The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-09 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Prussian Chambers have voted the new penal
code. The punishment of death for the heaviest
offences is retained, but the executions are to take
place in private.
The Emperor of AUSTRIA returned to Vienna on
the sth, and had, it was said, immediately sent for
Prince METTERNICH.

Bavaria is in a very disturbed state in consequence
of the presentation of a memorial to the KING from
the bishops. A letter from Munich says—
. .

" That memorial' is a compound of the most extra-
vagant assumption and arrogance against royal and legal
authority, and contradictory to almost all our civil
laws. If all the things which the Bavarian bishops
require could be granted, they would not be Fathers
in the Church, but domineering despots in our
country, and the King their servant. They, without
abandoning their rank, pay royal privileges, or standing
in the state or in society, categorically demand the entire
abolition of the Place turn .Regzum, and ask full power and
the right to appoint and to dismiss at their pleasure not
only the subordinate clergy, but also the professors in the
universities, and the teachers in all other schools. They
require also full and undisputed power of instituting new
Catholic universities, seminaries, schools, monasteries, and
nunneries of every order and kind they please, and to
send Jesuits and. Redemptionists as missionaries into their
dioceses. Priests justly or unjustly judged by the bishops
or their ordinaries are to have no appeal to the King's
courts of justice. If that memorial were to be granted,
the subordinate clergy would become as outlaws, or negro
slaves, losing all natural rights as Bavarians, and delivered
up to the arbitrary cruelty of the Jus Canonicum, as in the
time of Gregory VII.
"It is by such means that the Bishops think to regain
their lost spiritual influence. The Bishop of Augsburg
alone signed it, with a protest added to his name The
concordat, nothing but the concordat, and the whole con-
cordat.' Now, the concordat is an integral part of the Ba-
varian Constitution; so the Bishops have tnrown the fire-
brand of division into their own house. Our Parliament,
now assembled, begins already to grumble, and to abuse all
ecclesiastical orders, and the people do the same. One
furious pamphlet has already appeared, calling upon the
people to put an end at once to all priestcraft and kingcraft
by cudgels, &c."

SPORTING NOTES.

No. XXXL

SCRAPS FROM NEWMARKET.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU* '
SlR,—Yesterday's racing came off much as I expected it
would ; Hesse Homburg won the Handicap in the easiest of
canters; Hernandez repeated the same dose for the Riddles-
worth ; and, in short, everything has come off much about
what I prognosticated in my Notes. The only exception
was for the 100 soya. Stakes, where I more than half-ex-
pected Heartbreaker would bowl Ariosto over; he has done
so, and established his right to be considered a Derby fa-
vourite; 1,000 to 30 is taken about him, at which price he
ought to be supported, according to the odds; but mark me,
he has but little chance of winning the Derby. Hernandez is
worth backing at 50 to 1, for no other purpose than hedging.
I did not publish any extraordinary information concerning
the Column on hearing of the defeat of Ariosto yesterday, on
account of thinking that Ariosto is quite good enough to win
that stake; or, should he miss it, Merry Peal or Payment is
quite certain of obtaining premier honours. The latest bet-
ting this morning up to twelve o'clock is as follows :—Co-
lumn Stakes—Even on Ariosto ; 4 to 1 agst Merry Peal ; 4 to
1 agst Payment; 10 to 1 agst any other. Port Stakes-5 to
4on Bee Hunter, offered. Derby-30 to 1 agst Heart-
breaker; 66 to 1 agst Ariosto.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.
•
April 9, 1851.

SlR,—Your remarks on the article on Sir a: Napier's
instant, point, letter, in The Sun of the 14th seem to in
some respects, to certain observations of mine in a former
letter. You speak of " breach of faith." Allow me £0
observe that the cases, as between the country and the
sailor, and the country and the captain, are by no means
analogous. The' sailor is not turned adrift because "if
longer retained in the service, he would become entitled
to extra pay," &c. He enters for five years. At the
expiration of that time, by the sth and 6th Wm. IV., he
can claim his discharge. By the same Act, "if retained
in the service in consequence of some special emergency
beyond five years, he is entitled to one-fourth additional
pay." I need scarcely observe that this proviso is to
prevent a ship abroad being unmanned on the breaking
out of a war. Your remarks respecting a ship remaining
in commission for five years are just ; but this has been
found an unpopular measure. " Jack" is an odd fellow.
He likes a three years' cruize; and at the expiration of
that time, from the day of leaving England, he becomes
anxious to return. Equally just and good are your
proposals for a " reasonable leave of absence," &e. But
are. you aware that this has been tried, add failed?
" Jack" is an odd fellow in more ways than one. After
his cruize he likes to be free, and it has been found that
the continuance of pay, &c., were not sufficient induce-
ments to allow his name to remain on a ship's books.
You must, therefore, Mr. Editor, point out some other
plan for the establishment of an invaluable reserve."

rrhis is the great desideratum; and if you can propose
one, and it can be attended with success, you will not
only receive the thanks of any set of men who may be in
possession of the quarter approached by the " Bridge of
Sighs," as well as those of the service generally, but you
will also confer a signal benefit on your country.
I am, Sir, &c.,
MARINERO.

London.

P.S.—You may not understand my allusion to the
" Bridge of Sighs." At a certain large house near Char-
ing-cross is; an iron bridge leading over a staircase to a
waiting-room, which officers who go to beg have to cross,
and which was, long since, not inappropriately, thus
named.