The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-27 00:00:00

YORK AUGUST MEETING.-TUESDAT.

The Wilton Stakes of 30 sous. each h ft ; for two-year-old
colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 41b ; untried stallions or snares

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allowed 31b, both 51b. T. Y. C. (3 Subs.)
Colonel Anson's b c Traffic (5 lbs. ) (Holmes) 1
Mr. G. G. Richardson's b c Silstron (albs.)
Duke of Cleveland's br cby Memnon, jun., out of Snowball 3
Won by four lengths.
The Yarburgh Stakes of 10 sovs. each,:s ft, and 20 added by
the Citizens. One mile and a half. (4 Subs.)
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lir. Heseltine's b f The Shadow, 4 yrs ...(ii. Heseltine) 1
Mr. W. Peacock's b h Jemmy Jumps, 5 yrs, 9st..
illr. G. Clark's b e Alonzo, 3 yrs, ist bd
Mr. J. Peck's gr g by Falcon, :3 yrs, 6st Illb
Won in a canter by twenty yards.
The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas, for three-yr-olds, &c. Two
miles.

Mr. Orde's bm Beeswing, aged 9st 91b ( Cartwright ) 1
Mr. BlYes'3 ch f Mickleton Maid, -1 yrs, fist 121 b 2
Mr. W. Richardson's eh e Kingston Robin, 3 yrs, 7st 91b 3
Won by a length.
Produce Sweepstakes of 100 sovs each, h ft (reduced to a match)

for th,e..3-r-olds. Two miles.
Lord Westminster's Launcelot, Bst 51b., received ft from Ma-
jor Yarb-rgh's b f by Mulatto, out of Belinda, Bst fib.
The Hornby Stakes of 100 sovs etch, h ft ; for two-yr-oldcolts,
Bst slb ; and fillies, Bst 21b. T.Y.C. (3 Subs.)
Lord Westminster's br f Lampoon walked over

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,

This Company made an experimental trip yesterday
ice their splendid ship the Oriental from Southampton to
the Isla of Wight. A. large party started from the
London station of the Southampton Railway, at nine
o'clock, and arrived at Southampton at twelve. They
were then conveyed in a small steamer to the Griextal,
which ley some distance from the pier. She then
weighed anchor, amidst several discharges of cannon,
the colours being at the same time hoisted with
great prnmptnes:, and producing a very lively
effect. The day was most propitious. There was a
cload now and then, but only to heighten the bril-
liancy of the sun's rays, when he poured out all his
' splendour over water, wood, and laud. Somebody
says that spring and summer only exist in England in
" Thomeon's Seasons," but however that may he, we
can boast of having in perfection what to our fancy
is the sweetest season of all—the autumn. If our
rxenic beauties do cot arrive so soon at perfection, we
have the satisfaction of reflecting that, like some other
beauties of ours, they retain their attractions much
longer than those of our neighbours. Nobody cou7d
yesterday dash along the railroad (which, by the way,
gives you just such a glimpse of your favourite objects
in landscape as you sometimes catch in a crowded
1 ball-room, where a glance from a face that flits by you,
and, as you fancy at the time does you no great harm,
sets you dreaming for a week—if you be under twenty-
five, and not as yet proof against such follies)—and not
feel that we can justly pride ourselves on the rich,
glowing, mellow, beauties of autumn. This road is
particularly picturesque. You run on through a mov-
ing panorama, in which hill and dale, the wood and the
heather, the stately mansion of the noble and the neat
brick cottage of the labourer seize on the attention.
But, it such were the beauties of the land, what were
they to those of the water ? The passage to the
Isle of Wight lies through a fairy land. Every body
knows Rousseau's delicious description of the effect
of mountain scenery in elevating the mind
above the petty cares of life, and purifying the heart
from all grovelling passions ; but the man who is not
thrown into a state of luxurious languor by the scenery
along the whole way from Southampton to the Isle of
Vilight, may congratulate himself upon not having in his
composition •the slightest spark of poetic association.
His view is bound as far as the horizon by the " pomp
of groves and garniture of woods," with here and there
a pretty village nestled in the shore, and his eye ever
and anon rests upon some beautiful yacht gliding over
" the dark blue sea," with its crew looking leisurely
over the side ; and often bearing aloft at the stern the
mother of a happy family, who hopes, by a waive of the 1
handkerchief, to communicate to a kindred breast the
joy in which her own is steeped. But we almost forget
that our business is with this ship alone, and that we
have no right to indulge in any trashy sentimentality.
Well, then, we have no hesitation in saying that this is
one of the most magnificent steam-vessels that ever
left our shores. She is 1,670 tons, and of 450 horse-
power.
The spar deck (or upper deck) affords a superb and
uninterrupted promenade, 200 feet in length. The
gratings occupy little more than the space of a large
hatchway, between the mainmast and foremast, and
tarpaulins being provided to place over them in bad
weather, the passengers have an opportunity of enjoying
a dry walk at all times, on the deck below, which is kept
clear, as much as possible, of central erections for that
purposo. The only building on the spar deck is a neat
structure close aft, fronted by a small colonnade of lonic
columns- Here there are two commodious smoking-
rooms, each with windows on three sides, commanding
extensive views, and so arranged as not to interfere with
the
in the centre,helmsman, who
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room
that his attention cannot b. dis-
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were made. Amongst the company
Earl and Countess of Grosvenor,
Mr. Hogg-, M.P , Mr. M.P., Mr. Ellis, M.P.,
r. Easthope, Sir Henry Willoek,
Baron Moneor;o, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Byng, the
Mayor of Southampton, &c. There were also two
Eastern gentlemen, who attracted great notice. One
of them was superbly dressed. His name is Kurreern
Khan, and he is a native of Delhi. He has recently
arrived from India to arrange some affairs with the '
East India Company. He is one of the Mahommedan
race of Pothans. or Affghans, who were our pre-
, cursors iinimthzenceoen, conquest of Hindostan, from their own
capital,
which has in its turn recently yielded
to the British arms. Captain Grindley, East India
army agent, kindly acted as his interpreter, with several
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man with dark handsome eyes, good form, and a mag-
nificent beard, and his deportment is marked by the
ineffable expression which mental cultivation always
carries with it.
The train returned to town about ten o'clock without
the occurrence of the slightest accident to gar the hap..
piness of the day.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THR MORNING PAPER,/ Or THIS PAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
_

It is distinctly and positively alleged that, during
the late poll for a Church-rate at Rochdale, the time
fixed for the close of the poll was five o'clock ; that the
poll was actually closed at that hour on the first, third,
and fourth days of polling ; but that on the second
and fifth days it was prolonged till six o'clock, so as to
give an unfair advantage to the voters for the rate ;
and that the effect, on the fifth and last day, of this
departure from the understood time of closing, was to
transform a majority against the rate into a majority
in favour of the rate. These charges of dishonest con-
duct against the rector, Dr. Molesworth, have been
brought distinctly and publicly ; and in a printed address
to his parishioners, in defence of his conduct, they are not
denied. What may be done in an Ecclesiastical Court we
will not take upon us to say. No civil court, it may
safely be affirmed, will give its sanction to the validity
of a rate for which a majority has been thus obtained.
There will be no opportunity for legal rug-stealing in
Rochdale. The trick is too gross. The reverend con-
federate of Roby and Bradshaw has outwitted himself.
He is protected by the police in his march towards the
pulpit ; but he will not be protected by them in his ap-
proach towards the plunder. The Rev. Dr. Moles- I
worth declares that he has had to contend with "Social-
, ists, Chartists, Jacobins, Infidels, and Atheists, tinted on
by sectarian jealousy, political rancour, and inflammatory
appeals to avarice and to the worst passions of our na-
ture." A very pleasant account of his own parishioners!
But if such be the scabby flock which the holy shep-
herd has been brought from Canterbury to guide,
ought he not at least, in his capacity of president over
an election contest, to have set them an example of im-
partiality and integrity ? To keep the poll open after
the appointed time, when his own party was gaining
ground, and to close it, provided the opposite party was
in progress, was not conduct calculated to convert his
Socialist, Chartist, and Jacobin parishioners. The
Tory clergy outdo their lay brethren. No Conservative
sheriff, or returning officer, would have ventured on so
daring an experiment. The most unprincipled lay par-
tisans have some sense of decency remaining. And
although the alliance of a certain class of the clergy
has been diligently sought by the Tory party, it the
co-operation be not more discreet than in this instance,
it may become too embarrassing to be assiduously cul-
tivated.

(From the Times.)
"What ought the Church and the People of Scotland
to do now ?" is the title of a " new pampnlet on the
Principles of the Church. Question," by Dr. Chalmers ;
and it must be acknowledged that the Rev. author answers
the question which he puts in his title-page rather more
distinctly than Mr. Fox Maule answered the pointed
and important question by Sir Robert Peel—whether
he, the Under Secretary of State, meant to admit that
the law was to be enforced or not. Dr. Chalmers says
thw are four things to be done—three by the Church,
one by the people—viz. 1. " Thefirst thing which in our
estimation the Church ought to do is to repeal the veto
law." 2. " The second thing which! we think should
be done by the Church, after having relinquished the
veto, is to fall back upon the call." 3. " The next
thing we think proper to be done is, in our appre-
hension, a more proper work for other hands than
for ours—a thing to be done, not so much by the
church of Scotland, as by the people of Scotland."
Let the people petition Parliament, either for a re-
peal of the act of Queen Anne, or for the total abo-
lition of patronage, or for any check on it which
they wish to have. 4. The fourth thine is "the dis-
posal of the refractory ministers in Strathbogie," against
whom he recommends the church to proceed to the ex-
tremity of deposition without delay or hesitation, and
against whom the Commission of the General Assem-
bly proceeded the other day to frame a regular charge
or libel, on which the next Assembly, in May, 1841, may
proceed. The first part of this pamphlet contains an
anxious defence of the course hitherto followed by the
Church. This is now of infinitely less moment than the
questions of vital importance to the Church which the
practical state of things forces on the attention of all,
except of her Majesty's Government. We are glad to
see that Dr. Chalmers, more emphatically than before,
repeats that " the Church came into her present diffi-
culties not by my advice, but IN OPPOSITION TO IT,"
repeating frequently in the course of the pamphlet,
that he all along knew that the veto law could not be
effectual or constitutionally enforced if it were against
the civil law, as he terms it—in other words, against
the statute law of the kingdom ; and that he wished,
in order to avoid such results as have occurred, to
have the sanction of Parliament for the introduction
of any such measure: at the meeting in 1833, with
the then Solicitor-General of Scotland, Mr. Cock-
burn, Lord Moncrieff, and others, but gave up his
doubts in deference to their authority.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
Whilst we are told that the probabilities of a rupture
1 with France arc hourly diminishing, the warlike prepa-
rations of our neighbours are being carried on with re-
doubled energy and activity. W e must, therefore, have
an eye to facts as well as to words. Diplomatic speeches
of a pacific nature, as they cost nothing, may pass for
less evidence of sincerity than the expense of arming a
million of soldiers, and equipping fifty or a hundred
vessels of war. So lone. as the din of armourers' lei:hies
shall " give busy note of preparation," we must believe
there is some deep-rooted feeling of animosity against
England influencing France, which not all the cunning
turns of diplomacy, nor the influence of Ministers,
can guide or suppress ; since, on every opportunity,
however slight, it struggles to demonstrate itself by
force. Apart from the occasion which has given rise
to the present transient display of bad feeling, this is
a phenomenon which deserves a passing observation.
The whole Press of England have been unanimous for
some weeks past in imputing the sudden warlike hu-
mour of our neighbours to a small and insignificant
portion of the nation--such as the journalists of Paris,
or the idlers of the coffee-houses. They have denied
that the cry for war was the true voice of France.
Every consideration
,founded on the condition of her
population led us to believe the soundness of this
conclusion, and that the social changes in French so-
ciety since the termination oh the wars of the empire,
ivul totally altered the former characters and conditions
of the mass which had made those wars possible.
It was believed that the state of property in France,
and the enormous proportion of the nation possessed
of property, through virtue of the law of equal parti-
tion—that bulwark of the first revolution against Eu-
rope and the Bourbons—would have so far effected a
change in the military disposition of the people that
not a Frenchman would have submitted to be dragged
from his private and domestic pursuits for any Go-
vernment, or any motive whatever, short of invasion.
Through the general diffusion of property in France, it
was argued, that the bulk of the nation must be the
most pacific in Europe, since they had greater motives
to be so—greater interests at stake. The despotic
Powers, and even England, it was imagined, might raise
from their surplus population men without any property
or prospect of possessing property, armies with which, as
never changing machines without will, and transport-
able to any quarter of the world, they could maintain a
prolonged foreign war so long as their resources lasted.
But the case of France was thought to resemble too
much that of an immoveable militia to make foreign
war popular with them, or in fact, capable of being
continued on a large scale beyond a very limited period
of time. To our great surprise, however, facts prove
the very reverse of all this reasoning.
(From the Morning 'Herald.)
The agitation about a repeal of the Union, which
O'Connell is getting up, is looked upon by many per.
sons as simply a despicable imposture, devised by the
Beggarman with the view of filling his coffers, and
keeping the present Ministers in office. That the re-
peal cry is an imposture of the rankest kind is, un-
doubtedly, true. This circumstance, however, by no
means proves that the repeal cry will not produce all
the results, which those who raise it, aim at. A repeal
of the Union between England and Ireland means,
undoubtedly, the dismemberment of the British
empire --yet, be it recollected, that to a dismember-
ment of the empire, the whole course of " liberal"
policy has, for many years past, tended. Our
colonies arc almost universally described by our doctri-
naires of the " Liberal" school, as expensive isicum-
brances :—the object of the " Liberals " is, therefore,
to get rid, as rapidly as possible, of our colonial empire.
Towards the attainment of that object they are pro-
ceeding with marvellous celerity. The Canadas are
in jeopardy. Our West Indian Islands are in an un-
satisfactory state. Our power in India is becoming
less firmly consolidated. Verily the severance of Eng-
land from her most valuable colonies would appear to
be an event not far removed in point of time from the
ascendency of " Liberal " principles of Government !
The progress of " Liberalism " would seem to be
everywhere followed by the same results. In Ireland,
the power of the enemies of England has increased
ever since the principles of the old constitution were
abandoned by our rulers. In obedience to the dictates
of " Liberalism," the Test and Corporation Acts have
been repealed—the Roman Catholic Relief Bill passed
—the Reform Bill carried—the Municipal Corporation
Act foisted upon the country. These, and similar
measures, have been agitated for under one unvarying
pretext—the necessity that is alleged to exist for " con-
ciliating" the enemies of our Protestant institutions.
But in exact proportion to the spread of the " concilia-
tory" policy, would seem to be the extension of deeper
disaffection amongst the faction, to win which that policy
has been adopted.

On Tuesday morning an alarming explosion of
gunpowder occurred at the resience of Mr. Carthany, a
firework-maker, in Charlotte-street, Somers-town, by
which accident the son of Mr. Carthany, a young man 18
years of age, will be deprived of the sight of both
eyes, and bis apprentice se injured in the right hand that
amputation above the wrist must be performed.
THE WIG tN MURDER.—The IVigan Gazette
gives an account of the apprehension of a man, of the
name of Anderton, who is supposedM be the murderer of
Coulton, but the evidence appears vcly defective. He was
committed on a charge of theft,