The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-21 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 20.
By the royal mail steam ship Europa, Captain Lott,
we have advices from New York to the Bth, Boston to
the 9th, and Halifax to the 10th inst. She brings
586.000 dollars in specie on freight.
'The Canada arrived at Boston on the Bth, having
made the quicken passage on record.
The United States screw steam-ship Lafayette put
into New York on the 7th to repair damages, having
been in contact with a ♦easel.
The steam-ship Empire City, Captain Wilson, had
arrived at New York from Chagres with sptcie to the
amount of 500,000 dollars in gold dust.
From Kingston, Jamaica, we have advices to the 30th
ult. The cholera continued to prevail in various parts
of the island. Freights had become rather more plen-
tiful. In tobacco Cavendish was abundant and in
small inquiry. Leaf was worth 84 to 86 per 100 lb.
Our Havannah markets extend to the 2d. The rates
of freights are lower, and the prices of sugars much de-
pressed, with small operations. In coffee there was
nothing doing. In tobacco a large business had been
transacted. No change bad occurred in freights. Ship-
pers would only give 50s. per ton to Cowes. Exchange
on London, 64 premium.
Some disturbauces had occurred on the Isthmus of
Tehuantepec.
Our commercial accounts from New York advise that
money was easily obtained at 6to 7 per cent. It was
estimated that 2 500,000 had been received per steamers
Prometheus, Empire City, and Georgia.
Exchanges remain unaltered. The rates are—On
London. 1104 to 1101; Paris 5 Eff to 5 10. Hamburgh,
364 to 37; Amsterdam, 41i to 414; Bremen, 79i ti 794.
The cotton market had declined c. for middling and
under, while the better grades are firmly held at full
prices, the stock being barely sufficient to supply home
wants.
For thur the market has advanced on the Baltic's
news, but afterwards became less buoyant. For grain
there was a good demand, with firm prides.
The demand for iron was light.
The tobacco market was declining, causing more ac-
tivity in the article.
Freights to London were—for flour, 25.; naval stores,
35.; measuremer.t and heavy goods were 255. to 304.;
provisions, per barrel, 2s. 6d. to 35.; ditto, per tierce,
4s. 6d. to ss. To Havre, cotton, I. To Liverpool, a
fair amount of corn, wheat, and fl ur were offering; for
Brain in bulk, 5i to 6; cotton, 5-32; and for heavy
goods, 17s. 6d.

July 21, 1851.

THE SUN, LONDON, •

was in the Spanish Main, the Great Western in the
Gulf of Mexico, and the Eagle at tiarbadoes.

SPoItTD G NOTES.
No. LXXXVIIL
GLANCE THE THIRD AT GOLDEN
GOODIN OOD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—In my last note I commented on Wednesday's
races, of course including the Goodwood Stakes, on
which event the public either took my advice there and
then, or, singular coincidence, fell exactly into my views
on this important stake, for they not only sent Harpsi-
chord (of whom I remarked, on the authority of my
Newmarket correspondent, that "he might be expected
to figure conspicuously in the rear") from seven to twelve
to one, at which price be was friendless on Sa-
turday evening, but also brought the four that
I selected (Empress colt, Narcissus, Humphrey,
and Presto) as my team for the eventful struggle,
with one exception (Presto), into strong play,
which ended in elevating the Empress colt, now called
The Grand Duke, five points, Narcissus two, and Hum-
phrey two or three also. I remarked in my last note
that " Humphrey, 6st 21b, Narcissus, bat 11b, Empress
colt, sst 5/b, and Presto, sst 3/b, form a very formidable
quartette; and should Vumpyre and Borneo miss the mark
or not start (extremely probable), one of the four, 1 fancy,
will tun► out to be the trunip-card on the day, the Ex
PRESS COLT and NARCISSUS for choice." It should be
borne in mind that The Brand Duke is reported to
have beaten Vampyre, rather easily than otherwise,
receiving comparatively but little weight for the difference
in years; this, of course, renders Vampyre's starting very
dubious. I have reason to believe that the field will be
composed of but few others besides the following

W indischgratz, Duc an-durras, Montague, Cocktail
Crystal Palace, Clarissa, Humphrey, Narcissus, Becton,
Kick-up-the-dust, The rand Duke, Presto, Harpischord,
and Miss Whip colt. I will now turn my attention to
Thursday's races, the first of which that catches my eye
being The Bentinck Memorial Stakes, with seventy-six
subscribers; the entry embracing nearly all the crack
Derby names of next year. How many of them will go
to the post I know not, but somehow fancy that
Bay Rosalind will represent Scott's stable, and
Red Hind the Goodwood lot, in opposition to the
flying BROTHER TO ELTHIRON, to whom I, and I hope
Judge Clarke, will award the palm of superiority. The
100 Soya. Produce Stakes will be a very uninteresting
;affair between THE SQUAW and JUGGERNAUT, former
for choice. The Racing Stakes will be contested by
Hippolytus, Bst 71b, Midas, Bst 131 b, the Confessor, 8s
1010, and Buckhound, Bit 71b; and if HIPPOLYTUS and
The Confessor are not first and second, with Buckhound
and Michas third and fourth, I shall be much deceived.
HOULAHIN or Wingenund will carry off the 200
Sovs. Stakes, over the T.Y.C. The Sussex stablr,
will have their work to do to triumph o'er
Chief Baron Nicholson in the T. Y. C. spurt
for the Sussex Stakes. I see nothing to defeat the
Goodwood stable among the entries for the Molecomb
Stakes, without it is Father Thames. Of the thirty no-
minations to the Goodwood Cup, about two-thirds, from
various causes, are already hors de combat; the field, I
presume, will consist of the following:—Voltigeur, 4 yrs.
9st 31b; I Cariboo, 4 yrs, 9st' lib; Landgrave, 5 yrs, 8.4-,
111 b; Cossack, aged, Bst 101 b; Marquis, 3 yrs, 7st 410;
Nancy, 3 yrs, 7st; Hesse Homburg, 3 yrs, 7st; Moates.
6 yrs, 6st 121 b; Young Altisidora, aged, Est 81b; and
War Horse, 4 yrs, 6st 81b. From the above Hesse Hom-
burg or Landgrave will be withdrawn. but which I know
not. At the present moment I fancy the two C's in pre-
ference to the rest, but this opinion is not definite, and
must stand adjourned a day or two. Latest bet-
ting this morning : Gratwicke Stakes —6 to 4
on Hernandez, 3 to 4 agat Miserrima. Ham Stakes
—9 to' 4 apt Houlakin, 5 to 1 agst Father
Thames,:6 to 1 agst C;averhouse, 6 to 1 agst Merry-go-
round. Drawing. room Stakes—Even on Hesse Horn-
hurg; 6to 4 agst Lord Exeter's couple. Goodwood
Stakes-7 to 1 agst The Grand Duke; 10 to 1 agst.
Presto; 10 to I agst Narcissus; 12 to 1 agst Harpsi-
chord; 12 to 1 agat Humphrey; 16 to 1 agst Clarissa;
16 to 1 agst Montague; 20 to 1 agst Cocktail; 20 to 1
agst Miss Whip colt; 30 to 1 agst British Boy; 30 to 1
agst Vampyre; 50 to 1 asst Hurry Scurry. Goodwood
Cup-4 to l agst Nancy; sto 1 agst Cariboo; Bto 1
each agst Cossack, Landgrave, and Hesse Homburg; 10
to 1 agst Young Altisidora; 15 to 1 each agst Voltigeur,
Clincher, Marquis, and Essedarius.

I am, Sir, yours, &0.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

On Saturday Madlle. Sofie Cravelli appeared in the
part of Elvira in Ernani, and afforded the habitues an
opportunity of marking the immense progress which she
has made in her professional career, as this was the cha-
racter in which she made her debilt at this theatre in 1848.
Her performance was full of power and full of pro-
mise. That promise is now more than fulfilled, and the
power is regulated (and by being so regulated, increased,
and intensified) by the saost highly cultivated taste.
and the most perfect knowledge of art ; she
has studied deeply and conscientiously, and deep and
conscientious study invariably meets with its reward.
The celebrated Ernani involami was the very perfection
of bravura singing; never have we heard it so brilliantly
rendered, and her acting throughout was magnificent.
The trio in the last act was superbly rendered, and
in the concluding scene she was exquisitely pathetic.
She is certainly the best Elvira who has yet appeared.
The opera was strongly cast, Sims Reeves being the
Ernani, and aching it with all his wonted fire, and Co-
!eta the Carlo V., in which he was admirable. The Don
Silva of,Scapini was a careful and meritorious perform-
ance. The house was crowded,

FRENCH PLAYS.
ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.

On Saturday evening Victor kiugo's sublime drame
Angelo Tyrun de Podoue was produced here for the first
time, Mad lle. Rachel sustaining the character of L.
Tisbe, which is most assuredly her greatest character in
the modern (as contradistinguished from the classical)
drama, if it be not, as we are inclined to think, the
greatest and most effective character in her whole reper-
toire. Victor Hugo tells us in his preface that his ob-
ject in writing this drama was to bring face to face two sad
and melancholy figures—woman in society, and woman
osst out of society—to show these two, who may be
considered as the types of all womeukind, often gene-
rous, always unhappy—to defend the first against des-
potism, the second against contempt—to show what
temptations have been resisted by the' virtue of the
one, and what tears have washed out the stains of the
other. To bring the guilt home to the really guilty,
that is to say, to man who is strong, and to the social
state which is absurd. La Tisbe, the actress, the vaga-
bond, the mistress of Angelo the tyrant of Padua, is the
type of the outcast; and Catarina, his miserable
and unhappy wife, is the type of the woman
in society. Madlle. Rachel acts La Tisbe, and
her sister, Mad lle. Rebecca Felix, is Catarina. The
play is not altogether unknown to the English play-
goer, a version of it having been produced some years
ago by the Covent Garden company during their exile
to the Victoria. The grand scene between these two
types of woman in society and woman out of society,
which takes place in the fifth scene of the second act,
is perhaps one of the most sublimely terrific in the
whole range of the drams. La Tisbe, albeit she is
the mistress of Angelo, loves to distraction
a certain Rodolfo, who in his turn loves Catarina, the
wife of the Podesta; La Tist6 bas just tracked her
lover to the chamber of Catarina, who has barely time
to secrete him in her oratory, when her rival
enters, and in reply to Catarina's demand,
" Qu' est-ce quo c' est que ceci?"— answers,
in a voice of terror " Ceci? ce quo c'est? Tenez, Jo vais
vous le dire. C'est is maitresse du pode,ta qui tient dans
ses mains la femme du podesta." The majestic appear-
ance of Rachel, as in most impassioned tones she
delivered these terrible words, was that of a goddess.
an incarnate Nemesis, to whom had been delivered the
commission to avenge the wrongs of outcasts upon that
society which is, in the subsequent part of the same
scene, the subject of the most bitter and sarcastic outpour-
ings of the coot( met and hatred of genius for the hollow
conventionalities of society, and which were delivered by
Rachel in a manner to create not only admiration and
wonder, but awe. Nothing could exceed the sublimity
of her delivery of the following speech:—
"Ce quo c'est que ceci, madame? C'est une come-
dienne, une fille de ttlatre, une baladine, comme vous
nous appelez, qui tient dans sea mains, je viens de vous
le dire, une, grande dame, une femme n3ariee, une femme
respeciee une vertu! qui la tient dans ses mains, dans sea
ongles, dana sea dental qui peut en faire ce qu'elle you-
dra, de cette grande dame, de cette bonne renommea do-
tee, et qui va la dechirer, la mettre en pieces, la mettre
en lambeaux, la mettre en morceaux! Ah! mes-
dames lea grandes dames, je ne sais pas ce qui va
arriver, mais ce qui est sur, (fest que j'en ai une la sous
mes pit ds, une de vous autres! et quo je ne la htieherai
pas! et qu'elle pent etre tranquille! et qu'il aurait mieux
valu pour elle la foudre our as tete que
je
visage de-
vent le Bien! Dites done, Madame, e vous trouve
hardie d'oser lever les yeux sur moi quand vous avez
un amant chez vous!"
Her energy, her expression of intense hatred and of
gratified but not satiated revenge, was absolutely terrific.
Beautiful, however, was the transition to the most ex-
quisitely pathetic tenderness when discovering that
Catarina had saved the life of her mother. La Tits!.
determines to save her and ;ender her happy, which she at
length accomplishes, although at the sacrifice of her own
life. Those who have not seen Rachel in this character
hwahvoe,
as
yet to see the most sublime and terrific delineation
of passion which she has yet exhibited, and we regret
exceedingly that she will perform it but once more.
She was admirably supported by filadlle. Rebecca Felix,
Catarine, fairly divided with her the honour of
the representation. The theatre was crowded.

ERIOUS ILLNESS Or Ma. COOPER. THE NOVELIST.
—We regret to learn that Mr. Fenimore Cooper, who has
been confined to his house at Cooperstown, fur several weeks,
is now considered very dangerously ill; so that we shall
not at any moment be surprised to hear ofbis death. Aware
of his situation, he last Saturday partook of the Sacrament
and had all the members of his family summoned to his
house. Mr. Cooper is now nearly sixty years of age.--New
York Herald.
A MAN DROWNED IN A `WELL.—On Saturday
evening an inquest was held by Mr. W. Baker, at the Lamb
public-house,papiey forth-street,
whoet, eatshfnoaulnl -dg
drownedreen, on tihne
hbi:doyw' ofn
well. Verdict, "That the deceased was found dead in a well,
but how he came therein they had no positive proof."
CRITICPM or JENNY LIND.—The Star Spangled
Banner announces that " Jenny Lind is an exalted echo of
the undeveloped inner-tone of our musical taste, which, if
not educated, at least has not been vitiated."
VICTORIA-STREET SEWER.-By a return to the
House of Commons just printed, it appears that the estimate
for the Victoria sewer was 5,082/. The contract price was
4,6001., but the actual cost for the completion of the same
Rill 7,031, 31. cd.