The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-01 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

EPSOM SPRING MEETING.—YESTERDAY.
Thelti Weather was anything but favourable to a numerous as-
ha—,olage on the Downs, March, to keep up the old adage,
114,g " come in like a lamb and went out like a lion." The
,Se "kg was nevertheless tolerably well attended by the hardier
If' among whom we noticed Lord Geore Bentinck, Sir G.
weatheote, Baron de Tessir Geneal Grosvenor, Colonel
Yndham, Mr. Hawker, Mr.e Ives, Mr.r Cre,mmelin, &c. The
r's, of which there were but two, came off as follow
:eepstakes of sovs. each, with 50 a‘lded by Sir G. Heath-
hire' 3 Yrs, 21b, and 4 yrs, 9st. One mile. Seven subs.
„_• Roe's Mobarek, 3 yrs
sie Balchin's br h Dromedary, 4 yrs
G. Reathcote's Bokhara, 4 yrs
The following also started, but were not placed ; Mr. Theo-
bald s ch c Fearnought, 4 yrs ; Mr. 'Teen's ch c Fitzroy, 4 yrs;
r,_`.lptain Gardnor's b c, by Camel, out of Cecilia, 3 yrs., and
G. yndham's a
b c Fther Matthew, 3 yrs. Betting—
necilia to agst Fitzroy, 2 to 1 agst Bokhara, and 3to I agst the
colt.
Fitzroy took the lead at a slashing pace, followed by Bokhara
,
,`" the rails near Tattenham Corner, where the latter bolted,
illdfllowing his training practice, took the nearest road home,
III? defiance of the e xertions of Chapple. At the straight run-
Mobarek went in front, with Dromedary second, and won
iweverly by half a length. It was a dead beat between Father
athew and Cecilia for third place. Fearnought and Fitzroy
sere beaten off.
Iveepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added, 3 yrs, Est ; 4 yrs,
41b ; 5 yrs, Sst 131 b; 6 yrs and aged, 9st 51b. The
t.Nlinner to be sold for 2501. Mile heats. 11 subs.
I; G. Heathcote's b f by Delence out of Nannette,
kr- )11ing(Tait) 1 0 1
kr. Kl's b m Dahlia, 4 yrs...
'T.,' Goodman's br c Mungo Park, 4 yrs
following also started, but were not placed:—Mr. Theo-
AC'S eh c Fearnought, 4 yrs • Mr. Budd's h Adrian, aged;
IA de Mosher's ch f Miss Newell, 3 yrs ; Captain Gardnor's
St g Dismal J.,mtny, 4 yrs ; Colonel G. Wyndham's b c
kedlnere 3 yrs ; Mr. Dockeray's b g Munchausen, 6 yrs, and
r. Stirling's b c by Actaeon, out of Electa, 3 yrs. First
ti:ra„t' 5 to '2 agst Mungo Park, who made the attuning to the
when the mare took it up and won easy. Second heat, 5 to
raalst the mare, who did not go for the heat. Dismal J•mmy
ka° Play to the distance where he was challenged by Dahlia,
c• after a spirited race between them and Dlungo Park,
I,,,aten cleverly. Third heat. The Nannette filly, the fa-
-1,1.'4e, made all the running and won easy were two lengths.
44 the course of the day the following bets -
2,000 Guineas Stakes.
8 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wahab— taken
DUEY.

7 to 1 apt Lord Bruce's Rosalie colt—taken
7i to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Van Amburgh—taken
40 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Joachim—taken
9 to 1 agst Mr. Vansittart's Galaor—taken
ouo even Rosalie colt agst Van Amburgh—taken

MANCHESTER—TUESDAY EVENING.
e attendance was decidedly good this forenoon ; several
Isifflntial parties being present, and a strong disposition exhi-
th,s.,
.to btok four or five horses for the important cup race
of
theua of May, had the fieldsmen being a little more liberal
%If offers. Commencing with the present premier, viz
to I Tot, Bto 1, and then 8/1 was offered, it increased to 9
t +,• An offer was made to lay 500 he beats Queen Bee, who,
4,„`" opening, was decidedly second favourite, 11 to I being
q;,Pted, with offers to lay 100 she beats any thing bar
ele-'"Pot, or any three in the race for a hundred each. It was
Arlo to us that Gibraltar had influential friends in the room.
%Offer to lay 100 to 7, bar 2, found a willing acceptor.
thi„rallar was named, which places him unquestionably
favourite; we did not hear Bloomsbury barked, but
teb„elnul, out of courtesy, fourth. After 100 to 7 was ae-
,ethrs`r on Gibraltar, we heard one 100 to 8 offered, but so
aa-"°tts were the capitalists to give a chance away, that
4:111 confined their bids to 1,000 to 100. Previously, an
Sit 4 was made to take 600 to 400 he, bets anything in the
las' Two or three parties were desirous of obtaining 100
• on Retriever, Bedford, Cruiskeen, Tuly, or the Plover ;
4st the last-named horse it was once laid, but the top offer
P•
orte our quotation. Ernest the First would have been
It oras dat2sto I, five points less was offered. The same
'
aips ill apply to Champagne, whose immediate party would,
to ileothers, have taken 500 to 20. I'm-not-aware was offered
,erda backed for 100 against Humming Bird, whose price yes.
tal cYz. Was 1,000 to 35 offered. 10 to 1, in ponies, was wanted
.t.rtuiskeen and Vetriever.
laid /lolls to the circle quite dispersing to-day, 10 to 1 was
against Gallipot. Ihe average prices ran tnus
THE CHESTER CUP, P.?.
'II?, to 1 agst Col. Cradock's Gallipot—taken
i„„44 to 1 agst Mr. Orde's Queen Bee—taken
1"" to 8 agst Col. Peel's Gibraltar—off
130 to 7 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury
410 to 6 agst Major Hay's Retriever—taken
0 to 6 agst Mr. Flintoff's The Plover—off
I°,, to 6 agst Mr. Goodman's Bedford—off
to 6 agst Mr. Price's Tuly—off
100' to 6 agst Lord Miltown's Cruiskeen—off
9 to' 5 agst Air. Painter's Ernest the First—off
5,7 to agst Mr. Hornby's s
CalChampsoa —offered gne—'" to loffered
f'" to 1 agat Mr. St. Paul'
apt Sir T. Stanley's Cowboy—offered
Var) to 4 agst Mr. Griffith's Lugwardtne—offered
to 10 agst Mr. Taylor's Margaret—offered
104 t. 5 agst Mr. Collett's The Dean—takers
an„ to 35 apt Mr. Whittle's Humming Bird—offered
il'ooo to 10 agst Mr. Knox's George—offered
t 0 3 agst Lord Eglinton's 'I he Young-am—offered
stay
_field for 100 v. any six yet offered ; 90 to 20 against
take,' offered; 100 to 5, fifty times over, would been
'aye
one of "the Irish divi•ion;" eight fifties to one
'aye 1,%. to be taken the Irish division win. Calypso would
itti-c•ar, hacked v. any of Mr. Dawson's lot.
441*1Z IYEwa'f.—Tattersall's betting will show the further
01. Van Apaborgh. He was backed here previously
Curt oit'srdaY at 1,200 to 100. Some of the few offers at noon
us
Bto agst Lord Bruce's Rosalie colt—offers to take 9
9 ~ "0 I a,gst Lord U'sstrainster's Van Amburgh—taken at

the close jn ponies .
90 t.oo 1 agst Mr. Rawlinso yea Coronation—offered
25 I a gst Lord Albemarle's Ralph—o ered
too t° 1 agst Lord Chesterfield'
offers to take 33 to 1
g Knight of the Whistle-
-0,1 lc:, 30 agst Colonel Anson's Duke of Wellington—offered
I _ 10 apt Mr. Goodman's Belgrade—takers
°Frer,..ion' would lay 4to 1 agst Scott's lot. 500 to 5 as
eup, c) be laid against naming the winners of th.e Chester
_
40abt, ebr3erbY. and the Oaks. 40 to 10 is as laid on Van
(4-• b• Wellington.
Ric ,
' betting.

THE MAGAZINES.

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.

The present chapters of " Ten Thousand a
Year" are among the best that have yet ap-
peared of this story. Laying aside the coarse,
vulgar buffoonery in which he is too prone to
indulge, and which by a singular infatuation he
mistakes for humour, the author resumes that
earnest tone of sentiment and description in
which he is most at home, and developes the ad-
mirably conceived character of Gammon with
great truth and power of analysis. This portrait
is beyond a question Mr. Warren's chef d'ceuvre.
It is skilfully individualized and discriminated
in all its phases, and may claim to be considered
one of the most vigorous and original conceptions
of which modern fiction can boast. The scenes
in which this consummate master of finesse figures
with his victims, Titmouse, Kate Aubrey, and her
deluded brother, are replete with that stirring,
subtle, and natural power which mere talent
alone can never supply. Testing him by this
conception, we acknowledge the author to be a
man of decided genius, though so ill-regulated
is his genius, and so little at times under his con-
trol, that he is constantly hurrying into extra-
vagances, as in his sketches of Titmouse, and the
Dreddlington family, who resemble nothing
either "in heaven above, the earth beneath, or
the waters under the earth." We bear with
these grotesque anomalies, however, and also
with the pages of dreary twaddle with which the
tale is infested, in consideration of the one
striking character of the arch fiend Gammon.
" Warren Hastings," is a spirited sketch of the
public and private career of this eminent States-
man, all whose misfortunes the biographer attri-
butes to his second marriage, though he does not
condescend to tell us in what way. it influenced
his fortunes, or brought about his impeachment
in Westminster Hall. The truth is, the observa-
tion, though meant to be exceedingly moral and
virtuous, is pure fudge. " France versus Eng-
land," displays more depth and acuteness of
thought than are usually to be met within periodi-
cal essays. We have been struck with the justice of
this remark : The writer is alluding to the pre-
sent Constitution of France :—" Here it shows a
patch of royalty ; there a patch of Repub-
licanism ; here a faint colouring of aristocracy;
there, a strong dash of despotism. Some
of itsaspects have resulted from revolution, others
from the iron rule which repressed revolution.
They are all mutually repellant, because they
have not originated in growth but in force—the
force of anarchy and the force of the sword—pas-
sion and compulsion." The " Holocaust" is a tale
of the Peninsular war. Here is a graphic ac-
count of the destruction of a French detachment
by the famous Cure Merino and his guerilla
troops :
" Those who attempted to resist, and amongst them was
the Colonel, who had been wounded, but not killed, by the
first discharge, were instantly despatched. The remainder,
nearly seven hundred men, surrendered themselves prisoners ;
and their arms, and the horses of the cavalry, having been
taken from them, they were marched down to the corral, into
which they were driven pell-mell, like a flock of sheep into the
slaughter-house, and the entrance of the building was, by Me-
rino's order, immediately blocked up with bushes branches,
and trunks of trees, which the Spaniards brought for the pur-
pose. The diabolical intention of this proceeding soon be-
came apparent. A large stack of firewood, which the peasants
had built up near the shed, had, by the Cura's orders, been
distributed around it. To this had been added branches broken
off the trees, and straw, of which a considerable quantity had
been brought for the. horses. Torches were then applied in
fifty different places, and in an instant the col ral was in flames !
" Then commenced the most horrible scene which was, per-
haps, ever witnessed or deieribed. The seven hundred unfor-
tunate Poles and Frenchmen, who if they Thad not expected
quarter, had by no means anticipated the frightful nature of
the death reserved for them, uttered frantic yells when they
became aware of their dreadful situation—when they saw the
flames rising, and heard the pine planks, of which the building
was composed, crackling and splitting• in every direction around
them. 'I hey made desperate efforts to break out of their burning
prison ; but even when, aided by the devouring element, they suc-
ceeded in making a breach, on every side was a wall of fire,
and beyond that the naked sabres and fixed bayonets of the
guerillas, by which those who rushed out, scorched and black-
ened by the flames, were thrust back again into the furnace.
Fortunate were those amongst the number, who, by hugging
the sharp steel, procured themselves a speedy and less painful
death than that to which they were otherwise destined.
" In a few minutes the roof fell in, and the dry fern and
litter which was in great abundance on the floor of the stable,
became ignited. The heat was so violent that the Spaniards
were obliged to retire to some distance from the conflagra-
tion. The beams and planks of w hich the shed was built were
forced inwards by the faggots piled against them. The flames
spread rapidly, and attained those of the wretched victims who
had crowded together in the centre of the corral, to avoid as
long as possible their inevitable doom. To their agonizing
shrieks for mercy, their executioners replied by shouts of—
' Mueren los Polaces !'—Death to the Poles ; remember
Ocana !
" At length Merino, either moved by pity, or desirous to
hasten his departure, lest a larger force of French might be
sent in quest of their comrades, ordered a volley to be fired
amongst the survivors. Every shot told on the mass of dark
forms that were writhing in the midst of what appeared to be
a lake of fire. After one or two piercing cries of agony, and
a few heart-rending, groans, a pyramid of bright flame shot up
into the air, and all was over.'
A " Memoir of Military Life," is a broad, far-
cical extravaganza, whose humour in places wears
too much the appearance of effort. The " World
of London" is a passable essay on an exhausted
theme. Its common-places, however, are strung
together with much adroitness. " Little John
Finality" is a sprightly, good-humoured political
" Banking and Currency" is as dry as a
ship biscuit, though we deny not that there are
many readers to wi.om it will be as in:eresting as
a fairy tale.