The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-16 00:00:00

DERBY.

4k to 1 agst Scott's lot
40 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's lot—taken
12 to 1 agst Lord Bruce's Ro=alie colt—taken
13 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Eringo—t. and aft. offered
15 to 1 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Coronation—t. and aft. off.
20 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Palmmon—t. and aft. off.
22 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Marshal Soult—taken
22 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Ralph
23 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Prince Caradoc—taken
23 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Cameleon
33 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Sir Hans—taken
35 to 1 agst 11r. Wreford's Wahab—taken
40 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Joachim—taken
40 to 1 agst. Mr. Vansittart's Galaor—taken
40 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Mongolian
40 to 1 agst Col. Crawford's Ermengardis
50 to 1 agst Mr. Dixon's Knightsbridge—taken
1000 to 20 agst Lord Westminster's Van Amburgh—taken
50 to 1 agst Ld. Lichfield's Brother to Phosphorus—taken
1000 to 15 agst Lord Westminster's Morning Star—taken
2000 to 25 agst Mr. Wigram's Nebros—taken
1000 to 10 agst Mr. Herbert's Nicias
1000 to 10 agst Mr. Weatherby's Paul Potter—taken
•1000 to 8 asst Dr. Grafton's Mosque—taken
1000 even between Knight of the Whistle and M. Soult
—taken. 600 to 500 on Eringo agst Coronation—taken. 650
to 100 agst Rosalie c. and Coronation—taken. 11 to 1 agst
Ralph and Palmmon.

OAKS.
13 to 2 agst Mr. Powlett's Kedge—taken 'to 1001. Bto
agst Lord Westminster's Lampoon—taken and aft. offered

DUTCH MAIL.

THE HAGUE, MARCH 9.—The Questor-General of the
Central Synod of the Reformed Church in the Nether-
lands has published a statement, in which he gives notice
that the collection made in 1840 for the churches, and
persons in want of assistance, produced a sum total of
32,597 florins. The Questor-General observes that this
sum, compared with the amounts in preceding years, is
very considerable. With the powerful assistance of his
Majesty the King, and of the Provincial Assemblies, 25
communes have been able to repair their churches, and to
have Divine Service performed in a proper manner.
FRANKFORT; MARCII B.—We are assured that-the Diet
has appointed the Military Commission to decide in the
dispute between Hesse Darmstadt and Nassau respecting
the navigation of the Rhine. —DutchPapers, March 13.
c ELG lAr I. v NDS—Flatisime, Matteis 13.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. .......... 52%
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cs ut l;9
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per:Cent....
----, 3 per Cent.
--.- A ~., nirty.seven-- 6B
(t i 4) 9sg
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent f934
Society of Commerce, 454 per Cent lO2
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ..... .. ..... -- B7
NationalSeciety.
Exchange on London (short)
.--Brussels Papers, Al avrh 13.
-,,, AUSTRIAN FUN Dji...ernPtres, Msne2 1e
, . Yive per Costs. Metalliques ...... .... ........... ........ 106%
Font per Cents. •.. ........... . ........ ....me.. .•... NI,
Three par Cents.
Bank Shares IB2J
—Altgernrine Zeitung, March 6.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLF, Marten 12
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents. ...... ................a 104( 1013
Rank Shares
Anglo-Russian Loa.
Russian 5 per Cent. tst series, Cortiticate
Inscription, Ist Scriss lOl 1015(,
Russian 5 per Cent. Hop., and Co. 3d and 4th
Series On%
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 4P 49
Ditto 5 per Cent --
Polish Bonds
New 1 icket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. -13% 733;
N"swegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cant. —
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. lB4
EX.CEIANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, MARCH 12.-13 s.—Two months, 13 34.
BRP.IIIEN, MARCH 5 —Two months, 615.
PCTERSBURGU, MARCH 2.—Two months, 38N, pence.
LRIPSIC. MARCH s.—Twe racy the, 6. 164.
CHRISTIANIA FEB. 27 —Three months, 4 52.
STOCKHOLM. llilAßCll.2.—Seventy-five days, U. 42.
BERLIN. MARCH 9.—Three months, 6. 1-'7%.
VIENNA. 11ARCH -I.—TIITee months. 9. 4s.

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST FIRE.--11l the erec-
.ion of the model prison in Copenhagen-fields the Govern-
ment arc adopting those precautions, a neglect of which
has proved fatally destruetive to so many of our pubic
buildings within the last few years. The whole of the
offices and cells wilt be heated with hot air, and the latter
have brick and asphalte floors, which are built on iron gir-
ders, and the offices and apartments of the turnkeys, with
all parts where timber is exposed, are being covered with
a firo-proof cement, so should a fire break out it would be
confined to the apartment in which it originated.
RGMNEY MARSH, MARCH-13.—This exten-
sive ltsel, the most important sheep-farming district, per-
haps, in all England, from the beneficial effects of the
late fine weather, has spread its carpet of verdant green,
and the cattle and sheep, which have passed a most try-
ingly severe winter, with but a scanty supply of fodder,
arc now, thanks to an all-bounf ful Prcvadence, much
better provided fur. An early spring, of which we have
a gratifying promise, would he of immense benefit to our
flocks this seasoo, after the privations they have lately en-
dured. We have not beard that the epidemic has raged
much in the Marsh among the sheep.
GALLANTRY OF A FRENCH CORPORAL.—
Some days since, when the Vincennes riflemen passed through
Douay, on their road from Algiers to St. Omer, every one
was eager to see the crosses conferred on them for the courage
of which they had given such remarkable proofs in Africa, and
a certain degree of surprise was felt on seeing how scantily
these rewards had been bestowed on the gallant band ; but
those who have deserved the glorious recompense are to reciire
it, we are informed, on their arrival at St. Omer, from the
hands of the Prince Royal in person. A corporal of the re-
giment, a fine athletic man, wearing the red ribbon on a coat
worn threadbare by hard service, attracted every eye, and
his order of knighthood was required in the following valiant
manner:—Corporal N. (we regret our inability to give the
gallant fellow's name) was firing, with some dozen comrades,
against a band of Arabs, when suddenly the latter retreated,
and' wi re followed by the Frenchmen. The corporal did not
perceive the movement al it was cif& eted, and was about to
rush forward to rejoin his men, when he beheld lying on the
ground his lieutenant bathed in his blood. At the same
moment seven Arabs rushed from a thicket to massacre the
French officer, whose fall they had witnessed. The accidents
of the country afforded the corporal full means to avoid the
murderous band, but his honour forbade him to desert his offi-
cer, and he resolved to protect him or die. He consequently
advanced to meet the foe, and, taking a cool aim, had the
good fortune to disable two, with his bayonet he soon killed
three more ; another, frightened at the sight of his dead and
wounded comrades, made off ; one foe alone remained, and he
resolutely caught the Frenchman round the body, and a terri-
ble struggle ensued near the rik of a preciie, to the bottom
of which the two antagonists rolled locked in each other's
arms. The combat continued there, and victory longs
remained undecided, when, fortunately for Ihe XP3t2id
an angular stone was in his reach, an- t'' ,
blow on the head and knocked out his. brains. The 11 offensive weapon he struck the Arab
.a rerrnicend,c,i)tris_
of the pre-
poral then succeeded with difficulty lk ()some comrades
cipice into which he had fallen,
anidefoet•jouniled officer, who, al
had returned to the assistance of
teiforward, his face streaming
in gnettititng, t
soon as he beheld the e ri
r tsl embraced
eedrcal„„ccorined with wounds, exclaimed.
with blood and his b
we,,, and unmet is e y his
" There is he who savedaffeion. The officer and corporal were
deliverer with fra'
21' a i Honour was given to the_non-commis-
elniaid the applause of the battalion, and the
carried in triumph
cross of the Legion
sasoar24l3vard for the gallantry of his conduct.
EXPEDITION OW DISCOVERY.
scicmouerdrioeffir
dceur
ReceroillCected that the Erebus and Terror disco re
England about 18 monthsunder " •
sailed from ago the corn-
ships , . • James Clark Ross, R N
niand of Catam . .• • , and Commander
their main and o•tenstble object '
Crozier, being to ascertain
the of the South Magnetic Pole, and the earn-
ploration of the Antarctic regions, of which a very •
knowledge has hitherto been obtained, but aserlesmoti7mrfaeget-
being at Ma-
o observations were also directed to be
stations on their route, and the fiat of which made different
days. Thence
diira, they put in there and stopped several
---:-a------
. p observatories, and left officers of
THE FRENCH STAGE.—WhO
e acquirements to superpientoefndG
they proceeded to St. Helena and the Ca
ry has not I which place. the fitted u
tohoedm. Hope,
K e ar
..t
I can play-goers of the last quarter cf a among Euro
ceanidueleht, that I sufficient sccentifiy
I card at least, and many must have seen rv, gue en an was the next
f the GC,- 1 b Ma Land fru I
most intellectual and classical of French cowmitedians, Flee 1L d spot they ved, where, and at Sa-
, . t ere observations on the magnet were made.
the blunder Fawcat, and Forret], all ii or'e, u 1 ,
medic Francaise. Few, bovrovet. are aware.. that Fleury 1 aolnddftrhieenydarsri:
moirs of about the middle of 1- . obart-town, Van Dieman's Land,
rveJdohsn'frFartan:llin, the Governor, from whom he
sat August. There Captain Ross met his
has written two volumes of h;ghly entertaining me
himself and his bi,trionie eentemperarie=,. and that they
received e
on•at of appearing in an English dress, under having very possible attention and assistance, and there also
are rho pout of of Mr. Theodore Hook, with erected and fitted up an observatory they proceeded on
the appropliate c .
11 ,trative notes from that gentleman's their voyage about the otith of October, that' being the date of
many humorous and i u.. their last le •
'We anticipate one of the most
fertile and ever acne! pen. deTexture. Ca main John Ross, is the
fling books of the kind that has seen the light since same
officer p Ross, nephew of Sir
British flag on the
Libber's A
Apology y. and a work with infinitely more stamina North Magnetic who, in June, 1831, planted thseverala voyages to the
in it than that clever and cliaraJ.tristic but coxcomical pro- arc'ic seastb hli'sole, and has, hisz ~,
Siri Edgard A arry, passed eight,
uncle and .
duction ,_. for Fleury was band and glove with all the choice winters i fourteen those regions ; sothat
am summers in dreary
scan'ts of the latter end of the last century, and we under- this arduo 1 ty could not have been confided
prt . . us anzt important c u
sd his volumes teem with anecdotes of them all. to a more experienced or intelligent officer. It appears that en
HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS.—The great I their arrival at. Hobart-town, they learntetdhat since they left
change in the we Alter, and the unusual warmth of the England two expeditions hhaiel b.
Aerne ne
r ifie
tltn.
foourt, one by the
atmosphere, that have prevailed during the last ten days, 1 French, and the other by
tb. fd: si . the apparent
purpose of anticipating the o Jetts o iscoyery in those seas •
have produced an equally astonishing change in the
t encounter the icebergs,
go- but the ships having
never,
coral state cf health throughout Loudon. Influenza it is believed,
and their cornin de ,having
has nearly disappeared ; low fevers have 'p thean pwsuit, to be
much abated, 1 before, gave accomplished,k it is to be
and infectious diseases, peculiar to children, bl:intrepid countrymen. It
be
declinirg, except beeping-cough,
and
thisren, are sltegeth-r ! hyped, y.
-1-1 ROES'S intention to go direct to the Sountloiwlllioito Siar;
malady is
less violent in it; symptoms than it much cots,
from calculations made befor h l f England,
e e e t to
was VII days back, in "P South •
consequence of the warm south, 1 ;a I - I find about latitude 68, 'East longitude 144 • and it is
- '-, y ri.,1,.s twit have prc- believed thatobservations since made the '
nailed.
I confirm him in the same opinion.

DEPTFORD ANTI-CORN-LACY AS-

SOCIATION.

ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC.

In a district were the eye can hardly open without fall-
ing on some taken of commercial enterprize or maritime
industry, it cannot be necessary to go at great length into
the impolicy of laws whose object ii to prohibit foreign
trade, and limit the resources of the country to what can
be raised upon a restricted supply of food.
Our fathers had liberty to trade, and they became rich
and powerful. Their descendants are prevented by law ;
can it be wondered if distress is in their counting-houses
and in their families, and there is a general complaint of
tie hardness of the times ?
The purpose of the Corn-laws is simply to prevent the
food and employment of the country from being increased
by foreign trade ; in order that each of us, in our severo
departmentF, may be obliged to offer mere hours of our
labour for a giver quantity of corn, or accept less corn
from the owners in return for a given portion of our time
and toil.
If we were obliged to pay hot-house prices for wine
made at home, instead of bring erraitted the exercise of
foreign trade as the means of [Hinging it from Oporto, the
injury would be of the ,ame kind as now, only with the
(IM:wiled of being transferred to a luxury instead of a Era
nceest ary of existence.
But the evil has gone on so brig, and such large and
influential classes arc leceiviag gains from the destrue
inn
of our foreign trade, that nothing but tLe popular agitation
of the question presents any chance of success.
And the questior, in fee', is this—ls foreign trade an al-
-1 lovable method of increasing the wealth and bappincis
of
the ration; or are the proprietors of the water-borne and
'commercial priv legcs which Nature intended to confer, to
see their property confiscated and their means of enjoy-
ment from it annihilated, to please the wild theorists who
maintain that all property should exist only as it is sub-
servient to the interests of the proprietors of the external
The struggle is tetween the owners of the soil and the
owners of the shores, of the waters, of the shipping, and of
tl e comme-cial and manufacturing capabilities of the
country. It is net the last who want to oppress the first ;
but the first who declare that they cannot enjoy their own,
unless they are allowed to add to it the oppression of the

°them
This claim is what tho inhabitants of our land, so highly

favoured by nature and so sorely depressed by law, are
uniting to opposo and to repel • and to this object it is
that the Members of the Anti-Corn-Law Association in
Dep ford, within their particular sphere, request the assist-
ance of their fellow-citizens and of the public.
The Deptt,rd Anti-Corn-law Association is formed for
the purpose of diffusing information upon the injurious
operation of the Corn-laws, by means of printing, 1-e-
-turep, public meetings, &c. An annual subseripon of
one shilling constitutes a member. Member's cards way
be obtained at the following places:—Mr. Pepperne;n,
Broadway, Deptford ; Mr. G. Wade, High-street; 61 •
Edwards, High street.