The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-19 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

• THE - ST. LEGER STAKES.
DOWCASTSR, Sarr. 17.—The first favourite really appears to
us to be undeserving of the prominent station he holds in the odds
In our humble opinion, was his the property of any other gentle-
man than Mr. Watt, the public would nut take 1,000 to 10 about
him.. We shall not be the least surprised if he does not even get
a place. his having beat Bedlumite, .doer not appear to us to
speak much in his favour, for although Bedlamite is a nice looking
racing-like horae, he sloes not go any pace; he has only cantered
since he has been here; if this; preparation will win the Leger, the
trouble other trainers take is.useless; putting this out of the ques-
tion, no Judge can find fault with his appearance..
Mulatto (who, with • the rest of Earl Fitiewilliam's horses, is
trained about Ibur mile 4 frOm Doncaster, and will not be here till
to-morrow), by his public running, is decidedly the best,‘und if
Actreon was not stumped in his race with Memnon, he'll win, or
be very near. The Dragon looks well, goes well, and is a better
favourite than Crusader, Lord Wharncliffe having declared to win
with him ; but we cannot divest ourselves of the recollection that
Crusader beat Goshawk twice, and Goshawk beat the Dragon.
If there is-any thing in public performance, Crusader will have a
good chance, if the Dragon bus, and we should not be astonished
to see him very near winning. Tarrare is a long legged beast,.
with short pasterns, large belly, and appears to he as slow as a
-man. The General looks well, and goes well—if ever he did so.
Our old friend, Forth, is once snore certain. of teinninp ; his lot
look well, and go tolerably ; but we fear it's no go for him this
time. Fanny Davies will be " there, or thereabouts," sinless the
report be trim,, that she will not start ; she•is a sweet filly; and
very full of action. Paul Pry is wrong named ; he is nut that
mining looking personage you would expect to see Ire ellosekl be
re-christened " Cock Pheasant." Last, though riot least in the
public estimation, comes the Duke of Leeds' Lisette filly ; if her
temper does not stop her, she will be- as near as a toucher. ' There
are many who will not be surprised if the following are the first
four :—Mulatto, crusader, Fanny Davies, and Lisette. It is ex-
pected that about 2B will start.
We subjoin the latest odds on the St. Leger ;-
2 to 1, apt Belzoni (9 to 4 taken)
9 to 9 agst Bedlamite (5 to I ditto)
11 to 2 apt Mulatto (6 to I ditto)
13 to 1 ugst Turrare (14 to 1 ditto)
• IS to I apt Crusader 20 to 1 ditto)
12 to I agat The Dragon (13 to 1 ditto)
20 to I apt The General (25 to 1 ditto)
20 to I agst Forth's lot.
80 to 1 ugst t,isette
h 0 to 1 apt Garcia.
•

DONcAsTut, 7.443NDAy MORNING, TNN o'cllneK•
BETTING AT TILE ORIGINAL ROOMS.
The original room* were filled lust night with ',porting charac-
ters of every class, from the Duke to the leg, and a great deal `-'l*
busitteiet was done, Some alterations have taken place, as will
he seen by the following statement
5 to 2 agst Belzoni (taken)
+ to 1 eget Bedlonia,. (ditto)
7i to 1 ito Mulatto
13 to I age The .flragoti
11. to I agst 'Tartars
16 to•'. agst
l'7 to pot Crusaaer
, io,ul pry (expected to
„ „ot. The General
*b - I• t• in the outsiders.
No ttla ion get up)

iLAY MARKETS.' --(Tim DAY.)
(At ism Load of it; rusitic)
ST. JA M DS'S.
I.oolil Ileatlow 1 fay rl 10 to 4 10 Clover Hay .f. 4 10 to 6 10
upla I.titto
nd
it yoir. 410 510 Wheat Ditto
p, flay .....
4;lull:
Supply , trade , and Kiev; at: on gaturtlay.
SMI THEI
Lowland Meadow 11ayi:3 sto 4 5 Clover 'Tay gtnerally, ,ii sto 5 15
Upland Ditto
llye.gratt Hay
New-memdow Hay 4 0 5 0 Wheat Ditto 1 110
Supply good, trade dull,
andp—tti ces i,tatiptiary.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It is a grateful spectacle to behold. the Church of
Rome, or any distinguished part of it, employing its
influence, whether more or less formidable over a
Catholic community, for the advancement of a, system
of law and freedOm,. as -opposed to one of arbitrary
power. We bevel not often see» a Popish priesthood
sincere in their support ofrt liberal government, or in-
their sympathy with an oppressed people. Without
searching for causes, the fact is proved by almost inva-
riable experience. Church and King, the two great
potentates, of the world—one (we mean, of course, in
Roman ,Catlilic states) bestriding the imaginations of
men, the other domineering over their actions, appear
to have 6uried the remembrance of ancient jealousies
in prosecution of a league, offensive and • defensive,
against all attempts of human reason to encroach upon
the empire of authority. In this respect the clergy'of
Spain and Portugal have displayed a striking contrast.
But it is one which, so far as the Spanish priests are
concerned, may be aceounted for by a single observa-
tion, namely, that on the aura of the scale in behalf of
a constitutional or of a despotic Government, depends
the breaking up of.the whole mass of church property,
or its continuance (for a short time, though of that
they are ignorant) unmolested in its present magni-
tude and form. No; respectable Government can
stand in Spain without coming upon the church reve-
nues for assistance.. It is not that there exists no
other fund fur paying the interest of any portiOn of
the debt, and discharging the first obligations of ho-
nour. But that, in truth, without some loans of
money, capricious, and not very considerable, from
the church, ,Ferdinand, with' his incomplete, half-
starved, and less than half loyal crowds of civil func-
tionaries—his half-el:1A troops, and defrauded custom-
houses, could not have lingered on for the few years
that have passed Since the subversion of, the Cortes.
The very first step of an efficient Government in Spain,
mug be a determined and extensive appropriation of
church-lands and riches to the exigencies of the public
service. Therefore, in one word, the Spanish priests
are irreconcileable enemies to whatever tastes of na-
tional institutiom It is otherwise with the dignitaries
of the Portuguese Church. We have never read an
appeal to a reasoning people in favour of their public
rights and liberties more animated, or more earnest,
than a "'pastoral letter" just circulated among the
Portuguese, by the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon.
This wise and upright prelate draws a forcible dis-
tinction between the recent constitution of the Cortes,
whereby every thing was torn from the Crown, and no
connexion or relation preserved between the ancient
customs, usages, and laws of the realm, and the new
enactments of those theoretic patriots, who piqued
themselves more on inventing plausible devices, than
in adjusting the means of Government handed down
feom antiquity, to the wants of modern times. The
Patriarch tells the people, that the charter accorded to
them by Don Pedro, is but a revival of the old na•
tional institutions in an ameliorated form ; that the
three estates of the kingdom recognized for six cen-
turies, have here their substantial representatives ; and
that, as well in its Royal origin, as in its prospective
provisions, the charter merits the active support of
every honest, loyal, and conscientious Portuguese. It
seems to us impossible that so authoritative and impres-
sive a State document can fail of producing important
advantages to the peace and happiness of the. kingdom.
In the meantime, the worthy ('large d'4.llltires from
Portugal at Madrid, has refused to take the oaths to
the Constitution, and has been replaced by the Secre-
tary of Legation. The progress of Portuguese revolt
appears to receive a serious check in the incapacity or
relucta»ce of the Spanish Government to encourage in
any manner the wretched military rebels, who had been
excited against the authority of the Regent. It is
gravely proposed in a French liberal paper, that they
shall turn Monks.--;Tintes.
If men would be sincere .in what they are about,
what a world of talking, and writing, and of pretence
might be spared ! This is peculiarly the case with
what is called the Greek cause. We should be sorry
to be thought indifferent to the cause of constitutional
liberty anywhere ; but we are widely mistaken if
.the majority of those who talk so.loudly about the
Greeks care one farthing, in reality, about them or
their cause. In truth, John Bull is the most credu-
lous animal upon earth. Only rouse his sympathy,
in titvour of any Will-o'-the-wisp, and lie will pursue
it up hill and down dale, over quagmire, and through
the very regions of romance, till he is absolutely lost in a
'maze of his own creating. To talk of" classic ground"
and.: " early associations ;" to suppose, because the
early inhabitants of a country once were free, that.
therefore their descendants sire "the sons of freedom,,
and Capable of enjoying it, is one of those egregious
errors which may be excusable in childhood : but is
an inference which manhood and reflection ought to
see the absurdity of. Ronie was once as much the
cradle of liberty as Greece ;, but to talk of the modern
Romans, and sunk as they are in the debasement of
sr) odious Superstition, as a people in whose favour a
crusade in the cause of liberty should be undertaken,
would strike even a schoolboy as the height of absur-
dity. What peculiar tendency to freedom the modern
Greeks have shown; we have yet to discover. It is
all very fine to talk of Marathon and Thermopylni,
iif
Homer and Alcibiades ; but who is there, because
they have read of Brutus and of Cato, that would
think it necessary to march an army or raise a loan for
the purpose of dethroning the Pope ? And here it is tin-
fortunately that ournioderii patriotism hinges. Some one
or two hundred enthusiasts raise a clamour about the
Greeks ; the Pressis enlisted in the cause ;men's minds be-
coWe warm they know not why ; when in step the pa-
triots a the Stock Vxdiauge, and convert what was
the virtuuus error of Shut ,feav into the interested cla-
mour of the many ; and the zeal for Grecian liberty is
speedily convelitd into a mere by-word to raise or to'
depress the gambling
projects of those virtuous repre-
sentatives of British freedom, who congregate in, I•3ar-
tholomew-lanc. Now the simple truth is, that the
have beeonie tribu,
Greek islands, in process of time,
taxies, colonies of the Turitikh Government, with'
o
and we strongly suspect
whom they are at peace ; ,
it may sound the ears of et few
however unsalutary
enthusiasts, that the Powers of lauropt have just, 'tet
much right to send an armam .tent to .I
endeavour to wrest
_from us our territories
n that
'n have to embar i
quarter, as we or any other nett o
crusade to deliver Greece from the hands of its pkresennt
theorica
possessors. 'We know how unpala!able, this may sound
to the ears of those who take their oiNII
for undeniable principles ; but else
sober
l • that to
judgment of
mankind must come to this conclusion at ast,.
effect
do what these enthusiasts desire,
t period of
is to yield in
to that very principle, which at the earlies
the French Revolution was so warmly and so justly
resisted in thia country, viz. to acknowledge the right
of one country, to interfere wantonly and gratuitously
in the concerns of another. Such a principle, if once
admitted, would resolve itself into a right of perpetual

war; and when such a principle is mainly upheld to
support the nefarious designs of a set of selfish stock-
jobbers and speculators, surely it behoVes those who
have no such objects in view, to pause before they
Wow themselves to be the instruments of a system
wrong in itself, and still more wrong in its means and
consequences.--Morning Herald. •

Nov that commercial affairs have evidently taken a
favourable turn, it is amusing to see the shifts to
which the croakers are obliged to have recourse; in
order, as the saying is, to let themselves down easily.
We mean that class of them particularly who try to
increase the sale of their periodical publications, and,
benefit themselves, by foreboding evil.. At one time
they could hardly find words sufficiently strong to
depict the horrors of the coming storm. Civil war,
at famine, and pestilence, would desolate the
country, unless Government came forward promptly
and made a grant of money for the relief of the starv,
ing population. Government made no grant of money.
and held out no hopes that they could adopt any effec-
tual plans of relief, yet neither civil war, nor famine,
nor pestilence, came ; on the contrary, trade in a
short time began to show symptoms of revival, and
according to accounts from almost every quarter, it is
now gradually, though slowly, recovering ; many who
hadbeen thrown out of work have resumed their usual
occupations, and others have obtained employment in
making roads, or improvements in their respective
districts. The writers to whom we allude are obliged,

for consistency's sake, to give these favotirable reports
from the country, but they ive them in such a manner
as if they almost regretted the iinproveinent which has
begun. They have their fears on the occasion--they
doubt the 'correctness of their reperts—they suspect
that the change is only tAnporary, and that when the
cold weather commences, and the rivers and the
Baltic are frozen up, affairs will be in a worse state
than ever. We wish them joy of this perverse ,desire
to make every thing appear in the worst light. For
our own part, we perfectly agree with Hume on this
point, and would rather see the favourable than unfa-
vourable side of things ; « a turn of mind," he says,
" which it is more happy to possess, than to be born
to ten thousand a-year. Ihe same description of
writers, towards the close of the last war, continued
to fill their columns with similar ominous forebodings.
There were no hopes for the country, unless Bonaparte
were allowed to go on unmolested ; and even after
France had been once overrun by the Allies, they
persevered, on his return from Elba, to indulge in
the seine &rimy strains. The battle of Waterloo
came iipon'them like a thunderbolt. They had not
even a loop-hole to escape by, and were obliged to
confess that they were false prophets. It is not pro-
bable, however, that they will be reduced to such a
dilemma in this instance. Trade and commerce do
not, like a battle, take a decisive turn in.a few hours.
—Weeks and months will elapse before they resume
their wonted course, and these writers thus will have
an opportunity of gradually adapting their effusions to
the improved state of the country. During the crisis,
We indulged ourselves in looking at the favourable side
of things ; and we have now the satisfaction of think-
ing, that this point of view was not only the most
pleasing, but the most correct.--/bid.
One 'fact is better than twenty arguments in sup-
port of any system ; and as that regarding unrestricted
commeree proceeds towards maturity, we have nOl
doubt that similar facts to the one we are about to
state will he Abided in abundance, as a corroboration
of the soundness of the arguments advanced in favour
of non-restrictive measures. We yesterday conversed
with an operative lace manufacturedwho is just re-
turned from France, in consequence of his not being
able to procure work there. He went out last spring,
with several other lace weavers, from a manufactory in
the Borough, and on their arrival in France they were
instantly, employed at high wages; the most efficient'
English workmen earning front three to four gnineas
per week. But, since the opening of the ports, the
Nottingham lace has been 6 imported into lralice so'
freely, and at such low price, as to enable the manu-
facturers of it to undersell those of France ; and the
consequence. is, that wages in the manufacture of
lace in that country, have been already reduced above
one half, and there is every probability, in the opinion
of our informant, that a further reduction will shortly
take place in the French manufactories. Although
every day's reflection confirms us mere strongly in the
belief that the non-restrictive commercial system will
prove itself to be sound in practice, still we confess
that we were not prepared to hear of such a result from
it as the one we have stated in any of its branches,
during the short period it has been in operation ; and
we were somewhat sceptical, not as to the statement
relative to the reduction of wages in France, but as to
the continuance at this moment of the sale of Notting-
ham lace under the price of that made in Normandy
and Picardy ; and we. therefore pointedly ask the indi-
vidual in question, who has' been practically engaged in
the laeo manufacture these thirty years, if he did not
consider this an experiment of some speculators at-
tempting to force a Market prematurely before a fair
opening was offered to them ? His reply, was, that
he knew the goods were selling at a fair profit ; and as
to its being an experiment, it certainly, An his judg-
ment, was by no means a rash one, or put in execu-
tion without due information ; for the articles were
admirably selected for French customers, and there
appeared to be every symptom of permanence about
the trade that was carrying on to that part of France
where he was residing. The advocates., cur fencing
trade with restrictions may shake their heads in deri-
sion of arguments; but we know not how they are to
get rid of a fact like the one before us.—British

'ress.

A traveller just returned from Caucasus, gives an
account of a serpent with two heads, and upwards of
four arschines in length. He killed it himself, and
then put it in spirits of wine.
It is a most striking proof of the miserable state of
Spanish commerce, that, since 1819, not a sine+,
Spanish merchant vessel has passed the Sound, Ihe
number of English vessels that passed it last year was
5,180.

,amt •ly of Russia, ex-
THE ROYAL FAMILY OF RUSSIA.—Tho num-
ber of assassinations in the Ro yatt
"Is 1
' any thing in history. ,Ivan IV. killed one of his
sons, and died in a cloister. Feodor. L did not reign
till he immolated Demetrius ; the monk Otrepien•
strangled Veodor IL Wasse sacrificed him in his
turn. Peter the Great deposed his brother Ivan
condemned his son Alexis to death, repudiated his wife,
and massacred eight thousand of the
..4trelitzers. The
Empress Elizabeth tore the young Ivan (the legitimate
prince) from his cradle, shut him up in a fortress, and
caused herself to l'eproclaimed Empress. Her sue..
cessor, Peter 111. was murdered by his wife, Cathe-
rine, whose successor, Paul,
was murdered with the
privity of son, the Emperor Alexander, who recently
lost his life, nobody knows hove—Count segur.