The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-02 00:00:00

MANCHESTER.—TuEsDAY.

There was only a moderate attendance of speculators on turf
events at the usual hour of meeting this morning. Several
influential capitalists were absent, at the full week's racing in
Northumberland; and the business done was not great. Nine
to 1 was the highest proposal on the field for the Liverpool Cup;
a point more would have been most willing put to book. Next
to Deception we thought Saint Bennet stood, although there
was very little indeed to choose between him, Retriever, and
Mr. Aller.'s filly, Orclia; against the Saint 15 to 1 was laid to
a trifle, also 300 to 21 pencilled down ; 100 to 7 was the last
offer we heard made, and that not general; Retriever stood at
100 to 7, and Orelia with friends at 100 to 6—it was currently
offered to 7 : Charles XII. had an enemy once at 100 to 4,
but afterwards we noticed 300 to 15 taken, and other
small engagements at the same price ; the Day of Algiers
was not named ; we consider that from previous offers that
20 to 1 would be laid, being double the figure accepted
a few days ago; 100 to 6 was offered against Ratsbane and
taken to 7, throwing Confusionee in ; against the latter
(backed, previous to her signal defeats last week, at 100
to 5) 100 to 2 went a begging ; a considerable deal of
" chaff " respecting the Duke of Cleveland's Sampson,
by Cetus : in the enact 25 to 1 was taken ; almost instantly it
was offered to 3, and then to 2 ; really his defeat at Newcastle
yesterday might have been known sub rose. Sleight-of-hand
was in request, 300 to 15 was taken, which is following up
last night's work at 100 to 4; 20 to 1 was offered v. Trustee
and Grey Milton coupled. We consider the Doctor's price
to be 25 to 1 ; Broadwath's full 20, and Modesty sans friends
at 25. Nine of them were backed previous to the room break-
ing up ; 500 to 10 was offered in one of the best channels
v. each of the Duke of Cleveland's horses. Virginia and Com-
modore both talked about, but not backed. Ten would have
been backed against the field by one of our leading sportsmen,
takers to 6 to 1 two beat the field; 300 to 2 was offered v.
Grey Steel. _ _ . . . . .

THE NEWCASTLE ST. LEGER.—A desire to take 2 to 1 on
Galen.

THE NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE...—SiX, to four on the
field; Hetman Platoff the favourite ; offers to take 7 to 1 on
Zohrab.

THE NEWCASTLE Cur.-6 to 4 was offered on Bee's-Wing,
Her dead heat yesterday will not make her friends so fond.
THE Goonwoon Cur.-4 to 1 frequently offered on the
field ; take 5 to 1 on Lanercost. or lay it v. Ha.rkaway ; 7 to 1,
and then 130 to 20 laid v. Bloomsbury ; 10 to 1 Deception (no
layers.) The field v. three for 50 or 100 (off.)
Sr. LEGER.-200 to 8 agst Drayton—take.

INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
GOODWOOD, 1840.
Second Day.—Acceptances for the Goodwood Stakes.
Harkaway, 6 yrs, lOst I llb ; Retriever, 4 yrs, 9st 71b; Het-
man Platoff, 4 yrs, 9st 71b ; St. Bennett, 6 yrs. 9st 7lb ;
Zuhrab, aged, 9st 51b ; Arctic, aged, 9st llb ; St. Martin,
5 yrs, 9st llb ; Beggarman, 5 yrs, 9st; Domino, 4 yrs, 9st;
Hyllus, 4 yrs, Bst 131 b ; Potentate, aged, Bst 131 b; Abraham
Newland, 6 yrs, Bst 131 b ; The Hydra, 5 yrs, Bst I Ilb ; Men-
dizabal, aged, Bst 101 b ; The Corsair, 4 yrs, Bst 91b ; Sepoy,
aged, Bst 71b ; Cruiskeen, 6 yrs, Bst 41b ; Bellona, 5 yrs,
Bst 41b ; Isabella, 5 yrs, Bst 41b ; Clarion, 4 yrs, Bst 41b ; An-
tigua, 4 yrs, Bst 41b ; Joannina, 5 yrs, Bst 31b; Opera, 5 yrs,
Bst 21b ; George, by Roller, 5 yrs, Bst Ilb ; Adrian, 6 yrs,
Bst Ilb ; Gipsy, aged, Bst; Mickleton Maid, ' 4 yrs, 7st 131 b ;
Pyramid, 6 yrs, 7st 12Ib ; Constantine, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b ; Con-
federate, 3 yrs, 7st I Ilb ; The Qudck, 4 yrs 7st 101 b ; De-
janira, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b ; Pocket Hercules, 6 yrs: 7st 91b; Con-
servator, 5 yrs, 7st 71b ; Welfare, 3 yrs, 7st 71b ; Wee Willie,
5 yrs, ist 71b ; The Recorder, 4 yrs, 7st 51b ; Piccotee (h. b.),
3 yrs, Ist 41b; Slang, aged, 7st 41b; Bro. to Plenipotentiary,
4 yrs, 7st 4lb ; Huckster, 6 yrs, Ist 31b ; Science, 4 yrs, ist
llb ; Cassandra, 6 yrs, ist Ilb ; Glenlivat, 4 yrs, ist llb ;
Gambia, 3 yrs, Ist ; Bandboy, 5 yrs, 6st 131 b ; Black Beck,
3 yrs, 6st 111 b ; Fitzambo, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b ; Broadwath, 3 yrs,
6st 121 b ; The Drama, 4 yis, Est 101 b ; Orelia, 4 yrs, 6st 91b ;
Auburn, 4 yrs, 6st 91b ; Wings, 4 yrs, 6st 91b ; Pluto, 4 yrs,
6st 81b ; c. by Saddler, darn by Granby, 3 yrs, 6st 81b ; f. by
Lamplighter, out of Spinning Jenny, 3 yrs, 6st 71b; Forlorn
Hope, 4 yrs, fist 41b ; Snoozer, 3 yrs, 6st 41b ; Dreadnought,
3 yrs, 6st 21b ; The Ruler, 3 yrs, sst 91b ; The Ant, 3 yrs,
sst 71b ; Exit, 3 yrs, sst 61b ; Nongifted, 3 yrs, sst 61b ; and
Half-caste, 3 yrs, sst 41b.

EVENING EDITION.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(FROM THE MORNING P,PIRC OF PIS DiT.)
(From the Morning Post.)
We believe it is the intention of her Majesty's Ministers
to propose during the present Session of Parliament, and
probably within very few days, a Bill having reference to
a contingency which no subject of the British Crown can
contemplate without feelings of anguish and dismay, but
for which, nevertheless, as it is a possible contingency,
and would involve corsequences of the greatest im-
portance to the Monarchy, it is the duty of Parliament
to provide. The Bill about to be proposed to Parliament
is for the establishment of a Regency, in the event of the
Crown descending to an infant heir. In merely stating
the object of the intended Act we feel that we have said
enough to show its absolute necessity. Of the particulars
of the proposals which Ministers are about to submit to
the Legislature we are not is a condition to speak. But
nature and reason point out so clearly the course which
ought to be pursued, that it would seem scarcely possible
even for the present Ministers of the Crown to miss their
way ; and we therefore hope we are not rash when we
express our confident belief that Ministers will not at-
tempt to avail themselves of such an occasion to promote
the interests or consolidate the authority of any party in
the State.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
In the speech of S'r Robert Inglis on Church Exten-
sion, a most egregiols mis-statement of the religious sta-
tistties of America was introduced for the purpose of
proving the fai!u-e of the voluntary system. Sir Robert
affirmed that it only supplied one religious teacher, or mi-
nister, to every 15,000 persons. In the " American Al-
manack " for the current year, the number of ministers,
churches, and communicants in each of the principal reli-
gious denominations is given, as derived from recent official
documents of the several sects. The total number
is 15,869; and if we allow for an increase of three
millions in the population of the United States since
the last census, the result is that there is more than
one religious teacher to every thousand persons, men,
women, and children included. This Teems a tolerably
complt.te religious supply, but is very far from representing
the entire amount. In many churches the ministry is
vacant, but about fifty theological seminaries are training
students, who occasionally supply, and will permanently
occupy, them. The Jews are not included in the enume-
ration ; nor the Quakers, who have 500 chapels ; nor the
Mormonites, who have 12;000 communicants, with some
other sects. It is also exclusive of nearly 6,000 local
preachers of the Methodist denomination. Altogether, no
country in the world has so ample a provision. The la-
mentations of spiritual destitution which have led Sir Ro-
bert Inglis so far astray from facts must be those of souse
narrow-minded sectarian, who saw nothing but barrenness
wherever the seeds of his own particular doctrine had not
germinated.

(From the Times.)
An article in the Morning Chronicle of last Monday is
in its way a curiosity, as the writer of it is in himself
unique. The subject of the article is Lord Stanley's
Bill, and the author is palpably Mr. Daniel O'Connell.
We may consider it no bad sign for the general state
of public feeling in this country, that the Ministerial
newspapers must long since have stood still, had they not
been worked by machinery imported from Maynooth.
The doers of the Downing-street press are Papists:
To a man they are O'Connellites and Repealers.
Were not such the case, we should be lost in
surmise as to the quarter whence the article referred to
could have proceeded. Knowing, on the contrary, what
is notorious, people would have become perplexed and im-
patient at the nor.-production of such extravagances. The
article we more immediately allude to contains a double
aggression—first, upon Lord Stanley's Bill, end secondly,
upon certain individuals among those Members of Parlia.
ment, who have given that measure a general or even a
very partial and occasional support. The ruffianly writer
applies the term " disgraceful " to the votes of all Mem-
bers who last Friday evening were in the majority for re-
jecting Lord Morpcth's mangling amendment.
(From the Morning Herald.)
The, warnings of the Duke of Wellington as to the
threatened union of the Canadas will not fall unheeded on
the public car. His Grace has declared that a union, at
the present time, and on the principles recommended by
her Majesty's Ministers, must lead to the severance of
the Canadas from the British empire. No one, indeed,
may doubt that the projected experiment is one of ex-
treme hazard—more than it may be doubted, that our
whole system of colonial policy has, for a long time,
been of an exceedingly unwise character. Throughout
our North American provinces, it has, at length, become
necessary to assert, at all hazards, the supremacy of Great
Britain—or to abandon these provinces altogether. We
cannot, hewcver, abandon these magnificent colonies,
without risking the subversion of the whole fabric of our
national greatness. We cannot, on the other hand, assert
the supremacy of England, without abandoning all the
maxims by which our " liberal" Administrations have
affected to regulate their course. We must look to the
real interests and wants of these colonies. These interests
and wants are all connected with good government—but
not, in any way, with " responsible" government. " Re-
sponsible" government means, in the case of colonies, in-
dependence of the mother country.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
So far from participating in the exultation of our Libe-
ral contemporaries, at the mode in which Sir Robert
Inglis's motion for a grant towards church extension was
rejected by the House of Commons, we confess that we
are disappointed at the small majority which marked its
condemnation of a measure characterised by so much ab-
surdity and injustice. Neither do we see in the absence
of Sir Robert Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham,
and others, so much a disapproval of the object of the
motion, as a dislike to be bored by the three hours' twad-
dle which prefaced it, and a desire to see how the ques-
tion would be entertained by the House before they would
commit themselves by taking a prominent part in its sup-
port. Had the question been proposed at any hustings
in England, its reception would have been of a far dif-
ferent character, and no doubt such Members as those just
mentioned, having the fear of a general election before
their eyes, were timid in identifying themselves too closely
with a measure so objectionable to the great bulk of the
community, as a grant for the further inflictions of the
Church.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

(WEDNESDAY EVENING.)
CHRONICLE.—There has been an improvement to-
day in the English Funds of per cent., and money is
easier.

A gradual dropping down in the quotations of Bank
Stuck has been observed for some time past, and attracts
considerable attention. In the latter part of May the quo-
tations were generally steady at 176 to 7, since which they
have gradually declined to 1731 to 41, the closing price
to-day, being a fall of 31 per cent. Various causes are
stated for this ; but we believe the immediate one to be
that, owing to the diminution in the " rest," or reserved
fund, several sales have taken place by parties who are ap-
prehensive that a reduction may be made in the dividends;
and, as a general opinion is entertained that the Bank
charter will not be renewed without modifications, few
buyers are at present presenting themselves for Bank Stock.
In tho Foreign House Spanish Actives improved nearly
1 per cent. at the opening of the market, in consequence
of the telegraphic despatch announcing that Balmaseda
had taken refuse within the French frontier; prices, how-
ever, rather declined before the termination of business,
closing at 261- to Colombian Stock is a shade flatter,
but in the other securities no material alteration took place.
We understand that the Marquis of Saldanha has now
finally settled the object of his special mission to the Bri-
tish Government, and that he will return to Lisbon in the
course of this week. The claims immediately adjusted
are those of the Duke of Wellington, Marshal Beresford,
and others, besides the expenses of the expedition sent to
Portugal in 1825. The civil claims are to be referred to
a commission. It is also said that the basis of a commer-
cial treaty has been agreed on between this country and
Portugal.
TIME S.—By the advices from Hamburgh the price of
gold is 431 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of
3/. 17s. 101 d. the ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 13.8, and the exchange at Hamburgh on Lon-
don being 13,6, it follows that gold is 0.94 per cent.
dearer at Hamburgh than in London.
The premium on gold is l 0 per mille, which, at the Eng.
lish Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d. the ounce for standard
gold, gives an exchange of 25.40, and the exchange
at Paris on London at short being 25.271, it follows
t tst gold is 0.50 per cent. dearer at Paris than in London.
Money is worth from 5 to 51 per cent. in the English
Stock Market, and lot n 3 to a considerable extent conti-
nue to be made by the Bank,
SUN.—A fair business was done in the Funds to-
da, , and at prisms which on the whole established a
slight improvement. Bank Stock was, however, still
heavy at 1731 ; closed at 91i to ; Exche-
quer Bills at 253. premium ; and Reduced Three-and-
a-Half per Cents. at 100 to 1001. East India Bonds
were heavy at Is. premium.
In the Foreign Market there has not been much life
to-day ; but the fat ourable news from Spain has, of
course, had an effect on the prices of the Securities
of that country. The Active Bonds closed at 26i ;
the Passive at 61 ; and the Deferred at 121 ; Portu-
guese New Five per Cents. brought 3.571- to ; and
Columbian 2711 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. re-
ceded to 531. The advices received this afternoon from
Amsterdam notice an active market fbr the domestic
funds on Monday, but no alteration in prices. The
Two and-a-Half per Cents. were 53 3-16ths to I.
The Market for Shares has not been quite so good
to-day. At the close of business to-day the principal
lines were marked as follows ;—Great \% estern, 98 ;
Blackwall, oi ; York and North Midland, 22 ; North
Midland, 21 ; and South Western, 211 premium ;
Brighton Shares were 6i ; and Birmingham and Glou-
cester 8 discount.
Mr. Waghorn's despatches from India will probcbly
arrive on Friday.