The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY

SPORTING NOTES.
No. LXXXIV.
A FEW WORDS (1N THE STAMFORD

MEETING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN

SlR,—Stamford this year is in the field with ten eveats
on paper, three of which are not entered for as 3 et. The
sport commences tomorrow with a Handicap Plate of
50 sovs., &c., two miles and a half, which EMILY or
EGALITE ougnt to win. Then follows the Burghley
Stskts, a two and a quarter mile race, which either
Strongbow or Westow could win if allowed to start; in
their absence Lord Exeter will pocket the stakes. A
sweepstakes of 20 sovs, each, half a mile, will have
POETESS first and St. Martin filly second. PULCRER'
RIMA may possibly win the Barley thorpe Stakes.
TELESCOPE is reported a certainty for the Stamford St.
Leger. On Wednesday, I fancy, POETESS will repeat
the dose of the first day by winning the half
mile sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each for two years
old colts and fillies. If Lord Exeter cannot ace mplish
the winning deed with his Nutcracker or Phlegethon for
the Stamford Gold Cup, which I think is very dubiouti,
why Nusius will win for a certainty. The betting this
morning is not over bti.k, but it extends over a wide
field, nearly every stelte in the market having been
touched upon; the principal transactions were as folloW:
—Burghley Stakes-2 to 1 on the field. Stamford St.
Leger-5 to 4on Telescope. Two year-old Stakes-5 to
4 agat Poetess; 3 to 1 agat Toga filly; 3 to 1 agst
Cal?pso filly. Stamford Gold Cup-6 to 4 agst Ninus.
Berkshire Stakes (Ilsley)-2 to 1 each, ogst Bridgton
and Fogleman; 3 to 1 agst Hippogriff; 4 to 1 aget Corn-
batant. Nottinghamshire Handicap-4 col agst Herbert;
6 to 1 agst Follow- me lads; 8 to 1 each agst Valentine,
Snowdrift, and Vivand a e; 10 to 1 agst Pitsford. Two-
year-old Stakes (Nottiuglism)-2 to 1 agst Brother to
Shylock. Bunney Park Stakes--2 to 1 agst Paddy
Bird; 2to 1 agat Evadne. Goodwood Stakes-13 to 2
agst Presto, take 7 to 1; 12 to 1 sgst Harpsichord; 13
to 1 aget Windischgratz; 15 to 1 agst Narcissus.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.
July 14, 1851.

TO- TUE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
-- - (EVERY MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY.)
Sir,—On Wednesday the 9th, on geneg into Com-
mittee on the Colonial Property Qualification Bill, Mr.
Tufnell moved That it be an instruction to the Corn-
mittehtO provide for the abolition of any property qua-
lification for the Election ,of Members to serve in
Parliament." The Motion, brought out a good deal of
discussion on the uses and non-uses of a property quali-
fication. It was pretty clearly established, that the in-
vention of a qualification irelandeci property originated
with the Jacobite Squire Westerns after the Revolution
of 1688, and that Scotland was omitted because Scot-
land was thought to be Jacobite enough without. Then,
as now, the strength of conservatism was among the
landed interest, and of liberal principles among the com-
mercial. And the object was to exclude the commercial
interest as- far as possible from Parliament, and bring
back the Stuarts. No very favourable parentage for the
property qualification, you will allow.
Since tnat time the efficiency of the exclusion has
been much worn down, particularly by a hat is known
by the title of Mr. Warburton 's Act. But Liberal
Members who are richer in popularity than in Three per
Cents. are made to do something like taking the fig from
under the mule's tail; though in point of pecuniary ex-
pense the process costs only five-and-twenty pounds.
For five-tied-twenty pounds any man of decent habits
can be set up with a landed property, and a title suffi-
ciently valid to enable him to pals the wicket by swear
ing he has the land. Not a soul over was, or perhaps
ever will be, kept out of Parliament by it; but still
there is a kind of stigma in being obliged to resort to
artithie,and that is worth something to the projectors.rhe proposal before the Committee was to qual.fy for
property in the Colonies; a thing to which in itself no
reasonable objection could be made. But the motion of
Mr. Tufnell threw such light on the inefficiency and
uselessness of qualification altogether, that all parties
threw up their briefs, and first the motion and then the
Bill was withdrawn. •
During the discussion, allusion was made to the super-
liaous article and,born, out of due time, with which the
latter-day supporters of the Charter have burthened
their cause in: the shape of a demand for Payment of
Members; the invention palpably of men who look no
further than that they would like to be sent to Parlia-
ment and paid. The objections to which are, first that
if anybody likes to pay them, it can be done now; and
next, that the general result, supposing even the law to
be that' Tories should pay a Radical Member when he
had."-a majority of votes and Radicals a Tory, would
be that 'Members who are now only asked to subscribe to
the Infirmary and in rare instances to a horse-race,
would systematically make a point of honour of return-
ing their pay and most probably something more, in the
shape of donations to their constituencies. So that, on
the whole the system of donations would be doubled and
trebled, and :the relative weakness of those who de-
pended on their pay -would be greater than ever. In the
present qUestion the allusion served only to throw a
vague discredit on the plans and wishes of the Re-
formers; but as far as it went, its operation was un-
favourable.
On Thursday the Inhabited House Duty Bill was read
a third time and passed. This brought up the Member
for Buckinghamshire (Mr. Disraeli), whose speech, how-
ever cautiously worded and judiciously chastened, de-
monstrated that the fears of the party he represents,
are lest the Government by lightening the indirect
taxes which fall unfairly on the men of small incomes,
should pitie the'way to a necessity next session for lay-
ing more of 'direct taxes, which mean taxes that shall
tall fairly on the. rich. The hobgoblin of direct taxa-
tion was clearly what ._they had in sight. The men of
small incomes are not yet equal to the subject; and
their counsellors still less. But it is not the first time
the march of intellect has set things to rights.
On Friday in the debate on Supply, a vote on the sub-
ject
of Public Education brought out from the Minister
a declaration of considerable importance as to his future
intentions with respect to the promotion of that object.
The friends of non-priestly education could not let
well alone, nor refrain from comments which forced the
Minister do something like swallowing up his words.
But everybody knows that in a question of this nature,
deeds are not dependent upon words, but on the
contrary, form an =undercurrent of their own, which'
Wouldlead to great error in calcelating the ship's place,
tf the upper surface of words alone were taken into view.
The same contest that is going on in Piedmont and other
continental countries, is going on here, with modifica-
tions corresponding to the difference of latitude. The
question is, whether the knowledge of the country shall
oe framed on its religion as it may happen to be estab-
lished, or its religion be framed upon its knowledge.
Our forefathers.tot.k the latter course; they gained know-
ledge and thence the Reformation. in these days of re-
-urn to medimval imbecility, the battle is sore for causing
the process to be reversed.
The debate on Friday was for a long time, conducted
. with singular' moderation; but the arrival of some of
-if the diners-out introduced the " postprandial " zeal
for religion which Milton appears to have suspected in
the peerage and priesthood of philistia. For all this,
the world 'moves en, and neither here nor in Piedmont
will religion be much longer used as the nail to be thrown
into the movements of the State's educational machine.

On 'Saturday the House met at twelve, and atter. some
hours' debate gassed the Civil Bills (Ireland), and
ether Bills. . _

I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, 14th July, 1851.

MR. COBDEN, MP., versus THE CORPO-

RATION OF LONDON.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The "Ecclesiastical Tides" Bill being still under
cousideration of the Imperial Parliament, I an induced
o recall the following portion of the Hon. Member for
the West Riding'ti speech at Manchester (previous to
the commencement. of the present session), which I should
have done some months earlier, but for the hope that so
Aloes a. compsriaon would have attracted the attention
of men better qualified than myself for the task:—
" When has there been such a spectacle, even so ab-
surd a spectacle exhibited, as that which was shown
when the London Corporation took that great ginger-
bread coach, the 'pattern of 200 years ago, and clothed
themselves in that Batholoniew Fair dress f theirs, and
took a man Witti a fur cup, whose pattern dates back
five centuries, with' a long sword in his hand, and all the
other set of paraphernalia of the city of London, and went
down by the railroad to Windsor to present an address
to the Queen, in order to put down Popish mummeries.—
(Immense cheers, followed by roars of latighter.)" The
lion. Gentleman then informed his captivated audience
that he had seen " the most gorgeous religious ceremonies
of the Church of Rome, but that he hud not seen any-
thing half so absurd or gorgeous as the mummeries in
which the Corporation of London indulge every year."
NoW, I would ask any man in his senses what con-
sistent analogy can there be between the time-honoured
pageantry attendant upon an inauguration, state, or offi-
cial visit of the chief magistrate of London and the
pompous display bf religious insignia connected with
the Roman Catholic religion in these realms—the one
being an exercise of its, universally admitted, civil
rights and customs, the ::other a violation of its, as uni.
versally admitted, constitutional rights?
Is it a question of external decoration, or of internal
influence? The former in either case may be summarily
dispeted "0f,.1 it makes good !or. trade," as does the
barbarous splendour (of which the Hon. Member has
such a primitive horror) surrounding our priceless gems,
Victoria and:Albert. With regard to the internal in-
fluence then; Of a ?Lord Mayor's Show," of what pa-
tient industry, what:years of toil and. anxiety, what in-
estimable social virtues, what participation in the main-
tenance of the commercial greatness of this kingdom,
does it not speak? and should its, glittering equipages
and gotgeonSf liveries; or even thoie types of the olden
time, the " cap and sword," make converts to their
shrine, is there aught "offensive to common sense and
inn Nene° in:-stimulating the rising generation to "go
and do likewise." I would remind the Hon. Member
that external decorations have been admitted by all
writers, who possessed any knowledge of human nature,
to be necessary 'badges of distinction, whether in the
court. the camp, the council, courts judicial, or civic in-
stitutions. Dues the Corporation of the city of London
seek by its internal influences
.to enthral alike the
thoughts and actions of mankind? -Has the existence of
its institution been an impediment toior a promoter of,
" the safety, honour, welfare of our Sovereign, and her do-
minions," and, lastly, are either its. instautions, or its
functionaries capable of being made political agents for
any or every Roman Catholic State in Europe; or can it,
or its votaries, be compared to the potent spells and
seductive charms of the Roman Catholic Church for again
disseminating the seeds of religioui discord amongst us ?
It occurs to me that bad the Honourable Gentleman
taken a more comprehensive view of the motives which
induced the corporation of the city of London to present
an address to her Majesty against the Papal aggression,
there would have bee's no need to remind him that popu-
larity, like printed paper, may be put to " base uses,"
and as being more lenient to his principles than to his
judgment. I would conclude, by remarking to him that
" there are more things bet Ween heaven and earth than
are dreamed of in hii phildsophy." Hoping that he and
his colleagues will rtflect ere they vomit forth again
such crude ideas upon points so important as these,
I remain, sir, your obedient servant, •
ONE OF THE YOUNG BULLS.
London, July 12, 1851. .1:

GRAND MILITARY MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—The
great Eclat which attended the performance of the bands of
seven of the most crack regiments in the service at Chelsea
C, liege-gardens last month, on behalf of the Consumption
Hospital, Brompton, has, it appears, induced the committee
to try an encore on a similar extent, but in a more pic-
turesque position, possessiug higher charms in sylvan scenery
than the college gardens, Lord Ranelagh having allowed the
hospital the use of his grounds at Mulgrave-house,: on the
river -We„Ft4l4atat, for the
.purpose. The event comes off
on Thursday and Friday next; and we congratulate the
committee on havingprovided against every contingency of
the weather.

WATERFORD, WBXFOUD, WICKLOW, AND DUBLIN
RAILWAY. - The Bill of this company has passed the House
of Lords for a line from Kingstown to Bray and Wicklow,
estimated further outlay of
a3rl,2dso,rCompany's Bill for a line to
Dodi. urnit
shteo
DBruanyd,rua t an
in
Bray has also passed, the powers to make being alterna-
-1
tive. The Committee commenced sitting on Monday last,
and after the case for the Bills had finished intimated their
nienrss,erfoterdwahoemlaMusre. Keat-
ing,
oera t -a
intention to pass them, and recommended the opposition to
agree on clauses. Themßri.ll•Ds W.
Der.eKopeapnosee,dobnyd txther.KisTinagashtoawpn.
ma nicit toewe
of both lines, from Bray to Kingstown
and Dublin. ..
.
Company .shareholderes acnodml
,
The United - States . Mail steam-ship Arctic,
pi:iiegine,roeNil:.o HugheoFoain.
oalpleHyniilntlh,g
Captain Luce, which would leave New York on the sth in-
relay nat. - .
stant, may be expectedto arrive in the Mersey on %Pacifies-

AMERICAN NEWS

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY NIGHT.
By the royal mail steamer Niagara, Captain Stone,
we have advices from New York to the 2d inst.
She brings 951,000 dollars in specie on freight,
128,000 dollars of whch are for Havre.
The Africa arrived at New York on the morning
of the 2d inst. _

The steam ship Hermann arrived at New York on
the 2d inst. shostly after the Europa. • •
Much interest had been excited in New York by
a rt qui.ition from Mr. Bulwer, the British Minister
to the United Government, for the extradition of a
deserter from the British army in New Brunswick.
The accused was charged with stealing sundry arms
and equipments in order to make his offence indict-
able under the conditions of the treaty. He is a man
of some intelligence, and conducted his own cause
at the primary examination with a good deal of
shrewdness. The decision of the Court has not been
rendered.

By the Merlin mail steamer, arrived at New York
from St. Thomas and Bermuda, we have advices from
the former to the 21st, and the latter to the 26th ult.
Heavy showers of rain had fallen and done much
good. _ _

At Guadaloupe, on the 16th of May, a severe
rough gale was experienced.
Our dates from Venezuela are to the 3d ult. An
unsuccessful attempt had been made to assassinate the
President.

The New York Tribune mentions the suspension
of the houses of Hulburt and Co., and the banking
house of R. Ksndon and Co. It, was expected the
liabilities would be paid in full.
The balance of the fourth instalment of the indem-
nity to Mexico was paid into the United States'
Treasury on the 28th ult.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, JULY 2.

Money Market -There has been a good demand since
the last steamer for stocks, and Federal stacks have im-
proved. At the close, however, they were duller and
heavy. Business generally had been rather more active
of late than is usual at this season of the year, and there
is every prospect of a good fall trade. The country
merchants have arrived in greater numbers than usual,
and have already made their appearance in our dry goods
and grocery stores. The exports during the month of
June wore to a fair extent, although the decline in cotton
restricted shippers of that staple. We have reports of
bet a moderate business in all the places for the steamer
of to-day, at about previous rates. We quote bills on
London 101 c. to lOic. premium • Paris, 505 to 508;1;
Antwerp, mntwerp, sOBi-; Amsterdam. 41,f to 42; Ha burgb,
368; and Bremen, 798 to 791.
Cotton-After the departure of the Pacific on the 21st
ult, some of the better grades advanced Ic. per lb., these
being comparatively scarce and wanted for home use, but
for the three past days business has been dull, as is
usual, however, at this period of the season, and the
above improvement has been nearly lost, so that our quo-
tations for the lower grades stand as they did 10 days
ago, bat little having been done in them, and for grades
only middling only a trifle higher than they did then.
The total receipts to latest dates at all the shipping ports
are 2,263,466 bales, against 1,981,396 to same dates last
year, an increase this season of 282,070 bales. The
total foreign exports this year is 490,136 bales more than
last-say 378,613 bales increase to Great Britain; 32,297
increase to France; 52,114 increase to north of Europe,
and 27,112 increase to other foreign ports. The ship-
ments from southern to northern ports are 121,388 bales
less this season than last, and there is a decrease in
stock of 59,914 bales. The sales for the week ending
Friday were 10,100 bales, and since our last 2,500 bales.
69 bales Savanilla brought 6ic. We quote Atlantic ports,
interior, nominal; Gulf ports, nominal; low to good or-
dinary, 7 to 8; Florida, ditto; other Gulf ports, ditto;
low to good middling, 81 to 91; Florida, 81 tp 28;
other Gulf ports, 84 to 101; middling fair to fair,
9i to 101; Florida, 94 to loi; Gult ports, 101 to 12;
fully fair to good fair 10. Gobd and fine-The arrivals
have been firm: Texas, 130 bales; Mobile, 633; Florida,
1,233; Georgia, 729; South Carolina, 367; North Caro-
lina, 85. Total, 3,227 bales. Total imports from Ist to
30th ult., 34,045 bales. Exports from the Ist to the 30th
of June, 1851-Cotton (bales), 25,081; 1850, 43,029.
Exports from the United States since the Ist of Sept.,
1850-Bales, 1,801,702; same time 1849, 1,311,666.
Dry goods-Although we have no sales .to "report, we
have the prospect of an early trade, as several of the
most prominent jobbers from the Western cities are here
ready to examine the market after the 4th, preparatory
to making their purchases.
Iron-The market for the various description' a cont-
nues quiet. 300 to 400 tons Scotch pig sold at 19 dollsi,
and 60 tons of the Glengart Brand at 19 dolls, 25c. six
months. We hear of no further sales of English bars.
A small lot of Swedish steel iron brought 88 dolls., 5 per
cent, discount for cash.
Tobacco remains as last quoted-very dull for all de-
scriptions, with prices in favour of buyers, except for
fine old crop Kentucky.
There was a pretty active inquiry for flour, throughout
the day chiefly for domestic consumption, but at down-
ward tending figures. The sales comprised 10,000 bar-
rels: superfine No. 2 at 3 dolls. 62c. to 3 "dolls. 81c.;
mixed to good Western at 4 dolls. 6c. to 4 dulls. 18c.;
round hoop Ohio at 4 dolls. 12c. to 4 dolls. 25c,; and
pure Genesee at 4 dolls. 31c. to 4 dolls. 371 c.; Canadian
was quite dull, 450 barrels in bond realised 4 dolls. 12c.
to 4 dolls. 25c.; Southern remains about the'same',. with
sales of 1,800 barrels mixed to good brands, at 4 &Ale.
31e. to 4 dolls. 50c.; and France, at 4 dolls. 87c. to 5 dolls.
37ic. Rye, fl ,ur, and meal, were inactive at yesterday's
quotations. Wheat was buo)ant and uniform; 13,000
bushels Canadian were taken at 98c. to 1 doll. 1c..; and
10,000 bushels Ohio at 96c. Rye and barley Were as
noted in our former review. Oats less plentiful, and
something better; Northern were selling at 42c. to 748 c.;
Jersey 41c. to 42c.; and Ohio, at 400. to 41c. Cfirn was
..ffered freely at reduced prices; the operations ihcluded
36,000 bushels; damaged and heated western, at 53c. to
' 55c:; mixed ditto, 58c. to 59c ; and round yellow, at
59c. to 60c.
Freights to London-We notice engagements of 100
barrels of oil and 100 boxes of cheese, at 305.; 500 bar-
rels turpentine and 200 resin, 35.; 200 tierces beef, 4s. 6d.
to 55.; and 5,000 barrels flour, 2s. To Liverpool-800
barrels turpentine, 2s. 6d.; 10,000 barrels flone, ls. 9d.
to 25.; cotton, one-eighth to three-sixteenthaY 25,000
bushels wheat, 6d. to 68d.; 6,000 corn, 6d. in bogs; 100
casks ashes, 205., and 15 tons logwood, 17856 d. To
Glasgow-8,000 bushels wheat, 7d., to be bagged by
the ship; 1,600 barrels flour, 2s. 3d.; 80 tierces beef,
4s. 6d., and 5 tons butter, 27a.; three Dutch vessels
taken up for London at 2s. for flour; a Bremen brig, for
Cadiz, at 16 dolls. for pipe staves; and an American
ship. from St. Johns, to two ports in Ireland, at 4 dolls.
for deals.

NEW ORLEANS, JULY 1.
Cotton—This morning 800 bales were disposed of ;
yesterday 2,500, mostly for England, waiting Africa's
prices.
Bacon is firmer. Ribbed rides, Bic. Pork, 14 dolls.
to 14 dolls. 50c. for mess; for corn fine white, 54c.;
yellow, 56c.
Exchanges—Sterling, dull, unchanged; New York, at
81 dis.

BOROUGH OF FINSRURY.—A meeting of gentlemen
from various parishes in the borough of Finsbury was held,
on Friday evening last, in the board room of the Holborn
workhouse, Little Gray's-Inn-lane, with a view to consider
the expediency of adopting some general and united effort
in order to secure to the inhabitants the advantages of self-
government in affairs of a local nature. The meeting was
well attended by gentlemen of influence in the respective
parishes, and a general and strong opinion was expressed
that there were many questions of great local interest in con-
nexion with the borough which required the constant super-
intendence of some permanent body identified in interest
with the ratepayers and inhabitants. Among these were
mentioned the water supply, the proposed park for Finsbury,
and other sanitary and general improvements. The subject
underwent a full and deliberate consideration, and resulted
in the unanimous adoption of a resolution, that it was expe-
dient that an association should be formed, to be called " the
Finsbury Incorporation Association," whose duty it should
be to take such steps as might be deemed expedient to secure
to the inhabitants, by procuring a charter of incorporation, or
otherwise, the advantages of local administration in all mat-
ters which concerned thaularge and populous borough. A
provisional committee of twenty:ene gentlemen was then ap-
pointed to carry, out the resolutions, with power to add to
their number, and they were instructed to seek co-operation
and support from all the parishes and associations in the bo-
rough, and as far as possible to see that each part should be
fully and fairly represented in the committee hereafter to be
appointed.
1118. FEARGUS O'CONNOR'S SYMPATHY FOR 'THE
Pooit.—ln the last number of the Northern Star Mr. O'Con-
nor, addressing " his political children," gives the following
estimate of his sympathy for the poor r—" Do not the work-
ing people of England think that another man in my posi-
tion would have now been a member of the Government if
he had abandoned the cause of the people and gone with that
party who profess to rule the people, but who oppress the
poor? I told you before, that in the year 1833 I was offered
the whole of the patronage of my own county, if 1 would
support the Government, and not the Irish people. I also
told you before, that in the year 1839, when the Conference
was sitting, I was offered to be placed upon the Bench in
Ireland as a judge, if I would abandon Chartism, but 1 re-
fused is. And now, working man, I repeat again what I
told Lord Edisbery in the year 1833, who was then whipper-
in to the Whigs--' That it' they amalgamated all the offices
of Governor-General of India, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland,
Prime Minister, and Lord Chancellor, and offered them all to
me, that the whole would not bribe me to give a vote in the
House of Commons that was calculated to injure the poor."
—Leeds Mercury.
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We are sorry to learn that the project of the Duke
of Northumberland, for additional surveys and excavations
in and near the wall of Severus on his Grace's estate, is not
likely to be carried into effect this year. Such works can
only be undertaken and prosecuted in the summer, and this
summer has been and is likely to be so completely occupied
in the metropolis, that it has not been found easy to collect
at Alas ick, even to enjoy the hospitalities of the Castle, a
body, of antiquaries and men of science qualified to superin-
tend the progress of the discoveries. The kind intentions of
his Grace were, as we stated, generally made known to most
parties interested in. such inquiries some months ago, and
sundry anticipations of the subject were indulged; but, for
the present, it seems more than prcbable that they will be
disappointed. If we are not misinformed, however, the
pleasure is only deferred to a more favourable opportunity.—
Chronicle.
The number of accused in what is called the
Lyons plot is forty-three—of whom thirty-four are in cus-
tody. The trial is expected to begin at the latter end of the
month; it is to take place at the Court of Assize of the
Palace of Justice, before a court-martial. The number of
witnesses to be summoned for the prosecution is eighty-two.
The accused were on Friday taken before the officers charged
to investigate the affair, and all the documents were read to
them; they were also called on to name the persons they
wished to be summoned to give evidence on their behalf.
The documents connected with the affair are very numerous,
and the trial will occupy several:days.— Galigaani