The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-10 00:00:00

THE' SUN, LOiION, MONDAY EVENING,

MAGAZINES, &c.-_(CONTINUED•)

SHARPE'S.

Sharpe's illagazizzenO;il(7ld;a conspicuous place
among the most excellent of the lighter periodicals.
Well-written criticisms and attractive fictions are
constantly to be found in its pages. "The House-
hold of Sir Thomas More," by the authoress of that
charming biography of " Mary Powell," has just been
commenced ; " Le sis Arundel" is drawing to a con-
clusion (and is also now making its appearance in
monthly parts in a separate form). A very in-
teresting article on " Africa," and a delightful
liography of Benjamin Franklin, are to be found in
this number, as also the commencement of an anal 3--
sis of the popular new work " Laveogro."

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Friday the 71h, the Secretary for the
Home Department, Sir George Grey, announced the
alterations which are to bg made in the Papal Aggres-
sion Bill. There is a shocking story among the en-
tomologists, of an unhappy locust that lived and stirred
six months after its bowels were taken nut. This
may be taken as descriptive of the situation of the
Bill. The second, third, and fcurth Clauses are to
be taken out, and nothing left but the prohibition of
assuming Titles, which has been so often declared to be
nugatory and useless.
The fact is, the Pope and his French supporters
have conquered. Their great regret must be, that
instead of a Cardinal's hat they did not send you a
M trechal's baton. If they had, there w ould have
been just the same impossibility of getti:ig up a
prompt and effective resistance. Setting asint.' the
Catholics as matter of course, there would have heel:
the same parties to cry out for "proceeding to the
business of the country," and the same astonishment
and regret that any friend of civil and religious
liberty should be found doubting the right of all men
to be tree and equal in Dover Castle. Like the King
of Wirtemburg, I may individually console myself
with not being extensively interested iu the results.
But you that have more chances of witnessing the
end, may live to see what will make you remember
what was said to you.
A painful circumstance connected with the present
aspect of affairs, is the total nullity of any influence '
tif the Working Classes. They either do not inter-
fere at all, or if they do, they follow those who bid
them run their heads into the fire. For example, it is
made an open boast, that on the question of Papal Ag-
gression the Working Classes have shown no feeling.
What does this amount to, but that the consciousness
the Working Classes once had of interest upon the
subject is worn out, mainly, it is true, through the
absence of personal suffering or provocation ; and
that the historical and political knowledge which
would tell them that the leading object of the Papal
power has always been to reduce the numerous and
industrious classes to the condition in which they are
found in Naples, Portugal, or Spain, is a sealed book
to them, which they have never read, or if read have
never weighed?
On another subject, the Income Tax, they show an
equal lack of ability to know their interest and sup-
port it. When Lord Stanley 'proposed to lay a tax
on foreign corn as the means of removing the In-
come Tax,—in other words, to stop your mills at
Bradford and apply the money raised in consequence
to relieving the rich from the fraction of the
general taxation in which they pay op something
like an equitable scale,—there can be no doubt that
he calculated on support among the Working Classes,
and that many of them would be prepared to give it.
That the Working Classes on a large proportion of
the taxation pay at higher rates going as far as
eleven times the rate upon the rich, does not make
them proof against the shallowest of outcries by
which the rich endeavour to throw from their
shoulders the fraction on which they pay with some-
thing like fairness.
All this is not consolatory to the real friends of the
Working Classes. There must be more Reading
Rooms and Mechanics' Institutes, before the Work-
ing Classes know their interests and can support
them. At the present moment, any " shoy-hoy, as
the author of the Political Register used to say,—
any cry got up, of all men's equal right to roast us
in Smithfield when a foreign power tells them, or of
the sufferings of the rich from not paying at an
eleventh of the rate on all the taxes as they do on
some, will lead them to sit still in their localities, and
let the vessel drift the way that chance may dictate.
I remain, Sir, yours very sincerely
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, 10 March, 1851.

THE EXHIBITION.
PAINTING THE 6TRUCTITRE.—Messrs. Fox and Hen-
derson have bound themselves by contract to complete
within a fortnight the whole internal painting, of which
not an eighth part has yet been finished. To do this
they will put on 500 painters, or 1,000 it necessary; and
with them they will, at one dash, make a clean sweep of
the building.
SEASON TICKETS.—The Council of the Society of
Arts have just issued a circular to the members of the
society, urging upon them the advantage of purchasing
season tickets for the Exhibition at the tariff charges
settled for the first issue, as it is probable that the
power reserved of raising the prices after the first issue
has been exhausted will be exercised by the Commis-
sioners. Up to Saturday night 5,200 were sold. These
tickets are not transferable; and to insure this, every
holder of a season ticket, until they become personally
known to the officers, will be required to sign their
names in a visitor's book every time they use it.

SPORTING NOTES.
No. XVII.
DERBY, MIINTHORPE, AND SLOUGH STEEPLE-
CHASES.
TO THE EDIIOII 017 THE SUN.

Sing—The present week is replete with sport, to-morrow '
we have the Uerby and Milnthorpe, on Wednesday the
Slough, and on Thursday the Burtbrd and Doncaster Steeple-
chases; and likewise on Thursday and Friday the Doncaster
Flat-races. With the exception of Burford, I intend to touch
upon them all ; to begin with Derby—out of sixteen entries
for the Midland Steeplechase, eleven have accepted, in-
cluding Vain Hope, i Ist 71b; The Victim, 1 Ist 51b; British
Yeoman, lOst 171 b ; Abd-el-liadcr, lOst 1 Ilb ; Ben .
Lomond, 1 Ost 51b; Miss Collingwood, lOst 51b; Trust-
me-Not, lOst 31b; Tipperary Boy, lOst 21b; and
Volatile, Bst 81b. From the above I shall strike out Vain
Hope as rot likely to win whether he runs or not, The
Victim for having exactly his penalty (51b) for the Coventry
Steeplecha-e, too much on his back, and Abd-el-Kader as a
dubious runner, considering how close this meeting is to that
at Doncaster. I fancy the race will lay among the follow-
ing four: -- The British Yeoman, Tipperary Boy, Miss Col-
lingwood, and Trust-me-Not, and were I certain that the
first-named would run, I should have but little hesitation in
placing them thus :
THE BRITISH YEOMAN ............ 1
TIPPERARY BOY . 2
MISS COLLINGW OOD
TRUST-ME-NOT 4
Should the Yeoman not go for the main, the race will be
between the Boy and the Miss, and a very close affair it
will be, the former probably just nicting it; "the money"
says the latter.
The Hurdle Race, one mile and a half (rather short), will
furnish a good race between Cogia, Lucy, and May-day,
and although it is said to be a certainty for Cogia, it would
not surprise me to see one of the other two the winner ; it
is said that the Swift, Matilda, Loddington, and the Slug will
also run.

The Milntborpe Steeplecluse will have some six or seven
runners, among whom liaac, Ilst 101 b, Falcon, 10At 71b, and
Valiant, lOst 71b, will figure 'conspicuously, and I think it
just possible they will catch the judge's eye in the order I
have placed them. This is the only race of any importance
at Milnthorpe. _ _

On Wednesday we have the Slough Steeplechase of 5 sous.
each, with 40 added; for this race, as for the last, I imagine
it will be between a trio, Kilkenny lOst 101 b, Rendsburgh
lOst 71b, and Volatile 9st 10lb ; but as Volatile's running is
not at all certain, he being engaged at Derby to-morrow, I
must set his chance aside ; but should he run, he wins!
In his absence I shall place Kilkenny first, and Rendsburgh
second.

The Doncaster events I shall touch upon to-morrow; in
the meanwhile I may as well observe, that Peter Simple, if
run to win, would be my fancy for the Steeplechase, but as
the money declares this to be dubious, I must anchor my
hopes on Maria Day and Abd-el-Kader, the former for choice.
the curse of the ensuing fortnight or three wetlis I
before you my annaal observations on the metrJ-
politan " SPORTING I1013:SRS," which met with such general
approval last year, noting down these " lists" which are, as
far a human juegionent can discern, tf the substantial and
most stable kind, and adding thereto such memoranda con-
cerning them as I may deem worth recording.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.
March ie, 1851. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
DONCASTER SPRING MEETING.
Acceptances for the Free Handicap Hurdle Stakes.
yrs. st. lb yrs. at. lb.
Wharfdale Maid all 0 rho Wild Hero ...a 910
Little Queen 5 10 9 John Lawrence(hb)s 9 6
Shinrone a 10 2 Psyche 4 9 4
Tally-ho (h b) alO 2 Fanny (h b) a 812
The Swift ...........5 910

THE FIRE IN LAMBETH.—The following is the
cfficisl report f the damage done by the fie, u Inch tork
place in L-mbath, on Friday evenic,g : '• In Paradise-street,
Lambeth :—Ble,srs. C. Oglehy and Co., oil merchrnts and
chandlers, cause of fire unknown. Insui et in the Imperial,
London, and Phoenix fire offices. The fire was extinguished
by firemen and others. Engines that attended : one of .he
parish, two private, one of the West of England office, the
float from St.uthwark- bridge, two engines of the D, one of
A, and two of the B district of the London Brigade. The
oil warehouse burned down, stock in yard and candle-makers'
room considerably damaged by fire, water, ac. In Courch-
street, Lambeth : Messrs. Hodges and Co., distillers. The
roof d the distillery damaged by breakage. lesured in the
Pl cenix, West of England, and ether fire offices. In Nor-
folk-row, Lambeth: No. 6, M-. G. Hornsby, private, back-
front, burnt and furniture damaged by r moval. Insured in
the British Mutual. No. 7, Mr. R. Todd, private, premises
injured by fire, and furnitura broken by hasty removal. Not
insured. No 8, Mr. W. Pearce, back part of premises much
injured by fire, and contents damaged by water and re-
moval. Uninsured. No. 9, Mr. G. Hicks, considerable
damage to furniture and premises by fire, water, and re-
moval. No. 10, Mr. Mackay, back premises seriously
damaged by the falling of a wall on them."
It is better to paint virtue to be imitated, than
vice to be shunned.-Eliza Cook's Journal.
Prince Albert has manifested the deep interest which
he feels in the operations of the Society for Improving the
Condition of the Working Classes, by engaging to build, at
his own expense, an Exhibition model house, for four families,
and to place the same in the stable-yard at the west end of
the cavalry barracks, Hyde-path, ionnediatcly ow, he the
Exhibition building. The itdendtd house is to be of hollow
brick, whh lire-proof flews and flat roof; showing- the ap-
plicability of these important principles to houses of but
very moderate dimensions.
REPRESENTATION OF BURY, LANCASIIIRE.—A
meeting is in contemplation l y the electors of this borough
to nominate a candidate in the Liberal interest to be put
forward at the next election. The state of Mr. Walker's
health has long tendered it a matter of notoriety that a va-
cancy is likely to arise whenever the present Parliament is
dissolved.

A BENEVOLENT BARBER. - Not many miles
from the south-west side of the bridge in this town, there is
to be seen written, in large round-hand, in a shop window,
and hanging at the door, the following : —" Sailors on strike
shaved gratis on ISlondati and Fridays. —Sunderland herald.

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY, MARCH 9.

By the royal mail steam-ship Africe, Captain Ririe,
which arrived in the Mersey shortly after eleven
o'clock this morning, we have advices from New York
to the 2Gth ult. She brings nine-four passengers and
upwards of 40,0001. in specie on freight.
The Africa arrived at New York on the 15th ult.,
the Cambria on the_ 20th ult., and the United States
mail steamer Baltic on the 20th ult. _ .

The steam-ship Washington left New York on the
22d ult., for Bremen.
A riot, arising out of the Fugitive Slave Act, hnd
occurred at Boston during a trial. The mob rushed
into the court and released the prisoner.
President Fillmore, in consequence of the disturb-
ance, had issued a proclamation, calling upon all
well-disposed citizens, and requiring the military to
assist in enforcing the law.

market, for cod fish, have been fully borne out by the
results of the last fortnight's transactions—the price of
the article has fallen to 103. per 100 lbs. for best cask,
and 143. per b-x—and even at these rates sales are with
difficulty efl'ect•d. I❑ one instance, 9s. 3d. for cask and
13 per b-x was accepted for a cargo of rather inferior
quality. The stock is still considerably in excess of the
demand; while the sales by auction of unsound parcels
interfere to a great degree with the legitimate business.
We have to notice a further decline in the value of
fliur and meal, consequent on the heavy stocks on band,
and the very trifling demand from the trade. Both
these articles also suffer from the abundance of native
vegetables.
Exchanges—On New York: Merchants' bills 60 days,
2. per cent. prem. On London: Colonial Bank, 90
days, per cent. prem.; ditto, 60 days, 1 per cent.
prem.; ditto, 30 days, 13 per cent. prem.; Jamaica
Bank, 00 days, per cent. prem.; ditto, 60 clays, 1 per
cent. prem.; ditto, 30 days, 13 per cent. prem.