The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-07 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

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BEDFORD RACES.—TIMRSDAY.
The Two-yr-old Selling Stakes of 25 sovs, added to a Sweep-
stakes of 5 sovs each.

Mr. W. Christy's Rosalind, £25, 7st 81b (L. Snowden) 1
Mr: Maberley's Marie Wilton, £25, 7st Sib (Mitchell) 2
Mr. Blanton's Circassia, £25, 7st 81b (Edwards) 3
The following also ran—Flambe Mayflower, Onset, Norton,
Smut, Gardenia f, Pliny, and Pipo.
Betting -5 to 4 agst Rosalind, 4 to 1 agst Pliny, 7 to 1 agst
any other. Won by a length.
The Scurry Handicap of 40 sovs, added to a Handicap Sweep-
_ stakes ofs soya each.

Sir W. Booth's Beatrice, 5 yrs, 7;t6li• (Perry) 1
Mr. J. Ward's Dame Alice, 3 yrs, sst 51b (J. Daley) 2
Mr. Payne's Pandora, 3 yrs, 6st 51b (Bray) 3
The following also ran—Miss Julia, Blackthorn, Griselda,
Babylon, Lansquenet, Boundway, Ochiltree, and Carlotta_
Betting - 3 to 1 agst Blackthorn, 5 to 1 each agst Miss Julia
nd Pandora, 6 to 1 agst Boundaway, 8 to 1 agst Lansquenet,
12 to 1 agst Beatrice. Won by a head.
The Hunters' Stakes of 25 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of
5 sovs each.
Mr. Blanton's Meadowdale, 4 yrs, £5O, Ost 101 b, in. 61b ex.
Mr. T. Cliff's Caliph, aged, £3O, Ost 101 b, in. 61b e(Frtnch) 1
x.

(L. Snowden) 2
The following also ran -Appendix, Harry, Whispering
Jew, buscious, Volatore, Kate, Commodore and Nutfield.
Beffling,-4 to 1 each agst Volatore and Caliph, 5 to 1 each
agst Harry and Appendix. Won by a neck.
The Queen's Guineas resulted in a walk over for Wild
Rose, 7st 71b.

The Stratton Park Stakes was won by •Lustre, rst 51b,
beating Babylon and Simpleton by twelve lengths.

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BETTING ON THE CESAREWITCH.
10 to 1 agst Artless (offered)
15 to 1 agst Moorcock (taken)
15 to 1 agst Marine (taken)
15 to 1 agst Gaspard
100 to 6 agst Borderer (take 20 to 1)
20 to 1 agst Clydesdale (take 25 to 1)
40 to 1 agst Argosy (taken)
40 to 1 agst Independence (taken)
50 to 1 agst Pan (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Prince of Denmark (taken)
1000 lo 5 agst Wild Rose (offered)

ICHMOND RACES.-WEDNESDAY.

The Two and Three-yr-old Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each was
won by Mr. Richmond's Stockton, 7st 71b, beating Ripon,
The Wren, La Hollandaise, General Williams's dam filly,
and Howth.

The Burton Handicap Stu' es was won by Mr. Leybourne'a
Peggy Taft, est 31b, beating Archduchess, Souvenir, Bilberry,
Strathuaver, Bankrupt, and Howth.

The Grand Stand Nursery Handicap of 3 sous each, wag
won by Mr. Osborne's Birdcage, 7st Sib, beating Augur, Miss
Hawley, Slut, Cambridge, The Afoulvie, Slayer's Daughter t
Tommy Noble, and Sister to Itylston. ,

The Queen's Guineas was won by Qui Vive, 7st 71b, b2at-
[lig Peggy Taft and Maid of the Mist by half a distance.

CALEDONIAN HUNT AND PERTH RACES.
WEDNESDAY.
The Caledonian Tyro Stakes was won easy by Mr. 111 Adam's
First Lord, 7st 131 b, beating the Farmer from Kerry, Mal-
pas, and Tam Glen,
The Caledonian Handicap was won by Mr. Front's Adam
Bede, Bst 21b, beating Hamlet, Gammon, Fatty, and King of
Scotland by a neck.
The Perth Hunt Cup of 40 soya was won by Mr. Barber's
Prince of Denmark, 9st 31b, beating Secret Treasure, Layton,
and Capt. Wedderburn by a head.
The Welter Stakes was won by Mr. Dawson's Awful, 9st
111 b, bating Seducer, Singleton and Shamrock by a head.

ROYAL CREMORNE GARDENS.—The season at
this highly-popular resort has closed. It commenced at
Easter and the gardens continued open throughout the
summer, with, it is said, perfect success. The rumours
which have been for some time afloat of an intended appro-
priation of the gardens to other purposes than those for
which they are so admirably adapted are wholly without
foundation. If any alterations are contemplated, they are,
swil'oerhthays of support.
l,ppo
in a future season, render
tl'eemar
Accounts from Liberia state that the present
increasingly e fao.eg
year has been prosperous for the colony, add that more had
been exported within the preceding. six months to Europe
anl Aram lea of products of Amertc- Liberian labour than
during the entire 40 years of the previous existence of the
settlement. It is added that " the shipment of slaves, or,
as they arc termed, emigrants," from the coast of Africa
continues; that a large French vessel was lately at the
Gaboon for a cargo of 400 or 500, and that two other ships
wore expected

COLLISION WITH AN ICEBERG AND Loss OF LIFE.
—QUEBEC; -SE:T. 24.—The Caroline, Cnpt. Melott, from
Liverpool, at this port, reports having struck an iceberg,
outside the Straits of Belle Isle. Fuur of the crew, fearing
that the vessel would go down, jumped into the boat at the
stern, and cut the tackle falls, whm the boat went down,
and they were all drowned. The remainder of the crew
succeeded in working the vessel up to near Bic, where she
was taken in tow by the steam-tug Queen Victoria, and
arrived hero on the 19th inst.

7HE NAVY.

Since the Trusty, 14, steam floating battery, re-
turned to her former moorings opposite Upnor
Castle, Chatham, she has undergone an' examina-
tion in order to ascertain the amount of injuries
she met with during the experiments that were
made on her with the view of testing her capabi-
lities of resisting the effects of the shot fired from
the Armstrong cannons at Shoeburyness. The re-
sult of the survey has demonstrated that this new
kind of iron-cased floating batteries presents com-
paratively no resistance whatever to the shots from
the Armstrong guns. Although the Trusty is
covered with massive wrought-iron plates, of ex-
traordinary thickness, yet every shot that struck
them shivered the plates to pieces and entered the
vessel; some of the shots, it is evident from the
examination, having passed through the iron plates
and beams of the battery on one side, and through
the timber and iron casing of thevessel on the other.
The battery presents the appearance of having been
most severely handled; and it is the unanimous
opinion of the officers and others who have exa-
mined her that vessels of this class will be found to
be almost entirely useless when fired upon by
guns of the Armstrong class.
The Admiralty yacht Vivid, H. W. Allen, master,
left Woolwich yesterday for Dover, to embark the
Royal Commissioners engaged in the survey of the
coasts and marine fortifications of Great Britain.
The building of her Majesty's 91 gun ship Bris-
tol has commenced at Woolwich, on the slip from
which the Galatea was recently launched, and is
ordered to be carried on with the utmost despatch.
The Bristol will be of the same dimensions as and in
every respect similar to the Anson, laid down at
Woolwich in February last. Her total length will
be about 300 feet.
The freight-ships Champion and Osprey have ar-
rived at Woolwich for the shipment of shot, shell,
and military stores.
The paddlewheel steam storeship Dee, Master T.
C. H. Pullen, from Woolwich, arrived at Plymouth
on Tuesday, with large boilers for the Narcissus.
She went into Keyham basin to discharge.
The steam sloop Virago, Commander M. Dunn,
left Plymouth on Tuesday, with supernumeraries
for Portsmouth.
The mizen mast and ;bowsprit of the flagship
Royal Albert, 121, at Plymouth, are defective,
which will involve a longer delay in the dockyard.
The paddlewheel steamvesset Locust, 3, Lieut.
Field, from Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on
Wednesday, with 45 supernumeraries for the guard-
ship Impregnable and the Imperieuse.
The screw steam corvette Pearl, 21, Capt. John
Borlase, C. 8., from Portsmouth, arrived at Ply-
mouth on Wednesday afternoon. Her feed pipe has
burst, and will have to be made good before she
sails for China.
The screw steamship Donegal, 101, Capt. Glan-
ville, from Liverpool, arrived at Plymouth on Wed-
nesday afternoon. The name of the seaman unfor-
tunately drowned in the Mersey is James Rose.
He clung to the lead-line, but was drawn under the
current, as the ship was under steam and canvas.
Four seamen jumped overboard to save him. Dur-
ing her stay at Liverpool the Donegal shipped 98
men. A court-martial will assemble to-day (Friday)
to try a private of Marines, on a charge of stabbing
his sergeant.
The gunboat Hind, from Falmouth, arrived at
Plymouth on Wednesday with supernumeraries.
The screw steamship Topaze, 51, Capt. the Hon.
W. H. Spencer, in Plymouth Sound, is ordered to
prepare for foreign service. She has embarked 100
boys for distribution at her new station.
Letters have been received at Plymouth from the ,
screw steamship Orion, Captain J. J. Frere, dated
Gibraltar, Sept. 4 She left Malta on the 12th, and
arrived at Gibraltar on the 23d. On the passage
she sprung her maintopsail yard, and lost a man,
who was drowned. The crew had not yet been
paid bounty. In port were the Marlborough, Orion,
Princess Royal, Conqueror, Centurion, and Victor
Emmanuel. Five were expected to be sent home
Shortly.
The Russian squadron at Spithead, comprising
the screw frigate Ilia Mourometz, 53, bearing the
flag of Rear-Admiral Nordmann ; screw liner Gan-
gond, 84 ; and the screw corvette Vohl, 11, left that
anchorage yesterday afternoon, under steam for the
Mediterranean. The Ilia Mourometz exchanged the
customary salutes with the military and naval au-
thorities on leaving, the saluting battery on King's
Bastion replying on behalf of the Governor, and ,
the Mars, 80, at Spithead, on behalf of Admiral
Bowles, the commander-in-chief. A Russian screw
sloop, one of the three vessels expected at Spithead
from Cronstadt, on their way to the Amoor river,
arrived at that anchorage yesterday as the above
vessels were getting under weigh.
Mr. J. C. Ingles was yesterday appointed sur
geon additional to the Nile.

REFOI?-11- BRIBERY- FOREIGN
AFFAIRS.

(From the Plymouth Journal.)

Lord John Russell has been installed a freeman
of Aberdeen, and, according to custom, has im-
proved the occasion by a speech, which, though ad-
dressed to a provincial municipality, has an interest
for the whole empire, and, indeed, for all Europe.
First and foremost he takes up his tradition of
Reform. This is the question which, above all
others, concerns us most; for in it all the elements
of good government are kernelled. On the true
representation of the people in Parliament hinges
the whole theory of political progress. Would we
have retrenchment of the public expenditure, an
improved organisation of the army and navy, ex-
tension of the principles of free trade, a safe but
dignified foreign policy, and, in short, an effective
administration, equal to the wants, the position,
and the responsibilities of the country, the direct
way to all these objects is to enlarge the basis of
the House of Commons, so that it may really repre-
sent public opinion. Since the Reform Bill of
1832, every section of the nation has moved for-
ward in a manner, and to an extent, without parallel
in history. This is a testimony to the effect of that
measure, and it is now becoming a recognised fact,
that social and political development are intimately
allied. Our first Reform Bill was an experiment,
and, at the time, wan even a hazardous one ; for
long misgovernment and rooted abuses had done
their work, and the mass of the population was
discontented. Every grievance was laid at the
door of the Government, becalise the Government
was itself a standing grievance, resting on an
oligarchy and not on the people. Reform in-
vested Parliament with a new character, and
opened a new era. Without it we should never
have obtained free trade ; and our manufacturers
would still be crushed by monopoly, while our
operatives might be crying for bread. After a
quarter of a century of advancement, which has
almost doubled the population and changed tho
whole face of the country, in one place almost effac-
ing towns of ancient importance, in another convert-
ing obscure villages into ports and cities, we ask
for an extension of this great charter. What was
then the semblance of a representation, has now, by
the altered condition of the country, become its
shadow. We keep up the fiction of a House of Com-
mons, but it no longer deserves the name. It is
rather a lower chamber of the Lords, with an in-
fusion of manufacturers and capitalists. And what
does Lord John Russell promise us in its place ?
What is his programme for the new Reform Bill ?
He tells us we are not to look to him for organic
changes. His whole career, from his first advocacy
of Reform, tallies with this declaration ; and, as we
are not among those who would Americanise the
constitution, it is not one we shall quarrel with.
Organic changes are not desired by the great body
of the people. For the present, we are disposed to
accept a moderate measure, believing that, in the
actual state of parties, no other could be carried
through Parliament. The object in view is to adjust
the representation to the developments of popula-
tion, and the altered relation of classes. Un-
doudtediy Lord John Russell is correct in his view
of the spirit of English institutions, that they do
not aim to give every man a vote, but to vest this
privilege in all who may be fitly trusted with it.
But, if such be the end desired, no one will have
the hardihood to sayit has been attained. The prac-
tices at the last general election, on the side of both
Liberals and Tories, and the revelations daily made
before the Gloucester Election Commission, clearly
prove that large numbers of the existing constituen-
cies are corrupt beyond redemption. The seats
of . these rotten boroughs are openly bought and
sold.
,It would appear that the agents of the Libe-
ral candidates, though enjoined to keep strictly
within the pale of the 12. w, have, in some places,
been obliged to conform to the local usages, or to
abandon the contest. The latter would certainly
have been the more consistent course, but it is a
question whether we should then have elicited
such disclosures as those of Thompson, alias
Thornton, and Clarke, alias Brettles, which
must give an irresistible impulse to the
cause of Reform. What will the advocates of '
small boroughs say to the family of the Coopeys,
who always vote together, and never without a
bribe ? The Tories carried them off, though they
were hard run by the Liberals, one of whom, hav-
ing his blood up, offered to advance £5 on the
Tories, whatever might be given by the latter. The
ordinary price of a Gloucester voter is £lO, but the
Coopeys go in a lot for £2OO. Of course, the sys-
tern is not confined to Gloucester, though there are
few close boroughs where it is so openly practised.
We could name small constituencies in this county
in which bribery is unknown, but these are excep-
tions, and corruption is the rule. To call such a
system a representation of the people is an abuse of
terms. It is a-national scandal, from which we
claim to be delivered, and there is no remedy but a
genuine Reform Bill. In a large constituency ex-
tension of the franchise to all who contribute to
national revenue will furnish a guarantee against
bribery. If the Gloucester voters were as numerous
as they ought to be they would not fetch ten
pounds each, nor ten pence. Is it rational to ex-
pect that with such constituencies we can look for
a reduction of taxation, or any of the other advan-
tages of good government ? If members pay down
£2,000 for their seats it will be for some personal
object, not from a desire to serve the public ; and,
while such motives prevail, we must be content to
pay £70,000,000 a year in taxes. Lord John
Russell has promised a Reform Bill equal to our
requirements, and we believe he will adhere to his
pledge. The question, in his hands, still remains
with the aristocracy, but let them not waste the
time that remains; for if they now fail to effect an
equitable settlement, the people will take it into
their own hands, and the landed interest will have
lost its opportunity.
Passing to foreign affairs, Lord John Russell
feels the shackles of red tape, and speaks with more
reserve. America and France, though without
being named, each receive a hint, which may be
taken either as an admonition or as a warning. In
a war with America our commerce would un-
doubtedly suffer more than in the fiercest struggle
with any other power ; but it is certain that the
loss of our antagonist would be as great as our own.
Be this as it may, no section of the community is
more jealous of our national honour than the com-
mercial classes; and Lord John Russell shows this
to be a natural result, for it is their interest, ex-
posed as they are to foreign aggressions, that the
name of England should be respected. America
and England have both a high part to play, and,
as we lately remarked, they should both present
to the world an example of mutual consideration
and forbearance. Lord John declares that Eng-
land holds up a beacon to the nations; America, as
a kindred country, and a sister refuge of freedom
should aspire to do the same. But when an Ameri.

can general makes a descent on British territory—
when he there draws the sword, and flings away
the scabbard, bidding the British come on if they
dare, it must be owned that our patience and all
our feelings of amity are being tasked to, the utmost.
Even the American Government, indeed, has
thought a collision so probable, under such a provo-
cation, that General Scott has been despatched in
hot haste to supersede the arrogant Harney; and
we hope this step may indicate that President
Buchanan is not disposed to refer the dispute to
the fatal arbitrament of the sword.
To France, Lord John Russell speaks as plainly,
though with the same discretion. Our neighbour is
described under the myth of a firework Manufac-
turer, with whom we are in dangerous proximity,
and who amuses himself by throwing up rockets,
which, rising aloft at all hours, keep us in constant
fear of a conflaceration. At present, the only pre-
caution we take is a heavy insurance, by keeping
up a large army and navy; but Lord .rohh warns
the pyrotechnist that, if he persists in this course,
he may some day bring the whole town about
his ears, and have his factory suppressed. Cer-
tainly the Emperor Napoleon is evincing a spirit
so aggressive as may alarm all Europe, while, at
the sametinao, he shows that not the least reliance
can be placed on his word. Only a few weeks
ago he announced his. ntention of reducing his
forces by land and sea, and we now hear of nothing
but mighty armaments, which, from their peculiar
character, can have no object but hostilities with
England, his faithful ally. The peace of Villafranca
falsified all his programme for Italy, and, whatever
he may think, has not won for him the friendship
of Austria. There can be no greater stigma on his
policy than the circular just addressed by Sardinia
to the great European Courts. Here is an appeal
from Napoleon drunk with success, to Napoleon
sitting soberly in council of Europe. The King of
Sardinia shows that, if the treaty of Villafranca be
carried cut—if the strong fortresses on his frontier
are left in the hands of Austria, and the Austrian
Archdukes are again posted on his flank, he will be
completely hemmed ill, at the mercy of Austria
whenever she chooses to attack. Darin the late
war Italy made great efforts, and sulamittcl to great
sacrifices, even throwing aside her own local jea-
lousies and traditions; and now, by the proposed
restoration of the Archdukes, she finds all her hopes
frustrated. Her bearing through the crisis has
commanded universal respect. We may smile at
the aspirations of Tuscany for statues and pictures
at such a time, bat great popular movements are
always attended with some extravagances; and,
perhaps, fainting spirits, amidst the difficultiessur-
rounding them; may derive encouragement from
these presages of success. It must be confessed that
same stimulus is required at the present moment.
Rumour speaks again of a Congress, as the final
adjudicator of the question, and Lord John Russell's
declaration that England, so far as she can make