The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-23 00:00:00

RACING FIXTURS FOR 1851.

AUGUST.
Stourbridge ............... 25 I Egham 27
Barnsley .................. 25 1 Lee and Mottingham 2B
Taunt
Lynn , 2B
Taunton .................. 26 Stirling
Glascomb (Radnorsh.) 26 Edgware 2B
SSPTEMBER.

Scarborough ............ 1
Eccles
Warwick
Wilmslow.
Rochester
Lincoln
Airdrie (Scotland) 4
Bungay
Barnet (Original)
Radcliffe 8
Lichfield
8
Cheadle (Staff.) 8
Bromley (Kent) 8
Yarmouth
Leicester lO
Weymouth .. 10
OCT(
Monmouth
1
Richmond
1
Caledonian Hunt
Chesterfield 1
Chester
Hampton Autumn 7
Barnet 7

Liverpool Autumn Hunt 10
llorpeth
Bridgwater lO
Tunbridge Wells
Uttoxoter
Dover ll
Doncaster
Sherborne
Tenby l6
Upton-on-Severn
Bedford
Eglinton Park ... 23 or 24
Manchester Autumn 25
Pain's Lane (Salop) 29
Newmarket F.O 3O
Sandbach
)BER.
Yorkshire Union Hunt 8
Wrexham
Perth
Newmarket S.O l3
Holywell Hunt ..... 14
Hereford 23
Newmarket Houghton 27

Nov:E
Epsom Autumn 4
Worcester .. First week

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IShrewsbury ll

M. HUGO'S IMPRISONMENT.

The following i 3 the copy of an address presented
to M. Charles Hugo, from the journalists of Great
Britain and Ireland :

TO M. CHARLES HUGO.

" Sir—We think it will be not deemed an ill-timed
interference, if, as members of the newspaper press of a
friendly country, we express oar indignation at the
flagrant outrage, that in your cruel imprisonment has
been committed on the rights we, in common, possess.
The literati of Europe, and of your sister Republic across
the Atlantic, have long looked with astonishment at the
hackled press of France; and your case presents
features which seem especially to justify a remonstrance.
We feel, Sir, that the discussion upon questions of such
vast import to humanity, as that of capital pumishment,
if it is to produce any valuable result, must be free
and unawed; that the civil power steps out of its lawful
Sphere when it enters the studio of the journalist and
gags the mouth of the writer, who endeavours, as he
thinks, to apply the laws of Christianity and the deduc-
tions of reason to practical life; and it b,came ludicrously
tyrannical when it declares such " institutions" as the
guillotine, to be unapproachable ground. Such a power
would have made Portia pay the bond that Shylock held.
A ruthless and insane despotism is striving to substi-
tute a reign of brute force for that of reason as ex-
pressed in the popular will; it creates sepulchres, and
declares the silence of death to be peace; it manicles the
limbs, and boasts that its sway is undisputed. You,
Sir, are one of its victims. England has reaped innu-
merable blessings from a free press; happily amongst us
the authorities of the State, as well as the masses of the
people, recognise that freedom as the dearest safeguard
of our liberties, and as an educational agency of the
highest importance. May France—enlightened and ge-
nerona—soon see that, by the network in which she en-
tangles her gifted writers, she is crippling her energies
and disarming herself in the presence of gigantic foes.
We trust that this spontaneous expression of our
sympathy will, in some degree, lessen the harshness of
your vexatious position, and render less painful the sense
of injury which must accompany a breach of justice, and
a miserable, if not altogether wilful misunderstanding of
the purest motives.
Signed—Douglas Jerrold, Mark Lemon, John A. He-

raucl, Thornton Hunt, F. G. Tomlins.
And by the Editors of the following journals:—Daily
News, Morning Advertiser, Sun, Punch, Weekly
News and Chronicle, Atlas, Leader, Nonconformist,
Patriot, Arbroath Guide, Bath Journal, Belfast
Mercury, Birmingham Mercury, Bradford Ob-
server, Bristol Examiner, Bucks Advertiser,
Cambridge Independent Press, Coleraine Chro-
nicle, Derby Reporter, Devonport Telegraph,
Dublin Commercial Journal, Hampshire In-
dependent, Dublin World, Galway Vindicator,
Gateshead Observer, Glasgow Sentinel, Leeds Mer-
cury, Leicester Mercury, Limerick and Clare Ex-
aminer, Limerick Reporter, Londonderry Standard,
Mona's Herald, Newcastle Chronicle, Newcastle
Guardian, Nottingham Review, Norwich Mercury,
Oxford Chronicle, Plymouth Journal, Preston
Chronicle, Scottish Press (Edinburgh), Sheffield
Free Press, Stamford Mercury, Suffolk Chronicle,
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, Waterford News,
Wiltshire Independent.

The following is a copy of the article which led to
M. Hugo's imprisonment :

" THE EXECUTION OF MONTCHARMONT.

" Four days ago, in an open 'quare of a French town,
and in the face of day and civilisation, the law, that is to
say, the divine and sacred force of society, laid hold of a
wretched man, who plunged and kicked, and having
bound him neck and heels, dragged him by the hair of
the head to the scaffold, bleeding from his lacerated
skin. Four days ago, before a population in profound
consternation, the law, for an hour together, wrestled
with crime. What had this man done against society?
He had killed. What was society doing to this man?
Why, making him a martyr. Partizans of capital
punishment, what was your object in bringing this
wretchedassassin to the guillotine? To show appa-
rently to all, human justice
inits force and power—to
raise in the minds of the masses the sentiment of right,
by calling on them to assist at the punishment of a
vile creature—to accomplish, in fact, a solemn, im-
posing, and terrible act. What have you done? You
have committed a violent, horrible, and regretable act ;
instead of enlisting the crowd to the side of the law, you
have almost made them, ranged them, on the side of the
sufferer! This man, who bad a little before been an object
of horror, you change into an object of pity. Yuu employ
two, then tour, then I know not how many, to kill this
man, who struggled against being put to death. The
first executioner failed, then you call a second; at length,
atter half a day of toil and efforts, you succeed in pu, ting
an end to him, and you wipe off the blood from your
knife, and the swe,t from your brow. No ! you have
not been imposing—you have not been solemn—no, you
have not
been terrible. Be it well done or ill done, an
execution is never a good sight for society to behold.
Whatever be the hand which commits it, a homicide is
never moral teaching. However honest and conscientious
may be your tribunsls and your judges, it will never be
by killing that you will prove thou must not
kill.' Modern society has condemned the law du talion
(of retaliation), to practise it is the reverse of progress;
it is to take from society, from justice, and from the
magistracy, a portion of their proper consideration.
Each time you effect a public execution you cause the
law to descend in national respect in an inverse ratio to
the height of your scaffold. If you will preserve your
barberous penalty of death, do as they do in America—
do not show, but hide yourself I Do not invite all
France, the whole press, all eyes to see you, and all
hearts to judge you, when pm are executing, and par-
ticularly when your executioners do not know their
trade, and your guillotines are as badly made as your
laws. For our part we are profoundly afflicted, and
even alarmed for all those dear and sacred interests on
which public 'tranquility reposes. We protest, and will
wretchedhiseyes
evheernsociety,protest,to against those spectacles of another age,
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human being
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" CHARLEM HUGO."

HACKNEY CARRIAGES.

The Gazette contains the following of
standings for hackney carriages within the metropo-
litan police district, and regulations to be observed :

INCREASED NUMBER OP CARRIAGES.
E, OR HOLBORN DIVISION.—TOttenhaM-COWt-
road—Fifteeen carriages (instead of eight). To
commence opposite the north corner of Percy-street
to the lamp-i-ost at Kirkman-place. Tottenham..
court-road—Twenty carriages (instead of twelve).
To commence ten feet from the crossing at Chapel-
street, in the centre of Tottenham-court-road, to
Within ten feet of the crossing at Howland-street
13,
(keeping clear of the entrance to New Inn-yard).
ine OR WESTMINSTER Divisrort.—Sloane-square—
ocfasrarivaagrees. (instead of five). Along the curb-
stone by by the iron railings on the south side of centre
OR
k.,Ou
m—esnicxet
—Sixteen
oppositeca rTii,NZF I2E DIVISION. —Wellington-street
(instead of eleven). To com-
mence
of St. Thorn. as tin the centre of the street, to
reofetiourtoevne)r.-roTado—coTurmeenntyce-
one carriages (insteadB
opposite No. 1, Dover-road, in centre of the street to
No. 11, Gray's-terrace. ,
It, OR GREENWICH DIVISION. Greenwich—
Twelve carriages (instead of eight). To commence
at the angle at the junction of the Greenwich-road

LONDON,:

and South-street, along the footway in a direct line
up South-street. Greenwich—Five carriages (in-
stead of two). To commence at the angle of the
Romney-road and King-street, along the footway ad-
joining the western wall of the Greenwich Hospital
burial-ground, in a direct line up King-street.
S, OR HAMPSTEAD DlVlSlON.—Wellington-road,
St John's-wood—Thirteen carriages (instead of eight).
To commence from the lamp -post opposite the Eyre
Arms Tavern, in the centre of the road, to the end of
the wall of the said premises.

_
APPOINTMENT OF STANDINGS.—CANCELLED.
B, OR WESTMINSTER DIVISION.—FuIham-road--
Six carriages. To commence at the Pound, near the
Admiral Keppel public• house, along the curbstone,
towards Fulham.
111, OR SOUTRWAREDITISION.—High-street,South-
wark—Twelve carriages. To commence opposite
No. 111, in centre of street, to No. 127. _ _

N, OR ISLINGTON DivisioN.—City-road—Fifteen
carriages. To commence opposite No. 10, City.
terrace, along the curbstone towards the entrance of
Shepherdess-walk.
S, OR HAMPSTEAD DIVISION.—CoIIege- street,Cam-
den-town—Fourteen carriages. To commence ten
feet from the Veterinary College, along the curbstone
to the end of the College wall.