The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-20 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHETER—FRIDAY NIGHT.
There has not been any business during the present gay
that requires observation. Cruiskeen holds the premiership far
the May event ; but closely pressed by Sir T. Stanley's horse.
7 to 1 has been accepted on the latter in a very good quarter ;
and Gilbert Gurney at 10 to 1, has been, since Tuesday, sup-
ported to a considerable extent. 100 to 7is yet offered against
any of Mr. I)awson's lot.

TILE DERRY.—_t to I has been the current offer on the field.
Launcelot was backed at 7 to 1, • with Molyneux as " a cock
boat," by a gentleman who, appears never to have enough of the
" yellow jacket."

Last Sunday, vulgo " Flowering Sunday," the
graves of the Chartists slain at the Westgate on the 4th of
November, were decked with flowers and laurels, and sur-
mounted with the following lines:--.

" Maw the rose of England never blow,
The Clyde of Scotland cease to flow,
The harp of Ireland never play,
Until the Chartists gain the day•"
It may be presumed that the enthusiast who made this metrical
exhibition, considered himself doing honour to the manes of the
unfortunate victims of misleading and revolutionary men; but
it were better far not to distinguish the testing-places of those
who died in a murderous attack upon their fellow-subjects.—
Monmouth Olerlin,

ATTACK ON AN ENnLISIIMAN IN FRANCE.—
A late rise in the price of bread has caused great discontent in
various parts of Frarne, and amongst the dealers in corn who
have come in fur the hostility of the populace, is Mr. Packham,
an Englishman, who is a tenant of Louis Philippe at Eu, near
Dieppe. Mr. P.'s agents have lately been insulted in the
mar :e1 of Gatirache, where the people cried out " a bas Pack-
ham—a bas les A nglais —a bas le Rol." It has been intim ted
that the King is the real owner of these mills. Many years ago
Mr. Peckham, who was thee a journeyman millwright, was ern-
pleyed at a palace of the Duke of Orleans, when his Royal
Highness, finding him an industrious man, offered to let him the
mills at 9,000 francs (801.) a year, and to lend him metal f•
carry them on, which was accented, and at the end of the first year
the rent was refused ; the Duke offered to remit the second year's
rent, bu tMe. Packham refused the kind offer. When Louis Phi-
lippe became King, he authorised his tenant to make any additions
to the mills, and to pay him four per cent. for any advanees that
might be made. Mr. Packham profited by this latitude, and has
made such important additions with the money furnished by
Louis Philippe, that instead of paying, as at first, a rent of 801.
a year, he is now paying nearly a thousand, and is said to be
I doing business to the extent of more than 70,0001. a year. He
has established a biscuit-manufactory, saw-mills, &c., and has
found occupation for nearly all the poor population of Eu. He
has sent large supplies of cm a to Spain for the use of the Go-
vernment troops, and furnishes the French navy with a large
quantity of biscuit, which is superior to that previously sup-
plied by other bakers. In his own neighbourhood he is a be-
nefactor to the poor, and is highly esteemed. Latterly, it ap-
pears that having occasion for large quantities of flour for the
use of the army in Africa, his purchases have been consider-
able; the lower orders in the places where has made his pur-
chases attribute the rise of corn to him, and, forgetting that
the supplies furnished by Mr. Packham were for their own
army in Africa (respecting which they have been crying up
the courage, and comphining that their candition was not suf-
ficiently attended to), they have made Mr. Packham the object
of their vituperations.
MAILS TO NORWAY AND SWEDEN.--Go-
vernment having ordered a weekly mail to be conveyed by steam
from Hull to Christiansand and Go'tenburg, a contract for the
transit has been taken by Messrs. Wilson, Hudson, and Co., of
this port, and by whom two competent stearn•vessels, of the
first class, will be immediately plaited on the station. The
service is to commence on the 2d of next month. The pas
sage, which will be imperatively undertaken at specific hours.
to and from the Eastern ports, will afford a safe and certain
conveyance, and thereby give an an additional impetus to Cora
mete ial int ;prise. --iiii-1/ Times.
GREENLAND FlSHEltY.—Notwithstandingihe
i unsuccessful state of this fishery for some years back, the owners
fitted out four
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in Kirkaldv have, in the most spirited manner,
vessels for the Straits. Two of them have sailed—the ipci
and Caledonia ; and the others. the Chieftaineantdheßegalia,
onlyveasearles
in the offing, preparing to follow. '
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SUICIDE.
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had committed
veye... • Higgs, the Deputy-Coroner for Westminster, that
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at No. 5. a sculptor,
taking a quantity of laudanum.
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the
the Belgrave-square,fighly-talented
Sirlate Francissevere
Chantrcy, the eminent
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struggle for the Nelson testimonial, Mr. Pitts sent in a design,
asupeiadres bl'hat the deceased
which was rejected. This circumstance, it is stated, preyed
heavily on his mind, and, having been equally unsuccessful in a
more recent competition, lie procured a quantity of laadanam
on Thursday night, which lie swallowed, and before medical as-
sistance could be procured, ha ceased to exist. A letter, it is
slid, reached the unfortunate gentleman's residence a few hours
after the commission of the fatal act, the contents of which
would have had the effect, beyond all doubt, of dispelling from
his mind any melancholy produced by unsuccessful competition.
Mr. Pitts, who was about sixty years of age, has left a widow
and large family to lament his untimely end. He was well-
known in the scientific world, and a few hours before he teak
the poisonous drug he dined with a friend moving in the higher
circles. The inquest upon the body has been appointed to take,
place at four o'clock this afternoon at the Belgrave Taveent Ira,
Eburyestr
The Marquis and Marchioness of Dow-.lshire
have a select party visiting them at Hillsborough Cast'', Deere-
shire, Ireland, where the Noble Marquis and am Able Mar-
chioness have arranged to stay until the first week ia May.