The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-14 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, - OCTOBER'

SPORTING NOTES.
No. CXLII.
YESTERDAY'S SPORT AT NEWMARKET, &c

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—Mr. Gratwitelce, with his black gelding Land•
grave. Nat up, conlintieced the game yesterday in the
501. Plate across the flat, by beating Vatican, now the
property of Mr. Morris, by half a length cleverly; the
other couple of starters, Trinket and Gloom, being
stalled off very early. The 200 soya. Sweepstakes, over
the T.Y.C., was a capital rac!, between the first two,
Scarecrow and Father Thames, tNe former waiting upon
the Father to within the distance, and finally winning
cleverly by a short half length; the Physalis filly beaten
of This said Scarecrow of Mr. Greville's must be
looked after; for not beiog in the very best of condition
yesterday, while Father Thames in that respect was
tolerably well of, it as a matter of course follows that
Scarecrow is capable of considerable improvement. Mr.
Hughes won his Match with Sophistry against Turtle
by two or three lengths. This Sophistry in the long
run will he an out-and-out speculation for her lucky
owner. A batch of ten two years old figured on the
T.Y.C. Ceurse for a 501. Plate. This race was the best of
the day; all gat off in a line and ran, without seemingly
any one having an advantage, almost to the cords, where
Little Harry and Ravenswing bolted to the front; the
race home was between this pair, Ravenswieg, after a
desperate struggle winning by a-short neck, Sister to
Trinket third. Among the wretches who were beaten in
the field were to be discovered, the Toga filly, Delia colt,
and one or two also who have shown moderato running
in Urbanity, Herschel, and Fidgetty Girl. In the match
for 200, between Bordeaux and Gartorth, contrary to
my opinion the race was never in doubt; the first-named
not only gave his opponent 9lbi, but a slbs beating like-
wise, Lord Derby's Iris, after waiting upon Hesse
Homburg to half way up the cords, challenged, and won
the 50 sovs. Stakes very cleverly by half a length
The betting throughout the day shifted consi•
derably with the outsiders for the Cesarewiteh, but
with the favourites remained tolerably steady, most of
them being on the rise. Hippolytus advanced to 5 to

and afterwards 9to 2, taken freely. Darkie stood at
one time at 8, or even under, but eventually closed at
9to 1. Goldfinder rose from 10 to 8. Three or four
figured st about 20 to 1. namely, Sauter-la-Coupe,
Candlewick, The Italian, &c. The outsiders at fifties,
forties, and so on, were as a rule completely shunned,
the public evidently imagining this race to have assumed
anything but an open aspect, and, in a word, torlie
amongst those quoted in the odds.
Ere this appears in print, or about the same time, the
result of the Cesarewitch will be known; therefore it
will be perfectly superfluous to drop any remarks upon
this event, especially as I am of the same opinion still.
I shall follow what I understand to be the intention of
my clever contemporary of the MorninqAdoertiser, and
stick to my colours, with " OFFICIOUS, GOLDFINDER,
and HIPPOLYTUS, as the trio from which I fancy the
winner will spring—the first and last of these for choice,
The Italian and Sauter la Coupe next well up."
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.
Oct. 14, 1851.

33 to 1 agst Paquetta
33 to 1 cgst Hungerford
Champion, Backbiter, and Trickstress Stre !ex./itched.
HEREFORD NEW GRAND AUTUMN RACES,
Acceptances for the Hereforckhire Stakes of 10 sovs,

cad), b ft, and only 3 if declare, with 50 added by
the County Members. Two miles and a quarter.
Clothworker, 4 yrs, Bst 91b—Spot, 5 yrs, Bst 21b—
Cheerful, 5 yrs, 7st 101b—Combatant, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b
Remunerator, 4 yrs, 7st lib—Snowstorm, 5 yrs, 7st 41b
—Little George, 4 yrs, 7st 31b—Bushranger, 4 yrs, 7st
21b—Quicksand, aged, 6:it 8 b —Cobnut, 4 yrs, Est 61b—
Heart of Oak, 3 yrs, Gst—Avia, 3 yrs, 6st—lracundus,
3 yrs, 5A 121b—The Tout, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Waterfall,
3 yrs, sst 10Ib.

12 to pay 3 sovs. each forfeit.
Acceptances for the City Gold Cup of 7 sovs. each, 5 ft,
and 2 only if declared, with 40 added by the City
Members. Ono mile and a half.
Clothworker, 5 yrs, Bst 101b—Cheerful, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b
Sir Robert, 4 yrs, 7st 81b—Miss Julia, 5 yrs, 7st 81b—
Administrator, aged, 7it 61b—Gnylad, 5 yes, 7st 61b—
Bushranger, 4 yrs, ist .51b—Longinus, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—
Little George, 4 yrs, 7st 516—Snowstorm, 5 yrs, 7stslb
—Panopa, 4 yrs, 7st—Thurgerton, eged, 6st 61b—Cob-
nut, 4 yrs, 6st 61b—Mignon, aged, Est 4ib—Theorem, 3
yrs, Est 41b—Heart of Oak, 3 yrs, 6st 4lb—lracundus,
3 yrs, 6st—Wren, 4 yrs, ant. Eight declared forfeit end
pay 2 sews. each.

AQUATICS.
SCULLtRS' MATCH BETWEEN H. CAMPBELL

AND T. HUBERT.
Yesterday this match came off between the above two
competitor:, for aquatic fame; the distance being from
Putney to Mortlake, for 20/. aside. Hubert having won
the toss for choice of station went to the Middlesex side
of the centre arch of the antiquated wooden bridge, and
Campbell took the Surrey side. An even start was
effected, and shortly after Campbell drew slightly in ad-
vance. He gradually drew ahead, and opposite the Star
and Garter was half a length in advance, in spite of the
strenuous exertions of his opponent. An excellent race
ensued to the Crab-tree, where Campbell was a boat's
length distant from that of Hubert, and on going
through Hammersmith-bridge he was still gaining. At
this point, when just above the bridge, Campbell's cutter
pressing Hubert's boat he accidentally fouled his scull
against the stern of the cutter. Hubert on this occur-
rence was called upon to desist from rowing, and be
complied, when he continued the distance to Mortlake,
following Unipbell.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO
MANCHESTER.
Manchester has scarcely resumed its wonted ap-
pearance, and-seems loth to, cast off its gay holiday,
attire. Yesterday when our correspondent wrote nu-
merous flags were still flaunting in the streets, and
there were numerous other remains of the fete of
Friday. Last night a grand ball was to be given in
the Exchange, under the auspices of Sir John Potter,
the Mayor, and with that event the proceedings con-
sequent upon the visit of Royalty would close.
Her Majesty has not left the people of Manchester
and Salford without an expression of the satisfaction
all the arrangements have given her, and of her sense
of the loyal reception she met with. On Saturday
morning the Mayor of Manchester received the fol-
lowing official note :

" Worsley, Oct. 10, 1851.
" Sir,--I have much pleasure in acquainting you that
I have received the Queen's commands to express to you
her Majesty's entire satisfaction with the arrangements
made on the occasion of her visit this day to Man-
chester. Her Majesty was highly gratified by the pro-
ceedings of the day, and by the manner in which she
was received.
" I have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your obedient servant, " GREY.
" Sir John Potter, Knight, Mayor of Manchester."
A note, in precisely the same terms, was forwarded
to the Mayor of Salford.
The Recorder of Manchester, in his speech to the
grand jury, in opening the borough sessions yester-
day morning, referred to the event. He remarked
that the inhabitants of Manchester had scarcely re-
covered from the excitement brought about by the
stirring and gratifying events of the previous week.
It was matter for thankfulness that, in the large
preparations made to give a fitting reception to our
Gracious Sovereign, the fears of the timid, that there
would Lbe some great mischance, had not been
realized, but that the expectations of those who an-
ticipated that everything would go off well had been
fully borne out. That our Gracious Sovereign was
well pleased with the reception given to her on the
Exchange was apparent to all who had the happiness
there to see her. The honour which her Majesty was
pleased to confer on the chief magistrate of the bo-
rough, in the presence of so many of his assembled
fellow-townsmen, was felt by most to be a compliment
to the borough at large, as well as an evidence of her
Majesty's gracious approval of the Mayor's conduct.
He conceived that the most imposing sight that her Ma-
jesty witnessed was the peaceful and orderly conduct,
and exemplary demeanour of the countless thousands,
who pouring out of their hives of industry, and ceasing
from their various occupations lined - the road on
each side of the royal route for miles. Such a
fact made apparent to her Majesty, would be attended
with good results to the community. They who
lived amongst the population at Manchester knew that
peaceful orderly conduct in general, and the power
of controlling themselves on any occasion when they
felt it to be seemly and right to do so, were distin-
guishing characteristics of the working people. He
was quite certain that the men of Lancashire, and of
the neighbourhood of Manchester especially, now
that they had by such conduct gained the notice and
admiration of their gracious Queen, would feel them-
selves bound, by a zealous adherence to the like
good conduct, still to deserve that meed of approba-
tion. He felt most confident, as all reflecting men
would, that the qualities which had been exhibited by.
the working people of this town, and the estimation
iu which they were held, would greatly increase the
true importance of this great community. He had
thought it right, and not unfitting the occasion of
their meeting, to take a brief notice of the events
which had occurred so recently.
The casualties consequent upon the demonstration
have fortunately been exceedingly few. A girl was
shot dead on Friday by a piece of wadding entering
her eyes from a gun which was fired during the
Royal progress. A man was crushed, and a boy se
verely hurt.—Chronicle.

Her Majesty, his Royal Highness
COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, OCT. 13.
Colonel Seymour,
the Prince of Wales, And Prince
Windsor by a special train of
and the Ree
Alfred, attended b
theGPreei Prince Albert, .
'Western
the Viscount Canning, Lord Byron Colonelred Blickleyy,
at
Railway at five minutes past •
nine
---e o'clock this morning
Mr. Birch, left
to visit the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of
all. Nations, Hyde Park, and arrived at that place at
ten minutes before ten o'clock.
The Queen returned to the Castle at twenty-five
minutes to one o'clock, having quitted the Exhibition
at ten minutes before twelve o'clock. Her Majesty
was accompanied by the Prince of Wales and Prince
Alfred, and was attended by the Lady in Waiting,
and by the Lord and Equerry in Waiting, and the
Rev. Mr. Birch. Later in the afternoon, his Royal
Highness Prince Albert returned to the Castle from
presiding at a meeting of the Royal Commission in
the Exhibition. The Prince we by .
attended his
Equerry in Waiting.
The younger Royal children took their accustomed
walking and pony exercise to-day.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party
yesterday.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yes-
terday at a meeting of the Royal Commission for the
promotion of the Exhibition of the Works of Industry
of all Nations in 1851.
The meeting was held at the Exhibition Building
at twelve o'clock. The Commissioners present were,
his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, Earl Gran-
ville, Lord John Russell, Sir Richard Westwacott,
Sir Charles Lyell, Sir Charles L. Eastlake, Mr.
Baring, M.P. ; Mr. Bazley, Mr. Cobden, _
; Mr.
Cubitt, Mr. T. F. Gibson, Mr. John Gott, Mr.
Pusey, M.P. , • M Mr. R. Stephenson, —.P.; Mr. John
Shepherd, and Mr. Hopkins, President of the Geo-
logical Society., Mr. Scott Russell and Mr. Edgar
Bowring, Secretaries of the Royal Commission at-
tended.
Lieutenant-Colonel Reid (Chairman), Mr. Henry
Cole, and Mr. C. W. Dilke, of the Executive Com-
mittee, were present.
Dr. Lyon Playfair and Colonel Lloyd, Special
Commissioners, were in attendance.
The meeting broke up at three o'clock. His Royal
Highness Prince Albert, attended by
,Lieutenant-
Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, afterwards pro-
ceeded to the terminus of the Great Western Railway
at Paddington, and returned by a special train to
Windsor.
The Earl of Clarendon had an interview with Lord
John Russell yesterday. The Bishop of Norwich
bad also an interview with the Noble Lord yesterday,
at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) re-
turned to town yesterday from his scat, Bowood
Park, Wiltshire.
Lord Monteagle had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street.
Sir George Grey arrived in town last evening from
his seat, Falloden, Northumberland.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the North American Pro-
vinces, and also from the Governor of Malta.

BROKEN ENGLISH !—A well-known editor of a
morning paper inquired of Alderman B—, one day, what he
thought of hie
jouiaal. " like it all," said the alderman,
" but its broken English." The editor started, and asked
for an explanation. why, the list of bankruptF, to be
sure."

AN OLD DAIRYWOMAN.—As we were passing
through Hurstgreen last Thursday-, our attention was drawn
to an elderly lady, who was engaged in making up some
butter, and upon inquiry we found her age to be 95 yeare.
Her name is Airs. Wi1t51140.-.4usscx 4z-prem

LITERATURE.

MARICAN AND OTHER POEMS. By
Henry Inglis. Blackwood and Sons.
For the proper appreciation of the beauties scat-
tered in profusion over the poetic literature of Eng-
land the most eclectic tastes are requisite. Without
the aid of this plastic and all-embracing capacity the
predilections of the student in this department of
letters must necessarily and rapidly become restricted
within very narrow limits, to the exclusion of the
majority of those great writers who in different
moods have struck the lyre of verse to the music of
our mother tongue. In this manner it is that now-
a•days we observe the reading community divided
into so many exclusive sections, each with some
school of poesy cherished as the solitary object of its
infatuation. Here we listen only to the praises of
the mystic school, of which Browning, and Bailey,
and Tennyson are the recognised leaders. Here
again are audible eulogiums solely directed to the
glorification of the school of which Leigh Hunt was
the founder, and of which John Keats has ultimately,
become the recognised chieftain. Some can con-
scientiously yield applause solely to the austere and
learned muse invoked by Bowles and Savage Lan-
der : some, on the contrary, confining their enthu-
siasm to the panegyrising of such oriental effusions
as the metrical writings of Milman and Wilson.
When the dictates of a sounder judgment would, one
might imagine, have assured all these encomiasts
alike, that in each school there are merits very readily
discoverable—merits entitled to the very warmest ad-
miration..-but merits also the recognition of which
by no means necessitates the ignoring of every other
excellence elsewhere. For ourselves, we entertain an
affection for the simplicity of Crabbe, for the quaint-
ness of Herrick, for the vigour of Dryden, for the
delicacy of Waller, and for the sweetness of Gold-
smith ; we have an earnest sense of liking for the
rugged force of Somerville, for the brilliant conceits
of Suckling, and for the ingenious melody of Prior;
we love with a sort of passion the "stretched metre
of an antique song" in which Dan Chaucer has told
the incidents occurring on the famous pilgrimage to
Canterbury, and at the same time feel our heart
yearning to a very different bard, to a bard of a less
elevated though still admirable capacity, in the per-
son of that old puritanical cobbler who gave to the
world in a prose poem the noblest allegory in the
language. Without this eclectic power of apprecia-
tion it is utterly impossible, we maintain, for any one
judiciously to adventure upon the discharge of the
responsible duties of criticism. Neither is it possible
we maintain, to perceive anywhere the reasonableness
of those arguments which are advanced to the con-
trary by the fanatical sticklers for the superiority of
some cherished section of the literary world of Eng-
land. Because Shakspere is acknowledged by every
one indiscriminately to be altogether without any
competitor in fame, surely that cannot be held as a
sufficient reason for holding in contempt poor Drum-
mond of Hawthornden. We may look back ad-
miringly towards Taylor, the water poet, singing his
fantastic ditties on the " silent highway," without
holding in contempt the mimic antiquities of Rowley,
that noblest of all the strange creations of the genius
of Chatterton. Upon the same principle we are pre-
pared to acknowledge an enthusiasm at once for the
exquisite precision of Pope, and for that wild and in-
coherent style in which Byron wrote his " Giaour,"
very shortly after the publication of the " Christabel"
of Coleridge. The author of the present volume has
adopted this last-mentioned style, as, if he so
pleased, be was, of course, quite justified in doing:
and as a specimen of changing metre we accept the
work most willingly, however much we may love the
regularly modulated and equably throbbing versifica-
tion peculiar to the wasp of Twickenham. Mr.
Inglis has in "Marican" selected a theme somewhat
similar to the " Frontinac" of Mr. Street—a wild
transatlantic story of love and bloodshed, on the
wave and in the woodlands. Changing at pleasure
from the quatrain to the terza rima, indulging his
voice now in couplets and now in alternating rhymes,
with a corresponding series of fluctuations in the
rhythm, the writer has contrived to throw over his
composition that charm of variety which under most
circumstances is found by the majority to be irresist-
ible. In "Marican" he disdains not to repeat such
old tales as that of an ocean burial, where he says—
" The boat; wain and his mates the hatchway round,
The whistle's shrill admonitory sound;
Bury the dead, ahoy:'
Captain and crew, uncovered in the waist,
The hammock of the dead on gangway placed,
The priest's farewell convoy;—
The tilted planking, and the plunge below
Of the tar's shotted shroud,
The bird that cometh—whence they do not know—
White as a sunlit cloud,
Bearing the seaman's spirit far away
To haven undisturb-d, in calm unruffled bay."
Such pas!ages Mr. Inglis shrinks not from intro-
ducing, however incongruous may be its character.
Stranger still to observe, is the interpolation of such
allusions as the following, in which the author evi.
dently had Mrs. Manning, the murderess, in his re.
collection :-
4. What of she human tigress shall we say,
Who lures her drunken idiotic prey
With hellish leer?
Entwines the dagger in a wreath of smiles,
And drugs the wine-cup with her wanton wiles?
While angels hear
The stealthy foot-fall of the assassin's tread;
And angels see
The crimton current dye the guilty bed,—
The dunned three
Drenched in an overwhelming midnight flood
Of lust and murder, treachery and blood."
Having apostrophised a little further on—
" Woman! thro' every age and every clime
Glorious in virtue, terrible in crime,"
our author proceeds in the development of his narra-
tive by recounting the heroism displayed by the bride
of Marican. The nature of the incidents described
in the story may be best conjectured by the heading
of the several portions of the poem :—The Escape--
The Swim by Night—The Encampment—The
Conference—The March—The Battle— The Execu-
tion—and Tae Burial. In the unfolding of the plot
Mr. Inglis displays no little ingenuity, but the prin-
cipal merit for which his pages appear to us remark-
able is that of the casual delineations of nature scat-
tered through the throng of the various occurrences.
What, for example, can be finer in its way than this
majestic mention of midday on the mountain top ?
" The sun o'ertopa the Andes, and his glance
Lightens the inconceivable expanse
With dazzling fire.
And hark! the frozen wilderness on high
AcknowleJgeth the monarch of the sky
As kings desire:
Iceberg and avalanche, asunder riven,
Salute the sun
In thunder which reverberates to heaven;
While clouds of dun
And seething mist upon the valleys lie—
The fitting smoke of such artillery!"
Here is a more tranquil spectacle, a perfect little vig-
nette of American scenery :
"Down where the river steals beneath the trees,
Where massive foliage bars the faintest breeze—
Where boughs entwine,
And with their lofty arches bridge the wave—
Where nimble monkeys swing, acd parrots rave—
Where the wild vine
Clings with its clusters of deep purple hue,
And silver sheen
Of glancing fish is in the waters blue—
Where gamalot4 green
Leans over with its long luriant leaves,
And for the glassy floor a floating carpet weaves."
Hiving enumerated these charming features of the
landscape, Mr. Inglis, with a, minuteness kindred to
that displayed by Captain Mayne Reid in a similar
description, depicts the locality as a spot—
" Where white bells of the Floripondio bloom,
Bathing all nature round them in perfume,
Like lily-laden shore;—
Where pink flamingos in the shallows dream,
And piebald swans, majestic in the stream,
Are poised on feathered oar;—
Where tufted herons soar on snowy wing,
With plaintive cry—
Where brilliant is bPyond imagining
The painted fly—
Where the bright humming bird, like feathered bee,
Sips honey from the flower of plant and tree."
With equal vividness the words fall from his lips
when he is describing—a very different scene in-
deed—the broiling heat of the tropics on a dusty
highway, saying—
" Of all the company of clouds, not one
Was there to veil the fury of the sun,
Which, like-'a mighty lens,
Seizes with fierce intolerable grasp
Buckles and belts of brass,
Kindles the sword-hilt in its fiery clasp,
And scorches the cuirass;
While on the burning horseman's armed heel,
The rowels aro of flame, and not of steel."
As a very pleasing testimony of the melodies floating
here and there through the poem, we may transcribe
the subjoined stanzas :
" The lofty sky weeps in cloud,
The earth weeps in dews
From its core;
The diamond- brooks weep aloud,
The il m'rs change the hues
Which they wore.

" The grass mourns in the sunbeam,
In gums weep the trees,
And in dye;
And if mourn meadow and stream—
Inanimate these—
May not I?
"The wood pigeon mourns his mate,
The caged birds bewail
Freedom gone;
Shall not man mourn over fate?
Dumb sorrow assail
Him alone?
" The bulls of the forest grieve
When the lassoes wind
Round the horn;
And man shall we silent leave,
With his master-mind,
To mom?"