The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-11 00:00:00

PARIS RACES.-THURSDAY.

The Cadran Prize, of 3,000 francs, given by the Jockey Club,
for four yrs old and:upwards. Heats, once round and a quarter.
Duke of Orleans' Nautilus, 5 yrs (Davis) 1 1
Lord H. Seymour's Fortunatus, 5 yrs
Mr. Sautcrre's Nelly, 4 yrs
Mr. Carter's Vendrede, 5 yrs
M. Aumont's Insulaire, 5 yrs... 3 5
The. Jena Prize, of 1,2C0 francs, for three yrs old and upwards.
Once round. The winner to be sold for 2,000 fiance.
Duke of Orleans' Dude, 3 yrs (Pavis) 1
M. Sebatier's La Nonne Sanglante, 3 yrs .. 2
The Pavilion Prize, of 5,000 francs. Heats, twice round.
Duke of Orleans' Francesca, 4 yrs ...( Pavis) 1 1
Lord 11. Seymour's Britannia, 4 yrs ' 2 0
The Trial Stakes, of 500 francs each, with 500 added, for three
yrs old, the produce of a French bred horse or a French bred
mare. One mile. ( Six subs.)
M. Aumont's Tontine, by Teetotum . ...( Flatman) 1
Lord H. Seymour's Gericault

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS 07. THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Chronrcle.)
Some of Lord Stanley's advocates make an amusing but
somewhat unlucky defence for the harassing provisions of
his Bill. When the increased powers of annoyance given
to the Irish landlord, and the multitudinous embarrassments
of every kind with which the measure surrounds the claim-
ants of the franchise, are pointed out so clearly as to be
utterly incontcstible by any degree of sophistry or inge-
nuity, they exclaim, " oh, there is no evidence of malign
intention in all this ; it arises merely from unacquaintance
with the peculiar circumstances of the country, and the de-
tails of the relation between landlord and tenant. Irish-
men arc of course better acquainted with Irish affairs
than any English senator can be. Depend upon it the
noble lord had the best possible intentions , he is only de-
ficient in the requisite minuteness of information. Do go
into committee, and see whether between our benevolence
of purpose and your superior knowledge, we cannot con-
coct a satisfactory and valuable measure." It is for Lord
Stanley to choose the horn of the dilemma most to his
taste. We have no desire whatsoever to protect him
against the charge of ignorance. Ho displayed that qua-
lity when Secretary for Ireland in extraordinary perfec-
tion ; and we doubt if he has gained much additional wis-
dom in opposition; for his lordship is one of those natures
who would not be instructed were you to bray them in a
mortar.

(From the Times.)
A weekly journal, whose pretensions to neutrality arc
expressed by systematic sneers at all parties in the state,
while its own real feeling peeps cut on every occasion which
admits of an underhand attack upon the monarchy, with
equal coolness and unfairness designates Lord Stanley's
Bill as a " disfranchising measure." This sort of misnomer
ought to be met at once by a remonstrance at its utter dis-
regard of truth. Lord Stanley's Bill is no mcaiure of dis-
franchisement. It seeks to disfranchise no man in Ireland
who has a legal right to vote. It attempts nothing but to
guard against forgery and fabrication the rightful " fran-
chise" of every man in the community who is:possessed of the
qualification which the law requircs as the ground of his claim
to the franchise. There never was anything so false or
wicked as the language of O'Connell and the Treasury
runners respecting this most salutary and important Bill,
which aims at no more than to exclude from future Parlia-
ments a tribe of factious adventurers, pushed into the
house of Commons, not to represent the real constituency
of Ireland, but delegates from a large mass of non-clee-
tors, the pauperism, fraud, and perjury, and desperation of
that island, who hear down the bona
fide electors, and
force upon them nominal Members of Parliament, inca-
pable of sympathizing with their wants, or of delivering
their political sentiments.
( From the Morning Post.)
A controversy has arisen upon the question whether the
Coroner's jury which inquired into the circumstances that
caused the death of Lord W. Russell were right in coming
to a verdict as soon as they found that he had been mur-
dered. It seems to us that the jury did what was perfectly
right. It is easy to spin out a sort of semi-legal pleading
in
,favour of a more extended inquiry; but the common
sense and better feeling of the public will, we are sure, con-
cur in the propriety of the course which the jury followed.
Protracted inquiries before the Coroner generally resolve
themselves into a mass of what is called in law " imperti-
nence," anal what may be called in common parlance " idle
gossip." The Globe has fairly stated the truth and the com-
mon sense of this matter. The use of the coroner's'inquest is
to find out whether the death was produced by crime or
not, and, if it was, what was the nature of the crime.
Then comes in the oflice of the police, which certainly is
far more likely to ba successfully executed when it may be
pursued in secrecy. Half the parade of inquests seems to
be more for the sake of gratifying the pompous assump-
tion of the coronet or the prurient curiosity of the jury and

the neighbourhood, than for furthering the ends of justice.
The police arc the proper perions to hunt out the perpe-
tratorsof crime. It is to he regretted, however, that in
several instances of late years the police have not sue-
ceedi d in finding out the perpetrators of shocking murders.
(From the Morning Herald.)
We think the mystery respecting the murder of Lord
William Russell is not unlikely to be cleared up, hut we
cannot thank Mr. Dawson and his fellow jurors for any
elucidation of the mystery, it elucidated it should be.
They abdicated their functions to the police at the very mo-
ment when they should have pressed their inquiries with
most vigour and activity. Such conduct tends to bring an
ancient constitutional tribunal into disrepute as being utterly
useless, which is the very thing the Whig Government,
who are anxious to place the whole country under the
surveillance of a centralised gendarmerie, most de.
voutiv desire. " Facts are stubborn things." The facts
of undiscovered crime in the metropolis say little for
the efficiency of a semi-military police, either as a force
preventive or detective of crime. How many of the jewel
robberies at the west-end of the town have they prevented
or discovered ? Had the jewel-robberies and burglwies
which, during some years past, have happened, and fre-
quently with perfect impunity, been committed within the
jurisdiction of the City, what an outcry would the Govern-
ment Scribes have raised against the London corporation
for allowing its " privileges" to stand in the way of the
introduction of a Home-office police into that portion of the
metropolis, where there is more valuable property crowded
together in a small space than in any part of the world?
Who discovered the perpetrators of the memorable gold-
dust robbery, and brought them to justice ? Not the New
police, but two of the officers of the al,' establishment.