The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-21 00:00:00

THE

SPORTING NOTES.
No. CXLV.

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REMINISCENCES OF NEWMARKET SECOND
OCTOBER MEETING, WITH A FEW HINTS
CONCERNING THE SPORT OF THE PRE-
SENT WEEK AT NEWTON AND HEREFORD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Slll,—Tbe past Second October Meeting at .head-
quarters, though not the most brilliant one on record,
has effected vast changes in the chances of innumerable
horses engaged in Stakes of importance, as yet veiled by
the curtain of futurity. It is a curious fact, that out of
thirty-one stakes and ten matches decided during the
week, Sir Joseph Hawley only ran one hone, and that
Teddington for the great match, which it is trove known
through the length and breadth of the land was only
just won. The Fyfield Baronet, it is said, cleared above
five thousand on it. Sir Joseph's game seems to be a
curious one—scratching all his horses for the Cesare-
witch, and running none for any other nice during the
week, except for the aforesaid match; one would
think he must be in high dudgeon at somebody
or something. The Goodwood stable won the
majority of stakes; they, however, only numbered
five; of which Mr. Gratwicke won three, and the
Duke of Richmond two. The confederates, Messrs.
Payne and Greville, carried away a couple of stakes,
and four matches. The two years old running of the
week does not say much for the quality of the next
year's three years old. The following may be con-
7,idered as having lost what chance they once had for
the Derby, and thrown entirely into the helpless class:—
namely, Father Thames (a eecond edition of Runny-
mede all over); Little Harry (who, however, yet might
improve, but I am afraid it is hopeless); colt by Faugh-
a-Ballagh, out of Delia; Canterbury (one of the,presuared
wonders of the Goodwood stable); Harbinger (another
of the Sussex wonders); Ambrose (fitted for a distance);
St. Andrew; Caracara; Theodine; Peacock; The Old
Lad; Stockwell; Films; and Hesperus. Thus one short
week has annihilated the pretensions of fourteen candidates
for next year's Derby, six of whom have created no little
sensation in the betting market during the last
three months. Lord Ribblesdale's lucky purchase,
Kingston, though by no manner of means a horse suited
for a, distance, will clear a few of the mile stakes at the
spring meetings of next year; his chance for the Derby
is but a very so•so one. Red Hind every time she runs
gives evidence of staying powers and the most undeniable
speed, which may make her a most dangerous opponent
for every thing she runs for; if she keeps iu her present
form, I think the Oaks of 1852 may be booked a cer-
tainty for her. The Prendergast Stakes was just won
by a head, which says but little for the winner, Maid-
stone; I venture ti predict that not one of the four
who contested; the stake will ever catch the judge's eye
in the "Great go" on the Downs of Epsom next year.
The sport of the present week is of the mixed or
half and-half character, combining flat racing and
steeplechasing. The Newton Autumn Meeting com-
mences the steeplechase campaign of the season 1851-2.
This meeting comes off to-morrow; and, from the
ether imperfect accounts I have received from head
quarters, lam induced to believe that the South Lan-
cashire Steeplechase, over four miles of good country,
will be won by PETER SIMPLE, 1 Ist 21b, or Isaac,
lOst 10th, Verax, lOst 21b, well up. It has been ru-
moured that the British Yeoman and Lucy Neal will go,
which I think however is very dubious; should these
two be found at the post, I must go for the YEOMAN and
PETER Simms:, instead of the latter and Isaac. For tho
of chance doe% forget Vera.r. The Free Handicap
Hurdle Race I fancy will go to LITTLE QUEEN or DE.
FAULTER, Queen of the May being next best.
The Hereford Autumn meeting commences on Thurs-
day with the Hunters Stakes, two miles and a quarter.
For this stake I can discover nothing that stands a chace
of depriving emu. or UPTON of the victorious laurels.
The Ileretordehire Stakes (flat race), two miles and
a quarter, is a bit of a mystery. If Dawson can't win it,
I must look to HEART OF OAK or AvIA to do the thing

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" woes right," Bushranger being well up. The Hurdle
Race marked for Friday, one mile and a half, over five
flights of hurdles, looks well for FUGITIVE, lost 121 b; or
Code, lOst 81b. The Grand (Steeplechase, over four
miles of fair hunting country, is booked by the stable
pretty nearly a certainty (if such things as certainties
can be found in steeplechasing) for the five years old
BEDFORD. The City Gold Cup will depend much on
ihe result of the Herefordshire Stakes run the previous
day; fancy, however, leads us to select Sir Robert, Lon-
ginus, and Theorem, as the most attractive of the lot.
The market for the Cambridgeshire is of a very
unstable nature; the prices varying everyday, and in
some instances several points, without any apparent
cause. Newminster is the only one who seems to stand
at all steady, his price being 7 and Bto 1. Breba holds
a very dubious position, sometimes being quoted at the
head of the list at an uncommonly short price, at
other times not having admirers at any sacrifice.
Mountain Deer, at 12 to 1, remains tolerably firm.
Curl, like unto Eliza Middleton, is gradually falling
from her high estate, 100 to 6 being her quotation yes-
terday. The Prime Minister, by his being kept in the
market, one would infer is to bo the representative of
Wadloa's stable; I however think that Wadlow will
either start two, or three, including the Prime Minister,
instead of him solely.
On Thursday or Friday will appear my analysis of
the last great Handicap of the season, containing tho
latest information from all quarters.
I um, Sir, yours, &c.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.
Oct. 21, 1851.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
11 to 2 agst Sir J. Hawley's Breba-6 to 1 taken
freely
8 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nichol's Nowminster—takon and
afterwards offered
14 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Mountain Deer
100 to 6 agst Mr. Delamere's Curl—taken
18 to 1 agst Mr. HaWord's Prime Minister—taken
18 to 1 agst Mr. Carew's The Heriot
20 to 1 agst Mr. Crawfurd's Darkie
25 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's The Nigger—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Waring's Manifold
Breba was in immense force, the takers going on as
long as 6 to 1 could be got; New minster was also in con-
siderable favour; the quotations against the other horses
returned were little more than nominal. Nancy was
scratched at half-past four.
THE CRITERION STAKES.
3 to 1 agst Daniel O'Rourke
HEREFORD STEEPLECHASE.
2 to 1 agst Bedford

DERBY.
30 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Daniel O'Rourke—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. S. Hawke's Womersley—taken
50 to 1 agst Lord Caledon's Barbarian—taken
HEREFORD STEEPLECHASES.
Acceptances for the Grand Steeplechase.
Mr. Davenport's Peter Simple, 1 Ist 41b—Mr. Daven-
port's Half-and-Half, lOst 81b—Mr. Anderson's Spring
Bw:k, lost 81b—Lord Lurgan's St. Helier, lOst 61b—
Mr. T. Goiby's Plough Boy, lOst 41b—Mr. Barling's
Bedford, 10it—Mr. Thompson's Hardwick, 9st 10lb—
Mr. Land's The Genera!, 9st 101b—Captain Povvell's
Vulture, 9st 81b—Mr. Dobbins's Resignation, 2st 81b.
Hurdle Rice Acceptances.
Lord Lurgan's Fugitive, lOst 121b—Mr. Tresham's
Cogia, lOst Sib—Mr. Ash's Gehenna, lOst 41b—Mr. H.
Burford's Maisemore Lass, 9st 41b.

TAB LYING-IN HOSPITAL, YORK-ROAD, LAM-
BETA.—The quarterly court of the above charitable institu-
tion assembled yesterday in the board room. Thorns S.
Cocks, Esq., M.P., was in the chair; and the gentlemen pre-
sent were Augustus Robinson, Thomas Grissell, and J. Bar-
nard, Esq.., and Doctors Hutton, Reid, Cape, and Rigby.
The four resolutions which had been proposed at the last
court day, the 21st July, by Mr. A. Robinson, were read
seriatim to the following effect :-1. That no vacancy in any
office in the hospital should be filled up until the qualifica-
tions required, the salary and duties attached to the office,
and whether any alterations in the same ought to be made,
should have been duly considered by the weekly board. 2.
That every such vacancy should be announced to the next
weekly board, which should thereupon cause to be sent to
every member of the committee notice of such vacancy, and
of the qualifications required, and the salary and duties at-
tached to the same, which should be considered at the next
weekly board. 3. That the weekly board, so specially sum-
moned, might adjourn the consideration of the question at
their discretion. 4. That the weekly board should from
time to time make such temporary provision for the fulfil-
ment of the duties of any vacancy as should enable the ser-
vice of the hospital to be efficiently carried on. After a short
discussion these reso!utions were confirmed. The minutes of
the weekly board were then read and confirmed. The re-
port and accounts for the quarter were next read and ap-
proved. The total receipts from dividends on stock, annual
subscriptions, collections, &c., amounted to 1,151/. 10s. 9d.,
and the expenditure to 7501. 15s. 7d. ; and the number of
indoor patients was 190, and of outdoor 318.
SUDDEN D W. Carter, last evening, held
an inquiry at the William the Fourth, Surrey-grove, Wal-
worth, as to the death of Mr. Richard Pell, aged 87, a
gentleman of independent property, residing at 6, Westmore-
land-place, Walworth-common. On Thursday he was heard
coining down stairs, and when he had reached near the bot-
Iltoirm.
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and Mr. Todd, were soon in attendance, but on their arrival
pronounced him dead, probably from
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only the day before he had been to the
receive his dividends, and it is a singular fact thaetthuirsnewdifae
died on the same day five years ago. The jury r
verdict "The deceased died from natural causes."
DETERMINED SUICIDE.—Yesterday evening a de-
termined suicide was committed by a man of the name
of Joseph Lincoln, aged 47, bird-stuffer, residing at No. 2.
Queen-street, Long Acre. It appears that the unfortunate
man spread some arsenic on bread and butter, and ate
d it,
when one of the lodgers in the next room hearing the
de-
ceased violently sick, went in, as well as the landlady, M •
Donaldson, when the man confessed to taking the poison.
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been in a very desponding Nray.
ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. —Tile usual
quarterly general court of this society was held at the
Thatched-house Tavern yesterday ; Admiral Sir Watkin
Owen Pell in the chair. It was resolved that assistant sur-
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JUVENILE GYMNASIUM FOR BUCKINGHAM PALACE.
—A juvenile gymnasium has just been erected in Bucking-
ham Palace for the use of the youthful members of the
Royal Family. It consists of a neat frame-work, nearly
square, upon which an apparatus has been constructed for a
great number 9f bodily exerciAes.

SUN, LONDON,

LITERATURE.

The original publication of these Lessons was an
event. They created as marked an effict iu educational
literature, as the ' Letters of Junius' did in the political.
The plan of the instructions was entirely new, both as
a whole and in the details of the execution. Two cha-
racteristics were found above all in the Lessons—first,
that French was acquired more rapidly and solidly by
their study than by any other courie or process, how-
ever expensive, hitherto attempted; secondly, so far from
being dry or hard, they were entertaining and simple in
exact proportion to their utility. The student who was
surprised at his own progress, was not less surprised at
the pleasantness of his new labours. The utile and the
dulce were, for once, really and truly found together."
Further, it is remarked of the writer's mode of con-
veying his inkormation to his hitherto uninstructed
readers—" in embodying his idea in the course of
these Lessons he adopted the most rigid Doricism of
style, rejecting every meretricious decoration, every-
thing that might even for a moment lure him from
the main point, or distract the attention which he
concentrated on his design." The good effect of this
resolution seems to have been very speedily demon-
strated in the amazing success achieved by his
system. Proofs of its efficacy—proofs of the most
incontrovertible kind—were afforded by hundreds of
the bumbler members of the community—insomuch
that the writer of the Preface is justified in saying—

" We look on this as one of the most striking and
suggestive facts of our time ; it is an event on which
to meditate—an event not void even of political re-

rerence, and of a bearing on the state of avilizition

As an example of the admirable manner in which in-
formation is conveyed to the mind through the me-
dium of these lessons, being rendered comprehensible
to the most ordinary capacity, from the homely
way in which it is enforced, we give the
annexed lively and humorous paragraph. It is
penned, as will be readily apprehended, with a view
to eh= the imperative necessity of a careful atten-
tion to mood and tense. It runs thus :

"My dear Sir,—l written the letter which was
wrote by me last week, just after your friend was went,
and before your second message was came. The thing
you spoken of was so old that it was knew already. I
never been so vexed as I have was on this occasion; in-

decd I thrown away hope, for I was threw down in
spirit. I was lay prostrate by the event. I seen what
was never saw before. I fallen lower than I had ever
fell in my life. My prospects ar© slew, and he who slain
them is one whom I have drew out of poverty. But I
shall be took by you for a madman if 1 continue in this
strain, so I will finish with the subject. I have strove
in every way, I have did any best, I have bore many
inconveniences, and, now that I am took at a disadvan-

tags, I will have did with those that have so took
me," &c.
Common sense tells us that an illustration of this
kind must necessarily tend to impress a rule of

grammar upon the Memory more ibrcibly and in-
delibly than any other plan that could be suggested.
Such is the nature of the whole of this singular pro-
duction, a work which it affords us a feeling of
genuine satisfaction to be able to recommend very
earnestly to the poorer classes of our population.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, Ocr. 20,
The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Park
and the Slopes this morning.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, attended
by the Rev. Mr. Birch, took a drive in the Parks, in
an open carriage.
The remainder of the Royal children took their
accustomed exercise.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
the Earl of Morley, Major-General Sir Edward
Bowater, Colonel Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel F. H.
Seymour, went out shooting this forenoon.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and her
Royal Highness the Princess Royal, attended Divine
service yesterday morning, in the private chapel of
the Castle.

There was no addition to the Royal dinner party
last evening.

A deputation, including Mr. Beckford, Mr.
M`Grcgor, Mr. Raikes, and Mr. Westmoreland, had
an interview with Earl Grey, yesterday, at the Colo-

ni2 I-office.
Captain Townsend, M.P., had on interview with
Lord John Russell yesterday, at bis official residence
in Downing-street.
Mr. John King, delegate from the colony of Vic-
toria, had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey.
The Right Hon. M. G. Baines, first Commissioner
of the Poor-laws, bad an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.

THE MINISTRY—MR. COBDEN.
An evening paper, a few nights since, stated that
the office of Vice. President of the Board of Trade
bad been tendered to Mr. Cobden by Lord John
Russell, on his assumption of office in 1846, and
rather severely criticised the Honourable Gentle-
man's vanity in not accepting it, when a much abler
man, Lord Granville, did not refuse it.
The facts are these :—When Lord John Russell
came into office in 1846, be offered the post of Vice-
President of the Board of Trade to the Honourable
Charles Villiers, who declined it. The office was ac-
cepted by Mr. Milner Gibson, M.P. for Manchester,
who subsequently resigned it. Earl Granville was
then appointed to) the joint office of Paymaster
of the Forces and Vice-President of the Board of
Trade. As the former Lord Granville will take
his seat in the Cabinet. The latter office is, we
believe, destined for Mr. Wilson, M.P. for Westbury.
How little did the Noble Premier estimate the abili-

tics of Lord Granvile when, on his entry into office,
he appointed him Master of the Buckhounds ; in
other words, the Queen's head dog-keeper.
It may be added that the office of Master of the
Mint has ceased to be a Ministerial one, and very
properly so. It is now a permanent one in the person
of Sir J. Herschel'. There are now four offices,
usually Cabinet ones, at present occupied by persons
not of the Cabinet, vizi those of the Master-General
of the Ordnance, the Chief Secretary for Ireland,
Paymaster of the Forces, and Chief Commissioner of
Woods and Forests.—Correspondent of the Morning
Advertiser.

SIR JAMES GRAHAM VERSUS DR. CANDLISH.--It
seems that the tribute of regard that was paid to Sir James
Graham the other day, by making him a burgess of Aber-
deen, has given mortal offence to Dr. Candlish, who is, it
appears on a crusade in the north at present. The Rev.
Doctor, at a meeting of the Scottish Reformation Society on
Monday last, took occasion to say, in the ccurse of a long
speech on the Papal aggression, that he thought when the
Corporation of Aberdeen were giving the highest honour in
their power to bestow, to the man of all others who had set
himself up as the leading opponent of the measure demanded
by the voice °Nis country, at least some explanation or pro-
test was required from the Protestants of Aberdeen, to show
that the Town Council did not, at least on that point, speak
the sentiments of the community. There might be other
grounds on which the freedom of the City could be conferred
on Sir James Graham, but it did strike a stranger as notice-
able, that such an honour should be paid to him (Sir
James Graham) just after finishing a session of laborious,
indefatigable, and persevering opposition to a measure which
all the Protestants of the country desired to see carried out.
Scotsman.

DARING lionnanr.—Yesterday information was
received that two persons of gentlemanly appearance had,
under pretence of requiring the use of a private room to
transact some professional business, succeeded in plundering
the Archway public-house, Enfield-chase, of 731. in gold and
silver, valuable gold watch and chain, and other property.
The same men have committed similar robberies at other
hous:ss .a Theybothappear about thirty years of age, and are
attired in mourning, one being very thin and pale, the other
stout, much seamed with the small-pc; with sandy hair and
whiskers.

LESSONS iN FRENCH. On an entirely Novel
and Simple Plan. John Cassell.
There is something very noble, and even affecting,
in the ardour with which some of the most gifted
men have aided the cause of education by their ele-
mentary writings. Of this we have had innumerable
instances afforded us by intellects of every imaginable
class and magnitude, from the coarse but vigorous
capacities of 9obbett to the vast and comprehensive
genius of the Emperor Napoleon. Among the la-
bouring ranks of the English community the grammar
of Cobbett has long since risen to the position of a
familiar favourite leaving at one period enjoyed a pe-
culiar and wide-spread popularity. Few, however,
are at all acquainted with that masterly composition
in which the great Napoleon sketched out the system
he desired to he adopted in the instruction of his son,
the King of Rome—a document which it would be
well fur those who are at present unacquainted with
it to examine in the work in which it has been
authentically preserved, namely, in the admirable
memoirs of the veteran Count Montholon. Instances
like tho above are assuredly sufficient to indicate on
the part of every elementary writer on works of
education no debasement whatever of his intellectual
faculties, but rather an elevation of them to one of the
most dignified offices of humanity, that of teacher. It
is consequently for these reasons that we are always
eager to welcome every production of the like kind
when we can recognise in it qualities in any way
deserving our commendation. The little book before
us is among this number. It is, to our thinking, a work
of a very remarkable character. Founded upon a plan
which is correctly described upon the title.page as
" entirely novel and simple," it enables any one
previously altogether ignorant of the first rudiments
of the French language to become master of it with
astonishing rapidity and equally astonishing facility,
and this moreover without the aid of a teacher—an
aid in very other instance more or less indispensa-
ble. All this we may remark is accomplished in a
series of easy lessons, twenty-five in number, lessons
which already, through the " Woi king Man's Friend,"
appear to have led to very extraordinary results, as
affording a means of instruction. What has even now
been accomplished by the book under notice may
be here briefly recounted in the opening words of the
"Preface," words. that one almost envies a man the
happiness of being able to write. They are as fol-
lows :