The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-19 00:00:00

• piers, that at low water spring tides there is always
water far a large sailing boat to turn out to sea with
' the wind northerly, and during the neap tides there
is frequently seven feet at low water and consequently
access for the mail packets when the water is smooth
et.all times of tide.
Within the piers in the Harbour Channel there are
between two and three fathoms at low water,
and contequently a steamer may be kept always
afloat, ready to Start at the earliest 'period of the
flood, if required. The channel is of great width, ex-
tending from pier to pier, and having ample :room
for a vessel to recover a yaw of the helm and regain
a right direction. There are no dangers outside. The
heads are of equal length and of open work at .tbe
extremity, and no counter-tide to guard against as at
Boulogne. Both ingress and egress to this port may
be effected with comparative safety *hen blowing
hard from the north-east, which is the. worse period
here, whereas there would be most imminent danger
at Boulogne with a gale at west-south-west, which is
the peculiar season of difficulty there.
The communication by boats at Calais at low water
is comparatively safer and easier at that place than it
is at Boulogne, even under favourable circumstances,
from the peculiar local advantages which exist there,
and of which the other port is destitute. At Calais
there is always water for a sailing boat of a sufficient
size and quality to insure safety to get out of the
harbour at low water time, which there is not at Bou-
logne. The fact of the mails having been disem-
barked by boats at Calais for several years, when the
port was not in its present improved state, and the
boats and crews of an inferior description, without any
accident having ever occurred, is itself an evident proof
of the preferable nature of this place for maintaining
an uninterrupted communication for the mail service;
and it may reasonably be anticipated that, with a
properly adapted boat and efficient crew, there would
be scarcely any instances of delay, and this portion
of the duty of transmitting the mails could be per-
formed with the requisite punctuality, safety, and
economy.

The -distance between Dover and Calais is not
only six nautical miles less than to Boulogne, but
it is also much easier and safer, being more out of
the track of running ships, and likewise of fishing-
vessels, who resort principally to the hanks north-
east of Calais, and are consequently out of the way of
steamers. With those winds also which mostly
prevail in the Channel, the latter part of the passage
to Calais is an approach to smooth water. From the
time a vessel draws within the stream of Cape
Grisnez, the sea becomes gradually less all the way
in shore; whereas, in proceeding to Boulogne the effects
of the sea are experienced the whole way, and in-
crease in difficulty and danger in nearing the
French coast. In returning from Calais also, in ex-
treme cases of gales from the westward, a vessel is
enabled to take advantage of the shelter on the south
shore, and get so far to windward as to insure her
fetching Dover, and greatly diminish the time and
difficulty in making her passage.
The port of Calais is the best adapted of any in
this part of the Channel for maintaining undeviating
regularity, and insuring dispatch in transmitting
the mails, in consequence of its natural advantage, of
its sheltered locality, and those produced by the
artificial means of the harbour works, as represented
in the foregoing remarks. Its importance as an
established mail station is universally admitted by ex-
perienced persons without any doubt or objection, and
the essential benefit of its local advantages in obviating
marine difficulties, considerably overbalance any objec-
tions which might exist regarding its situation relative
to land conveyance. It is manifestly more practicable
to remedy difficulties on land, than when they occur
in marine affairs. The latter are in the present
instance not to be overcome by machinery, as a
mere question of distance may be. The improved
quality of the vesselss is, in fact, neutralised as regards
Boulogne, by the nature of the port. A quick pas-
sage there is often, useless, by the impossibility
of effecting the object of it---that of communicating
after arrival. The certainty of landing is as impor-
tant a condition as the certainty of a speedy voyage.
With the port of Calais both these circumstances
combine, viz., fast vessels and a good harbour. There
is probably not one day in the year in which the pre-
sent packets would be prevented from reaching their
destination, if Cslais were the adopted station ; and
it may be equally anticipated that very few cases
would occur of being prevented communicating by
boats.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TA rTERSALL'S.-YESTERDAY.
WARWICKSHIRE HANDICAP.
3 to I agst Lord J. Scott's Defaulter
4 to 1 agst Mr. Meeson's Dart
5 to 1 agat Mr. Irwin's Ballinafad
6 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's St. Antonio
10,000 to 50 agat Keleshea winning the Warwick
Handicap and Chester Cup.
LEAMINGTON STEEPLECHASE.
8 to 1 agst Proceed
8 to 1 agst Little Fanny—taken to 1001.
12 to 1 agst Victim
20 to 1 agst Treasurer
THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
6 to I agat Mr. lialford's H4rriott, 3 yrs, sst 101 b
7 to 1 agst Mr. H. Hill's Osterley, 4 yrs, 7st
10 to 1 agst Lord Eglintou's Belus, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—t
10 to 1 agst Duke of Bedford's Mahratta, 4 yrs, sst
111 b
12 to 1 agat Mr. Jaques's Chantrey, 4 yrs, 6st 13Ib
20 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Clarissa, 4 yrs, 7st 31
30 to 1 agst Mr. E. R. Clark's Giselle, aged, 6st 121 b
—taken
The actual business on the above event was confined
to Belus, at 10 to 1; Chantrey at 16, 13, and 12 to 1; i
and Giselle at 1,000 to 30 and 30 to 1; the outlay on each '
amounting to nearly 1504 Osterley was friendless.
METROPOLITAN STAKES.
2 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicko's Cheerful, 4 yrs, 6st—
taken and afterwards offered
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
2 to 1 agat Lord H. Lennox's Beebunter
5 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Mickleton
John o' Groat is declared not to start.
CHESTER CUP.
22 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Cossack, 6 yrs, 9st 21b—
taken to 2001.
11 30 to 1 agst Lord. Chesterfield's Lady Evelyn, 4 yrs,
Bst 21b —taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. St. George's Whim colt, 4 yrs,
6st 71b—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Colgan's Horn of Chase, 6 yrs, 7st
101b—tak ea freely
10,000 to 150 agst Mr. Lawson's Keleshea, 6 yrs, 6st 61b
—taken
Cossack, Ledy Evelyn, and the Horn of Chase were in
considerable favour, their respective supporters volun-
teering to go on at the quoted prices.
DERBY.
6 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Ghillie Callum—
talym to 1001, and afterwards offered
7 to 1 agst Mr. W. Edwards na Bolingbroke—taken
11 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's The Nigger
20 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Voltigeur
30 to 1 agst Mr. Hill's Pitsford—taken
1,000 to 30 agat Lord Chesterfield's Penang-40 to 1
taken freely
40 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Nutshell—take 50 to 1
1,000 to 25 agst Colonel Peel's Herdinge—taken
2,000 to 25 agst Duke of Bedford's John o' Groat—taken
and afterwards offered
Ghillie Callum was hacked at 7 to 1 in ponies, and at
6 to 1 in hundreds, the latter bet coupled with one of 7
to lin fifties agst Bolingbroke. Pitsford, Penang, and
Nutshell were also in demand, the odds returned above
being the highest obtainable at the close of business.
NORTHAMPTON AND PYTCHLEY HUNT
MEETING, 1850.
THURSDAY.—Acceptances for Earl Spencer's Handicap
Plate of 100/.
Rathmines, 6 yrs, Bst ?lb—Farthingale, 4 yrs, Bst 716
—Bishop of Romford's cob, aged, Bst lib—Hind of the
Forest, 5 yrs, Bst .51b—Jest, 5 yrs, ist 1316—Crucible,
4 yrs, 7.t 121b—Ferule,. 4 yrs, Tat 12:b—Wallflower, 4
yrs, 7st 101b—Rodney, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b—ch g by Epirus,
dam by D'Egville, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—b fby Vulcan, out of
Lodole, 4 yrs, 7st—The Monk, 3 yrs, 6st 121b—Celia,
3 yrs, 6st 101b—Willingham, 4 yrs, Est 91b—Harum
Scarum, 3 yrs, 6st 81b—Fernande, 3 yrs; Est 81b—Gla-
diole, 3 yrs, 6st Sib—Le Beau, 3 yrs, Est 71b—The Re-
cluse, 3 yrs 6st 61b—Equiria, 3 yrs, Est 41b—Slang, 3
yrs, Est 41b—Rose Pompon, 3 yrs, 6st 41b-Osbaldeston,
3 yrs, 6st 31b—Brennus, 3 yrs, Est 31b—b fby Pantaloon
out of The Mite, 3 yrs. sst 131b—Humphrey, 3 yrs, sst
121b—Alonso, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Egalite,.3 yrs, sst 101 b
Diligence 3 yrs, sst 101 b.
STOURBRIDGE STEEPLECHASE.
Miss Collingwood, lOst 91b—Lucy Neal, lOst 71b—
Falcon, 9st 121b—Hope, 9st 101b—Volatile, 9st 81b—
Vatic Rein, 9st 51b—Verita., 9st 31b—The Unknown,
9st 31b.

SPORTING NOTES.
No. I.
" Say from whence
You owe this strange intelligence? Or why,
* * # you stop our way,
With such prophetic greeting."
" Answer me, stand and unfold yourself."

SHAKSPERE.
" THE SPIRIT he answered, crabbed and sour,
Pray don't be pathetic, for this is mine hour;
Ot the past no phantom or popinjay
But calm aid practical, silent and dry."

HEINE.

" There is a history--
Figuring the nature of the times deccas'd;
The which observ'd, a man may prophesy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
As yet not come to life."

SHABSPERE.
" The Tunes mine oyster,
Which I with judgment will open."
bIIAKSPERE (slightly altered).
"Til issue notes
Which may on Fortune's 'Change be barter'd
For much money."

MOLSON WALLYNGE.
" And henceforth find myself more gaily elass'd
Amongst the higher spirits of the cis'',
THE SUN'S true son, no vapour, but a ray."
BYRON.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sit,—lt is now fire years since I first wielded the
prophcfe pen, and undertook for the amusement of an
occasional stray half-hour or uo, to pilot the sporting