The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-19 00:00:00

OAKS FILLIES.

Epira, Sister to Wanota, Catalpa, Theorem. Prestige,
Payment, Irene, Terpsichore, Princess Alice filly, Con-
stance, Hesse Homburg, Incurable, Prima Donna, Iris,
Aphrodite, Ella, Glendale, Anspach, Phlegra, Miserrima.
FOR THE TWO YEARS OLD AND OTHER RACES.
Sister to Clothworker, Alicia, Lady Label, Tested,
Eva, Narcissus, Clothworker, Dorothea, Escape. Hand-
some Doe, The Swede, Sir Charles, Zadoc, Soufflé, Agis,
Salute, Estafette, Lady in Waiting, Buckthorn,
Forlorn Hope, Cyprus, Monsieur Houdin, Clara,
Alboni, Nutcracker, Fernande, Pulcherrima, Cord,
Elcot (doubtful), Haitoe cult, Little John,
Simplicity, Kakistos, Pitsford, Garforth, Dulcet,
Sauter-la-Coupe, f out of Sorella's date,
Duster, Royal Hart, Subterfuge, Firebolt, Ley-
bourne, Exotic filly, Gladiole, c by Melbourne, Lady
Blanche, c by Sir Hercules, out of Empress (3 yrs),
Sweetheart, Ingratitude, Thornhill, Flare-up, Reversion,
Beebee l3unnoo, Hot-cross-bun, Sabra, Kissaway, Wind-
hound, Charley, Uriel; besides a great many others for
plates, &c.

EARTH'S SOCIAL TRYSTING
(From the Weekly Dispatch.)
In no particular has the growing power of public op.
nion and the prevailing mastery of the third estate iii
dicated the progress of the age so emphatically as in the
article of kings. With a few exceptions, they are pat-
tern examples of the private and domestic virtues. Even
the Emperor of Russia cannot afford to be a brute, a
sensualist, or a knave; and it may be recollected that be
is not the lineal successor to the throne of Muscovy, but
that the political exigencies of the State required that,
even in a nation of serfs, the true heir should abandon
his claims to the purple, in consideration of the odious-
ness of a life, against which even the feeble popular voice
of the country of the Czars was too powerful to be de-
fied. The King of the Belgians, the late King of the
French, the King of Prussia, the Emperor of Austria,
were not slow to discover that the divine right of kings
was not strong enough to maintain a Monarch on his
throne, odious to the people from the practical outrage
of his career upon the recognized virtues of society ;
and the terrible lesson which this nation taught to George
the Fourth in their support of Queen Caroline, proved
even to his unscrupulous Ministers that the very exist-
ence of the monarchy might, be pekillvd by the eettieese,e
and immorality of the Sovereign. The circumspection of
William IV. formed a strange contrast to the irregulari-
ties of the Duke of Clarence; and even our Prime
Ministers are now chosen with a very significant refer-
ence to the purity and blamelessness of their private cha-
racters. Lord Liverpool, Mr. Canning, Sir Robert Peel,
Lord John Russell, could never have attained to their
present positions had not their domestic conduct been
capable of sustaining the strictest scrutiny; and it is
scarcely too much to say that the stability of the Throne
is, and will continue to be, materially attributable to the
unexceptionable behaviour of the chief magistrate. But
undoubtedly it would be ungrateful in us to omit to ob-
serve that the singularly happy choice of a Prince Con-
sort is a subject of just congratulation to every gocd
citizen. It has been more epigrammatically than gal-
lantly, or perhaps oven truly, observed, that all good
Queens have been ruled by men, and all bad kings have
been governed by women. It cannot be doubted that
the husband even of a Queen, if possessed of force of
character and power of intellect, must exercise an essen-
tial influence upon the actions of his wife; and to the
sound judgment, propriety, good taste, and high principle
which have uniformly surrounded the whole conduct of
our Sovereign, a wise, prudent, and right-minded consort
is entitled to his fair share of the credit. We have watched
the career of this young prince amongst us with much
anxiety, and latterly with great and growing interest. He
is much more than merely a slip of blood royal. He is
evidently something else•than the masculine gender of
the noun Queen. He neither needs his rank nor his
position to make him distinguished. His own natural
gifts are such as "to give the world assurance of a
Alan." He has proved his wisdom as much by what he
has not done as by what he has performed. Prudently
he has abstained from alarming our national jealousy of
the interference of a foreigner in the political concerts
of our domestic factions. With the most watchful care
he has avoided permitting his proximity to the Throne
from adumbrating the Sovereign. The husband has
never usurped the office of the subject. Ile has ever:" -
where been useful, without ever having been meddl, -
some. He knows and keeps his place, distinguishing
carefully the official from the offieious. Even this is
high praise—but it is not all. He is not contented to
be one of your " Good Duke" gentry. He never mis-
takes the mere " guinea stamp" for the " guinea. '
He has too much self-respect, too great an appreciation
of the true dignity, the proper function and indivi-
duality of humanity, to submit to the.degrathhion
of wrapping up his personality in his rank and feorthaintos7
accessories. The Abbe Sieycs made his Chi
tfoChe
the
what Napoleon called a mere " pig."
first person in the State—the centre
SL TOVeIItICS;
honour; to have palaces, courtiers, and vast heir
of
to be everything, and to do nothing. Prince Albert will
not consent to be the Court " pig." He enters into com-
petition with his fellow-citizens as a man, and he takes a
high rank in that class. He is an early and astute diligent
and ripe student, a laborious, careful, an
man of
business. He is liberal, but throws no money away.
He is munificent according to his r_n_e eans, but ho is also
economical without parsimony.mH©
20; 1 lal n e
he 3
s the -
ac-
counts and expenditure of
every charitye before l u
b
patronage is extensive, but it is strictly
scribes to it—his
He is not a mere social mute. He is not
discriminating.idt s rhos enamel of his position by placing his
intellect side by de with those who have nothing bu t
their mind in which they can be on a level with him
We have been careful readers of his every speech. ale„
do not hesitate to say that they are uniformly the best
which have been delivered on the occasions in which he has
given utterance to his own sentiments. We regard his in-
tellect as of the very highest order; and there is a depth,
refinement, elegance, and expansive philosophy about his
ideas, and his method of developing them, which make
him stand almost alone among our orators. His address
at York left every other far in the shade, and his recent
speech at the Royal Academy was such as to induce
the doubt whether there was another man in the king-
dom who could have " capped" it. Nor must we forget
that he, of all men, has the most difficult task to exe-
cute in " thinking aloud." He speaks in the heavy fet-
ters of his position. He must clip the wings of his
eloquence, SO that it may not fly over the hedge of his
neutral policy. He must leave unuttered a thousand
thoughts, winch it is net permitted to the consort of the
sovereign to proclaim. He must sequester his mind
from the discursiveness of topic which is open to every
body else, and speak rather with the guarded larguege
of a Minieter, whose words are acts, thou with the free
enunciation of other men, who aro only titlttentot say
cause it is given to their obscurity of positihoinaking.
is
exactly what, and all that, they thine. tit is Ger-
transcendental viithout being nebulous;jelntsl
From this
man without being obscure and unpractical.tiiitreyctailldofneelhs
man, whom we welcome as a fellowa-osur
citizen, and whom we predict the
we anticipate a great
rejoice that our
desire to claim as a part of its
and eminently useful fothuTfatnUe-re,
and Elenanle
coming Sovereig
o:::°l::3h..i7chcahsteof m"tiingn tthoevimhiantd
him the great king
adjure him to
be his greatest work, t.
making
character of his son, a
Ltatnnote his y2uog soul be poisoned
nh old woman, although she
of a great nation.
trenAl'isoniterllury, nor the senctimenioue
with the canting
albeit men profanely
be an Archbishop
Sam. Ihe founder,
pride of a ruse) its Clprcr., man,
call him " Soapy projector, a's •
thor, almost finisher of the World's Expotitien, needs
no hop in the teaching of his children. We think