The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-04 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER BTEEPLECHASES—SATURDA2.
The Hurdle Race Handicap of 5 sovs each, 1 ft, with 25
added, the second to save his stake. Two miles. 16
subs., 11 of whom paid forfeit.
Mr. F. Swindell's Pactslus, 6 yrs, lOst 91b ... (Palmer) 1
Captain Hawksley's Mavourneen, 5 yrs, 9st 21b
(Nightingall) 2
Mr. Court's Hawthorn, 5 yrs, 9st 21b (W. White) 3
Dr. Leete and Grace Darling also ran.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Mavourneen, 9to 4 agst Hawthorn,
3 to 1 agst Pactolus.
Mavourneen was winning easily, but Nightingall mis-
taking the winning post pulled up too soon, and Pactolus
passed the chair a length in advance.
The Trial Handicap (Flat Race) of 3 soya each, 1 ft, with
20 added; the second to save his stake. One mile. 25
subs., 19 of whom paid forfeit.
Mr. Barber's Sheffield, 5 yrs, 7st 61b (Entwistle) 1
Mr. Wilding's Pliny, 4 yrs, 6st 101 b (carried 7st 21b)
(Johnstone) 2
Mr. Wood's Woodmite, 6 yrs, 7st .. (Lomas) 3
Yafa filly, Quiver, and Peeping Tom also ran.
Betting 6 to 4 agst the Yafa filly; 4 to 1 each agst Shef-
field and Woodmite. Won by a neck; the second beating
the third by the same ; good fourth.
The City Steeplechase Handicap of 5 soya each, 1 ft, with
50 added ; the second to save his stake.
miles and a half. 25 subs., 19 of whom paid(Kfendall) 1
Mr. Byrn's Topsy, an'ed, lOst ..........
pightinrall) 2
Mr. Grove's St. Mark, aged, 10st 61b .• • • jun.) 3
Mr. B. Land's Oliver Twist, 6 yrs, 9st 21b (
Conrad also ran.
Heads or Tails, Ingomar, and
Oliver Twist, 4 to 1
Betting-5 to 2 each agst Topsy and
Won by
Ingom sr. a length ;
agst St. Mark, 10 to 1 agst
d third ; bad fourth.
a neck between the second an
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The death of Mrs. will excite a lively feeling
of regret in a great n 1r of readers, who are in-
debted to her for many pleasant hour. She died
on Tuesday last al T .I, Lyndhurst, after a
week of severe suffer, )f her ptirsonal history,
little more is known to the public than that she was
the wife of Charles Arthur Gore, of the Ist Life
Guards ; that at the time of her death she had
attained the age of 61; and that she was one of the
most brilliant women of her time, whose talk over-
flowed with epigram and jest, and whose most com-
monplace remarks were more witty than the best
wit of others. Her literary career is better known,
although she departs from among us at the time
when it is least appreciated. Her descriptions of
fashionable life are not so highly estimated now as.
they were when that species of novel had a certain
amount of originality, nor as they will be hereafter,
when, through the mere lapse of time, her dcscrip-
lions will attain somewhat of, the dignity of histo-
rical pictures. For the moment we are tired of
fashionable noTels, and inclined perhaps to under-
rate the great mistress of the art. littt if any one
will sit down quietly to consider what Mrs. Gore
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works, extending to nearly 200 volumes. It is a
little library in itself. Her various publications fol-
lowed one another with inconceivable rapidity ;
sometimes at the rate of one volume a month. A
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catalogue of her books—most of them written at
utmost speed—would fill this column. But thv
most remarkable point of all this fertililiate that in
the 200 volumes there is scarcely to biltrund one
dull page. Mrs. Gore's wit was inexhaustible. It
might not always be wit of the highest order, but
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For the most part it took the form of simile; but
swift that she kept the reader's attention at a very
high level of activity. Whether she wrote a poem
always above mediocrity. And then for the matt.,
—it was interesting while it was newiluid it vri,W
be interesting again when it is old.. Some futnie
Macaulay will turn to her pages for a perfect pic-
ture of life as we find it in the upper crust off
society. Every phase of it which it was possible
for a woman to handle she has depicted with a
minute fidelity which has all the merit of a first-rate
I collection of photographs. What can be more
lifelike and true, not to speak of brilliancy, than
such novels as " Cecil" and " The Hamiltons," in
which she displays to the height all her happy art
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of pourtraying character and describing manners Fuch tales as these will always find readers; but,
though we mention them as among her masterpieces,
one may take at random any of her works, from her
first, " Theresa Marchmont," published in 1823, to
her last, which, we believe, was "The Two Aristo-
cracies," with the certainty of finding in them clear-
cut portraiture, the most lively narrative, and wit
in profusion. It has been objected that she adopts
with too much sympathy the tone of the society
which she paints, and that her ideal of life is not
lofty enough. This is but a disparaging method of
stating a fact which from another point of view may
be regarded as a merit. Most women are apt to
take the high poetical view of things, and to mea-
sure mankind by a constant reference to this
standard, so that their heroes and heroines are either
angels or devils. Their aspirations are very beauti-
ful, but they are also very deceptive ; and Mrs.
Gore avoided them in order to teach the homespun,
use:'ul lesson of contentment. She took men and
women as they are, and the tenour of her philosophy
is that good and evil, happiness and misery,
are very evenly distributed in this world. The man
of domestic habits fancies himself, as he sits by his
fireside among his children better than his neigh-
bours and happier than a king. The king among
his courtiers fancies himself a god, and wonders how
the poor man can be happy eating bread and cheese
with his squalling children. It is a world of com-
pensations, aneMrs. Gore had the good sense to
take it as it is, sympathising with high life as other
writers have sympathised with low life. Whether
she were right or wrong, however, in this, the
general effect is that her pictures are all the more
faithful, and have thus a permanent historical value
over and above the mere pleasure which they are
capable of affording. Her works will often here-
after be referred to as those of the best novel
writer of her class and the wittiest woman of her
age.—limes.