The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-21 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS.

NEW ORLEANS,' FEB. 6.—Cotton has suffered a de-
cline of je. since the receipt of the Canada's adviess.
FEE. 7.—The sales of cotton have been 4,00(1 bales at
ie. decline ainee the Canada's news. Flour liat declined
1,000 brio. Ohio :sold :at 4 dolls. 10e., and St. Louis
at 4 dolls. 25c. Bacon sides are at lc., and shoulders
Prime barrelled lard sells at 71-c. to Bc., and
kegs at Birc. Sugar, molasses, and pork are unchanged.
NOEFOLK, FEE. 6.—Corn is advancing, and sales of
yellow and white have been made at 63c. to 64c. Our
market generally is active, but cotton is dull.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
LIVERPOOL SPRING CUP.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Parr's Panope—taken.
6 to 1 agst Mr. Meeson's Doubt—taken
Bto 1 agat Mr. Lawson's Caurire -
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
• 10 to I.agst Sir John
10 io soirAbdael-fradeir
10 to 1 agst Maria Day
10 to 1 agst Rattrap
12 to 1 agst Vain Hope
12 to I agat Peter Simple
15 to 1 agst Fugitive
20 to 1 agat Rescue
25 to 1 agat Currig
30 to 1 agst Farnham
Vain Hope was backed for nearly 4001. at 12 and 13
to 1, but closed at 12 to 1, with plenty of 'layers. Rat-
trap was in good demand; the general betting, however,
being extremely dulL
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
The field for choice agst Grecian
5 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Mountain Sylph colt
10 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Storm
CHESTER CUP.
14 to 1 agst Mr. Treen's Rhesus, 5 yrs, 7st
25 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Wallflower, 5 yrs, 6st—
taken and afterwards offered
25 to 1 agst Lord Strathmore's Montague, 5 yrs, 7st
21b—taken and afterwards offered
40 to 1 agst Mr. Harrison's Seaman, 4 yrs, 7st—t
Rhesus evidently on the decline, but scarcely anything
doing on the race.

METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
10 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Raby
10 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Cnmus
14 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Minimum—taken
18 to 1 agst Mr. Mare's Gillyflower—taken to 50/.
DERBY.
6 to 1 agst Mr. Howard's Grecian—taken
6 to 1 agst Mr. Halford's Prime Minister—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Mountain Sylph colt
—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Ariosto—taken
1,000 to 25 apt Sir J. Hawley's Confessor—taken
Grecian was backed for 150 L at 6 to 1, Prime Minister
at 13 to 2 and 6 to 1 to 3001., and the Mountain Sylph
colt and Ariosto for 2001. each, at the quoted odds.

SPORTING NOTES.
No. XL
LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING.
GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE, &c. &c.

" The Chase ! the Chase! the Steeplechase!
The rasping leap and the rattling pace;
The rider brave and the gallant steed,
Whose lava-veins display his breed ;
The flashing eye and the hoof of light,
That far outstrips the tempest's flight ;
The start, the struggle, and the goal,
Where victory winds up the whole.
Oh! ne'er on turf or stream a race
Can beat the manly Steeplechase."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
analytical powers will set be brought into play
to-day on the appointed subject, the Newmarket Handicap,
the dissection of which must stand adjourned to Monday
next, but on the principal events of the Liverpool Spring
Meeting, announced for Wednesday, the 20th, whose claims
put forth a prior right to an immediate and careful considera-
tion at my hands, which they shall most assuredly have.
The Liverpool Grand National is to steeplechases what the
Derby is to flat-races, the most important stake in the annual
turn of this sublunary ball; it took its station as the most
important race of the kind almost from the commencement
of stomolechasing, some twenty years ago, and generally
'-,attr#OiCitocaratilalgttillre oss other stegpleckasek
antobpdtoei msbe &WM- MAW- et- WorieaterNNilit
'inns), and St. Albans, have risen and since fallen away'
from their great estate, but Liverpool stands firm as a rock?
and bids fair so to do for years to come. In 1849 the number
of entries amounted to 67, thirty-eight of whom accepted;
in 1850 they numbered 70 and forty-four cried content ; this
year the nominations show a slight falling off, being 63,
thirty-one of whom (within two of a moiety) are contented
with their burdens, a sort of impost receiving much more
general support than Sir Charles Wood's house-tax substi-
tute for the duty on the light of heaven. As I before re-
marked, the fields in proportion to the acceptances are always
very large; in 1849 twenty-four went to the post, in 1850
the great number of thirty-two mustered to contest the
stake, and this year, so far as I can judge at the present
writing, the field will range between a score and two dozen,
among whom the following will be found :—Sir John,
Vain Hope, Sir Peter Laurie, Peter Simple, Fugitive,
Farnham, Rattrap, Half-and-Half, Shinrone, Young-Un,
Maria Day, Abd-el-Kader, Tipperary Boy, Mulligan, Rescue,
Currig, Sam Hood, Maurice Daley, Penrith, and Volatile or
Venice. I will now attempt to deduce conclusions from past
performances, and present condition, commencing with the
top-weight. Lord Waterford's b g, Sir John, by Windfall,
aged, 11st 121 b, stands at the top of the scale, with a steady-
ing weight on his back; in 1849, September 25, at Cashel,
he won the Rock Stakes, beating Wedge, Fugleman, and
The Hermit in a common canter; November 21st, carrying
llst llb, he won the Liverpool Autumn Steeplechase, beat •
ing Vain Hope, lOst 61b, The Victim, llst 71b, and fourteen
others; in 1850, list 81b, he ran a good third to Abd-el-
Kader, 9st 121 b, for the Liverpool Steeplechase, beating
Peter Simple, 12st 21b—Rattrap, llst 71b—Farnham, list 31b
Victim, list 211-MalliOn, lOst 101b—Maria Day, lOst
51b7-Shinrone, lOst 51b—Tipperary Boy, lOst, and twenty-
one others ; April 2, at Tipperary, was beaten by Archy and
several others, having fallen early in the race; April 9th,
beat Archy and five others for the Limerick Stakes; and at
Cashel, September. 25th, for the second time, won the Rock
Stakes easily by five lengths, carrying .12st 131 b, beating
Currig, list 61b, and another. These performances, all at
welting weights, 'mark Sir John out as a very dangerous
horse to be against for the ensuing steeplechase; he will; be
ridden, I believe, by Ryan, and I have but little doubt will
be near the front at the finish, although, in my opinion, not
the first.

Mr. Veers' Vain Hope by Safeguard, 6 yrs, list 81b, has
held a prominent position in the betting throughout, and wee
yesterday backed for several hundreds at prices varying froth
100 to 6 to 10 to 1, but, though others place unlimited con-
fidence in him, I think he is over-weighted, and have no he-
sitation in declaring his winning to be the vainest of vain
hopes; his running has, however, been highly respectable;
in 1849, November 2, he won the Worcestershire Handicap,
carrying Bst 101 b, beating the Young-Un, lOst, and eight
others very cleverly; November 14th, 9st 101 b, won the
Aylesbury Handicap by half a length, beating. among
others, Maria Day, lOst 51b (third), The Young-Un, lOst
21b, and Tipperary Boy, lOst 71b ; ran second, carrying lest
61b. to Sir John, for the Liverpool Autumn Steeplechase;
December 4th, 10. st 51b, first favourite for the Leamington
Open Steeplechase, was no-where to the Knight of Gwynne,
list llb (first), and Abd-el-Kader, 9st 101 b (second);
Dec. 12th, lOst 91b, ran Maria Day, lost, to a neck for the
Metropolitan Steeplechase. In 1850, Dec. 4th, 1 Ist 21b, was
beaten off for the " Worcestershire Grand Annual," won by
Miss Collingwood, lOst 41b; Tipperary Boy, lOst, (a good
second) ; he comes out, however, on the 13th, and wins
the Wolverhampton Steeplechase easily, carrying lOst
131 b, beating The Victim, list Ilb, Peter Simple,
list 31b, Maurice Daley, 9st 131 b; and two others. He
has not, as yet, run this year; he will be ridden by Archer,
I presume.

Mr. Barnett's br h Sir Peter Laurie, aged, list 71b, so
much fancied by the touting tribe, with 19at 61b up, ran no-
where to Vengeance, 9st 61b, for the Coventry Craven
Steeplechase last year ; lOst 21b, won the " Leamington
Grand Annual," March 22d, beating Peter Simple, 125 .
,
Abd-el-Kader, lOst 121 b; and Tipperary Boy, lOst, by
lengths, besides some thirteen others. April 12th, list
was lost by Fugitive, lOst 81b, for the steeple-
chase;Bletropoliiet:snby
Nov. 20th, 1 Ist 31b, was run off his
Steeplechase. Lucyyr
Neal, lOst 61b, who won the Leamington
Peter's chance, if you were to believe the
nT.o,
anything in the race ; I'm not of their opei tby
Patron, aged,
is as good as
Mr.! Cunningham's b g Peter SynP2B4
9 carrying list ;
I Ist 71b, won this Steeplechase
since then he has only
six times. December 6th,
een early in the race for the
as he was with 12st up for
cap
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" Liverpool Grand Nat
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Leamington Annual HansdtiacaappieornhaMseacricel:_e2r2lyd,;bheaetiwngonistaahe
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. 13th,race fio3rb. the6th,
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Wolverhampton
lOst
of grace, lOst 101 b, was third to Lucy Neal,
yearl t 111 b, when he might have been, had his
jockey so chosen it, first in the commonest
of canters. The foregoing are his latest performances ; with
the exception of the first and last, they are not much in his
favour, but, he is a good horse, sound, and in first-rate trim,
will take a good deal of beating, yet I cannot fancy he will
win • he will be ridden by his owner.
Mr.f Storey's b g The Victim, by Drayton, aged, lOst 131 b,
I am inclined to eschew in favour of The Young-un, aged,
lOst 71b, who has shown that he can run occasionally, espe-
cially in his spin for the 'Worcestershire Annual last De-
cember, when he cut out the work for his stable companion,
who could not accomplish the winning feat that day, conse-
quently throwing the Young-un's chance away, and doubly
victimising the backers of the stable. Taylor will ride the
champion of the stable.
Lord Largart'l cli Da Fugitive, by Rust, aged, Ost 121 b. ii

in on vi
Bbl

I Mr. Higgins' br m Maria Day, aged lOst 51b, is at filth*
respective weights pretty nearly on a par with Fugitive, ac-
cording to previous running; her chance is very good, she is
sure to run up ; out of six races she has only missed obtain-
ing a place twice; her best performances were, winning the
Metropolitan Steeplechase, Dec. 12, 1849 (lost), heating
Vain Hope, 1 Ost 91b, and seven others, and running an out-
and-out second to Fugitive, at Epsom, at the Same weight,
to Fugitive's lOst 81b. Frisby or Rackley Nvill have the
mount.

Mr. Osborne's b g Abd-el-Kader, by Ishmael, out of Eng-
lish Lass, aged, lOst 41b, won this stake last year at 9st 121 b,
and will be very handy for it again this year, but, as to ab-
solutely winning it, on this head I have some grave doubts,
especially when I remember that his last victory at Liver-
pool is the only " deed of note" that he has accomplished
worth recording during the last twelve months; however, it
will not do (in the parlance of the ring) "to stand to be shot
at" by him, for his victory last year, memory tells me, was
accomplished in the shortest time on record. He will pro-
bably have the same jock up as last year, viz., Mr. Green.
Mr.Tollitt's Tipperary Boy, aged,lost 31b, and Mr. Elmore's
Mulligan, aged, lOst 21b, hold the chances of all the light-
weights tolerably safe, with the eftception of Venice, 6 yrs,
9st 71b (whom I know nothing about, consequently cannot
give an opinion), and Maurice Daley, aged, 9st 61b, who
are fancied by small parties, but not by me. Cerrig and Sam
Hood, at 9st 121 b each, and Volatile, 9st 10Ib, are the only
others who merit noticing, and I can say but little in their
favour. They run, however, and in the chapter of accidents,
with such light-weights on their backs, might win, but this
is very problematical. In conclusion, I opine, the first-flight
at the finish may consist of Sir John, Fugitive, Farnham,
Rattrap, Maria Day, Abd-el-Kader, and Tipperary Boy, and
were the veil of futurity lifted from before my eves, my op-
tical nerves might be electrified by seeing I'ANHAM or
FUGITIVE the winner, with Tipperary Boy and Rattrap in
close attendance.
My review of the Steeplechase entries has extended over
such a space, that I shall conclude by merely glancing at
the other events. For the Spring Cup, Doubt seems to be
the crack, but I very much doubt whether he can give Unity
nearly 3st, notwithstanding the early period of the season,
and the length of the course (11 miles); Panope, 4 yrs, Tat
51b, looks like business, and so does Caurire, 5 yrs, 7st 91b ;
and if I were to place them as follows, I fancy I should not
be very wide of the mark, viz. :
CAURIRE 1
UNITY ...
... 2
DOUBT ... . • ... 3
The Little Queen, 5 yrs, lOst 101 b, will monopolise the
general attention for the Hurdle Race; and Cogia, Pysche,
and Miss Collingwood, will contest the second place.
The latest information on the above events, with the fields,
&c., en Tuesday evening.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

Feb. 21, 1851.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Judge-Advocate-General had an audience of the
Queen yesterday st Buckingham Palace, and submitted
to her Majesty the proceedings of some courts-martial.
His Royal Highness the Prince Albert, attended by
Colonel the Hon. C. Grey and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon.
A. Gordon, visited the model lodgiughouses for families,
in Streatham-street, yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock.
His Royal Highness was received at the establishment
by Lord Ashley and by Mr. Roberts, the architect of
the building, and inspected minutely the rooms and ar-
rangements, with which his Royal Highness expressed
himself much pleased.
His Royal Highness tho Prince of Wales, attended by
Mr. Birch, drove out in a carriage yesterday morning.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty and Prince Albert yesterday.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, took
their usual pony and walking exercise yesterday, and
Prince Arthur was taken an airing.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
honoured the performance at the Princess's Theatre with
their presence yesterday evening. The Royal suite con.
sisted of the Countess of Mount Edgoumbe. Hon. Caro.
line Dawson, Lord Byron, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and
Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Alexander Gordon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the
Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary, visited
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Glou-
cester-house, on Wednesday evening. The Duchess of
Cambridge and the Princess Mary afterwards proceeded
to their residence at Kew.
Mr. %Valbanke Childers, M.P., and Mr. Lyons, bad
an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the
Home-office.

The Lord Mayor had an interview yesterday with
Lord John Russell, at his official residence, Downing.
-street. - • 1 .
Lord Ashley had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence,
Downing-street.
Mr. Arnott had an interview yesterday with Sir
George Grey, at the Home-office.
Mr. John Wood. Chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, with Mr. Pressly and Mr. Ticam. had an in-
terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester-
day.

The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
general meeting yesterday, at their office, Whitehall
place. _ _ _

The Rev. Edward Hartopp Cradock and the Hon. Mrs.
Cradock gave a dinner party on Wednesday to his Ex-
cellency the Belgian Minister, the Archbishop of York,
and the Hon. Mrs. Musgrave, Sir Walter and Lady C.
Stirling, Lady Harriett Elliot, Mr. and Mrs. Elliot War-
burton, and Mr. G. Lewis, M.P.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FRori OIIR OWN CORRESPOND ENT.)
COWES, FEL 20.
THE WINDOW-TAX AND THE HOUSE DUTY
OR ROBBING PETER TO BENI'IT PAUL'
AND PICKING THE POCKETS OF BOTH.
This conjuring trick of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer has given universal dis-satisfaction here. The
rent of the houses in the business part of the town range
from 201. to 501. a year—high rents for small houses, after
deducting the shop windows and glass door (three) not
chargeable; the majority of them have not more than
seven windows, and therefore have heretofore gone free,
but the new house duty fixes on them, and they will be
subject to the new tax though exempt from. the old (that
is if this mad scheme ever becomes the law). This alte-
ration favours the great. but falls heavy on the small
tradesman; all are opposed to the window-tax, as none
have half air and light enough, and all would gladly let
it in but for the obnoxious window-tax. The remedy of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer is more intolerable
than the disease, bad as that is. The man who now pays
61. a year window-tax is in future to pay 41., and the man
who pays' now 18e. is to pay 125., and this though his
house may be quite as large, better situated, more valu-
able, and may (if this law should ever be passed) soon
have more windows in it than that for which the other
is charged 4/. ! An old house with 39 windows will have
to pay 104 a year; a new one of the same size (take the
rent of 1001 a year for either) 5/. a year 1 Can such ass
unjust law be tolerated?
Persons who are now paying 201. per annum. for houtNea
not assessed to the window-tax will be
•eitsivs rortroan;
giving notice to
in
their landlords that if they do not reduce the rent to
and passengers
191. 103., so that they may evade the tax, they shall quit:
the ARRIVAL
from New Y Franklin,
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THim.snAy.—The circumstance of the free-
BEDFORD,
of Colonel Gilpin's friends. At first
demanding a
free-
traders &ins! poll on Monday MOonFda
they
pooh-pooped the whole affair, but when they found that
h v ifould be tripped up unless they set to work about
REPRESENTATION
gettingte UP the votes they gave orders for the full machinery
to be set in motion. This morning the poll opened at nine
o'clock, but there was very little activity evinced on either
side. The whole affair is conducted with much good hu-
mour and very quietly, there being no bands of music and no
turbed the dignity
drink. A pair of cotton flags hanging in the High-street are
the only insignia of the candidates. The following was the
state of the poll at the close :
Colonel Gilpin ...
... ~, ... 1,047
Mr. Houghton
... ... ••• ••• 350
This only includes the return of Leighton Buzzard and
Luton to twelve o'clock.

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official catalogue, immediately to transmit the requisite
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:erylair terms, and in my opinion will run remark.:
award, perchance win; she has been out ten'
nt—faiors
the beginning of November, 1849, eight out of the
- two-mile hurdle races, of these, she has won
three, ran second iu one, and third in two, carrying for the
Most part, the top weight; besides this site lias run twice
in steeplechases, to wit, the Great Metropolitan, which
she won, carrying lOst 81b, beating Maria Day, lOst, by
half a length,'and -a field of twelve others, thchiclitig tho
British Yeomen, I Ist 711e4 Sir Peter Laurie, let 51b; and
Miss Collingwood, lOst 21b; and the Bath Free Handicap,. - •
where, with the top weight .of 1 lst'slb, she ran a good fourth •
to Vengeance, -10 st (first); Tipperary ,Boy, 10st (second, .
beaten a neck); and Verax, lOst 31b (third); beating a.
field of fourteen,
including Miss Collingwood, 10st ;. Thur.
garton, lOst 61b ; and Maurice Daley, lOst. Ziagee nifty have
the mount, but this is dubious.
Mr. Townley'S nomination ',fedora, aged, lOst lqb, is, I
think, held safe by Mr. Mangan's Farnham, by BaLcatch,Cr,
6 yrs, lOst 121 b, who ran fifth, 'carrying list 31b, ..klid-el-
Kader, 9st 121 b, for the " Liverpool NatiOnal" laSt'Year;
afterwards' fourth to Vengeance, 9st 61b, with lOst I Ilb up,
for the Cevent-y Craven Handicap; and shut up shop far •
the season by winning the Cheltenharn Grand Annual
( lOst 101 b), beating among others Abd-el-Bader, lOst 61b ;
Victim, 10st 121 b; and Vengeance, 10st, all stalled off:
Such are Farnham's deeds, they warrant a trifling invest-
ment I imagine, liar, if he comes to the post in good form, his
chance is as good as the best of them. Abbott is to be the
pilot.
Mr. T. F. Mason's eh h Rattrap, by Ilatcatcher, aged,
lOst 101 b, after having been pretty well knocked about in
that line, said to be originated by Hume of the Bogue (in
the vernacular, humbug), will, this time, 'tis said, be sent
past tile post first, if it can possibly be acomplished, which, I
think, is not at all unlikely.
Mr. Oake's Half-and-Half, lOst 81b ; Mr. King's Shin-
Tone, lOst 71b; and Mr. Benson's Little Queen, lOst 71b, are
booked by one or two of those favourably commented on
above.