The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-21 00:00:00

GUIDE TO THE TURP,andPOCKET RACIAI

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COMPANION for 1846. By W. Ruff.
This is the authority on all matters relating to the
turf, and it deserves to be so, for nothing can exceed
the accuracy and extent of the information which it con-
tains, or the admirably clear and succinct manner in
which the information is arranged. Any one referring
to the Guide can in a moment lay his finger on the in-
formation which he may require, whether that infor-
mation relate to the nominations—which are all alpha-
betically arranged and indexed—to the length of the
courses, the laws of racing, the names of the jockeys,
their lowest weights, the " lots," the names of the
trainers, or the colours of the riders. It contains,
moreover, an accurate Racing Calendar for 1845, and is,
in fact, a complete mirror of the racing world of the
United Kingdom.

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A DISPLAY OF HERALDRY. By Win. Newton.
The author of this work states his object in publishing
it to have been " to revive the knowledge of an obsolete
science, of which he became enamoured in his youth,"
and certainly the handsome volume before us, with its
various illustrations, historical and pictorial, is well
calculated to attain that object. The author, it appears,
has been engaged for the last thirty years in collecting
the materials for this publication, which may be con-
sidered as a modernised Guillim. But it is
not by this work alone, which has evi-
dently been a labour of love, that Mr. Newton
has vindicated his right to the title of Champion of
Heraldry. He has delivered a course of interesting lec-
tures on the science before the members of a literary
and scientific society in the City of London, and the
substance of these lectures will be found in the present
publication. The style in which the work is written is
concise and clear, and the author has made his subject
Englander
castles
really quite interesting. The book, which is beautifully
printed and is altogether " got up "is a very superior
style, will no doubt be a great favourite in the old halls
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THE TRUE
By
Charles Sumner.hi
GnRoAINiuDIeEUR OF NATIONS.
are comprisedloorby, and a great
Much learning,
of
spirit
contains in an indication of the
benevolence
as this oration. It
are fast gaining ground among the civilised portions
which
mankind, and the ultimatum of which
sentirJrtinots?s the
ns of
extinction of warfare and the establishment of a general
peace. If only as bodying forth these new and very
noble views of the human end for which men were
created, the little publication before us possesses a most
peculiar attraction. Hitherto, that is to say until
within a very recent period, the applause of the populace
has been chiefly lavished upon those who have con•
ducted nations to victory: in ancient times mere animal
valour was esteemed a virtue : the aggrandizement of
their territories was formerly regarded as the principal
duty of a legislature ; and the appurtenances of battle
were considered as the most glorious insignia of a
citizen. History is indeed mainly composed of the
contest of states, the slaughter of armies, the glory of
conquerors, and the enumeration of victories. During
the days in which the Heathen mythology formed the
religion of Europe, heroes were apotheosized, were pro-
claimed to be, and worshipped as, gods. Generation
after generation, even subsequent to the establishment
of Christianity, the people were instructed to regard
these things as natural, and laudable, and worthy of
imitation ; the children of the people drank in with
their rudimental education a reverence for martial enter-
prise, a reverence for the soldiers of antiquity, a
reverence for prowess when displayed under
a military
guise. Novel lights are now, however, springing up in
the popular intellect ; national confliets
to be contemned as drogatory to an eniigsreh beginning
tebnd race ;
the implements of war are considered
as nothing more than the instruments of crime;
manyy
helmets and gold-laced jackets are looked upon
as baubles ; a mortal struggle has commenced between
" Captain Sword and Captain Pen." It is not difficult
to perceive to what all this agitation of opinion is tend-
ing ; and we may readily conjecture that in the sub.
version of ideas which have hitherto been (if we may so
employ the verb) sanctified by the acquiescence of our
forefathers, a mighty change must ultimately come upon
society. The question is, therefore, will that change be
productive of good or evil ? When war is brought into
utter contempt with the multitude, it will not be re-
sorted to very readily ; that is a r • • oposition very easy
of comprehension. And that such feelings
are rapidly
penetrating the mind of the population, every one who
has at all investigated the intellectual progress of his
contemporaries must acknowledge. Nevertheless, this is
not the only circumstance to be taken into considera-
tion when reviewing this momentous subject ; we must
discover whether those incitements to battle, which
have hitherto goaded our ancestors to bloodshed, will
still continue in existence. Now it is impossible to
form an adequate estimate of the consequences which
must result from the acceptance of free trade among
the governments of the earth, and at the same moment
to maintain the continuance' of those incitements.
Reason teaches us that such must naturally and by
necessity be the ulterior effect of an unrestricted com-
merce. Richard Cobden has already pronounced this fact
in his harangues to the people of England. With the
suppression of agricultural monopoly warfare will be
virtually suppressed ; with the proclamation of an uni-
vers 11 free trade a general peace will be virtually pro-
claimed. The interests of mankind will be become tken
so intimately linked together ; the prosperity of one
nation will be so materially dependent upon the pros-
perity of another, that, notwithstanding their dissimi-
larity of language, of manners, or of creed, the king-
doms of the world will gradually become massed into
one indivisible family. Buss and Frank, Belgian and
Spaniard, Britisher and American, will meet as brothers
yet more than they are accustomed to do now-a-days ;
the opportunities for international contention will never
occur ; the possibility of warfare in Christendom will
never exist. Such is the consummation of these
glorious principles as prefigured in their very nature, as
announced by the representative of Stockport, as anti-
cipated and believed in by ourselves. But the develop-
ment of this consummation is wholly dependent upon the
universality of the system by which it can be alone pro-
duced. Upon this particular, however, we can rest
patiently with a conviction of its fulfilment. The Com-
mons of Great Britain have already accepted the policy
in question; we may, therefore, upon the most mature
deliberation, consider its incorporation in the English
constitution as a matter of absolute certainty. England
is the greatest commercial empire on the face of the
globe; her mercantile transactions influence every mar-
ket in the "four quarters;" her sister states will con-
sequently be driven into as adoption of the same policy
—though when that adoption will be completed it is im-
possible to conjecture. Still it must come ultimately,
and the result must be an universality and a permanence
of peace. For the promotion of the same cause, the
antipathy to warfare, which we have formerly notified as
having already become, to a considerable extent, so
popular, will undoubtedly prove efficacious. The bles-
sing of a general tranquillity among nations is still alto-
gether prospective; this fact must never be so far for-
gotten as to distemper our benevolence; and we must
each and all of us continue to act upon a knowledge that
it is prospective. We have been sednced into this long
digression both by the ineffable importance of the sub-
ject, and because the oration under notice is an emboli-
meat of that antagonism to the battle-field and the
soldiery to which we have alluded. Mr. Sumner, in
city
delivering it before the municipal authoritiesth oatf t
spirit
of
of Boston, has given an eloquent voice
to
those views with very
antagonism, and has embelli!he d
He has proved him-
selferu_ition.
extraordinary marks of d
us speaker, and a
original thinker, an adventuro
an
n Still there is a certain amount
lover of his fellow-r.ne
obliteratethe very re-
in his anxiety to
of Qui"tisniof war forthwith ; and we cannot but think
membranee
1 dcondemnation f its practice
he has generalised his 0 to
most reprehensible extent. He looks with loathing at
its records ; the great captains of the past are, without
any distinction, monsters and miscreants in his eyes.
Patriotism, and all the nobler characteristics of those
deeds of battle, are all forgotten in his loathing for the
military art ; every other sentiment gives place to the
one predominant feeling of disgust at a system. This
is a most diseased and mock philanthropy; it is false and
extravagant to the very last degree. Whatever may be our
opinions as Christians, and as dwellers in the nineteenth
century, we must reverence thousands of those battles,
of those vanquishers, and of those warlike perm)!
generally, remembering that in many cases bloodsh( d
was forced upon them—escape from it was unavoidable
—that, in short, they performed their parts, and per-
formed them gloriously. We could fill books upon
books with the mere catalogue of these facts, hundreds
of which will recur spontaneously to the memory of
historical students. Nay, we could adduce, did space
enable us, the career of the most wonderful man this
earth ever beheld as an instance of defensive wars from
the first hour of his political life to the very last, ren-
dering him, on that account, as well as from the admir-
able qualities of his head and heart, an object of our
veneration and love—not as Mr. Sumner would regard
him, a wholesale murderer and a curse to humanity.
Our comments have extended to such an unexpected
length that we can only recommend this oration, in a
few words, to those who are curious as to the thoughts
by which their contemporaries are animated. We can,
moreover, bating its vein of prejudice (a vein which
would raise the indignation of the hero-worshipper,
Carlyle), recommend it with cordiality. It is a fin©
specimen of American oratory, and it shows, not only
the rhetorician, but the philanthropist, the scholar, and
the independent thinker.

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panted by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, and at-
tended by the Baroness Ahlefeldt, the Baron Knesebeck, and Mr. E.'.
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mund Mildmay ; his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, tl is
Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, the Duchess of Beaufort, the Marqus
and Marchioness of Worcester, and the Ladies It. and B. Somerset.
his Excellency the Russian Ambassador and the Baroness Brunnow,
and Mdile. Olga de Lechner, the Marquis and Marchioness of Dom o,
the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Abercorn, the Marchioness of Sligo, the Marchioness of Wes_-
meath, the Marquis of Huntley, the Marquis of Titehfleld ; his Ex•
cellency the Hanoverian Minister, the Earl and Countess of Wlltm.,
the Earl of Clare, the Earl of Lonsdalc, the Countess of Ktnnoul, Eta
Viscount Cantalupe, Viscount Dungannon, the Viscount Dupplin.
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Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Lady Charles Wellesley, the Earl of Fal-
mouth,
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Lady Mary Hood, Lord Foley, the Hon. C . Foley, ,
Sir James Langhant„
Lady Ashburton, Lady Macdonald, Lady Eldon, Lord Harry Vent..
Misses Foley, Lord Saltoun, n hir and Lady Dom.
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SCILLY, MAY 18.— Sir w. w. Wynn,
Van Wyk, Liverpool, for Rotterdam, towed in with loss of foremtwg
and all spars, sails, and rigging attached.