The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-05 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CROXTON-PARK RACES.—TuEsDA.y.

The Farmers' Plate of 501., and 101. for the second;
four yrs old, 11 st 101 b; five yrs, 12st 71h; six yrs,
13st; and aged, I3st 51b; mares allowed 31b. Heats,
Two miles.
Mr. J. Merry's br mby the Magnet, 6 yrs 0 1 1
Mr. T. Dufty's Tithby, 4 yrs 1 0 0
Mr. IL Hardy's Langer, 5 yrs ......
Mr. Vincent's Obelisk, 6 yrs
Mr. J. Foster's The Brownie, 5
,yrs
Mr. Ravell's ch m by Genius, 4 yrs

Several others ran.

The Scurry Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 20 added; ]2s

each. Half a mile. (8 Subs.)

Mr.
yGoarnineisnEg'isiniLeaamsborougli, 4 yrs ...(Lord llowth
Mr. Col. Anson's Seducer, 4 yrs
Mr. Norton's Creusa, 4 yrs ... ••• •••
Mr. W. Kirk's Cordelia, 5 yrs ••• ••• ••
6t04 on Seducer. Won easy.

The Granby Handicap of 20 sous. each, 10 ft, and 5 only
if declared. Granby Course. 1 mile and a half.
(66 Subs., 47 of whom pay 5 sots. each)
Mr. N. Blake's Ballinafad, 4 yrs, 1 ist...(Mr. White) 1
Mr. B. Harrison's Peep-o'-Day Boy, 4 yrs, 10it 131 b 2
The following also started:—Lord Wilton nd the
Magnet, 6 yrs, list 81b; Bfr. S. Herbert nd Fisticuff,
aged, list 21b; Lord Stanley's Bowstring, 4 yrs, list;
Mr. R. Clifton's Valiant, 6 yrs, 10. t 11lb; Mr. Massey nd
Chance, aged, lOst 91b. Mr. O'Brien nd Parson's
Clerk, 6 yrs, lOst 81b; Lord Granby's Nimble Harry,
aged, lOst 51b.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Monday, April 3, the Jewish Disabilities
Bill went through Committee without amendments ;
two which had been proposed by the adversaries of the
Bill, being negatived by the votes of 196 against 99,
and 203 against 109.
The debate was an instance of the low degree in
which the House possesses the quality of being a for-
mer of public opinion, or in other words being more
than the registrar. False assumptions and false infer-
ences on any subject, are rarely met by any exposure
in the House. This seems to be left as the business of
those preparatory schools for the formation and pub-
lication of opinion, of which the meetings held by
the Anti- Corn-law League were an eminent ex-
ample in one important branch. The possessors of
a wrong go mouthing on, and, if the case be sus-
ceptible of a reference to religious subjects, talking
as near to flat blasphemy as is attainable by quota-
tions of the kind in which the father of evil is poetically
held to be a doctor in divinity ; and the opponents take
quietly a great deal of violence, and a great deal of
inferential abuse, trusting to the power in their
hands, of ultimately answering by a division. lam
not sure whether this is for the best ; but this is as
it is.

Betting-6 to 4 agst Peep-o-day Boy,
and 5 to 2 agsi
Ballinatad. Won easy.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TuEsDAY.
METROPOLITAN STAKES.-9 to 2 agst Cracow (t);
6to 1 agst Jericho (t); 9 to 1 agst Glen Saddel (t);
11 to 1 agst Marquis of Conyngham (0; 12 to 1 agst
Snuffbox ; 13 to 1 agst Lady wildair ; 25 to 1 agst
Black Ball; 30 to 1 agst Maid of Lyme.
Two THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.-5 to 2 agst
Blaze ; 5 to 1 agst Flatcatcher (t).
NEWMARKET HANDICAP.-8 to 1 agst Sylvan (t) ;
10 to 1 agst Millwood (t).
CHESTER CUP.-20 to 1 agst War Eagle ;25t0 1
agst Cracow ; 25 to 1 agst Blaze; 30 to 1 agst Swallow;
30 to 1 agst Jonathan Wild; 1,000 to 15 agst Pyrrhus
the First (t).
DERBY.--9 to 1 agst Springy Jack; 10 to 1 agst
Surplice; 10 to 1 agst Glendower (offers to take); 30
to 1 agst Nil Desperandum. Nothing else named.

From occurrences on this evening, there seems
reason to apprehend that the determination of the
Government to bring on anything decisive on the
Navigation-Laws this session, is giving way. At the
same time there are tokens of their owing the ab-
surdity a grudge. The facts which brought up the
subject were these. At Havre is a quantity of cotton,
which in consequence of the disordered state
of trade at Rouen, finds no or a bad market. It
would be convenient therefore for all parties, that
this cotton should be brought to Manchester; but it
cannot—and why ? Because there is a law which
says that neither a British nor foreign ship shall im-
port it, unless it will go round by America. This is
as if a railway might not bring goods from Liver-
pool to Manchester, without going round by Pen-
zance; the object being to put money into the poc-
kets of railway proprietors. The agricultural in-
terest has had its right of black mail against Man-
chester, and when that is in some way of being put
down, starts up the shipping interest and claims to have
another. The defenders of the last-mentioned claim
appear divided between the desire to take what might
be got for themselves by allowing the cotton to be
shipped in their vessels from Havre, and the dread of
establishing the precedent of letting a part of the road
Governmentaalnoynteh.ingTthoedowithbki
reang the law ; which looks
very much re
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like desiring to give of the
illustration.
ulle mo-
tionocirfstmhaenArch-
bishops and Bishops to be applied to the relief of
was finally with-
drawn, on an engagement
parochial destitution. The motion
t to take
the consideration of the subject.
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O
T. PERRONET THOMPSON
surwpalussonreMvern.
Blackheath, London, April 5,1848.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

HARWICH.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—You will no doubt have heard of the singu

lar and almost unparalleled contest which has occurred
in this borough during the present week. For the
last few days we have been represented by one Mem-
ber only, (J. Bagshaw, Esq.,) Mr. Attwood having
been unseated by a Committ€ e of the House of Co.u-
mons, after a lengthened investigation of the proceed-
ings carried on at the election of July last.
The Right Honourable Sir J. C. Hobhouse issued
his address for the vacant seat, but, in the meantime,
the Honourable Manners Sutton was brought forward
in opposition, and credence being given to the report
that Mr. Sutton was certain to be elected, supported,
as it appears he was, by the mayor, magistrates, and
many of the influential inhabitants of the borough, it
is very natural that a Cabinet Minister should decline
to be engaged in such a contest as was supposed
would occur in our little seaport. Added to this, the
debates in the House of Commons were not at all
complimentary to the constituency, and many grave
charges were made which were utterly devoid of truth.
What was the result of the present contest? Allow
me, Sir, first to give you the final close of the poll—
Hobhouse l3l
Sutton
Majority
The first remark will be that the majority is small—
and why ?
First—Our opponent had the advantage of having
an active candidate on the ground, indefatigable in
his canvass, high in station, and supported by a consi-
derable portion of the influential gentlemen of the
borough.

Secondly—Our candidate was not only absent, bill
issued an address to the electors declining the contest
a few days previous to the nomination.

Notwithstanding these untoward circumstances,
the Liberal electors met and unanimously determined
to return Sir J. C. Hobhouse, to show the feelings of
the constituency; and, to their credit, it has been
effected without an outlay of a single shilling, at once
contradicting the aspersions thrown upon them in the
recent debates by several Members of the House of
Commons.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN ELECTOR.

WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, .848.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF
TUESDAY.
CROWN-OFFICE, APRIL 3, 1848.
MEMBER LET CRNED To SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Hamich.—The Right Honourable Sir
John Cam lioftouse, of Berkeley-square, London,
Bart., the last election for the said borough having been
declared void.l

WHITEHALL, APRIL 1.
The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Rev.
William Jacobson, M.A., the office and ylace of Regius
Professcr of Divinity in the University of Oxford,
together with the place and dignity of a Canon of the
cathedral church of Christ in the said University, pro-
perly belonging to the Regius Professor of Divinity in
the said University, void by the promotion of Doctor
Reran Dickson Hampden to the see of Hereford.
WHITEHALL, APRIL 4.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, nominating and ap-
pointing John George Shaw Lefevre, Esq., to be Clerk-
Assistant of the Parliaments, in the room of Benjamin
Currey, Esq., deceased.
WHITEHALL, MAucu 1.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Alfred Guppy, of
Honiton, in the county of Devon, Gent., to be a blaster
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 18.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Isaac Bryant, of
Wimborne Minster, in the county of Dorset, Gent., to
be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of
Chancery.