The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-05 00:00:00

f be infinitely more grateful fur a little wholesom
i "letting alone." It is very possible to smother one
(with roses ; and many well-intentioned people mar
all their excellent meaning by a redundancy of active
politenes, which vulgarly amounts to " making a
fuss."

If we ever visit Mrs. Courtney again, we trust she
will allow us to take water, even with the ' chill off,
if we choose. It is a sad thing that such a charming
cottage, with a thousand a year to keep it aired, should
be rendered uninhabitable by the fatal power she pos.
seises of " snaking a fuss ;" and, in confidential
malice, we can assure her that Mr. Courtney is often
to be found dining with his club, when he makes her
believe he is busy in his counting-house, and the
reason he gives is, that Mrs. Courtney never can let
a splash of gravy fall on tl.e table-cloth without
tt snaking a fuss."—Eliza Cook's Journal.

SPORTING IN 'FELL I GENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAL
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
8 to 1 agst Lord Waterford's Sir John
8 to 1 agst Lord Strathnaore's Rat-trap
14 to 1 agt Mr. Mason na The Chandlf,r—taken
15 to 1 agst Mr. J. Fort's Knight of Gwynne— taken
20 to 1 nest Lord St fLon na Little Fanny
25 to 1 agst Mr. Caltle na Grande Lam;ikee—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Hughes's Tipperary Boy—taken
LIVERPOOL SPRING CUP.
7 to 2 agst Mr. E. J. Irwin's Ballinafad
THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
The only bet on this event was 20 to 1 to IC/. apt
Fernhill.

aiETaoPOLITAN HANDICAP.
6 :o 1 eg:t Mr. Gratnicke's Cheerful, 4 yrs, 6st—•
taken freely
15 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Snewstorm,4 yrs, 7, t 4lb
18 to 1 agst Mr. Murphy's Dough, 5 yrs,Bst 51b— t
‘.:() to 1 apt Sir G. Heatheote's Black Eagle, 4 yrs,
7st 111 b—taken
20 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Testator, 4 yrs,7st2lb—t
20 to 1 egst Mr. C. Peck's Melody, 4 yrs, 7st—taken.
20 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Damask, 3 yrs, sst 101 b—t
25 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Quiver, 4 yrs, 7st
31b—taken
30 to 1 agst Captain Lowther's Bastinado, 3 yrs,
4st 71b—taken
All the horses quoted were backed, but Cheerful only
with any spirit; 6 to 1 could not be got at the close.

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epirote
10 to 1 agst Mr. Hill's Pitsford—taken
CHESTER CUP.
16 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Glauca, 4 yra, 7st 51b-
-17 to 1 taken
20 to 1 cgst Mr. Merry's Miss Ann, 4 yrs, 7st
20 to 1 agst Mr. St. George's Whim colt, 4 yr•
6.t 7lb ••,
25 to 1 agst Lord Howth's Peep-o'-day Boy, 6 yrs,
9 st—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Roland, 4 yrs, sst 81b—
taken and afterwards offered
28 to 1 agst Capt. Harcourt's Eller&le, 6yre,Bo3lb
40 to 1 agst Mr. Hallord's H trriott, 3 yrs, sst 91b
40 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Clerment, 6 yrs, 7st 51b
50 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's The Knott', 4 yrs, 6st 81b
50 to 1 agst Mr. Isaac Day's Cockermouth, 5 yrs,
Est 10lb
,000 to 20 asst Mr. P. Colgan's Horn of Chase, 6 yrs,
7st 101 b
,000 to 15 agst Mr. B. Green's Lady Superior, 4 yrs, Tat
—taken and afterwards offered
,000 to 15 agst Lord Clifden's Lodola filly, 4 yrs, sst
81b-1,000 to 20 taken once

1,000 to 15 agst Mr. B. Green's Pelham, 4 yrs, 7st
The only horses in request were Glauca, the Whim
colt, and Peer-J'-.lay Boy; and on them the investments
were not by any means large.
The Aegean yi a; mistakenly included in the accept.
antes for this event.

DERBY, 1850.
15 to 2 agst Duke of Richmond's Ghillie Callum—
take 8 to 1
10 to 1 agst Mr. W. Edwards na Bolingbroke—taken
10 to I agst Lard Eglinton's Knight of Avenel
16 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's The Italian—take 17 to 1
16 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Voltigeur—taken freely
20 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's The Nigger—taken
25 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Mayors—take 28 to 1
5,000 to 75 agst Mr. Ley's Charley—taken
In the early part of the afternoon 1,450 to 200 was
taken about Ghillio Callum, and 11 to I to 504, and 12
to 1 to 3tlo/. laid agst Bolingbroke; 8 to 1 to 751 was
afterwards laid agt4 the first, and 10 to 1 taken in hun-
dreds about Bolingbroke. Volligeur was backed for all
that could be got on at 16 to 1.

THE OAKS.
13 to 2 agst Lord Eglinton's Probity—taken
WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON SPRING
MEETING, 1850.
Nominations for the Trial Stakes—Mr. Stevens's
Knight of Gwynue, 3 yrs—Mr. Scott's Warwick, own
brother to Yardley, 3 yrs—Lord Strathmore's Tees-
water, 3 yrs—Mr. E. Buckley's Ardwick, 3 yrs—Mr. T.
Dawson na Mark Tapl,y, 3 yrs—Mr. Lucas's Eye-the-
Boys, 3 yrs—Mr. W. Mosley's Alonzl, 3 yrs—Mr. B.
Green's Osbaldeston, 3 yrs—Mr. W. J. Sadler's Wood-
sprite, sister to Hind of the Forest, 3 yrs—Mr. Merry's
Brennus, 3 yrs—Mr. Cowper's The Milner, 4 yrs—
Csiptain Archdall's Rose Pompon, 3 yrs—Lori Cliftlen's
Torpor, 3 yrs. _

Nominations f,r the Two yrs old Stakes—Mr. T.
Stevens's Britannia—Lord Strg thtnore's Faux Pas—Mr.
Little's Colibri. by Cotherstone—Mr. Armstrong's
Barker—Sir J. Hawley's b f by Venison, out of Baccha-
nalian's darn—M-. W. H. Sadler's Fringe—Capt. Arch-
dell's Quadroon—Mr. C. Jones's lenthe, by lon—Mr.
IVlc,s 'Ws Stafford—Lord Warwick's Leap-year—Mr.
Parker's The Calculator (late B.O.)—Mr. Casidy'a
Whisper—Mr. Stebbings's TIP! Partridge—Mr. Merry s
Nspoleon—Lord Cli.den's Beiutort.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—You last week inserted an account of an appli-
cstion by Sir F. Thesiger to the Bail Court, for a rule
nisi for a criminal information against me for a libel on
the Rev. G. R. Prynne. I shall be much obliged to you
if you will permit me to say that paragraph which the
Rev. Gentleman has applied to himself was never in-
tended to apply to him—that it applied to another person
—and that the breath of calumny, as regards the Rev.
G. R. Prynne, has never, so far as I am aware or be.
lieve, assailed the moral character of that gentleman.
I wake this statemer.t myself, voluntarily, being
anxious that it should be universally known that the
paragraph was never intended to apply to Mr. Prynne,
nor to any other clergyman of the Established Church
—a circumstance of which I informed him personally,
the moment that I heard of its misapplication.
I am, Sir, your obedient aervau►,
ISAAC LATIMER.
Journal Office, Plymouth, Feb. 4, 1850.

I THE WORD "EMINENT.''—It was formerly ap-
plied chiefly to physicians. But it was extremely un.
reasonable that the physicians should have the monopoly
of a word which, looking to its derivation, strictly im-
plies that its fortunate possessor occupies a height from
whence he looks down upon the rest of a ankind. Ac-
cordingly, in our day, when all the resources of language
are put under contribution to help everybody into
notoriety, this word ' eminent' has been gradually drawn
from its exclusive application to advertise the claims of
multitudes of people who, without some such herald of
their merits, might appeal in vain to an undiscerning
public. The physicians aro no longer the only eminent
t e Tie in the world. Good reason, too, for that. Repe-
-1 dancers and upholsterers have their own heights to
climb as well as physicians, cardinals, and ambassadors,
which two latter classes are eminent only by virtue of
office. So many eminent persons come out upon us
now-a-days from obscure holes and corners, that the
difficulty would be to find one who is not considered by
himself, or by somebody else, fully entitled to that
honourable elevation, which he either stands upon, or
believes that he stands upon.—The " Ladder of Gold" its
Bentley's Miscellany.
THE ROYAL SCOTTISH SOCIETY.-This society
will hold their annual ball on Thursday next at Willis's
Rooms, in aid cf the Scottish charities of London, when
the " kilts" are expected to muster in full force. We
hope that the numerous friends who enjoyed their fete
in June last will not be absent on the forthcoming
evening.
LEAMINGTON SPA, FEB. .—Jullien's annual con-
certs and ball during the present week have formed our
chief fashionable amusement. The arrival-books have
been recently inscribea by the Viscount and Viscountess
Campden, Lord Elphinatone, Lord and Lady Campbell,
Lord Bateman, Lord Burleigh, Lord Eastnor, Arch-
deacon and Mrs. Beresford, Lady Browne, Lady and
Miss Montgomery, &c.
RAILWAY BILLS ON STANDING ORDERS.—Yester-
day the Bill of the North Kent Railway Continuation
Company came on on standing orders, the object being
to make a railway from Stroud through Canterbury,eeei
Deal, and Dover, with branches to Maidstone, Sh
rrs
Feversham, aad Chilham, and a loop line from Gree-
nwich to Woolwich, so as to
facilitateolva enrd_n. ment
Anew establish-
ments, t communicationfeature
li
sh-
m be-
tweenents, twheorknsa,vaalnd rboahnadmuirtst.rYEn England.
o
is the appointment of comausnfsiodnireernsiosrism.ilar
Theto
Billthose w iat:
road trusts, instead as now
opposed by the South-Eastern Company, and allegations
of non-compliance were sustained
uponthe ground of
imperfections in the necessary notices and incorrect defi-
nition of boundaries. The standing orders were declared
to be complied with in the following cases;—Liverpool,
Crosby, and Southport, for lease to the Lancashire and
Yorkshire, and other objects; the Monmouthshire Rail.
way, for amendment and extension of line; and Dundee
and Perth, for lease to Caledonian Railway, and regula-
tion of capital.
THE WINDSOR ELECTION.--Mr. Hatchell has
commenced his canvass, and has issued an address to the
electors for the borough, thanking the voters for their
promises, &c. At present he has no opponent in the
field, though from a bill published by an " independent
elector," in which the learned gentleman is designated
as the "Irish Sergeant," and allusions made to the
" distressed Irish," it was inferred that a " gentleman
well known" to the electors, and understiod to be Sir
John Cathcart, of Binfield, would offer himself as a
candidate. The ITon. Bare)! et Lai not, however, as yet
come forth, and it is concluded Mr. Hatchell will walk
over the course. The town of Windsor exhibits nothing
of the animation of an approaching eleatior.
THE REPRESEI,TATION OF COLCHESTER.—Lord
John Manners, who has received a requisition very nu-
merously signed to allow himself to be put in nomination
for this borough, yesterday addressed the electors at
much length, and was very favourably received.
Tim LATE DEAN OF LLANDATF.—A young lady
of Llatidati has decorated the grave of the late dean of
that diocese, which is within the altar rails of the cathe.
dral, every week with flowers since his death,—Ezeter
Gazette,