The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-30 00:00:00

PYTeHLEY I,,UIVT PACES

Yesterday the Yeomanry Plate of:-.0 sovs. was won by Mr. Smith's
Whitt -ebeating Mr. Dickson's colt, by V.impyre. and two others.
The Welter] Stakes of !O sous. each. Nine Subs.
Mr. Osbaldeston's Biibe:ry
Mr =obson's Contraband

Mr. Spalchng's Long H r 3
The Open Stakes of 10 sovs. eaeo, and 25 add,
Mr. Os.•aldeston's Streamlet
Mr. Olivi re's Chanc ry Suit
Sir W. Wake's Refornmr
The Farmer's Cup of 50 sovs. was won by Mr. Herring's
Matilda beating Mr. Flesher's Spoitsman and eight others. The
stake :s withheld.
A free handicap of 10 soya. each was won by Streamlet beating
Liberty, Matilda, and two others.

One of the French Ministerial journals tells
his countrymen that we encourage the growth of hemp at
home, and receive great quantities from Bengal; while the
fact is, that we receive from Bengal scarcely 1,000 tons a-year,
that we grew almost none at home, and that we impose a
heavy, if not nearly a prohibitive, duty on what comes frun
Russia. We thus tax a raw material from 15 to 25 per cent.

on its original cost,—we render it impossible for the
English rope-maker to enter into competition with
the Russian, who uses untaxed materials,—we drive
our own rope-makers to St. Petersburgh to make
the manufactured article for our own colonies, beyond
the reach of English fiscal laws—and we compel our own ship.
owners, if they wish to save the duty, to procure their outfit
in foreign ports. Instead of a supply of probably 00,000 or
40,000 tons of hemp, we only now import about 17,000 or 18,000
tons, and by continuing the duty, even this limited quantity
must soon diminish ; yet the whole benefit to the revenue does
not amount to more than about 60,0004 a year. Frenchmen,
before they bestow their eulogies on our system of commerce
and our fiscal regulations, should know what they are.—Times.
We are requested to state that the celebrated
author of " Granby," (Mr. Lister) will, in the course of next
month, produce a new novel, to be entitled " Arlington."
Orders should therefore be immediately given to the various
booksellers in town and country to prevent disappointment in
the first delivery.
The order, on the petition of Mr. Gurney,
complaining of the return for the borough of Tregony, has
been discharged, tne required recognizances on the part of the
petitioners not having been complied with.
120, d Edward Chichester has been appoin'ed
to the Deanery of Raphoe, vacant by the death of the late Dean
Allott.—Dublin Evening Mail.
George Robins has at length announced that
Covent.garden theatre is to be let. Laporte will be opposed, it
is believed, by at least six other candidates, amongst whom Mr.
Stephen Price is spoken of with confidence.
It is said that Mr. and Mrs. Wood and Mr.
H. Phillips have thrown up their engagements at Drury.lanc
theatre, rather than submit to any reduction of their salaries.

11e price regulating the iwportation of. corn
of the first class, and which will be published on the Ist of

April, is 25f. ISc. ; consequently its importation will be admitted
at Marseilles, and all the ports of France on the Mediterranean.
NF:w WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " BRANi-
BLETIE HOUSE," &c.— We are requested to state that Mr. 110.
race Smith's new work (" Tales of the Early Ages") is published
this day by Messrs. Colburn and Bentley, New Burlington.
street, and may be had of all Booksellers, and at all respectable
Libraries in the Kingdom ; Agents far Scotland, Messrs. Bell

and Bradfute, Edinburgh ; and for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming.

Last Hight a Meetlsse, of gentlemen Who have
taken an active past in preserving the " Ladye Chapel" was
held at the London Tavern, preparatory to the banquet which
has been announced. We understand that the vocal and in.
strumental music for the occasion has been appropriately
selected from the purest specimens of the madrigals of the
time of Queen Elizabeth, and that a Number of distinguished
persons will be present.

• K
PRISON.—The number of
prisoners within the walls on the Ist of February last was 369,
of whom 148 were in execution. The number of rooms for
which the Marshal receives rent at Is. per week is 216, and the
rent paid in 1631 was 34.31. 16s. 6d. ; through the poverty of
many of the prisoners the Marshal has been obliged, in a great
•nanv instances, to forego his claims.—Parliamentary Paper.
No. 311.

Y 1 e understand that four addi!ional stipendia-
ries are to be appointed for the county of Kilkenny, and a
Corce of 150 police are ordered from the North of Ireland. This
speaks much for the capacity of our Magistrates and the utility
of a police force, which for this county alone, during the last
year, has cost upwards of 9,000/. Landlords of the county
look to it. We shrewdly suspect that there are others beside
Whitefeet engaged in the work of disturbance. The times are
Oad—places and sinecures most inviting—never mind—the
farmer, the poor farmer, pays for all.—Kilkenny Journal.
Mr. Horace Smith's new work of fiction en-

titled " Tales of the Early Ages," is now published. The
volumes consist of five stories illustrative of the first five
centuries, and entitled respectively " The Involuntary l'ro.
phet" (scene, the Holy Land); " Theodore and Tilphosa"
,Greece) ; " Olof and Brynhilda" (ancient Germany); Se-
iastian and Lydia" (Egypt); and " The Siege of Caer-broc"
'Britain).

LuxußY.—ln a coutury where all the inha-
bitants went bare-footed, could luxury be imparted to the
first man who made a pair of shoes for himself? orrather, was
he not a man of sense and industry ? Is it not just the same
with the man who procured the first shirt ?—With respect to
,he man who had it washed and irened, I consider him as an
•hsolute genius, abundant in resources, and qualified to govern
& state.— Volt. Phil. Dic.

, .
VISCOUNT UHATEAUBRIAND.-Itl (10111 g
Ample justice to the talents of this celebrated man, the writer
of the admirable article in Blackwood's Magazine, has fallen
flto error when he says, " it is a singular circumstance, that an
author of such great and varied acquirements, who is univer_
,ally allowed by all parties in France to be their greatest living
writer, should be hardly known except by name to the great
mdy of readers in this country." Now, almost all his works,
on the contrary, have been printed here in the original and in
translation, and some of them reprinted ; and they consist of
--I. The beautiful story of Atala-2. Celuta, or the Natchez,
an Indian Tale in three •ols., of which Atala merely formed
in Episode—a His Travels in Italy and America, lately pub.
fished—a work replete with fervid imagination and vivid de-
scriptions-4. An Essay on the Revolutions of Empires-5.
!'ravels in the Holy Land, two vols., of which a new edition is
low preparing ; and lastly, his greatest performance, " The
Spirit of Christianity," a work, in the words of the Reviewer.
" of consumate ability and splendid eloquence, in which he has
enlisted in the cause of religion, all the treasures of knowledge,
and all the experience of ages."

IRE FAIR of MAY FAIR.—The series of
piquant narratives, illustrative of modern occurrences in
fashionable life, which have been announced under the above
name, will include, we hear, among other►, a tale to be called
" The Separate Maintenance," the origin of which it is affirmed
will be detected by every one familiar with recent events in the
high circles. Report attributes this production to a celebrated
lady of fashion, but we understand that certain disclosures
have made it necessary that the author should remain secret.

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On Mondny last, a sea wolf, three feet two
inches long, was taken in the Chetwick stake net. The fol-
lowing account is taken from a Natural History of Fishes, by
S. J. 1795:—" This animal has a smooth slippery body with.
out scales. It somewhat resembles an eel, but is of a brownish
grey, and the sides are adorned with blackish transverse shades.
The head is large, and fiat aboidithe eyes, and the checks ap.
pear swelled and puffed out. It is a most voracious fish, and
when taken will fasten on any thing within its reach. The
fishermen, dreading its bite, endeavour to disarm it as soon as
possible; they immediately pull out its fore teeth, and then kill
it by striking behind the head. The Danish and German
writers say, that its bite is so hard that it will seize on an an-
chor, and leave the mark of its teeth in it ; and that the animal
is capable of crushing even stones with its jaws. It feeds prin-
cipally on crustaceous animals and shell fish ; and is common
in the sea near Yorkshire and Northumberiand."—Rer,frk
Paper.
The Author Poenl entitled '~
of 1
1-I.nh-nie Se.
" New Monthly Magazine" for April, has been proncur.ccd
those who have seen it in manuscript to be devidedly the fiue6t
poem of ' the didactic spool, which has appeared since the
yi:"lei announced ‘Wage,"
by the 7in the.
" Pleasures of Memory,"