The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-12 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE:

TATTERSALI7S.—YESTERDAY.
The attractions at Newmarket were not sufficient to
induce a large proportion of the usual frequenters of the
room to stay away, and many who had gone there has-
tened back, in the forlorn hope of meeting those whose
absence on Monday had excited so much regret. No-
thing occurred, however, to lessen the feeling of dis-
satisfaction the winding up of the Running Rein
affair had produced. In fact, " the absentees were
as numerous as ever, and the complaints were
" loud and deep" at the want of principle displayed by
persons in whom the fullest confidence had been placed.
A sort of vague impression still remains, that some of
" the lost sheep" may be found at Liverpool, and a tacit
understanding existed against a public announcement of
defaulters till after that opportunity of " coming to the
post" had gone by. All delicacy will then cease, and
the names of the unprincipled will then be made public
without scruple. The dissatisfaction which prevailed
had an obvious influence on the betting, and the business
done was not only limited, but confined to a very narrow
circle. The following were the closing prices :
THE LIVERPOOL CUP.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Johnstone's The Era
8 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's British Yeoman—taken to 501.
10 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's The Poor Soldier—taken
10 to 1 agst Lord Egliuton's Pompey—taken
14 to 1 agst Colonel Cradock's Pagan—taken
14 to 1 agst Mr. D. Cook's Trueboy—taken
Two or three bets were laid against The Poor Soldier at a
point or two less than the quoted odds.

GOOD*OOD STAKES.
6 to 1 apt Mr. Wreford's Franchise--taken to 2501.
12 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Parthian—taken
19 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's The Currier—taken
17 to 1 agst Mr. Shelley's Lucy Banks—taken
ST. LEGER.

13 to 1 agst Mr. H. Robinson's Morpeth—taken
14 to 1 agst Mr. Irvine's Foig-a-ballagh—taken.
NEWMARKET JULY MEETING.—THURSDAY.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, for all
ages except two yrs old, to start at the starting post
of 8.M., and to run to the end of New T.Y.C.
(3 Subs,)
Lord Exeter's Algernon, 3 yrs, Bst 51b (Mann) 1
Mr. Sare's Sir Diggory Diddle, 3 yrs, Bst 71b ......... 2
Duke of Bedford's g by Liverpool, out of E. Edwards's
Princess Victoria, 3 yrs, Bst .......................... 3
0 to 4 on Algernon, who made all the play, and wom
by a length.
The Chesterfield Stakes of 30 sovs, each, for two yrs old
colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 41b. (17 Subs.) Last
half of B.M.
Lord Chesterfield's fby Hornsea, out of Dirce (Nat) 1
Lord .Albernarle's b f Tisiphone
Isord Lonsdale's Sister to Canadian
Colonel Peel's b f by Slane, out of Seakale 0
Lord Exeter's oh f Deodora
Mr. King's b c, Richard Cricket
Au Wagstaff's The Queen of Cyprus
6 to 4 agst Tisiphone, 7 to 4 agst Dirce filly, and 5 to
1 agst Seakale filly. Sister to Canadian made the run-
ning to the foot of the hill, where the two favourites,
who had been lying at her quarters, went in front, and
finished the race ; the Diroe filly winning, after a severe
struggle, by a head. Sister to Canadian was an indif-
ferent WWI and the Seakale filly a bad fourth.
14VaRPOOL CUP BErrizig.---6 to 1 agst Aristotle, 7
la 1 agst The Brao. to 1 agst The British Yeoman,

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GOODWOODtTAICES.---7 to I. agst Franchise, 12 to I
agst Canton, 18 to 1,, agst The Currier, 20 to 1 agst
Subduer.
The Hon. Colonel Anson was appointed Steward on
Wednesday, the Hon. Geo. Byng's three years' having
eicpired this meeting.
At the sale of a draft from Mr. Ford's and Mr. Cooke's
studs, this morning, Esperanza, fetched 47 guineas, Yha-
laris 98 guineas, and Sir Diggory Diddle 49 guineas ;
the other lots were bought in.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
WORCESTER RACES.—THURSDAY.,
The Severn Stakes of 5 sous. each, with 25 added. Qne
and a quarter.
Mr. Buckley's David, 5 yrs ....
Mr. Skerratt's Intrepid, 3 yrs ..
Mr. Ongley's King of the Gipsies, 3 yrs
Mr. Collett's Cattonite, 5 yrs
The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr
Griffiths Hopbine, 3 yrs; Mr. J. Day's Bubastes, 3 y-rs ; Mr.
Herbert's Joanna, 3 yrs; Mr. Davis's Jack, 5 yrs; and Mr.
Arthur's Miss Susan, 4 yrs.
The Two Years Old Stakes of 15 SOW. each, with 4 added.

- (Denrilan) 1
2

Half a mile.

(*Marlow)

Mr. Skerratt's Tottenham
Mr. Hughes's Chevy Chase
Mr. Mines Birdswing
The following were not placed :—Lord Warwick's
and Mr. E. Peel's General Nott.
The Worcestershire Stakes of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only
if declared; the second to save his stakes; . 501. added.
Two miles.
Lord Warwick's Yardley, 4 yrs (Denman) 1
Mr. Ongley's Roderick, 5 yrs 2
Mr. Collett's Rory O'More, aged
The City Member's Plate of 501. fleets. Two miles
Mr. Collett's Cattonite, 5 yrs (Marlow) 1 1
Mr. Pearce's Jack, 5 yrs
Mr. Mostyn's Miss Miggs, 4 yrs
Mr. J. Day's Bubastes, 3 yrs : 0 3
Mr. J: Smith's Go-forget-me, 4 yrs .. • 0 dr.

THE UNITED STATES. 4..
LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY EVENING.—CORgreSS closed its
sittings on the 17th, and as it would appear not in the most
orderly manner. A correspondent of the New York' Courier
and Enquirer, says—
" I shall not attempt to detail the rowdyism of fhe last
two days of this session, as enacted in the house ; the conduct
of the majority was factious and disorganising in the extreme,
and tending to the destruction of all respect for the
legislative body, while that of particular prominent in-
dividuals was boisterously insolent and disgustingly ,vulgar,
and cannot be paralleled except in the purlieus of the most
besotted portions of your city. The like of it may have been.
before witnessed at a subterraneous carousal, but never in
legislative assembly.
" The Senate confirmed the nomination of Mr. Cushing as
Commissioner to China, and of Dr. Clemsen, son-in-law of
John C. Calhoun, as Chargé to Belgium. The eiecntive
withdrew the name of Mr. Walworth for the vacaue jr occa-
sioned by the death of Judge Thompson, and substituted that
of J. C. Spencer."
No bills of any consequence were passed at the closing of
the congressional sitting. The Finance Committee• of the
Senate had been discharged front the further consideration of
the subjects referred to it, and the chairman stated, with re-
ference to the omission of any provision for the debt due'on
the Ist of January next, AS proposed by the Secretary of the
Treasury, that the debt last year was 25,385,000 dollars. It
was now 2,295,000 dollars less.
On the Ist of January next, the debt would be reduced to
fifteen and one-third millions; according to every reasonable
probability, there would be no diminution in the revenue
from any cause.
Some stir had been created by the arrival of a special mes-
senger with dispatches for General Almonte, the resident
Mexican Minister in America. Several of the New York
papers proclaimed that Mexico was decidedly favourable to
the annexation, and would gladly join the Union -at any
price. However, the very contrary of this turns out to be
the fact,

The New York Commercial Advertiser has it that Santa
Anna would not listen to any overture for the acquisition of
Texas by the United States, but repeated his former declara,
don that the annexation would be regarded by Mexico as a
declaration of war. Such, moreover, was the tone of the
Mexican papers without exception.
The officers of the Poinsett reported at Mobile. that 14,000
troops had assembled and were quartered at Vera Cruz, and
that large quantities of military stores were arriving there.
An English brig with ammunition, &c., had just arrivd from
Tobasco. The Mexican authorities were loud in their de-
nunciations of vengeance against the United States.
A Spanish journal, published in New York, gives the text
of a dispatch from Senor Bocanegra, the Mexican Foreign
Minister, to General Almonte, which reached the latter gen-
tleman on Thursday, by wary of Havannah. This dispatch
was forwarded after the arrival of Mr. G. L. Thompson at
the city of Mexico, on his mission from the Government of
the United States; and was forwarded by way of Havannah,
expressly to meet and contradict any rumours that might be
set afloat in this country, of willingness on the part, of
Mexico to assent to the annexation of Texas.
Senor Bocanegra informs General Almonte, in thr. most
emphatic terms, that Mexico will never assent to tire annex •
ation—that the Government and the nation are immovably
determined to resist the project and reject an proposals for
its consummation, whether accompanied Or not by offers of
compensation. And General Almonte ti authorised and in-
structed to contradict, in the most folmal manner, any asser-
tion or intimation of a different character.
The Acadia steamer bad arrived out in due course.
COMMERCIAL.
NEW You;,, JUNE 21, rau.—The sales at the Board of
Brokers this morning were to a moderate extent at a de-
cline from yesterday's rates. Ohio Sixes fell off 1 per cent. ;
Canton Co., 2i ; Farmer's Loan, 2 ; Stonington Railroad, 4 ;
Long Island Railroad, 14; Norwich and Worcester Railroad,
1/; Paterson Railroad, ; and Reading Railroad, 1/.
At the Public Stock Exchange, Ohio Sixes declined. 1 ;
Farmer's Loan, 1 ; Norwich and Worcester Railroad, 2 •
Canton Co., 3; Illinois Bonds, 11-; and Long Island Railroad,
2 per cent.
Exchanges of every description remain inactive.
The Trustees of the Franklin Bank of Cincinnati have
declared the eighth dividend of five per cent. payable on the
10th of July. New York stockholders will receive their divi-
dend at the Bank of America.
Foreign Exchanges—London is at 109 a 1091 ; Paris,
5.264 a 5.25; Amsterdam, 391 a 40; Hamburgh, 35/ ; Bre-
men, 784 a 79.

BIRMINGHAM ELECTION.
TRunsnay EVENING.—As the nomination approaches the
interest hourly increases, and it is needless to say the utmost
anxiety prevails to know precisely how the canvass for the
various candidates proceeds. The following notices from the
gentlemen in the interest of Mr. Scholefield and Mr. Sturge
have appeared :--
" The canvass of Mr. Scholefield's Committee exhibits a
decided majority • for that gentleman over his opponents'
numbers united. The returns, however, are not yet com-
pleted. 34,'Spooner's canvassers are earnestly requesting
electors whe dtcline to vote for the Tory to promise to vote
for Sticrge. Bow the honest portion of Mr. Sturge's friends
can continue blind under such circumstances is inexplicable.
Sturge 'd friends have issued a placard, stating that Mr.
Scholefleld has retired, and they are uniting with Spooner's
party in pursuing the most weak and pitiful inventions to
mislead and 'decoy the less intelligent of Mr. Scholefield's
supporters. Feargus O'Connor, too, has come to their aid
in a flaming printed address, villifying Mr. Scbolefield in
characteristic terms. O'Connor now recommends Joseph
Sturge quite as furiously as he not long since abused and de •
flounced him in the columns of the Northern Star. Of course.
Mr. Spooner's friends are sanguine as to the issue, under
these circumstances, but if Mr. Scholefield's supporters per-
severe in their efforts, and the electors are faithful to their
promises, Birmingham will not be handed over to the Tories
by the Chartists."

Mr. Sturge's friends say—" Our Committee has just issued
this bill Mr. Sturge's Committee congratulate the Radical
electors on the fact, that the canvass reports show a decided
majority of votes promised for Mr. Sturge it preference to
Mr. &hole&ld. The remarks in the canvass books opposite
the names of those who are entered as doubtful are also de-
cidedly favourable to Mr. Sturge.
" ' Mr Sturge explicitly declared that he would give every
elector an opportunity of recording his vote, and that ought
to be sufficient to convince the moat sceptical that Mr. Sturge.
will poll to the last moment the poll is open. This is his ir-
revocable determination.' "
The nomination takes place to-morrow morning, in the
Town-hall.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Last night one of the chief attracticms was the appearance
of Signor Moriani in a new part, viz., that of Percy in Anna
Bolena. So great was the success of the new tenor in Lucia,
that there was a natural curiosity to see how he would shine
in this second character, which has been rendered illustrious
by Rubini and Ivanhoff. His reading of the part is neces-
sarily, from the style of his singing, entirely different from
that to which we have been accustomed. There seemed to
be something like a want of firmness in his higher notes. The
duet with Grisi, " Per Pieth," he sang charmingly. He
infused into it that true pathos, and that elegant ex-
pression, which is in him so peculiar, and the piece was
enthusiastically encored. The intensity of feeling with
which he introduced the beautiful trio in the second act.
was one of the most effective touches of the evening.
Grisi last night literally surpassed her own magnificence_
The rush of her voice into the finale of the first act was one
of those things that create quite a thrill in the hearer.
Anna Bolena used to be one of the most hacknied of Doni-
zetti's operas, but it has been laid on the shelf for three
years, and its revival is welcome, not so much for its own
merits, as for the admirable performance of Grisi. Henry
VIII. could nothavea
ofm him, looks h
more fitting representative
bluffrese monarch ;
ntamtivoneatrhan
'vho'every inch
admirably does his voice tell, and excellently does
alr:neadbsiumapeopisioet rt the trio, where the bass voice has an accompani-
ment for the other two, that is like that of a stringed instru-
ment. The little character of Smeaton was played by
Favanti, and Giovanna was sustained by a debutante named
Giuseppina Rosetta, who, without an extraordinary voice, is
a pleasing and tasteful singer --superior to those who have
generally filled the character in England. The principal
artists were called for with acclamations at the end of each
act. The opera was followed by a fantasia on the horn,
played by Yuzzi, because it was his benefit; and this was
followed by a divertissement, in which Fanny Elssler danced
the Saragossa. The second act of Guglielmo Tell, the best
act in the opera, distinguished by the duet between Arnold.
and Matilda, the splendid trio, and a host of magnificent
choral effects, was another musical attraction of the evening,
the principal characters being sustained by Persiani, Mario,
Fornasari, and F. Lablache.

:EETING
_OF MIDDLESEX , MA-

GISTRATES.

A meeting of justices of the county of Middlesex was held
yesterday, at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell-green, Mr.
Sergeant Adams in the chair.
Mr. Wflas drew attention to the Bill before Parliament
to enable justices to establish houses of refuge for juvenile ut-
fenders. It was not likely to pass this session, but whenever
the time came for considering it he should oppose it.
The Court adopted two resolutions on the clauses of the
Metropolitan Buildings Bill, condemnatory of the power
given therein to the Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment, enabling him to nullify the appointment of sur-
veyors, and compelling the payment of 2001. out of the
county rate towards the charge of two official referees and*
registrar.
Mr. ROTCH said that neither of these resolutions met his
approbation. The Government measure was forced 'upon
them by the manner in which the magistrates had for..
merly exercised their power of election. One of fir; county
surveyors appointed by the magistrittis was Charles
Mathews, the actor—(A laugh)—Vdo openly said that he
kept the situation for his aged 'mother. Another of their
surveyors resided in the nor :n of England, and was a great
unknown as far as his '..'istrict was concerned. A third was
incapable from ar `and infirmity. It was a matter of as-
tonishment that;the Government had not taken up the sub-
ject before.- _Tear.)
OA tle motion of Sir B. HALL, a county rate of Id, in tllli
pound was agreed, to.