it can scarcely be necessa-y to refer to
the other speed es of the night. Lord M thou's
arguments were not answered by any one ; his
positions were admitted to be indisputable ; but
Lord John Russell said that the subj•ct is a difficult
:Neat to deal with, and thci eore he moved the
previous question. The house, howeter, woull not
allow the matter to be disposed of in this way—the
previous question was rejected, a:d Lord Mahon':
resolution, condemnatory of tl c practice of the pre-
sent Government, was adopted. The penalty of itn-
Visonment in the hulks and in penitentiaries is
distinguished from transportation in these two int-
V3rtant particulars. When )ou transport a con-
vict you permanently rid society of a nuisance, and
't totally
same time
you give the criminal an oppor-
uily of living without a necessity of repeating his
srintes. Wlieu you substitute imprisormic: t, the
Irt Lei from the •
utbouariainococtiontoof society is tort ti in -
Icertirnalrinya;i fisorthartotwhoe imprisonment the
uponf theli community. under cir-
cumstances that eetoall his reformation, and
ccmpel him to persist inYhitrer iLneal course.l Putting
lbe value of contviitcetsalfaebtoyuori too:nrt •eouotonies, therefore,
rut of question,
s.,on to the guilty alike command a nterryuranoenthnlePcalsi
Practice of more extensive transportation.
(From the Courier.)
It is gratifying to observe that there are questions of
nubile, even if of somewhat exclusive interest, on which
the press of all parties can cordially unite in one com-
mon expression of opinion and one common advocacy of
justice. This truth may be found gratefully exemplified
in the Morning Papers on the subject of Mr. Emerson
Tennant's Bill for the extension of Copyrigkt in De-
signs for printed fabrics, the further consideration9fthsee
Report on which comes on this evening in the House
of Commons. The press, so far as we have observed, is
manimous in support of the measure—the single excep-
tion being the Morning Chronicle, which remains silent
so far. We need not remind our readers of the oh-
ieet of this proposed Bill in any dad, since we bare
llnretofore treated of it at some length, as well
.16 the report of the Parliamentary. Committee on
n•hkh founded. Hitherto the whole legal protection
ncoorded to the inventor of the most tasteful designs
for printed cotton fabrics is an exclusive patect right for
th'en months only, a limitation manifestly absurd and
inadequate in the sense of protection, and tending ra-
ther to encourage the fraudulent appropria'ion and
imitation of unprincipled traders than to check it.
And this will readily le understood, when it
is known that after the ingenious artist has completed
his design, it takes the master calico printer by whom
purchased, from six weeks to two months to produce
it in the finished state on cotton fabrics, from the com-
plication of labour consequent upon all the preliminary
processes of engraving the pattern on rollers, the com-
bination and adaptation of colours and the preparation
of the textile material for receiving the be tatiful im-
pressions. Assuming, therefore., that the delivery of
the printed cloths from the works in the country u the
.warehouse and show rooms in town, for exhibition and
sale, is effected within two months, the proprietor, who
has been expending his hundreds and thousands in
the production of a large variety of designs, subject each,
not only to the chance, but tire certainty of waste and
damage of material passing through so many processes
--ef material so damaged as to be worthless in value--
finds himself with, at the best and under the most fa-
vonrable circumstance., an exclusive copyright of pro-
perty for one month only.
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,
le use- of cranes is nowin course of trigj
about the docks at Liverpool. Liverpool, with all t 9
local advantages, is sadly behind other ports in thor.e ac-
commodat'ons which cheapen and expedite the tralsae-
tient of trade. It will scarcely be credited by posterity
that oar merchants carried on their en( rmous enterprises
until the middle of the nineteenth century, without the
ppwerful aid of machinery upon their quays.