The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-02 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING.
Newmarket, Thursday.
The King's Plate of 100 gs. for five yrs. old, list. ; six,
11st: 91b. ; and aged, 12st. It. C. 3 subs.

Mr. Biggs's Little Red Rover I. Day 1
Colonel Peel's Ernest, 5 yrs 2
Duke of Rutland's Hawker, 5 yrs 3

Won easy by two lengths-5 to 4 agst. Red Rover, 6to
5 agst. Ernest, 6to 1 agst. Hawker.
Renewal of the 1,000 Gs. Stakes, a subscription of 100
sovs each, h. ft., for fillies, Bst. 41b. each. D.M. Three
yrs. old. 30 subs.
Lord Berners's ch. f. by Lamplighter...J. Day 1
9

Mr. Walker's Velocity
Also started :—Lord Jersey's Nell Gwynne ; Sir Mark
Wood's ro. f. by Whalebone—Miss Craven's dam ; Mr.
Neville's ch. f. Amadon, Colonel Peel's b. f. Rosalie, and
Mr: Dilly's br. f. Myrina. Won cleverly.-6 to 1 agst.
Lord Berner's filly, 10 to 1 agst. Velocity, 7 to 1 agst.
Nell Gwynne, 2to 1 agst. Amadon, 5 to 4 agst. Rosalie.
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h. 3 subs.

Duke of Cleveland's Muley Moloch recd: forfeit.
• Match—Mr. Greville's Whale received forfeit from Lord
Exeter's Cactus, Bst. 41b. each. A.F., 200, h.ft
Plenipotentiary does not start to-morrow.
Wednesday Night.
'

The racing this afternoon was so uninteresting, the re-
sults so unimportant, and business so flat, that additional
particulars are uncalled for. .
The Derby betting continues very flat, and is likely to
be so till something definite be known respecting Plenipo-
tentiary ; that he is not seriously amiss is clear, or he
would not be at 4 to 1 ; but while any uncertitude prevails
speculation will be impeded as a matter of course.
Match on Friday.-6 to 4 on Whale agst. Viator.
Lord Orford's race horses were put up for sale this
morning ; out of eighteen lots not above two or three were
sold, and those at very low prices. There were no bid-
ders for the others. Mr. Forth's Imbar was sold for 200
guineas.

CURRAGH APRIL MEETING.
THURSDAY.—King's Plate of 100 gs. for horses, &c.
Four miles. 31b. to mares and geldings.
Mr. J. Kelly's New Fashion
Mr. E. Kelly's Peacemaker 2
Captain Beville's Mount Eagle 3
Lord Portarlington's Shamrock bolted
Free Handicap of 10 soya. each, for all ages. One mile
and a quarter on the Peel Course. 25 sovs. added, at 2
sovs. each for entrance.
Colonel Gestenra's Freney 1
Mr. Hynes's gr. c. by Byron 2
• Lord Milltown's Lodola 3
Mr. Knaresborough's Silly Pat 4
Mr. Quinn's Munster Lass 5
The Renewal of the Corinthian Stakes of 10 sovs. each,
h. ft., with 30 sovs. added for Hunters, Race Horses
admitted. Peel Course, heats. To be rode by Gentle-
men. The second horse to save his stake. 2 sovs. each
entrance.
Lord Portarlington's Shamrock
Captain Armitt's Garryowen
Captain Vaughan's Caleb 0 2
Mr. Hobson's Iliad
Mr. Quinn's Munster Lass
FRlDAY.—Challenge of the Wellington Stakes of 30 soya.
each, and 5 sovs. ft. Three years old Course.
Mr. Battersby's Barebones 1
Mr. Watt's Rust 2

Challenge of the Madrid Stakes of 25 sovs. each, and 5
ft. Old two years old course.—Mr. Watt's Rush walked
over ; Mr. Hunter's Lupin paid.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs., h. ft., with 25 added. Three year

old course. Second horse to save his stake.
Lord Portarlington's Shamrock
Mr. Rynd's Summerhill
Mr. V. Blake's gr. c. by Byron
Lord Miltown's Cinnamon
Lord Portarlington's Wasp
Mr. O'Connor Henchy's Cheat

SAT U It n AY. —This was the greatest meeting of the week,
the stand-house was crowded with ladies and gentlemen.
The King's Plate of 100 gs. for three yrs. old, Bst. each.
Three miles. 31bs. to fillies and geldings
Colonel Westenra's Freney
Mr. J. Kelly's New Fashion 2
Mr. Beere's b. c. by Dunkellin 3
Second Class of the Madrid Stakes (renewed), for two
yrs. old ; 25 sovs. each, 15 ft. Old two years old course.
Second horse to save his stake.
Mr. Watt's Rush 1
• Mr. Hunter's Lupin
Mr. Digb's Stiff 3
Air. Watt s Fracture
Free Handicap of 10 sovs. each, for two and three yrs. old,
for Hunters, Racers admitted ; 20 sovs. added, at 2 sovs.
each for entrance. Connolly's mile.
Colonel Westenra's Thump 1
Mr. Rynd's Summerhill 2
Colonel Armstrong's Corsair 3
Lord Portarlington's Wasp 4
Second Class of the Corinthian Stakes, 10 sovs , h. ft. ;

25 sovs. added, at 2 sovs. each for entrance.
Lord Portarlington's Shamrock
Mr. St. George's Peacemaker
Lord Howth's Caleb 3 3

Lady Elizabeth has challenged for the Gold Cup in Sep-
tember, 200 sous. each, p.p. Freney has also challenged.
The Cup is at present held by the Earl of Portarlington,
who won it with Shamrock last year.

ROOKWOOD.—A romance, we perceive, is
annonnced as forthcoming under the above title. Can
it relate to any member of that unfortunate family
bearing the same name with whose romantic and
tragical annals Mr. Gage Rookwood's curious history
of the House of. Hengrave has made us acquainted?
If this be so, no better subject could have been selected
by the novelist or the dramatist. As a domestic
tragedy it has never been exceeded in interest, in
which it surpasses even the tale of Lillo's Arden of
Feversham.

In one of , the papers recently received from
the Cape of • Good Hope an account is given of the
number and tonnage of merchant vessels (exclusive of
coasters) which have entered Table Bay, beginning
with the year 1808, and ending with December, 1833,
which shows a wonderful progress in the commerce of
the colony ; for, according to this document, it ap-
pears that in 1808 the number of merchant vessels
which entered was 83, and their tonnage 28,373 ; in
1816, 131, and tonnage 56,913 ; in 1833, 298, and
tonnage 96,577, being the highest during the whole
period. The lowest was in 1812, when only 67 ves-
sels entered, whose tonnage was 15,426. During the
first ten years, beginning with 1808, 1,062 vessels
went into Table Bay, while in the last ten 1,950 en.,
tered, being an increase of about 890. During the
last 25 years 4,568 vessels entered, out of which num-
ber 44 were wrecked, with the loss of only 10 lives,
being a fraction less than one life for every four wrecks
in the Hay. This, however, does not include the
slaves lost in' 1812 in the Portuguese brig, Packet
Real, which struck, and nearly. all on board perished.
The tonnage of the whole number of vessels during
the • above-mentioned period was 1,401, 663, and of
those wrecked 10,551. The cargoes of the vessels
lost were in most cases saved. The number of wrecks
had materially decreased of late, not only in pro- 1
portion to the number of vessels entering, but in q1),.1
solute numbers, for during the last two years 446
vessels (exclusive of coasters) entered, and no accident
of any consequence had occurred,—;Times,

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

cuoilTild,hwte reasoarenableSir
band
Aeii
Andrew
ejudiciousv gratifiedAgb yictwh portion, es rejection,
ourtll, nioi
nicknamed
aaa reader;
ene for the "better observance of the Sabbath."
With all one's respect for the avowed, and we dispute
not the real, motives of that hon. baronet, it is a sad
thing that people of such very narrow and defective in-
tellects should undertake to legislate on subjects which
ought never to be touched but with the most scru-
pulous reverence, and the most refined and consum-
mate skill—indeed, by the master-hands of the com-
munity. The bill of this wise person is essentially
the same as that which was thrown out last year by
ne House of Commons—a proof that the worthy gen-
tleman has been much mistaken in his calculations as
to the march of proselytism during the past twelve
months. In fact, such attempts upon the freedom
and comfort of society, and more especially of the
poor, could not be made by any man who was ca-
pable of looking at more than one side of the simplest
and easiest question. Sir Andrew Agnew pretends that
this measure would protect the labouring classes
from the tyranny of those by whom they are employed
or directed during six days of the week, and the mode
by which he would accomplish his purpose is, to pro-
hibit them from doing anything, or enjoying the
slightest healthful or cheerful recreation to which their
own free will, their taste, and propensities might in-
duce them. Under the title of a bill of relief, it is
in truth one of pains and penalties upon the whole
aation. It is one of religious persecution, but of ne-
cessity most so against the poor. It is a bill for forcing
the worn-out mechanic to walk half a day's journey
in search of fresh air, instead of being carried to it
by some public conveyance ; that the servants and cat-
tle of coach-masters may have holyday, while those
of rich private individuals must still remain at the
mercy of their master's orders. It is a bill under
which the poor wearied traveller may perish (all for
the love of 'God), no innkeeper daring to receive or
feed him on the Sabbath. It is a bill for denaturalizing
the spirit of religion within the human heart, by im-
pressing the ignorant with a belief, that whatever is
most gloomy, sour, painful, and intolerable throughout
existence, has been sanctionedby its omniscient Author
as a matter of divine choice; or if that be, as it ought
to be, incredible, such laws as this must make mankind,
in the same proportion as their religious sentiments
are just, abhor and rebel against that civil government
which oppresses them by institutions so adverse to the
obvious will and attributes of a beneficent Deity. In
our opinion, so little do we agree with Sir Andreiv
Agnew, there is not half enough of cheerful and ac-
tive amusement tolerated by our national habits, as
transmitted to us from those days when Puritanism
was triumphant, to satisfy the innocent wants of life,
or to enliven and buoy up the labouring classes under
their depressing occupations. We should rejoice to
see more of manly sports and exercises, more of
playful purpose, having at all times a full re-
gard to decency of demeanour, permitted to
our youthful population, after those hours at
which the rites of religious worship are usually per-
formed. It is certain that more good temper, more
inward satisfaction, more kindliness and mutual cha-
rity, than now exist, would grow out of such a change
in our exterior customs. Nor is the church of Eng-
land, the old high church of England, hostile—but far
the contrary—to such innocent relaxations for the
people. There is no such spirit as that of puritanism
any where visible in the archives of Christianity—the
Gospel of Christ. The light of the Gospel is a sun_
shine of a social cheerfulness to the ,mind of those who
receive and profit by it ; but there is no sunshine in
this barbarous and gaoler-like legislation. It is not
calculated to make men better, but worse, by render-
ing them superfluously wretched. It is, therefore,
that we, not wanting, we hope, in charity to Sir A. Ag-
new, rejoice at the defeat of his unchristian law.— Times.
Another Member has taken up the question of the
better observance of the Sabbath, Mr. Hesketh Fleet-
wood. We are glad at all events that it is out of the
hands of Sir Andrew Agnew. It is in fact a piece of
great presumption in any Scotch Member to attempt
to legislate in a matter which requires the possession
of an intimate knowledge of the habits of the English
people, so different from those of the people of the
northern division of the island. Laws to be effectual
must be in accordance with the opinions and feelings
of the people who are to execute them. No legislative
body is entitled to offer violence to the habits of a
people, and it will require much experience and great
tact to distinguish between the rule of cessation from
labour, and the indispensable exceptions from it. All
men are agreed that one d'ay in the week ought, as a
rule, to be a day of rest ; and when we have only to
consider field-labour, the exercise -of the trades of
builders, carpenters, blacksmiths, weavers, tailors, and
the trades which are to be found in nearly all stages,
of society, there can be no difficulty in applying
the rule. By resting themselves from labour,
they who follow these trades subject others to
no privations. But there are numberless avoca-
tions which admit of no interruption, because
the comfortable existence of society is de-
pendent on them. We must all eat and drink ; we
require solace and relaxation, and in order that society
might not be subjected to privations which would
make life a burden, the employment of a number of
individuals becomes essentially necessary. The Scotch
adopted the Puritanical notions with regard to the
Sabbath—notions which certainly have no warrant
either in Scripture or the practice of the Primitive
Church. Among a rude people, like the Scotch
when they embraced the Reformation, little incon-
venience could result from the adoption of the Jewish
notions with regard to the Sabbath. Stage coaches
there were none ; and as to travelling for the sake of
air and exercise, the very idea would hardly occur to
the native of a bleak country, without great towns,
who found every where more air than was agreeable to
him, and whose primitive mode of living rendered
him independent of the wants which have become a,
second nature to an Englishman of our times. Thu
mistake of the Kirk of Scotland seems to consist in,
their endeavouring to enforce laws framed for one state
of society for another in a very different state, the eon_
sequence of which must be a revolt on the part of the
people from their authority. There is now no material
difference in point of civilization between England and
Scotland, and the inhabitants of the great towns of
the latter country will not much longer submit, to
please the kirk, to prohibitions against stage coaches
send someto t ifs tchoeeu nwtiErlyndgallvrisilhli
on Sunday, the sailing of stetim-boats, and other con-
veniences enjoyed in this part of the kingdom. How-
ever, that is their affair—if they choose to submit to
mortifications, let them be indulged by all means.
What What we complain of is, not that they make them-
selves very disagreeable to all who visit their country
on
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fanatics
itchse
wuheoeink , but
they that
dia-
tp eertsriisetaiini y doingoppo
opposite'
violence to
theirto ottenhabits
Neohf
aavpee people
thatle bAefrrs. Andrewwho
sspoke
Johnstonekewi
th
app thoughtro
b a ti
o t h
of the English
practice of playing at cricket on the Lord's Day, de-
served, 'at the very least, to be stoned to death. It is
deemed a crime in Scotland to display the slightest
symptom of joy on a Sunday. No' overfeedinF is al-
lowable. To whistle, even through forgetfulness,
would hardly be forgiven to an Englishman in the
country—certainly not to a native. This, as we have
said, is all very well among themselves, and as they
are a peculiar people, like the Jews (for no other peo-
ple participate in their notions), it is only to be wished
they would imitate the- Jews in this country, and avoid
giving offence to others by their itch for interference.
pa e r s
boat,on s
or
An inference, not very favourable to the sincerity of
v,SiirthAunthdircehwheAagnvoeidwedhaaisi
cbocleinisiodnra:,vinti;
tfhroemrietite care
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old Presbyterians were intolerant, but they were
honest. They disdained all subserviency to the pia,
and powerful. In the Act of Assembly, Juno
1646, it is ordered that impartial proceeding be used
•
against men of all qualities, for their scandalous walk-
ing, and in particular for drunkenness, swearing, and
i"poaorto. mien free
elivtitehr
other scandalous sins.on A4nsdu:::::tte: atrhee, ißniavharopiousof
quality, for amendment of their faults. They would
would allow have no more allowed a duke to take an airing in a
Acts of Assembly, enjo
mount a stage-coach on a Sunday, But the bastard
Puritans of our times, who would allow therich to
enjoy every luxury, and subject the poor IJny to mor-
tification, would have been held by I
t in the utmost
cLonanadhniini
contempt.—Morning Chronicle.

THE CONSPIRACit.—TiIe author of " The
-- -
Conspiracy" has supplied us with a very stirring and
entertaining book, With considerable knowledge of
the period of which he writes, he has brought that
bold age of assassination and plotting, so distinctly
before us that we might almost fancy ourselves living
amidst the scenes of terror he describes. The author's
power has over masiered the difficulties of the subject,
and in reading his pages we cease to think of Otway
and Miss O'Neill, who were before inseparably asst.
eitited with the conspiracy at Venice,

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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1834.

In another part of The Sun, our readers will
find an important document relative to the sys-
tem now actively in progress among the Trades'
Unions. It will be seen by this document that
the misguided operatives are embarking, with-
out rudder or compass, on an expedition which
can have but one termination—their own in-
evitable ruin. The combinations they are
forming will give rise to other combinations,
against which they will no more be able
to make head than an Indian canoe
against the cataract of Niagara. If the
workmen combine, so also will the masters.
If the former choose to be obstinate, so also
will the latter ; and be it remembered, that
these last will be seconded in their resolutions
by the combined influence and capital of the
community. We pity the infatuated Union-
ists, even more than we condemn them.
They are the victims of self-delusion,
industriously fomented by the arts and chi-
canery of a few designing leaders, who, without
one spark of manliness, principle, or feeling,
have just wit enough to do mischief. But
these vermin must be ferretted out—they must
be pursued to their rat-holes, and crushed with
as little mercy as one would crush some noxious
reptile. It is scandalous that the interests of com-
merce should be left at the mercy of such mis-
creants. If the Unionists do not speedily disband,
and return to their duties as fathers, relatives,
and citizens, we can see no end to the ruin that
they will be drawing down on themselves.
Without head—without capital,—distrusted by
the country, and distrusting each other,—banded
together for a purpose which not one in a hun-
dred can understand —alternately the dupes
and the laughing-stocks of a set of scoundrels
—what else can they look forward to, than to die
of starvation by the road side, or of a broken
heart in a parish workhouse ? It is infinitely
to the credit of the master tailors, that they
have been the first to make a determined stand
against the demands of the Unionists. Their
combination is that of common sense against
folly—of justice against injustice.

Mr. WILK s is reported to have stated, in
the House of Commons yesterday, that the
Ministers had thrown the Dissenters overboard.
The fact is, that some of the leaders of the
Dissenters are steering a course which they
know, or ought to know, leads to no port
whatever. They have been told, again and
again, that it is idle for Ministers to propose
measures for the purpose of having them re-
jected by the House of Lords ; and yet the
Dissenters are urged to accept no measure
which can meet with the approval of that
branch of the Legislature. It was not, we
believe, found practicable to add to the Peers
to carry a measure with respect to which the
nation was all but unanimous, and on the
success of which the security of all the in-
stitutions of the country depended. Do
the Dissenters imagine that any Minister could,
if he would, create as many peers as would be
requisite to carry a bill for separating, either
directly or indirectly, the church and the state?
Why, then, should those who have ever proved
themselves the true friends of religious liberty,
be asked to do that which is known to be im-
possible ? It would almost seem that there
are persons among the Dissenters, who wish
either that the grievances should be perpetuated

or that the Ministers should be irretrievably
committed in a quarrel with the Peers, the
Church, and the Crown. For what ? To
do that which all reflecting men know ca❑ (if
it ought to be done at all) be effected only
by such weapons as were employed by
the Founder of Christianity himself, to
break down the prejudices of his country-
men. We do not hear of his asking the
Roman governor or the Jewish high-priests and
Sallitedrim to destroy even the corruptions of
their ecclesiastical system. It was by placing
truth in the minds. of men, and giving it its
due place in the affections, that error was by
him supplanted.

Do the Dissenters imagine they can effect
their objects by easier methods,—by throwing
off the responsibility from themselves to others ?
Or do they expect the Whigs to do that which
the Tories would not for one instant entertain
even a thought of ? Or have they in petto
a ministry of their own to recommend ? Is
Mr. WILK S to be the Prime Minister of their
choice ? If so, let them at once meet, and address
his MAJESTY to remove Lord GREY, and place
the hon. member for Boston in his room.

Their advisers talk of wresting the patronage
of the church from the Government and the
aristocracy--but how ? Is it as easy a matter
as for half a dozen gentlemen to meet at the
King's Head, and vote a set of resolutions,
ready cut and dried• for them by the honorary
and legal secretary of the Protestant Society ?
The dissenters are an enlightened and respec-
table body of men. Let them seriously ask
themselves what their objects are. Let them
select those which are attainable, and pursue
them ; and if there are any impracticable, let
them in prudence, as well as principle, at least
postpone them. It is folly to render unattain-
able speculations impediments to practical im-
provement.

The statements of Mr. LITTLETON last
night, relative to the progress of education in
Ireland, and the probability of its further ex-
tension, must be highly gratifying to all in-
terested in the welfare of Ireland. The
Government, much to their credit, introduced,
about two years ago, a bill for the better edu-
cation of the Irish people, without any dis-
tinction of sects or religious opinions. That bill
was attacked by the opposition—it was attacked
also by a certain portion of the evangelical church,
and was denounced last year by the General
Assembly of the Church of Scotland. That
Assembly, in our opinion, never acted a less
dignified part than it did on that occasion ; it
opposed a measure which was calculated not
only for the instruction of the lower classes, but
for healing the differences between Protestants
and Catholics, for no other reason, we verily
believe, but because it was brought forward by
a Whig Government. Numerous were the
forebodings of every sort of evil likely to
spring from such an " unchristian" plan.
We were told by some that the system would
not work, by others that the Protestants would
not send their children to the schools for fear of
contamination, and by a third party that it
would bring down on its authors the divine
vengeance. High Churchmen and Tories, and
even some Whigs, united against the plan ; but
Government had the firmness to persevere, and
the result has only proved that though the
people of this country may be led away by
noisy clamour for a time, they are never slow

in returning to reason, or in supporting mea-
sures intrinsically good, by whatever party
they are brought forward. Now not a voice is
raised against the measure. Even the Earl of
RODEN and Captain GORDON are silent, and
we predict that the General Assembly this year
will prudently follow their example. There is
no resisting facts ; and however some of the
bigotted—politically bigotted—leaders might
wish to renew the contest, the success of the
scheme deprives them of all power. Within
the short period of a year and a half
it has succeeded beyond expectation, and
no less than 143,000 children are now enjoy-
ing the benefit of the schools ; but, what is
more consolatory, this experimental plan of the
Government is only a preparatory step towards
a more extensive system. If Government pur-
sue such a judicious course the people will
never desert them.

Mr. BARRON'S plan for establishing na-
tional schools in Ireland deserves the se-
rious consideration of the Legislature. It is
simply this—to provide, out of the ecclesi-
astical property, first of all, sufficient main-
tenance for the clergy of the Established
Church, and then set apart a portion of the
surplus for establishing, at least, one school in
each parish. That could be done for about
48,0001., according to his account, reckoning
2,400 parishes in Ireland, and 201. a year for
each. Making it even a third more-
-64,0001.,—what rational objection could be
raised to such a sum for effecting a measure
which would be of such incalculabe benefit to
that country ? Some suspicious hints were
thrown out by the Irish Secretary about the
feelings of the Irish members on the subject,
but it is monstrous to suppose that in the 19th
century a few interested individuals can suc-
cessfully oppose the education of the people.
If they oppose this measure—if they op-
pose poor rates, and, as some assert, op-
pose every measure which touches their
pockets, they will afford the Imperial Parlia-
ment the best opportunity of convincing the
Irish people of the blessings of the Union, by
passing laws for their general good, even in op-
position to the will of their representatives.

The French papers of the 30th ult. have
reached town. The Deputies are arguing the
question of the retention of Algiers with un-
usual temper and freedom from party spirit.
Marshal CLAUSEL, and others who have been
to Algiers, are in favour of retention and colo-
nization. M. D UPIN is against it. He is
right. It will cost more than it is worth, and
after all must be abandoned. There is no spirit
which can unite the people, or reconcile them
to a foreign yoke.
The Committee on the Budget has recom-
mended a vote• for 25,000,000 f. instead of
36,000,0001., as proposed by Marshal SouLT.

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(
This, pioves their confide' e in the National
Guards, and in the perma nce of tranquillity
at home and abroaor et the three Great
Powers follow th'etr- ample.