The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1444.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NliwmAnKET.—wtDNEsDAy.:

The Burghley Stakes of 100 stns. each, h ft, for colts,
. Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 31b, foals of 1841. D.M.
(7 Subs.)
Mr. Pay-tie cby Touchstone, out of Vat .......(Nat) 1
Lot d Albemarle's Robinia, by Liverpool
Duke of Bedford's Panther, by Liverpool 3
Mr. Crockford's c by Bentley, out of Emma 4
Mr. R. Watson's bc by Lamplighter, out of Tigress 5
Betting 5.t0-2 agst Vat colt, 9 to 4 agst Robinia, and
4to 1 agst EmMa colt. Lord Albemarle's filly made the
running at an indifferent pace, the Vat and Emma colts
second and third, Panther and the Tigress colt lying
well up ;. they ran thus half way up the cords, when the'
Vat colt quitted his horses, and won by a length, Ro7
binia beating Panther by about three parts of a length.
Match, D.M, 200, h ft.--Lord Glasgow's f by Re-
tainer, out of Purity, 7st (Pettit), beat Mr. Payne's
Mania, Bst 131 b (Nat). 5t04 on Mania, who was beaten
arter a fine race by a head.
Subscription-Plate of NI, for three yrs • old, 7st; four,
Bst flb; five, 9st; six and aged, 9st 21b. T.Y.C.
Duke of Bedford's Oakley, 6 yes (Robinson) 1,
Duke of Rutland's Cowslip, 4 yrs
. 2

Colonel Wyndham's Master Henry,. 3 yrs
3 to 1 on Oakley, who had the race to himself, and
cantered past the post fiye lengths ahead of Cowslip. .
The Column Stakes of 50 sous. each, h ft, for three yrs
Old colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 41b; those by untried
stallions or out of untried mares allowed 31b; if both,
51b. R.M. (17 Subs.)
Duke of Rutland'SCrenoline, by Livcrpool (W. Boyce) 1
Mr. Osbaldiston's f, by the Saddler—Partisan (31bs) • 2
Duke of Beaufort's c, by Agreeable—Esincralcla (31bs)
The following also started, but - were not plaCed:—
Lord Exeter's Economy (31bs), L:,rd Exeter s Cloak,
Lord W. I'aulett's c; by Plenipotentiary, out cf Alea
(31bs), and Lord Stradbroke's Repealer. • ,
Betting-5 to 4 agst the Saddler filly, 7to 2 asst
Crenoline, 7 tu,2
.agst Alea.c, and '4 _to 1 agst Repealer.
Won by a head, Agreeable cult a good third.
• AaiuvALs.-The Duke of Bedford; Earl of Orford,
and Lord W. Paulett. • • • •

IRELAND.

MR. O'CONNELL IN CORK.-LORD ELIOT'S
FRANCHISE BILL.

DUBLIN, APRIL 9.—The Dublin; 17:reitiny Post of this
afternoon publishes, in a second edition, the following
letter

" Cork, Easter Monday, April 8, 1814.
" Before closing this letter I will
,let you know the
result of the meeting convened for this day, in the Court-
house, for the purpose of giving expression to the in-
dignant feeling of this city and -province at the fresh
tempt- made. upon Ireland by Lord Eliot's Registration
Bill.

" The popular enthusiasm is utterly indescribable—
utterly indescribable by those who are unfamiliarised
with the fervour, the bnrnin7, but yet perfectly regu-
lated fervour, of the Irish movement under O'Connell,
" The corporations of Cork, Limerick, Kilkenny,
Clonmel, and Waterford, haVe sent their Mayors and
deputations from their bodies to give testimony to their
sentiments at the prestqit crisis of O'Connells martyr-
dom and imprisonment, after more than forty years of
public service to Ireland, unequalled by the services to
his country and the human race of any other man living
or who ever lived.

" The following Members of Parliament are to be pre-
'sent :—Daniel Callaghan, the city Member ; Edmond
Roche, the county Member ; Sir David Roche, Sir. Win-
&ton Barron, William Smith O'Brien, Maurice O'Con-
nell, John O'Connell, Morgan John O'Connell, Caleb
Powell, Nicholas Maher ; and Sir Richard Musgrave is,
I understand, expected in. the course of the day.
• "Dinner is prepared for 800, in the Lancasterian
School, which has been beautifully fitted up for the oc-
casion.

" All yesterday and this morning the Liberator's
apartinenti were crowded . with friends and strangers
also, both one and the other eager to give expression to
their sentiments of sympathy and of indignation.
" Amongst the first visitors yesterday morning was
Father MatheW.

"The Liberator, accompanied by the two other Ca-
thOlie conspiratorsthe her. Mr. Tierney, And the
Member for the city of Kilkenny—yesterday attended
ioass, and the threcyrotestant convicts went to church,
and in the evening they al],,Catholie and Protestant,
partook of the splendid hospitality of the Mayor of
Cork, Mr. Fagan, with a..large party, at his country
house, in the vicinity-of this city.
" Five o'clock, r.it.!.—As I promised, I send you, be-
fore the post-office closes; a note of the great rrtteting.at
•
the Court-house.

" The County Court-house was crowded almost to
suffocation, the Mayer in the chair, in his robes or
office; also in the same robes tl4 es-Mayor, Alderman
Lyons, end, sitting on the betieh with them, Mr. O'Con-
nell. •

" A number of the Members of Parliament, An d of the
most respectable . citizens of Cork, and gentry of the
country around were present,
Several admirable speeches were made, in which the
repeal spirit glowed with its deepest fervour,.. as well as
denunciation of Lord Eliot's net'arious' (as it was called
by Edmond Roche) Regi str a t iott 'Bill.
" Mr. O'Connell made a speech of extraordinary
power in denunciation of the Bill of the Irish Chief Se-
cretary, and hip speech breathed the most obdurate re-
solution of perseverance, under all possible circumstances,
in his efforts for the restoration of the domestic Parlia-
ment of Ireland, and the etitlrusiasni.with which he was
heard is 'almost without precedent in Ireland.
" He could venture, with perfect security, to give this
pledge, for he is certain, under every possible contin-
gency, of the unbroken peace of Ireland.
" This is the crisis of existence and of Ireland—and
the talismanic influence of his name and services was
never so tried as at the present hour ; but Ireland will
not be lured from her 7vrantage ground, and play the
game of the'enemy by any outbreak or disturbance.
" The Mayor and ex-Mayor of Limerick, and about
45 of the corporation and citizens of Limerick, have just
at rived.
" John O'Connell, of Grena, the elder brother of the
Liberator, has, I have been just this moment informed,
also arrived, with a great number of the gentry of Kerry,
to give testimony of their feeling on this occasion."
Toole, the person in custody, charged with the mur-
der at Rathfarnham,- will be tried at the approaching
Commission.
THE LATE MURDER IN ESSEX-STREET.—Yesterday,
at two-o'clock, the prisoner, John West, was removed
from Mercer's Hospital teNewgate, in order to abide his
trial for the crime of which he is accused. For the last
few days the prisoner's health remained in the same state,
and as there was no appearance of inflammation or other
dangerous symptoms, it was the opinion of the medical
gentlemen at the hospital that he might be removed with
safety. He has expressed the deepest sorrow for what
has occurred, and states that it was purely. without the
slightest premeditation, and that he was goaded into a
tit of ungovernable passion by the ill conduct of the un-
fortunate deceased. On the arrival of the van at New-
gate, the prisoner had to be supported by two men, and
he looked almost more dead than alive. He was al-
lowed to rest a few minutes in the hatch, and had a
drink supplied to him. He- could liar,lty articulate a
word,. and shook violently ; but after some time he be-
came more,composed, and was enabled to speak, but in
a very low tone of voice. lie vt as then given into the
charge of Mr. 'Bourne, the DeputysGovernoiof the pri-
son, and conveyed to .a cell, where he was promptly visited
by the medical gentlemen of the establish.nent, Sur-
geon Read and Dr. Harty, who deemed it prudent to
hare him removed to the hospital of the house, where
every attention was paid to his state. lie had a ceriversa-
lion with Mr. Bourne, and mentioned to that gentleman
some particulars relative to the ineteneholy affair.. He
sated that he was well known in Dublin, and could have
a good character_from several most respectable gentle-
tuttn. He never was before-a 'magistrate in his life, nor
was he ever charged with the smallest uffenceof any kind.
From general repOrt, he is a person of quiet divosition
and regular habits, and • was always very industrious.
The deceased, he states, from her unfortunate propensity
to drunkenness., and ill language while indulging in the
vicious habit, used to annoy hitu greatly ; and .
evening of the tragic occarrence she had almost driven
him to madness, so much so that he was bereft of-reason
altogether, and knew. not what he did. A day or two
since he stated, in—the presence of our reporter, that he
had 691. saved up, and that-his wife, in the course of a
few months, contrived to spend this sum, together with
having pledged or sold every particle of furniture, wear-
ing apparel, &c., of which he was possessed.
THE TENURE COMMISSION.—Lord -Devon and the
other Commissioners of Tenure commence their
ries in - Londonderry. On Thursday. they proceed to
Newtown Limevady and Innishowen, and on Saturday
to other parts of Donegal.
NATIONAL EDUCATIONS.—The Evening Mail reite-
rates once more. its " appalling- announcement " of Sir
Robert Peel's instructions to Lord de Grey to with-
hold " the loaves and fishes " from such of the Esta-
blished clergy as 'Vase to identify themselves with the
National System of Education. Referring to a recent
article in the Siandard; the Mail says—" As Mr.
Frederick Shaw continues to haunt the diseased imagi-
nation of our Contemporary, we beg to assure him that
he was not our informant, nor had we ever a communi-
cation directly or indirectly
with that Right Hon. Gen.
denials upon the subject. The, authority upon which we
.
made the statement could not err; and the inquiries set
on foot, and the conjectures hazarded, as to the how, the
where, and the whom, by
which the information was
conveyed to us, only tend•to prove the receipt and ex-
istence of the document, for if there was nothing to tell
there could not have been anything to reveal; and inves-
tigation upon the one. hand, and surmising upon the
other, would be needless."

SAFE RETURN TO MALTA OP
THE XANTHIAN EXPEDITION.
The Xanthian party, after contending with aim
insurmountable difficulties, from the destruction, by a
delu4c of rain, at the very moment they were most
wanted, of the newly constructed roads and bridges,
finally mustered, with the collected treasures, at the
mouth of .the river, on the 12th of March, when her
Majesty's ship Medea, Commander 'Warder, ran over
from Macri to take in her valuable cargo. Comman-
der Warden, for some Jive weeks previous, had been
indefatigably engaged in personally superintending
the packing and removal:Of the marbles from the val-
ley, where they have lain strewn about and undis-
turbed for centuries, save by the hand of time ;, but it
came on- to blow so heavily, that in towing the lighter
over the bar, the hawsers parted, and the pinnace and
two cutters got swamped and beached. Several of the
party got thrown out of the boats by the sea, and Mr.
flore, a mate af the Queen, and three men were,
with difficulty, rescued from a watery grave. Un-
able to proceed with the embarkation, or even to com-
municate with the shore, the Medea had to retrace
her way back, leaving some thirty officers and men
with the ships' boats, besides the exploring party, on
the sands, exposed to the inclemency of the weather
without any other shelter than the bushes there-
abouts (for all but two small tents had been already
shipped), until the 15th, when the weather lulled
sufficiently to enable the steamer to return, and by
the 18th every, one was snugly housed on board, with
twenty cases of marbles and casts, leaving on the
beach some other seven cases containing the unwieldy
portions of the horse and chimera tombs, which must
remain until such time as a larger vessel is sent to.
hoist them in. It is currently rumoured that the
Warspite, 50, has proceeded from Athens for this
purpose.
Ihe steamer then steered for Macri, to water, and
on the 20th she hove to off Rhodes, where the Cap-
tain and Mr. Fellows landed, to return the Pacha of
the place the acknowledgments of the British Go-
vernment, for the facilities and protection he had
afforded the expedition, the Xanthus district forming
a portion of the pachalic of Rhodes, where also the
lighters were left.
On the evening of the 20th the steamer again pro-
ceeded on her voyage, intending to make the best of
her way to Malta ; but on the 21st, in consequence
of a gale of wind from the south and westward, she
was forced to put into Suds, in the island of Candia,
and did not leave until the 24th. Throughout the
25th, and a part of the 26th, she encountered quite as
strong a gale from the northward and eastward, when
she made fair way at the rate of ten miles an hour ;
but on the 27th and 28th the wind headed her, blow-
ing excessively hard from the westward, and,
although she made Malta soon after noon on the
latter day, it was not until ten at night that she came
to an anchor, owing to the heavy cargo of marble she
had on board. _ _ .

The vessel has suffered considerably, and will
require a thorough overhauling before she proceeds,
as it is said it is intended she shall, to England. Mr.
Hawkins, who has proceeded to Smyrna overland, in
hopes of meeting with, objects of interest for a future
campaign, is the only one of the party, besides two
who have died, who has not returned.
Great praise is clue to Captain Warden and the
officers of his vessel, and the expedition under his
command, for having so satisfactorily performed this
arduous service ; and it will, no doubt, afford the
friends of another zealous officer, Commander Graves,
of the Beacon, some satisfaction to know that his
plans and suggestions for the carrying the same into
effect have tended, in a great measure, to the attain-
ment of this happy result.

In another part of the same journal, apropos to the
same subject, we find the following passage :—" That
many men now in office, from -Sir Robert Peel dowA to
Mr. T. B. G. Smith, made use of the religious opposi-
tion to the Whig scheme,:-of education, as a fulcrum
whereuptin to place a levpr to raise themselves into
power, is plain enough--as is idso the fact•that they now
make of that fulcrum a pedestal upon which they hope
to stand. That the mass of the Itlish clergy are actuated
by any such motives, we must repeat, we do not believe,
At all events, we presume the subject will be more or
less cleared up at the approaching meeting of the Church
Education Society, to the proceedings of which public
attention is now strongly directed."

A TIGER STORY.—Early on 'Friday . morning in
telligence was brought to, town tha4 a tiger had been
caught during the previous niett.in a pit on a s,ambier
plantation,geiitlen r
aboute threeepaiMvi,cr from Singapore. Iwo or
three to
the spot, which is
about a quarter of ..v. mile from the public road.
The secretary of the Sporting Club was the first
in the field, and commenced the proceedings by put-
ting a couple of balls into the tiger's head, one of which
struck him in the foreh6adt and glancing along
the skull came out at. the let eye. As a number of
made k
sportsmen IvneolTwen h
x,
Ptoecthsdc' the news
firstha%'ing been gener-
ally upon the spot
agreed to wait until their brethren in arms came up, and
a considerable interval elapsed before any more balls were
fired, during which time .some of those present amused
themselves y stirring: the brute up with a long pole,
a proceeding which greatly enraged him ' as
was testi
tied by the loud growls he.. uttered, and the fury with,
which-he laid hold of the bamboo pith his teeth. lac
made several desperate att,empts to reach the top, but
without success, partly iciwitigto the bottom of the pit
being 11114 with mud to the'depth of one or two feet, by
which be was prevented from taking a good spring.
After having amused theinselves in this manner for about
an hour, the party then resolved to give him his coup de
grace, and it was arranged:that they should-fire in the
order in which they arrived on the scene of operations,
but the first ball fired went-true to its aim, producing in-
stant death, and the tiger sank beneath the mud without
a struggle or dying groan. A considerable discussion
thenarterasep, bu
altot w
a lit 7t
hittltieeiitt would 'be safe to raise the lid
of the w
carried in the affirmative.
However, 'en rais-ing it Waling Was IA) be distinguished
in consequence of the' thick smoke 1% hich filled the pit,
the proceedings of the morning. gratified, with
and the- party then dispersed,
was
,arter.
wards .brought to town; when it appeared to be
a full-groWn animal, though not of the largest.
.size. . The Chinese on uluisc plantation .it was caught
a Catholic convert, received $lOO 11-oin the Tiger Club.
and $5O from Government, besides selling the flesh for
some $lO or $l2, so that-it was a very remunerative oc-
currence for him. He seemed much pleased at- having
caught the tiger, indepedent of the prospect of reward,
as he had suffered from the ravages of those animals,
having lost two men on his plantation, who were de-
strived by them.
--Siiiyapore Free Press, Jan. 4.
lOREIGN TRADE WITH CHINA.—Some very curious-
items are to be found in the list of articles of Chinese expc rts,
in the tariff of duties on the, foreign trade with -the Celestials.
Among them we read-9f. Kittysols, or paper umbrellas
(very useful, • doubtlessly,:in ilCaVy ruin !); birds' nests,
nests, 'second quality, good
fiiiiTatimqr
iincleaned;" alsb
" Unicorns' horns," " sharks' fins," "crackers and fireworks
of 'all sorts," and various other concerns " right strange to
, mitts."