The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-13 00:00:00

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ThE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1859.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMAItKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING.
WEDNESDAY.

The Oatlands Plato (Handicap) of £5O. Cambridgeshire
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Course (1 mile 240 yards).
Mr. Hodgman's Wrestler, 4 yrs, 7st 61b (Swift) 1
Baron Rotbschild's Bastion, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (Fordham) 2
Mr. Wyndham's Cynricus, 3 yrs, 7st 81b .... (Charlton) 3
Mr. T. Cliffs Caliph, aged, 7st 21b (Challencr) 4
The following also ran :—Knight of Karp, Comforter,
Griselda, Dispute, Meadowdale, Solomon, Greenwich Fair,
Julie, Joskin, Woman in Black.
The betting opened at 5 to 2 agst Australian Maid, and
5 and 6to 1 agst Wrestler. After tho mare had bolted, as
explained below, the betting closed at 5 to 2 agst Wrestler,
7 to 1 agst Bastion, 10 to 1 each agst Cynricus, Comforter,
and Cailiph, 100 to 8 each agst Knight of Kars and Green-
wich Fair. When the horses had mustered at the post and
the starter had called thorn together Australian Maid broke
away, ran the course through, and dashed into the town.
After nearly half-an-hour's delay she was brought back to
the weighing-house in a profuse sweat, and so lame that it
was impossible to send her again to the post. All bets about
her stand. Joskin led for a short distance; after going
about half-a-mile Wrestler, Caliph, and Cynricus went en
nearly side by side, with Bastion heading the next lot. Be-
fore reaching the cords Caliph was beaten, and Bastion
went tcr work in earikst, but could not get quite up, and was
beaten by a head ; a length between the second and third ;
Caliph was beaten three lengths; Solomon was fifth, beaten
a long way.
The Town Plate of 50 sovs, for 3-yr-olds and upwards.
The winner to be sold for 200 sovs, if demanded, &o.

T.M.M. (1 mile 7 fur. 153 yards).
Mr. T. Hughes's Winkfield, aged, Bst 12Ib .. (D. Hughes) 1
Baron Rothschild's Scribbler, 4 yrs, Bst 71b .. (Wells) 2
Mr. T. Cliff's. Lustre, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (Fordham) 3

Queenstown, Sampson, and llydromel also ran.

Betting-6 to 4 agst Scribbler, sto 2 agst Lustre, Bto l
agst Winkfield. Won by a neck, half a lengthbetweon the
second and third, bad fourth,

Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sous each. D.M.
201 yards.

7 fur.

Mr. Greville's Harry Stanley, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b.... (Perry) 1
Mr. La Mert's Bel E:peranza, a yrs, 7st 101 b (Clements) 2
Mr. Halford's Emblem, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b ....(Cballoner) 3

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The following also ran :—.A.ettuon, Newstead, Charles 11,
Worceiter, Nereus, and. Sobersides.
Betting-5 to 2 and 3to 1 agst Charles IL, 6to 1 each
agst Admen and Newstead, 6 to 1 agst Bel Esperanza, 7 to
1 agst Worcester, 10 to 1 agst Harry Stanley. Won by two
lengths; three lengths between the second and third;
Sobersides was a bad fourth, and Charles 11. was fifth.
Admen and Worcester were the last two.

Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, for 2-yr:olds.

Last half of Ab. M. 3 fur. 217 yards. (17 subs.)
Mr. G. IL Smith's Ringlet, 7st 41b (Grimshau) 1
Mr. Drunnimond'r St ol zenfels, Bst (Cresswell) 2
Mr. Mills's Dartthouth, 7st 21b (Challoner) 3

The followini also ran :—Fravola, Confectioner, Chere
Arnie, Dapple,: Man at Arms, Swertha, Fair Maid of Kent,
Convivialigt c by Tadmor-Mainstay, Maria, Sister to Pan-
dora, Turn of Luck. • _ _ . .

Betting-5 to 2 agat Chere Arnie, Bto 1 each asst Dart-
mouth, StOlzentels, Sister to Pandora, and Turn of Luck,
10 to 1 each ag,st Swertha, Mainstay colt, Fravola, and
Ringlet. Ringlet got a good ,start, and went off at score,
her iminediata followers being—Sister to Pandora, Maria,
and SWextha. •At the Bushes Stolzenfelsbecame second, but
failed in his effort to overhaul the filly, and was beaten by
a neck, a length between the second and third. Close up
were Sister to. Pandora, Chere Arnie, and Mainstay colt.
Fravola
.wa.7;

• Match, 203, h ft. T.Y.C. 5 fur 140 yds.
Duke of Beaufort's Blue Ruin, 2 yrs, Bst 41b • . (A. Day) 1
Sir J. Hawley's Gallus, 3 yrs, 9st 21b (Wells) 2

Betting-7to 4 on Blue Ruin, who won a good race by a
head..

Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for 2-yr-olds, 7st 31b ; and
three; 9st ; fillies allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for

80 soya, if denianded, &c. T.Y.C. 5 subs.
Mr. Whittaker's Raspberry, 3 yrs, Bst Illb (J. Osborne) 1
Mr. Blanton' s Miss Eleanor, 3 yrs, Bst 111 b ... (French) 2
Mr. Fleming's fby Connaught Ranger, 2 yrs, 7st (Bray) 3
Mr. Ilalford's Ladybird, 2 yrs, 7st (Challoner) 4
Betting-6 to 4 agst Miss Eleanor, 3to 1 each agst Lady-
bird and Raspberry, 5 to 1 agst Connaught Ranger f. Won
by a neck ; same distance between second and third ; three
lengths between third and fourth.
The Bedford Stakes, Sweepstakes, of 50 sous each, h ft ;
colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. Allowances and penalties.
Criterion Course. 5 furlongs 182 yards.

Mr. E. Hall's Seclusion, Bst 71b.. (Charlton) 1
Baron Rothschild's Jason, Sat 41b (Wells) 2
Lord Stamford's Thessalian, Bst 71b (Fordham) 3
Mr. Merry's Trovatore, 9st 31b (J. Osborne) 4
Betting—Even on Seclusion, 2 to 1 agst Thessalian, 5 to
1 agst Trovatoro, 10 to 1 agst Jason. Won by a length
and a half; bad third.
The Select Stakes of 50 soya each, h ft, for 3-yr-olds; colts,

Bst 7lb ; fillies, Bst 41b. Winners extra. D.bi. 7 subs.

Baron Rothschild's North Lincoln, Bst 71b (Wellz) w.o.

Match, 200, h ft.—Mr. F. Robinson's Antonio, by Bay
Middleton, 3 yrs, Bst 71b, received ft from Mr. Greville's
Soothsayer, 4 yrs, Bst 31b. T.Y.C.

BETTING ON TIIESIX
O ' CAMBRIDGESIIIRE UP TO
CLOCK.,
100 to 8 agst Artless
10) to 8 agst North Lincoln
14 to 1 agst Ariadne
20 to 1 agst Volta
25 to 1 agst Geologic)
25 to 1 agst Mazzini
30 to 1 agst Penalty
50 to 1 agst Lady Alice (taken)
1200 to 100 agst Mazzini and Penalty coupled (taken)
THE CLEARWEEL STAKES.—Contadina was omitted
from the ,list of quotations on this race, her price was
6 to 1.
THE WHIP.--Leamington paid forfeit to Saunterer.
Both horses have, we believe, finished their racini, career,
and they are, it is said, to be put to the stud. Mr. Ten
Broeck and Mr. Shelley have, however, challenged for it.
The Match between Promised Land and Musjid is off,
the latter having paid forfeit.

TILE PAPAL STATES.

A letter from Ferrara, dated October 7, says :
I was at supper last evening in the public room of
St. Mark's' Inn at Lugo. At the various tables were
seated natives from almost every part of these, his
Holiness's late dominions. The exchange of a word
or two from one table to another led to a conver-
sation, which according to the manners of these
remarkably sociable and communicative Italian
people, soon b2came general. Taigo is a thriving
trading place, and its fair is renowned througout
the Legations. The men arcaind me were chiefly
farmers or mercers, but some of them belonged to a
class whose intelligence bad received a somewhat
superior development. After a few trivial remarks
the conversation took what is now the general turn
of all talk throughout Italy—it turned upon politics.
The confidence of all these people in their deliver-
ance from priestly rule was only commensurate
with the intense hatred - which they all expressed
against it. I thought I would tempt them, and
ventured to hint that, " happen what might," most
assuredly the Legations would secure for themselves
a separate secular administration, " even" if they
were made again to acknowledge the supreme
authority of the Pontiff. There was no anger in
their answer, no displeasure at my unwelcome
suggestion. They spoke in the voice:of deep-settled,
immoveable determination. There was to be no
"even," no " happen what might." Their emanci-
pation from the :priests was final and irrevocable,
not subject to any human contingency.
" You see, Sir," said one, a student from Forli,
" the population of the four Legations is above
a million. One-half of that number would
have to perish before .any human power suc-
ceeded in re-establishing the Papal sway over
the other
.h^lf. PeOple talk very awfully about
the' 'horrors-' of -war, but what is that to civil
war ? The passions of these people are pent up
and kept within control by e holy hope that jus-
tice may be done;. but only let Austria, or any
other big, bullying Power, attempt to trample us
down, and you will see what fiends would then be
unchained.. I would not give two bajocchi for the
life of the merest priestling throughout the land.
The conduct of the clergy has put our patience to
the severest test. In one place the areiprete has
been made to sing a 7'e Detem by quiet and pri-
vate, but positive, -threats against his life. At
Forli we laymen had to officiate ourselves. At
Bologna it Wll3 an army chaplain (a reprobate as
jie is held at Rome) who exercised his sacred
ministry in defiance of excommunication. In many
a town not a Mass was said last Sunday. In some
places the priests N'on't do it ; in others «e won't
let them. There is mortal enmity—silent hostility
—between us and them, sure to break' out into the
most savage, bloody, open warfare, if any over-
whelming force shall take up their cause against
us. There is reason and 'method in all our appa-
rent calmness, in' this adniirable order to which we
have bound ourselves We are all of one mind.
We do not move a single. step without the most
perfect -understan3ing. We are like a pack of
hounds on the leash.: -Woe to those who shall dare
to let us loose ! Let the world judge of our stern
resolutioa from our present moderation and self-
control."
There was a small merchant from Ponte Lago-
Sm.°, near Ferrara, seated at my elbow. He
nodded his head at every word that fell from the
young Forlivese student, and when the latter had
done he 'took up the subject in the following
strain :

"Is there anything we have left undone in
the way of conciliation and compromise ? Travel
over the land, and you will see at every step
the arches and other monuments set up for
the reception of Pius IX. during his late pro-
gress throughout these provinces, two years ago.
We were willing to overlook the last 10 years and
to hail the mild, benevolent. Pontiff; who had inau-
gurated his reign with his holy ejaculation, Bens-
dite, o Die, all' Italia ." We were ready to renounce
the Mazzinian demagogues who had driven him
from his see ; to allow much,for the terror he had
undergone, for the ea il foreign influences under
which his throne had been again set up. We were
willing, Heaven knows ! to throw all the blame of
his misgovernment upon his false advisers •, we
trusted that he had only to come and see and hear
us, to be able to judge between us and our oppres-
sors. The Pope came, and saw, and what did he.
do or say for us ? Why, all his political acts were
limited to the pardon of a common forger ; fot the
rest, he gave us only his blessing, and what good
did his blessing do for us? -Why, the winter after
his visit the Po was frozen several feet thick—an
event for which there had been no precedent for
the last five centuries, and all our trade and inter-
course, our boats and mills were stopped ; and in
the ensuing autumn we had flood and freshets
ravaging. our richest fields. Most certainly that is
the blessing these priests would fain impart to us.
All their drift is to make us poor and ignorant. So
that we forego all industry and education we are
sure enough of their favour. The nearer you go to
Rome the plainer
you perceive the state of the popu-
lation which the priests approve as the beau ideal
of a Christian nation. They want us of the Lega-
tions to be one-third beggars, like the rabble of
the Trastever and the I3orgo. With God's help,
however, we have baffled them yet, and will dis-
appoint them in the end. We want to be edu-
cated and working men. Look round on these
blessed plains—the richest in God's creation—
we have rescued the from swamps and morasses.
Our Ferrarese valleys
(the low marshy flats are
so called) are smiling with corn and rice planta-
tions.
The lands want no- manure, they only
want draining and levelling,
and this we have
done, and are doing, by the sweat of our
brow, and no thanks to the Pope. All we now re-
quire is progress and improvement in our agricul-
tural system. -We want roads and railroads, free
intercourse with more advanced nations, an outlet
for our surplus produce. Can we get this from the
Pope or his priests ? Can we obtain it for ourselves
under their yoke ? Behold, the first railway from
Piacenza to Bologna was only opened yesterday,
when the priests were gone. As soon as they are
gone, even while we are in the throes of revolution
and war, the lines from Bologna to Ravenna,
Rimini, and Ferrara are being rapidly surveyed.
Behold what ten years' freedom has done for Pied-
mont ! In 1848 Piedmont had not four miles of
railway; now it rivals France, Belgium, and Ger-
many ; and the lines made and kept up by Govern-
ment 'yield 20,000 or 30,000 to the public Trea-
sury. Who Would not be a Pi(dmontese ? Friends
and gentlemen,ee vlong live Italy and our King Victor Emmanuel ?' "
'There
standingaY'Down with the priests, and
' the plain but stringent
rawas
il I s 0
eloquence of the good mercer, and I joined in the
hurrah with all my might. We parted, all great
friends, late in the evening, and I went to bed with
firm faith in the portentous re-awakening of this
down-trodden people.
We have a fog—a white fog—in Ferrara this
morning, a phenomenon to which this city, owing to
the vcinity of a great river, is as frequently liable as
London itself. Dull as it must be in the finest wea-
ther, Ferrara looks perfectly dead under a lowering
atmosphere. The impression of these long, broad,
silent streets, especially in the modern or " Hercu-
lean" part of the town, is perfectly overpowering.
The Tuscan and other troops who were quartered
hero have all left ; and Ferrara, like Ravenna, is
now inhabited by its usual blank desolation, The
very mendicants have decamped. About 20,000
souls (1,500 of them Jews) move about in an area
BL-- miles in circuit. There is no grass growing
in the streets, and I shrewdly suspect the citizens,
wounded at the reputation of " grass-grown city,"
by which their town was designated, keep purposely
weeding and tearing it up by the roots ; but the
sadness which dwells on its houses and monuments
is truly heartrending. We have here, as the poet
describes it—" Una mestizia the ti piomba al core"
(" Solitude has charms in the country, for it is God-
haunted ; but a city is intolerable without man,
who made it.") revolutions and annexations
ever give back their former life to these spectre
cities of Lombardy and the .lEmilia ? The ques-
tion is not easily answered, for the towns are the
only things that are dead in the country, and the
citizens, particularly of the better classes, the only
things that are idle. Can merely agricultural pur-
suits give prosperity and lustre to the place, where
landowners congregate to consume the fruits of
their labourers' toil ; or will those slothful proprie-
tors take a more active interest in the soil which
feeds them, and turn to better purposes its inex-
haustible resources ? Ravenna has been the me-
tropolis of the, Westerm Empire ; Ferrara, the
residence of an ambitious, grasping, splendour-
loving dynasty. What they have been they can
never be again ; and aro all chances of a different
existence forbidden them for the future ? It was a
strange sight to me to see the Cross of Savoy hang-
ing upon the lofty portals of what was once the
Castello, or strong mansion of the Este of Ferrara.
Only three centuries ago the Este rivalled the
Medici, and Ferrara hardly yielded to the magni-
ficence of Florence, while Savoy, now rained, now
victorious, hut al ways rude and barbaric,was hardly
I'd acclimatized to Italy, and played the humblest

part in that princely retinue which swelled the
pageantry of Charles V. at his coronation ; and
now, behold the heritage of Este and Medici—nay,
of the Visconti, Gpnzaga, Farnese, and other minor
houses, will go to make up patches for that Savoy
mantle which will almost equal an empire in its
power, and to accomplish that mission in which
Gothic, Grecian, Longobardio, and the various
German monarchies failed—the union of a really
Italian State. May Heaven give it good speed, and
may the greatness of Savoy be for these half-ruined'
provinces what it has been for Piedmont and Genoa
—the harbinger of peace and prosperity, of enlight-
ened freedom and equitable justice ! May there be
life enough in the new State to galvanise these
poor corpse cities of Ravenna and Ferrara.