The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-23 00:00:00

that, with the addition of the fresh matches certain to
be made, will give a brilliant finale to the racing of '4S.
For the Cambridgeshire Stikes, a field of from thirty-
three to thirty-six will be brought to the post, to be
selected from the following :

st—lb at. lb.
Chanticleer, 53111 9 11 The Moor, 3 yrs ..... 7 3
Miss Sarah, 6 yrs 8 12 Chat,4 yrs
Collingwood, 5 yrs ... 8 10 Keleshea, 4 yrs - 7 0
Dulcet, 6 yrs 8 6 Psalmsinger, 6 yrs ... 6 12
Wood Pigeon, 6 yrs— 8 4 *The Admiral, 4 :yrs.. 6 12
Buscot Buck, aged
Diplomatist, 4 yrs
The Dart, 6 yrs 7 12 Ulysses, 4 yrs
The Widow, aged 710 Gaffer Green, aged
Lanesborough,4 yrs,.. 7 10 Distaffina, 3 yrs
Winesour, aged_ 7 10 Geraldine, 5 yrs ..... 6 7
Wanota, 4 yrs .....
Meaux, 4 yrs
Yardley, aged 7 8 Gardenia, 3 yrs . 6 3
Radulphus, 5 yrs 7 8 Lola Montez, 3y rs ... 6 3
The Fiddler, 3 yrs
Glendower, 3 yrs ..... 7 7 Backbiter, 3 yrs .. 513
New Forest Deer,aged 7 6 Dacia, 3 yrs ... 5 9
Bridle, 4 yrs
Loadstone, 3 yrs ... 7 5 Tophana, 3 yrs ... 5 2
The top weights are too heavy for my fancy, especially
as the course is rather heavy too. Lanesboroogh stands
an excellent chance; so does Wanota; should Glen-
dower start—not at all certain at the present moment—
I should take him for my absolute winner; in his ab-
sence, I presume the first flight at the Duke's stand will
consist of Lanesborough, Wanota, Keleshea, Geraldine,
Backbiter, Dacia, Dulcet, and Distaffina; then comes the
struggle—
"
A pause—it is the crisis of our fate."
Dulcet and Distaffina are beaten first, Wanota and
Lanesborough follow suit. and to the remaining four we
leave the race; if required to 'Ace them, it would be
thus:—

Keleshea or Backbiter ... 1
Geraldine
••• 3
Dacia ... ••• ••• ... 4
"Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring
Their fiery torches his diurnal ring"
the Cambridgeshire will be of the past.
I shall, as usual, conclude with a summary of the
week's races.

Nom:IAL
Stake. Probable winner.
Criterion ... —Rackety Girl or Elthiron.
Match, 200/. A.F.—Bridle.
Match, 200/. D.I. —Gardenia.
Match, 100/. Last half of Ab. M.—Czarina.
Match, 1001. Y.C.—Bridle.
Match, 200. First half of Ab. M.—Elegance filly.
Match, 1001. T.Y.C.—Cocos Nut.
Match, 504 T.Y.C.—Carissitna.
Match, 2001. T.Y.C.—Paultons.

T ÜBSDA. Y
Cambridgeshire.— Keleshes or Backbiter.
Match, 3001. First half Ab. M.—Farthingale.
Match, 2001. T.Y.C. St. Rosolia.

WEDNESDAY.
Match, 500/. A.F.—Loadstone.
Match, 500/. A.F.—Glendower.
Match, 2001. T.l.C.—Strongbow.

MUMMY.
Glasgow.—Honeycomb or Tiresome.
50 SOTS.—Lord Clifden.
Match, 2001. D.M.—Big Jerry.
Match, 2001. A.F.—Diplomatist.

SATURDAY.
Match, 2001. T.Y.C.—Sobrann.
Match, 1001. Last half Ab. M.—Loadatono.
Match, 1001. Y.C.—Misnomer filly (a yearling).
Match, 2al. 100 yards.—Jereed gelding.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

Oct. 21.

ALPHABET ON THE CAMBRIDGEHIRE

STAKES.
A stands for Admiral, all in the rear;
B's for Backbiter, whom no one need fear.
Cs for old Chanticleer—good un to go;
With Cossack, Cosachia—very so-so.
D's for the Dart, who may run thro' the sky,
With Dacia, the mare that is certain to fly.
E's for Executor, son of Voltaire,
Better than Egremont, lightest weight there.
F for the Fiddler, whose weighted the same
As G fer Glendower, a far better name.
H is for Hope, tho' I fear there is none.
I stands for lodine, not going to run.
J's represented by only Big Jerry;
K by Keraun, who is shocking bad, very.
L looks like Lanesborough (Irish pot);
M stands for Meaux, the best of his lot.
N is for Newcourt, who once was a " stunner;"
And 0 for Miss Orbell, a certain non-runner.
P is for Poynton, and Paladin too—
No horse in the race begins with a Q.
liadulphus has lost as many a race
As Surplice has won, the champion in pace.
T's for Tophana, a very light weight;
And U's for Ulysses, who'll share the same fate
As Vampyre, a thing which I trust won't appear,
But Vanish, because it will frighten a Seer.
Wanota's too heavy; there's no X to run;
While Yardley's too bad, and Z there is none.
Not yet of the winner, have I ever made mention,
So now I request your most earnest attention.
My first's Geraldine, tho' well whipp'd and spurr'd,
With Dacia second, and Chanticleer third.
Yours, &e., HORSE PICK.

UNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Mr. Napper's hds., Thurs., Leigh Farm; Sa•., the
Com passes-10i.
York and Ainsty hds., Tues., Providence Green;
Thurs., Sutton in the Forest; Sat., Melaourne Hall—lGi.
Sir Tatton Sykes's Ws., Wed., Wilber foss Mill-1 I ;
Fri., Pluckham—loi.
Cleveland hds., Thurs, Skelton Castle--10f.
Lord Yarborough's hds., Wed., Pelham's Pillar; Fri„
WraA by Mill.
Harrogato beagles, Fri., Hampsth Waite-101.
Durham county hdo., Wed., Stoney Gate; Fri., Branca-
path— 101.
Mr. Trelawney's hds., Tues., Hall Farm; Fri., Put-
linch Bridge-10i.
Devon hds., Thurs., Bagton-11.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, SUNDAY.
Yesterday morning her Majesty the Queen Dow-
ager, accompanied by their Serene Highnesses the
Princesses Amelia and Eliza of Hohenlohe Schillings-
furst, attended Divine service in St. George's Chapel.
Her Majesty and their Serene Highnesses afterwards
went to Frogmore House and visited her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent.

Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, attended
by the Countess de Hulst, arrived at the Castle
shortly before two o'clock yesterday afternoon.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual
early walk yesterday.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena,
took walking and pony exercise yesterday, in the
morning and afternoon.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by
her Serene Highness the Princess Eliza of Hohen-
lohe Langenburg, left the Castle at half-past three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, for the Priory, Stanmore.
Her Majesty was also accompanied by the Princesses
Amelia and Eliza of Hohenlohe Schillingafurat, and
was attended by the Marchioness of Ormonde, Lady
in Waiting, and the Earl Howe, Lord Chamberlain.
Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians also took
leave of the Queen and Prince Albert soon afterwards,
and left the Castle, attended by the Countess de
Hulst, Lady in Waiting.
His Royal highness Prince Albert conducted the
Queen Dowager and the Queen of the Belgians to
their carriages, and the Earl of Listowel, Captain the
Hon. Joseph Denman, Colonel the lion. Charles
Grey, and Colonel F. H. Seymour, were in attend-
ance at the Queen's entrance, on the departure of the
august visitors.
Lord John Russell left the Castle yesterday.
Her Serene Highness the Princess of Hohenlohe
Langenburg was the only addition to the royal din-
ner party at the Castle yesterday evening.
The Queen's private band was in attendance yester-
day evening, and performed the following pieces :
Overture—" Egmont"
Selection--" Der Schauerspieldirektor" Mozart.
March—" Athalie" . Mendelssohn.
Terzetto—"Ti I'rego"
Sonderling Walser Lanner.
This morning the Queen and Prince Albert took
their usual early walk, and the Royal Family took
walking exercise.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the Ladies and
Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household,
attended Divine service this morning in the private
chapel of the Castle ; the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie
Courtenay officiated.

Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, attended
by the Countess de Hulst, visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent, at her residence, Frogmore
House, on Saturday afternoon.
Earl Grey arrived in town on Friday night from
Ilowick Hall.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thursday, the
2d of November, for the reception of the Lord Mayor
elect, at his residence in Park-lane, on which occasion
the Noble and Learned Lord will signify her Ma-
jesty's approbation of the election of the Lord Mayor.
The Lord Chancellor will afterwards receive the
Judges, Queen's Counsel, &c., Thursday being the
first day of Michaelmas Term.

- - -
SUPPLY OF NEWSPAPERS AT RAILWAYS.—Messrs.
Smith, the extensive news agents, of the Strand, have
concluded a contract with the Midland and Chester, and
Holyhead Railway Companies, for the privilege of sell-
ing newspapers, books, &e., at the various stations.
As they already hold a similar contract with the North-
Western Company, these gentlemen have now secured
the right to supply periodical literature to passengers
over one thousand miles of rail. In case of irregulari-
ties of any description, or of deficiencies in the present
arrangements of this important service, the public will
know to whom in future to apply for remedy, and we
are assured that their complaints, if well founded, will
be promptly attended to.

GREENI;'ICII PENSIONERS.—The old fellows who
recently played the one-armed and one-legged game of
cricket, have been ordered to wear the yellow jacket, for
having lent their second suit of uniform to parties not
connected with the hospital for the purpose of playing
the matcb.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAI.
TIMES.—An answer from Sir James Hogg to a letter
from Sir Charles Napier, which appeared in the Times
of Saturday, will be found in another portion of our co-
lumns. It is a subject of regret to find an officer who
has won so high a reputation by his military services
constantly embroiled in a pen-and-ink warfare with some
adversary or other. We have from time to time ex-
tolled
Sir Charles Napier's services in Sinde highly, as
his achievements deserved. The praise due to a military
pro-consul for having added a province to the empire,
andfor having established on his conquest the rudiments
of administration, is his indubitable right, ight and it has
been awarded to Sir Charles Napier in no ;tinted mea-
sure by the voices of his countrymen. The higher then
the point this gallant offiaicinetrifaahlamdietroebtecned '
engaged
in thea
dmisopruete —l5 is
broil, t o
ofls 8 winhhelcunha
prize-money is the essence, and invective the only
weapon that seems ready to his grasp. We s phatically that there is not a gentleman in theya- therT.
kingdoms, or in our Eastern possessions,
who a ;lei
not regret the tone and manner in which Sir Charles
Napier has seen fit to address the chairman of the great
company he was so lately sei ring. 'We will go further
than this, and add that within the same limits there is
not a man of plain common sense and ordinary discern-
ment, who reads the letters of the disputants and corn-
aoilflie th in
e
pares their statements, but will declare that the tads do
not bear out Sir Charles Napier in the flat contradiction
he has offered to the expression used by Mr. Baillie
the House of Commons. On a careful perusal
two letters these are the facts we find alleged on either
side :—Sir Charles Napier tells us that when he was in
India he read a statement to the effect that Mr. Baiilio,
while speaking on a debate which passed in the House
of Commons about Sinde, stated " that Sir Charles Na-
pier had been sufficiently rewarded for his services, for
tie had received 70,000/. prize-money," or words to that
effect. Mr. Baillie, upon being applied to on the subject
by Sir Charles Napier, gave him the name of Sir James
Elogglas his informant. Now, it appears,that Sir Charles
Napier had not at that time received the prize-money in
question—he was only to receive it. A dispute had arisen
as to the amount of the booty the successful General was
to receive. Sir James Hogg and his colleagues—so says
General Napier—were trying to prevent his receiving
that share of prize-money which their own regulations
awarded to the Commander of the Forces, from which
act of. injustice he was protected by the Duke of Wel-
lington, by Lords Ellenborough and Hardinge, and by
the Lords of the Treasury. For the concluding para-
graph of this letter we would rather give the ipszssima
verbs of Sir Charles Napier than transfuse his meaning
into other language. Let him speak for himself, and
the public will decide if the facts of the case justify
the language employed:—" Here, then, was a mis-
statement unintentionally made against me, in Par-
liament, by a gentleman who, ignorant of the fact,
was betrayed into the error which he committed, and
I have traced his informer to be this Sir James Hogg ;
on whom it now rests to clear himself to the public from
having committed an action so dishonourable. Mr.
(
Baillie did with honourable promptness clear himself to
me, so, in like manner, let Sir James Hogg clear himself
to the public by unkennelling the inventor of aml l•g-
-nant falsehood which has thus been brought to
his
no
door." Thus far Sir Charles Napier—we havewn
given
the substance of his letter on all points bearing
on the
subject in dispute, for we presume it is unnecessary. to
re-state so well-known a fact that the directors were
trustees of the Sinde prize-money. Sir James Hogg
cannot plead ignorance or venial error. Nor is such his
defence. He substantially admits that he gave the in-
formation to Mr. Baillie. " I find," he says, "on refe-
rence to the Parliamentary debates, that Mr. Baillie
stated that Sir Charles Napier had obtained 70,000/. at the
time he conquered Sinde." That, then, was Mr. Baillie's
statement, and Sir James Hogg was the authority upon
which it was made. What then is his answer to the In-
dian General? Why, in point of fact, he says Sir Charles
Napier's share of the prize money will not fall far short
of the sum above stated. He will have as his portion of
the Sinde prize money one-eighth of a spoil estimated
at above half-a-million. "It is impossible," adds Sir
James Hogg, " that it could have been meant that the
money had been actually paid, it being matter of noto-
riety that no distribution had actually taken place." If
the facts should turn out to be, as we presume, that it
was in the perfect knowledge of every man who heard
the expressions fall from Mr. Baillie that he was speak-
ing of the Sinde prize money, and equally so that the
prize money had not been distributed, it is a straining of
terms indeed to accuse either the speaker or his in-
formant of "malignant falsehood." At the very utmost
the " malignant falsehood " just means that Mr. Baillie
stated in the House, upon the authority of Sir James
Hogg, that the distribution of the Sinde prize money
had taken place, when, in effect, it had not as yet
Now,been so distributed. really there is nothing
in such a state of facts to call for all this
blood and thunder, and giving of the lie. Sir
Charles Napier has worn the sagum so long that he
cannot reconcile himself to the peaceful habits of the
costume of peace. The question as to the amount of
prize-money to be received by Sir Charles Napier, upon
which point he also accuses Sir James Hogg and his
colleagues of unfairness, is just as quickly disposed of.
It appears that whether Sir Charles Napier was to re-
ceive one-eighth or one-sixteenth of the spoil turned
upon a point which was raised, not by the Court of Di-
rectors—the trustees of the prize-money under the
royal warrant of November, 1845—but by the General
Priza Committee at Calcutta. The orders sent out
from England were—that the prise-money should be
distributed according to the usages of the army in
India. When this order reached the Calcutta Commit-
tee they hesitated upon the exact position of Sir Charles
Napier in Sinde. Was he Cominauder-in-Chief ? Was
he Major-General in command ? In the former
case, according to the precedent of Lord Comber-
mere, and the Bhurtpore prize-money, Sir
Charles Napier would be entitled to one-eighth
of the spoil. On the latter supposition, ac-
cording to Indian precepts, also cited, he would
(
have been entitled only to one-sixteenth. The matter
was referred by the Government of Bengal to the Go-
vernor-General, and by him it was referred again to the
Home authorities, for submission to the Lords of the
Treasury. Now, nothing but a very robust wrong-
headedness could upon these facts base stn imputation
against the Court of Directors. It was not with them a
question of injuring or favouring Sir Charles Napier.
They might honour his valour and services as highly as
they would, but they could not, therefore, pay him over
money to which they were not satisfied he was entitled.
Every rupee unduly given to their commander would
have been a robbery upon the humbler companions of
his toil and his glory. Sir Charles Napier is evidently
in a very great passion, and, like most men in that frame
of mind, he appears to be very wrong. It is possible,
for aught we know, that every statement made by Sir
James Hogg may be wrong, but in the presence of so
very fiery an opponent this appears so unlikely, that we
have assumed them to be true, and judged accordingly.
POST.—The polished gentlemen and thrice holy
Christians who are more commonly, but less accurately,
known under the appellation of the directors of the
Scottish Central Railway, have had now ample time to
apologise publicly for the disgraceful and brutal treat-
ment which they, in strange inconsistency with their
exquisite manners and their immaculate sanctity, re-
cently inflicted on the Duchess of Sutherland—treatment
by which those holy railway officers contrived, at a
single stroke, uno ictu, not only to disgust and scandalise
men, but to outrage God—not only to violate every
gentlemanly and every manly sentiment, but, worse still,
on the Lord's day, to fly in the face of one of the most
emphatic injunctions of the Lord's Bible. These ex-
emplary Christians, we say, bare had ample time to
express contrition for conduct which it will cost us but
slight pains to show was contrary at once to the spirit
and to the letter not only of Christianity, but of the law
of nature itself. The facts are simply these : her Greco
the Duchess of Sutherland was staying at Dunrobin
Castle, in Sutherlandshire, where news reached her of
the dangerous illness of her father, the Earl of Carlisle,
then actually dying at Castle Howard, in York-
shire. The intelligence urged her Grace to hasten
to the bedside of her father, if she desired
to see him again alive. With trembling anxiety,
the illustrious daughter instantly left Dunrobin Castle,
and posted to Montrose, where she threw herself into
the last railway train (for which she was only just in
time), and which carried her into Perth early on Sunday
morning. Now, let the object of this all-anxious journey
be remembered, and the circumstances under which it
was made be borne in mind. We come to the disgust-
ing and scandalous treatment which the official of this
holy railway inflicted at once upon the fair and noble
lady who was hurrying to a dying father's bedside, and
on that father himself, holding them violently asunder
from that mutually longed •for last interview, which is
so precious in a family bound together in fondness and in
love. If a father and daughter had been kept apart
when desiring to communicate on some ordinary and
every-day occasion of life, we should feel indignant
with those by whose acts they had been thus separated,
and we should demand and require a grave and extra-
ordinary reason in justification of such conduct. Here,
a father and daughter, desiring to communicate on no
such ordinary or every-day occasion, but to breathe
forth on one side the last tender warnings and counsels,
and blessings, and to receive on the other the last sa-
cred behests, were kept asunder until it was too late.
They never can meet again. In the ordinary affairs of
life, we say, such a severance would require some ex-
traordinary motive to justify, or even palliate, its mani-
fest and self-evident cruelty,f unnaturalness, and hei-
nousness—so great would be the injury and injustice of
opposing even delay to the meeting of a father and a
daughter on any important occasion. Alas I it was not
delay which was in this instance opposed to that pious
interview ; it was not delay, it was eternity. Again
and again, we repeat, that no common excuses should
be made for such an injury, even when it is temporary
and easily remediable. What, then, when it is utterly
and entirely irreparable I— hopeless, endless, limitless I
Surely the reason alleged for a wrong so unspeakable ought
to be of paramount weight and authority. But if that
reason be only an aggravation of the offence—if it add the
breach of the precepts of Christianity to the previous viola-
tion of the laws of nature, how shall we then be able to con-
template without indignation and horror those m onstrous
Pharisees who claim, as their peculiar attribute, super-
eminent and transcendental sanctity, and who injure the
name and fame of Christianity infinitely more by pro-
fessing it than all its open enemies have ever injured it
by their attacks? To that hideous excuse, and to our
view of it, we shall presently come. Meantime, having
brought the Duchess as far as Perth in our narrative, wo
Will now let our northern informant take up and con-
clude the account of what befel her there:—" The mail
train for the south was then preparing for departure, but
to the astonishment of her Grace and attendants, on ap-
plying for seats in the train they were told they
aihterycn on the
notthe
be allowed to travel by it, or by any
Sabbath, it being against the regulations of the direc-
tors. Letters having been sent to all the stations to
ihave engines ready to convey the Duchess through,