The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-02 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
FRIDAY'S RACES.

Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, and 5 ft only if de-
clared. A.F. (4 Subs.) lof whom declared.
Duke of Richmond's Peasant, 3 yrs, Bst llb
Mr. Payne's Collingwood, 3 yrs, Bst 81b 2
Mr. INT. S. Stanley's Leaconfield, 3 yrs, Bst 81b 3
Betting.-5 to 4 agst Leaconfield; 6to 4 agst Coiling-
wood, and 3to I against Peasant. Peasant made running,
followed by Collingwood, to the T.Y.C. post, where the
second place was taken by Leaconfield. In the bottom the
three closed, and they raced home almost abreast, Peasant
winning by a neck, and Collingwood beating Leaconfield by
a head. Run in 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
Match, 200, h ft, A. F.

Sir J. Hawley's Alamode, Bst 31b, beat; Mr. Osbaldeston's
Sorella, 8s 91b; 6 to son Sorella; Alamode made all the
running, and won by a length. Run in 2 minutes 28
seconds.
Match, 200, 75 ft, T.Y.C. Bst 71b each.—Sir J. Hawley's
Bishop of Romford's Cob, beat Lord Waterford's Corranna.
Betting-5 to 4on Corranna, who made tremendous run-
ning till half way up the cord; the Cob then,challenged, and
after a fine race, won by a length. Run in 1 min. 20 sec.
The Newmarket Stakes, of 50 sow. Each, 11 ft, for three yrs
old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 21b, D.M. (20 Subs.)
Mr. Gully's ch c Pyrrhus the First (Day) 1
Colonel Anson's lago 2
Lord Exeter's br c by Colwick, out of Galata ......... 3
The following also started, but were not placed :—Lord
Albemarle's The Little Vulgar Boy, Mr. Wigram's Heiress,
Lord Stradbroke's Polecat, Lord G. Bentinck's Marquis of
Conyngliam, Duke of Rutland's Sister to Flambeau.
Betting-11 to 10 ag,t lago 3to 1 agst Pyrrhus the First,
G to 1 agst the Marquis of lago,
and 8 to 1 agst
Galata.
The running for the first quarter of a mile- was made by
Little Vulgar Boy; it was then taken up by, lago at a good
pace, followed by Marquis of Conyngham, Galata colt, and
Pyrrhus the First. The Marquis was beaten at the cords,
and half-way up Pyrrhus the First, joining the favourite, de-
feated him, after a good race, by half a len th ; Galata a
length from lago. Run in 1 min. 53 sec. g
Match, 10.), h ft. D.M.—Mr. Osbaldeston's King Charles,
Bst 816 (F. Butler), beat Sir J. Hawley's Prospect,
7st 91b.
Betting-6 to 4on Prospect.
Won by a head. Run in 1 min. 58 sec.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs, each for three and four-
years-old. D. M. (5 Subs).
Lord Orfard's Blackie, 3 yrs, 7st 10lb (Sly) 1
Lord G. Bentinck's Ennui, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b 2
Mr. Mare's BreaAgirth, 5 yrs, Est lllb 3
Mr. Osbaldeston's Petit Morceau, 4 yrs, Bsc 81b
Betting— 6 to 5 agst Blackie, 5 to 2 agst Petit Morceau, and
3to 1 agst Ennui. Won easy by a length. Run in 1 min.
51 sec.

Match, 200, h ft. D. M.—Lord Maidstone's Tom Tullock,
Bst 41b, agst Lord Glasgow's f by Retriever, out of Emilia,
Bst. Off by consent.
The Cup was not challenged for at this meeting.
CHESTER Cup.—Uo to the close of this meeting nothing
had transpired to confirm or disprove the rumour of Mr.
Hill's death.

(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
STOKE DOWN, NEAR CHICHESTER.—Farromr.
The Chichester Stakes of 5 soya. each, 3 ft, and 20 added.
One mile and a quarter, over six hurdles. (5 Subs.)
Mr. Wright's Bob Booty, aged (Mr. Haworth) 1
Captain Pryce's Lady Alice, aged
The following also started :—Lord A. Lennox's Barnaby
Rudge, aged—Mr. Boniface's Black Bess, 6 yrs—and Mr.
Bell's Richard Cricket, 4 yrs.
The winner is objected to on account of his owner's non-
residence.

The Farmers' Cup of 20 sovs., added to a sweepstakes of 2
soya. each, two miles, was won in two heats by Mr. Boniface's
Black Bess, 6 yrs (Owner), beating Mr. Harris's Blackbird,
and Mr. Cheeseman's Charlie.
The Hunters' Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added, the
second to save his stake, two miles, 5 subs, were won by Mr. Cheeseman's Charlie, aged (Owner), beating Mr. Crosbie's
Clear-the-way, Captain Pryce's Jack Sheppard, Lord G.
Lennox's Bedouin, and another.
The Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, and 20 added, half a
_w mile,
10 subs., were won by Mr. Boniface's Black Bess, 6, yrs
(Owner), beating Pimento and seven others.
The galloway race was won by Mr. Savage's Maid of the
Ming-up-sst, and the pony race by Lord G. Lennox's Such-a -get-
titairs.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY.
CHESTER CUP.-9 to 1 agst Sweetmeat-11 to 1 agst Pe-
dometer (t)-13 to 1 agst Best Bower-14 to 1 agst The
Baron (t)-18 to 1 agst Miss Burns (t)-18 to 1 agst In.
heritre,ss (1)-20 to 1 agst Weatherbit-20 to 1 agst The
Magnet (t)-27 to 1 agst Hope-30 to 1 agst Clumsy (t)-
35 to 1 agst Coranna (0-35 to 1 agst Crim. Con.-40 to 1
agst Ruff-50 to 1 agst Vol-au-Vent (t)-50 to 1 agst Beau-
front (t)-50 to 1 agst Lady Wildair.
DERBY.-7 to 2 agst Sting-7 to 1 agst,Tibthorpe-18 to 1
agst Brocardo-18 to 1 agst Tom Tullock-22 to 1 agstilum-
druin-22 to 1 agst The Traverser--33 to 1 agst Fancy Boy.

LONDON HIBERNIAN SOCIETY.
A meeting of this Society, on behalf of the Irish Church and the
cause of Protestant education in Ireland, was held in the large room,
Exeter-hall, yesterday, at eleven o'clock.
The Marquis of CnoraioNDELEv, who occupied the chair, called on
one of the reverend gentlemen on the platform to read prayers.
The Cusiammi then said that he had been requested to take
the chair as having been connected with the Society for some time ;
and though he would have wished to see another person there more
competent to discharge its duties, yet he felt interested in the objects of
the Society. He valued a Protestant education, and it gratified him
to know that the Society, under the patronage of the Church of
England, was constituted to give such an education to more than
50,000 children, and he hoped that it would continue to extends its
efforts, and become, under the blessing of God, increasingly useful.
He would refrain from detaining the meeting, and proceeded to
call on
The SECRETARY, whoread the report for the last year. It stated that
the receipts of the Society for the year amounted to 4,4651., being an
increase of more than 1,0001. over the income for the previous year ;
that 2,4501. had been remitted to the Church Education Society for
Ireland ; that the number of schools in connexion with the Society
were 1,811, containing 100,755 children, of whom 12,000 were the
children of Protestant Dissenters, and 30,000 of Roman Catholics.
Lord SANDON, who moved the first resolution, said there were
others more competent, but he felt called on by the course of poli-
tical events to come forward, as he thought every Cristian ought,
and especially legislators, to show that they were still warmly
concerned in the cause of the Church ; for if legislators, ' after oppo-
sition, were compelled to acquiesce in certain events, they were cer-
tainly called on to come forward personally and individually, feeling,
as they must do, that they were led:less and less to rely upon Parlia-
ment or corporate bodies, and more and snore on their own endeavours.
The Church of Ireland had suffered in nch, placed often in circumstances
of temptation—temptations from persecution and from kindness ; but
she had continued with a singular unanimity to hold up to them the
same grand principles, and he hoped she would long continue to do so.
But it was the duty of individuals now to countenance her in her
struggles. The Noble Lord, after some further observations, moved
that the report be adopted.
The Right Rev. Lord Bishop of CASHEL said, he rose with great
pleasure to second the resolution moved by the Noble Lord. He
was gratified at the sympathy expressed by the Noble Lord for the
great, tne arduous, but important struggle in which the Church of
Ireland was engaged. It was a struggle for the grand principles of
the Reformation, namely, whether instruction, such as would do
good to man, shall be through the Holy Word of God, or, whether,
that being put way, it shall be through the traditions of men.—
(Applause.) He felt himself standing there, the advocate of a prin-
ciple which, in fidelity to his God and to h:s fellow-man, he dare
not give up, and whether he stood against persecution, or tried by
kindness, he trusted neither would ever lead him to desert it.—
(Applause.) There were assemblies, he said, at the present day, in
which it would seem strange to advocate the Irish Church, and in
which that Church was looked upon as a monstrous thing. It was
strange that that should never have been found out—never,
so long as the clergy of the English Church and of the
Roman Catholic Church met together on the same field of
sport, and at the same table, neglecting the duties of their
office. One thing, reported as said by a Noble Lord, astonished him,
that the Church of Ireland robbed the Roman Catholics of property
that belonged to them. Did they consider that the funds of the
Church, and the endowments generally, were a robbery from the
Roman Catholics, because the Archbishops and Bishops appointed
by the Pope once possessed these endowments? If so, then
it was as much a robbery in England as in Ireland. He
said, that an objection against the Church of Ireland had
been originated by a young man, a Member for one of the
Irish counties, a fashionable young man, Ivho perhaps did not
read the Bible himself, and supposed the Roman Catholics of Ireland
had no need of it ; at least, he thought he pleased their clergy when
he objected to the Irish Church, because it would not support the
Irish Board. His Lordship went at great length into the demerits of the
National B )ard of Education, and read several documents showing the
statistics of the schools conducted under the different systems, and
urged the meeting to support the system of scriptural education.
The resolution was put from the chair and carried unanimously.
Lord LIFFORD, after some remarks confirmatory of' the Rev.
Prelate's statements, moved the second resolution,
Rev. Dr. O'SuLtavals, in seconding the resolution, said that three
charges had been made against the Church of Ireland :—that her
revenues were too large ; that her title to them was founded on in-
justice ; and that the establishment of a Protestant church in Ire-
land was very impolitic. On the first, he said it ought to be recol-
lected that, in establishing a church, it was necessary to open a
door for clergymen from every rank in society, it had, therefore,
been settled that there should be twelve Episcopal Peers, whose
gross income was to be not less than 60,0001. annually, and he was
sure that a jury of their peers would not decide that that was too
much. The income of all the Protestant clergy in Ireland, who
amounted to two thousand two . hundred, was only some
thing more than 400,0001., which would not be more than
21(1. to each of those who were to live as gentlemen in society.
Looking to the people, and assuming that out of 1,700,000 Protestants
I'oo,ooo belonged to the Church of England, then it would be found
that the funds at the disposal of the Church were equivalent to no
mere than 10s. each person. Considering the importance ofa man's
salvation, that amount was surely not too much to be spent towards.
attaining it. The Rev. Speaker, in discussing the injusticeofo
title held by the Irish Church to these revenues, begged to corre
mistaken supposition that modern us:anent.' was the saNi,,
an
as
manism, and that the Protestant Church dated no earner
the aims
of the Reformation. The modern Catholic Church pretended to be a
reformed church equally as the English Church .
and llrieetalitneedor
v.
corrupt
pt
'
Gentle-
man said the Romanist' had changed the frith,
forms, the English Church, reformed the ceremonies and retained
the faith; on that ground of distinction he held time English
to be but a deve'opment of the ancient church, and,
therefore, that the endowments according to all legiti-
mate and religious Jurisprudence properly belonged to those
in 'whose hands they were at present. The Reverend Gentle-
man then went into the history of Ireland at great length, to
show that that country was never in greater allegiance w
England than during the supremacy o f theProtestaltlant
Church. lie sat down with moving the following resolution :
That there is abundant reason for thankttlness to God for the in-
creased success that has attended the exertions of the London
Hibernian Society during the past year, and it is much to be disired
that English churchmen should display yet greater interest in the
welfare of the Church in Ireland, and use more strenuous and
effectual efforts to assist her in the fulfilment of the important
duties with which sha is entrusted."
Lord TEIGNMOUTR in a spech of tome length, moved the next re-
solution.
The Rev. 11. 11•NEn.E, in seconding it, said, although the proximate
view of the subject before them was scriptural education for Ireland,
and. therefore the speeeh of the Rev. Gentleman might seen irrele-
vant, yet as one step behind that proximate view led them to the
continuance or non continuance of the Irish Church, it was closely to the
point, and he believed that one other step would lead to the question
of the existence or non-existence of an Established Church in Britain.
On that topic, he thought they were all indolent and inactive, and
though incomparably the greater number, and the stronger, if
united, their Church was being gradually invaded and undermined
by the measures of their enemies, and by nothing more certainly than
by the hational system of education. This brought the Rev. Gentle-
man to argue against that system, and the exclusion of the Scriptures
from Its schools, which he did with great eloquence and amid great
applause. He concluded with moving—
" That as the Government of this country feels itself precluded
from affording any aid to the schools of the Church Education
Society for Ireland, on the ground that in them the sacred Scriptures
are made an essential part of the instruction given to the pupils, it
is a duty incumbent on all Christians to exert themselves to the
rig t
he
ut-
most of their power to supply the means necessary for affording the
blessings of Scriptural education to the whole of the poorer 1,
the community."
A vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman, the meeting
separated.
[We are always unwilling to speak against any private Individual,
but in doing our duty to the public, we never met with a more dis-
obliging or ungentlemanly person than he who officiated as secretary
for this Society.]

:Yesterday being the birthday of the Duke of Wel-
lington, the tradesmen of his Grace assembled to celebrate the com-
pletion of his seventy-seventh year, at the Albion, Aldersgate-street,
where an entertainment worthy of the occasion was prepared by Messrs.
Staples. The chair was taken by Mr. Underwood, and a deep feel-
ing
of gratification was expressed by all the gentlemen preseqt,
they had again the privilege of meeting to testify their respect hatoillustrious nobleman, to whom the country is so much indebted.
readful
SERIOUS ACCIDENT FROM MACtirsERY.—A d
accident happened on Saturday last to Mr. Harris, of Brook 31111,
near Tavistock. He was in the act of greasing
tile cogs of the great
wheel of his mill, when by some means his shirt became caught,
which gradually drew him within the lathe and crushed his breast and
broke his ribs. The man at work observing the machinery impeded,
stopped the mill and discovered his master 111 the above situation.
He was Immediately removed, and, to the astonishment of all, was
found not dead. Faint Slopes are entertained of his recovery.—.
Plynzouth Journal. •
Rumours have been in circulation as to a failure in
the early potato crop, which, weaireslorry3p particularly say,i is likely
to til
likelyte kidney
ourhto prove
too true ; in our neighboOd ths nv,ue
ILLIKL—GreenWG4 AdVertiOn