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

sons holding public effices; and also for returns of all
sums of money voted for royal palaces within the last
three years, with the sums paid and the amounts to-
maining due.
The House adjourned at Ida'f-patt Twelve o'clock.

be. infinitely more grateful for a little wbolesom
"letting alone." It is very passible to smother one
with -roes; and many well-intentioned people war
all excellent meaning by a redundancy of active
poli7eness, which vulgarly amounts to " making a
fuss."

The name of Lord Ciif.kn emitted by mistake
from ti.e list of the majority who voted in fAvt,ur of the
Address.

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 sal thing that such a charming
cottage, with a thousand a year to keep it aired, should
be rendered uninhabitable by the fatal power she poi-
senses of "making a fuss;" and, in confidential
malice, we can assure her that 31r. 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 the table-cloth without
" making a fuss."—_Eliza Cook's Journal.

Mr. D'Eyncourt paired off with Lord Lewisham
against the Protectionist amendment to the Aclress,
finding on: his arrival from Park on Thursday, that the
death, on tie previous day, of his nephew, Mr. Rus
of Bruneepeth Catle, Durham, obliged him to go imme-
diatdy to the north cf Engl4nd.

MAKING A FUSS.
BY ELIZA COWL.
" Making a fuss" seems very insignificant and
harmless in the abstract allusion, but alas ! it is no
trilling infliction in the practical existence of every-
day life. Those who have never been placed within
full reach of its tiresome and irritating influence are
not competent to enter into our feelings on mat-
ter, for it requires personal experience to enable one
to judge of the extent of discomfort produced by such
a state if propinquity.
Those who have acquired some knowledge of what
we complain of will doubtless give us their genuine
sympathy, and those who have not will be grateful to
us for affording them just sufficient initiation, to con-
vince them that, in this particular instance—" Igno-
rance is decidedly bliss."
There are various manifestations of the " making
a fuss" complaint, which develope themselver differ-
ently in different individuals. IVe have seal the
most distressing and violent symptoms produced in
many, by the unexpected visit of a couple of friends,
for whom the " family dinner" was not considered
good enough—these generally belong to the feminine
gender. We have observed the worst demonstrations
in others, when a cold, or sprained ankle has con-
fined them within doors for a few days—these are
principally evinced by masculine philosophers; and
we have often noted the extreme of rabid restlessness in
some at railway stations, where the greatest possible
amount of mental anxiety and bodily uneasiness was
exhausted, over the safety of a portmanteau, and the
choice of a seat. We by no means avow that these are
the only occasions on which people who are given to
" make a fuss" display their unfortunate propensity,
but simply wish to show that there are certain times
and circumstances which elicit their peculiarities to
the most prominent disadvantage. Indeed, these peo-
ple are ever reminding one of " industrious fleas ;"
and their unceasing activity over affairs of no conse-
quence, their pertinacious exaggeration of insignifi-
cant molehills into important mountains, and their
system of investing all they do and say with exces-
sive parade, are enough to create a fever in any natu-
rally quiet temperament ; and among the minor mise-
ries of enduring spirits, may surely be reckoned the
especial one of spending a day with friends who
prove the heartiness of their welcome by "making a
fuss."

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.--YESTERDAY.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
8 to 1 agst Lord Waterford's Sir John
8 to 1 agst Lord Strathmore's Rat-trap
14 to 1 agst Mr. Mason na The Chandler—taken
15 to 1 agst Mr. J. Fort's Knight or GwyLne—taken
20 to 1 agst Lord &Icon na Little Fanny
25 to 1 agst Mr. Castle na Grande Lumfire—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 STARES.
The only bet on this event was 20 to 1 to IC/. age t

METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
6 to 1 sgst Mr. Gratwicke's Cheerful, 4 yrs, 631--
taken freely
15 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklarn's Snowstorm, 4 yr?, 41b
IS to 1 agst Mr. Murphy's Dough, 5 yrs, Bst 51b— t
20 to 1 agst Sir G. lleathcote's Black Eagle, 4 yrs,
7st 111 b—taken
20 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Testator, 4 yrs, ist 2115 t
20 to 1 agst Mr. C. Peck's Melody, 4 yrs, 7st—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Damask, 3 yrs, sst 101b—S
25 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Quiver, 4 yrs, 761
31b—taken
30 to I apt 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 STASES.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epirote
10 to 1 egst Mr. Hill's Pitsford—taken
CHESTER CUP.

16 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Glauca, 4 yrs, Tat Mb-
-17 to 1 take❑
20 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Miss Ann, 4 yrs, 7st
20 to 1 agst Mr. St. George's Whim colt, 4 yrs,
6st 71b
25 to 1 agst Lord Howth's Peep-o'-day Boy, 6 yrs,
9st—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Roland, 4 yrs, sst 81b--
taken and afterwards offered
28 to 1 ugst Capt. Harcourt's Ellerdale, 6yrs,Bst3lb
40 to 1 agst Mr. Halford's H trriott, 3 yrs, sst 91b
40 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Clermont, 6
.yrs, 7st 51b
50 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Tho Knout, 4 yrs, 6st 81b
50 to 1 agst Mr. Isaac Day's Cockermouth, 5 yrs,
6st 10lb
1,000 to 20 axst Mr. P. Colgan's Horn of Chase, 6 yra,
7st 101 b
1,000 to 13 agst Mr. B. Green's Lady Superior, 4 yrs, 7st
—taken and afterwards offered
1,000 to 15 agst Lord Clifden's Lodola filly, 4 yrs, sss
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 Peop-J'-lay Boy; and on them the investments
v+ ere not by any means large.
The Augeaa was mistakenly included in the accept-
ances for this event.

We admire hospitality, we love enthusiasm, we
re ;pest good manners , but we are acquainted with a
lady, whose incognito shall be preserved under the
name of Courtney, who has often tempted us to ab-
jure them all.
This lady lives in a very pretty cottage a few miles
from town—a cottage intended for a complete bower
of happiness, with its trelised doorway, its woodbine-
shadowed windows opening on to the greenest of
lawns, its gothic gables covered with ivy, where
sparrows twitter as only sparrows can twitter, its
garden in front, its orchard on one side, and its three-
cornered meadow on the other, in which may be seen
the blackest of cows, the whitest of ponies, and the
most ancient of pet-lambs ; and as for the honey-
suckle, cowslips, dog-roses, and sweet woodruff
which may be found in the immediate neighbour-
hood, why we would match it against any spot in
England, and that is saying something. In short, it
is as charming a home as ever suggested the con-
junction of love and a cottage ; but—oh! these de-
pressing " buts," they break in upon us like board-
ing-shoot ushers in a boys' play-ground—but the
lady of the house, this said Mrs. Courtney, is alarm-
ingly celebrated for " making a fuss." Like many
others of her " genus," she is " good at heart." She
gives away beef and flannels at Christman, puts two
orphan children to school, knits warm socks for
poor old folk afflicted with rheumatism, and has
taken in no less than five stray kittens within six
months; but—there it is again !—that monosyllabic
impediment—but she ever contrives to create such a
busy, dizzy, walking, talking " fuss" over every-
body-
and everything in her establishment, that we
candidly confess we look upon the place as a domestic
anthill, and on herself as the embodiment of all the
ants in one.
The last time we paid a visit to her we met her at
the garden gate, just as she was going into the village,
and we expressed our readiness to share and enjoy the
walk in the beautiful sunshine ; but her excessive
delight at seeing us could only declare itself by in -
siccing on our swallowing a glass of wino before we
started, though we protested against it with all our
own strong disinclination, and the doctor's authority
to back our rejection. Keys rattled,' servants hur-
ried, glasses chinked, cake-baskets appeared in per-
ceptible
confusion, and Mrs. Courtney herself rushed
amongst all and each like a locomotive champagne cork.
We declined port, and she was painfully disappointed;
we put aside madeira, and she grew pressingly ener-
getic; we scrupled at hock, and she became despe-
rately imperative ; and when we allowed ourselves to
be victimized into a dose of the latter wine, she
instantly discovered that we were sitting at an opened
window, and the consequence of draught was impres-
sively dilated on. We were compelled to remove to
the opposite seat, when she jumped up in dismay,
perceiving that the sun was streaming down upon us,
and she was sure it was "so unpleasant to sit in a
full light." Down went the blind in rash haste, to
the exclusion of the cheerful greensward and shining
blackbirds ; and what with being obliged to take
golden wine which we did not like, and forbidden to
bask in the golden rays which we did like, our
sense of freedom was somewhat wounded, and
our easy temper began to chafe. Mrs. Court-
ney then again started up, bells were again
rung violently, servants again hurried to and fro,
and we were embarrassingly cognizant that a coun-
cil of alimentary policy was being held. We
became bold in our pining arrangements should be erturbation, and entreated that THE WORD "EMINENT."—It was formerly ap.
d
no alteration in the
plied chi. fly to physicians. But it was extremely un-
made; but it was in vain. We were silenced by
reasonable that the physicians should have the monopoly
of a word which, looking to its derivation, strictly ina-
impassioned declaration, and heard the order given plies that its fortunate possessor occupies a height from
for a couple of ducks and a cranberry tart, condiments whence he looks down upon the rest of mankind. Ac-
we happen to passively scorn,
cordingly, in our day, when all the resources of language
of cold chicken and mutton chops, edibles we greatly are put under contribution to help everybody into
rejoice in, was repudiated entirely as unworthy our notoriety, this word ' eminent' has been gradually drawn
refined taste. from its exclusive application to advertise the claims of
At last we set off, and it would be useless to multitudes of people who, without some such herald of
attempt to relate all the annoyance we suffered
their merits, might appeal in vain to an undiscerning
on our way. We were snatched with violent
ppeuobpiice.
in Thethe physicianswor l
d
slonger o theforotnhlayt. eminent
tugging from a rosy-faced child that we felt in-
, clined to propitiate, on account of its having had dancers and upholsterers have their own heights to
climb as well as physicians, cardinals, and ambassadors.
the scarlet-fever six months before, and subjected
which two latter classes are eminent only by virtue of
to divers illustrations of the dangers of infection, office. So many eminent persons come out upon us
and when we accidentally walked in a grassy
w-a-d
path, where,the dew laid as though the fairies had been ndifficulty would be to find one who is not considered by
flinging their diamond necklaces at each other, Mrs. himself, or by somebody else, fully entitled to thatr
,
h w
Courtney was in an agony of fear lest we should get honurable elevation, Lich be either standos, upon, o,
in
cold through wet feet ; we displayed our double-soles believes that he stands upon.—The ' Ladder
in all the pride of prudence ; but our endeavours to Bentley's Miscellany.
evade the " fuss " were useless. Home we went, and
hold their annual ball on Thursday next at I
THE ROYAL SCOTTISH SOCIETY.....T tliS
Willis ist
nothing less than a change of " sock and bllskio e will,
Rooms, is aid a the Scottish charities of London, whoa
satisfied her. At last we dined, when lo 1 the ducks
the " kilts" arc expected to muster iu full force. We
were tough, and never in this eating and drinking hope that the numerous friends who enjoyed their fete
world was there ever such a noisy " fuss" over a in June last will not be absent on the forthcoming
pair of antediluvian birds. Our appetite was fortu- evening.
nately quite destroyed by the mental disquietude LEAMINGTON SPA, FED. !I.—JUllien's annual con.
which had been excited in us, and we secretly vowed certs and ball during the present week have formed our
it should be the last time we crossed that threshhold. chief fashionable amusement. The arrival-books have
We left with our cheeks perfectly hectic, our pulse been recently iascribea by the Viscount and Viscountess
heightened, our spirit mortified, and our natural hu- Campden, Lord Elphinstone, Lord and Lady Campbell,
inanity retrograding to a savage state ; and all this dis- Lord Bateman, Lord Burleigh, Lord Eastnor, Arch-
turbance in our moral and physical economy was deacon and Mrs. Beresford, Lady Browne, Lady aid
produced by that simple, but peace-destroying cape- Miss Montgomery, &c.
city of " making a fuss." RAILWAY BILLS ON STANDING ORDERS.—Yebter•
IVe have another acquaintance among the " lords dayc the Bill of the North
with; t
oo Company
ac came
woanyon from standingbent
Continuationßdarilswatyheoj
of the creation" who is equally great in this way Canterbury,
and perchance the air of Dombeyish dignity Deal, and Dover, with branches to Maidstone, Sheerness,G re
which his "fuss" is ever surrounded, is even worse Feversham, and Chilham, and a loop
Stroud through e
ee
tbein
line
fro'racation be-
gentleman the enthusiastic style of the lady. Poor dear with to Woolwich, so as t s facilitate communication
establish.
gentleman ! he had the influenza a few months since, tween the naval and militaryn Government
A now feature
and never shall we forget the general household meats, works, and harbours England.ilssionrs, similar to those in
misery that ensued. Wife, daughters, and servants is the appointmetneatdofasc
now of directors. The Bill was
uponand
ithneeorreet groundde
la.
were all objects of his dissatisfied grumbling. No read trusbts
,thinesSouth-Eastern Company, and allegations
pillow was rightly placed, no barley water was well opposed
nen.eoy p
flavoured, no doctor understood his case, no devoted
cases ;—Liverpool,
attention was prompt enough, no limbs ever ached as
his did ; and, in fact, he was a Pandora's box, nition of boundaries. The standing orders wee© declared
mandlieSdouwtihthporint,tfhoer leasei'olort. ion gthe Lancashire and
the bright saving clause said to reside at the wbiotthtoeumt
ctorobsebcyo,
Iv ede c tiorensiiienntehee nweeereessaernystanionteicdes
of it. Yorkshire, and other objects; the Monmouthshire Rail.
and Perth, for lease to Caledonian Railway, and re la-
This gentleman is one of the pleasant members of way, for amendment and extension of line; and Dundee
society, who will lecture his wife for an hourfoerf
lion of capital. gu
having permitted the cook to place Spanish insteadt .
THE WINDSOR ELEcTioN.--Mr. Hatchell has
Italian olives on the table at his last dinner ptaerry ,
if commenced his canvass, and has issued an address to the
who seriously moralizes with his eldest daughter if electors for the borough, thanking the voters for their
„ promises, &c. At present he has no opponent in the
ce on
field, though from a bill published by an " independent
she laugh above the noise of a simper, and haggles
with a cabman on a wet night for threepence,
he iselector," in which the learned gentleman is designated
principle," before ladies ; especiallyentir;some
over the set of his shirts, and to our certain know- as the "Irish Sergeant," and allusions made to the
ledge, his last dozen have been altered four times, " distressed Irish, ' it was inferred that a " gentlessai
and now there is a plait or two 7 left a thread awry, well known" to the electors, and understood to be ,Sir S
over which he invariably "makes a fuss." Poor,
John Cathcart, of Binfield, would offer himself am .C.
as yet'
we man! we have often stood in doubt as to whether candidate. The lion. Baronet has not, however,
.._
a_
we pity bins or his family most, but his example has come forth, and it is concluded Mr. Mitchell will
nothing
so imbued us with dread of it, that whenever we hear over the course. The town of Windsor exhibits
of a young lady friend being about to wear orange of the animation of election.
an approaching , ,
COLCHEeTER.—Liorg
blossom, we instinctively inquire whether the "in- THE REPRESENTATION OF .
.. .
a requisition very nu
tended" is given to " make a fuss." John Manners, who has received
himself to be put in nominating
We have a profound antipathy touching "fussy" merously signed
to allow
h,yesterday addressed the electors at
people ; to be located with them is as pleasant to us for
ethhilsenborthouagnd
was very favourably received.
as living in a whirlwind of March dust. We get
much
LATEg DEAN OF LLANDAFF.—A young lady'
nervous and agitated beyond expression, with their of Llandaff has decorated the grave of the late dean of
unceasing fidgeting and fuming, and whenever their that diocese, which is within the altar rails of the cathe.
tendency is exhibited in our personal interest and dial, every week with flowers since his death.—Enter
kfavour, as in the case of Mrs. Courtney, we khold Gazette.

DERBY, 1850.
15 to 2 agst Duke of Richmond's Ghillie Callum—.
take 8 to 1
10 to 1 apt Mr. W. Edwards na Bolingbroke—taken
10 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Knight of Avenel
16 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's The Italian—take 17 to 1
16 to 1 agst Lord Zetland'a Voltigeur—taken freely
20 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's The Nigger—taken
25 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Mayors—take 28 to I
5,000 to 75 agst Mr. Lay's Charley—taken
In the early part of the afternoon 1,450 to 200 was
taken about Ghillie Callum, and 11 to 1 to 501.. and 12
to 1 to 3001. laid agst Bolingbroke; 8 to 1 to 751 was
afterwards laid agat the first, and 10 to 1 taken in hun-
dreds about Bolingbroke. Voltigeur 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 Gwynne, 3 yrs—Mr. Scott's Warwick, own
brother to Yardley, 3 yrs—Lord Strathmore's Tees-
wat.3., 3 yrs—Mr. E. Buckley's Ar3wick, 3 yrs—Mr. T.
Dawson na Msrk Tapley, 3 yrs—Mr. Lucas's Eye-the-
Boys, 3 yrs—Mr. W. Mosley's Alonzo, 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
l3rennus, 3 yrs—Mr. Cowper's The Milner, 4 yrs—
Captain Archdall's Rose Pompon, 3 yrs—Lord Cllfden's
Torpor, 3 yrs.

Nominations for the Two yrs old Stakes—Mr. T.
Stevens's Britannia—Lord Strtthmore's Faux Pai—Mr.
Little's Colibri, by Cotherstone—Mr. Armstrong's
Bat.ker—Sir J. Ilaw•ley's b f by Venison, out of Baccha-
nalian's dam—M-. W. U. Sadler's Fringe—Capt. Arch-
dall's Quadroon—Mr. C. Jones's lunthe, by lon—Mr.
Mee sin's Stafford—Lord Warwick's Leap-year—Mr.
Parker's Tho Calculator (late E. O.)—Mr. Casidy's
Whisper—Mr. Stebbingi's The Partridge--Mr. Merry.
Louis IsTLFoleoa—Lord Clirden's Pe,utbrt.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sits,—You last week inserted an account of an appli-
cation by Sir P. Thesiger t 3 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 tl at the breath of calumny, as regards the Rev.
G. R. Prynr e, has never, so far as I am an are or to•
lieve, assailed the moral character of that gentleman.
I make this statement myself, ♦oluntarily, 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 sersaat,
ISAAC LATIMER.
Journal Office, Plymouth, Feb. 4, 1850.