The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-29 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING, 1026.
RID Y, APRIL
. _ _

Duke of Grafton's Pigmy beAt Mr. H. ,4cott's Witt:4lAL 41h.
each. T.l'.('. 100 sous.-6 to 1 apt Pigmy.
LoAl 'rayistock'a Leeway beat the Duke of Portland's Tory,
61b. each. A.F. 60 sous.---Won in a canter.-7 to 4ou
Leeway.
Mr. Wortley 's Reformer, 9st. filb. beat Mr. Powlett's Logic,
Ott. 71b. A b.m. 200 sovn.-- Won by a 1(.4)1011.-11 to 10 apt
Reformer.
fiord Exeter's c. by Whalebone, beat Mr. Rogers'', jocko,
list. 41b. each. D.M. 100 sous.--A tine race—won by a neck.—
(1 to 4 on 'Whalebone c.
Newmarket Stakes of 60 soys. each, h. ft. for colts, fist. 71h. ;
fillies, list. 21b.
Duke of Grafton's th. c. Goshawk -
Mr. Wortley's c. Tile Dragon - 2
Lord Exeter's c. by Captain Candid . 3
Mr. J. Dilly's br. f. (lamella - - 4
Three others started-18 paid—Won by two lengths.
6to 1 agE. Goshawk-5 to 4on The Dragon. • '
Colonel Wilson's Lamplighter, Bst. 5%. I est Lord Orford's
Swiss Guide, list. 21b. R.M. 100 soya. h. ft.-2 to lon Lamp..
lighter.

DEVONPORT, APRIL 27.—Yesterday Mary Butler, a soldier'.
widow, for a bet of 10!., undertook to walk 60 Miles in .10+
hours, which she accomplished easily within the prescribed time.
She homed handbills stating that she would call occasionally at the
Spread Eagle, which, with the many interruptions experienced
from children, and others crossing the path, and 'CroWding round
her during the performance, renders the feat net 'unworthy of
record—front performing it in the public entrance into Devon-
port, between the Main-Guard and the end of George-street.--
Mary Butler is about 86 years of age, rather tall and athletic for
her sex ; and so little inconvenience did she suffer from it, that
she would perform the same next day for a similar sum..-. The
late firm of Shiells and Johns, late Bankers in this place, is ena-
bled to pay ls. 9d in the pound to its creditors, and 4s. in the
pound on the separate estate of Mr. Johns for the first payment,
which is to commence on the let of May. This is a miserable
dividend.

COVENT-GARDEN MARKET.—(This DAY.)

•
Potatoes, from 3s. to 7s. per cwt., which is about from Is. 1041.
to 41. 9d. per Winchester bushel ; Savoys and White Cabbages,
from Is. 64. to 3s. per dozen heads; Horse-radish, from 2s. to
4s. ; forced Asparagus, from 3s. to 6s. ; natural Asparagus, from
fis. to 12$. ' • Brocoli,,from Is. to 4s. ; and Celerey, from Is. 94.
to 3a.:per bundle; Carrots, from 3s. 64. to '7s.; Turnips, from Is.
to Is. 6d. ; Ooleworts or Greens, from 2s. to 4r. ; Young Onions,
from 2s. to 4s. ; and Leeks, from 2s. to 3s. 64. per dozen
hunches; Brocoli Sprouts, from 10d. to Is. 6d. ; and Turnip
Greens, from 641. to 104. per bushel basket ; Spinach, from
Is. to 25..; Onions, from 2s. to Ss. 64. ; Apples, fur common
use, from 2s. 64. to ss. ; and choice eating Apples, from 7s. to
14s. ; per Ina sieve-about a third of a bushel ; Sea Kale, from
Iod. to 2s. per purnmet-a kind of small salad basket ; Radishes,
from 44. to Is. per dozen hands; sound sweet Oranges, from 6..
to 14s. ; and Lemons, from Ss. to 225. per 100---or the former
from 2/. 10s. to 3/. 155., the latter from 3/. 15s. to 5/. per chest
of two boxes ; Seville Oranges, from 108. to 20s. per 100-or from
5/. ss. to 6/. per chest as above ; Spanish Chesnuts, from fia. to
12s. ; French Chesnuts, from ss. to 10s. ; Spanish Hasle Nuts,
from ss. to Bs. ; and French Walnuts, from 6.. to 10s. per
peck ; New Potatoes, from Is. to 3s. 6d, per pound ; young
Carrots, 3*. 6d; and young Turnips, 3a. per bunch. All End*
of Fruit were dearer ; old Turnips, Sea Kail, Brocoli sprouts, and
Turnip Greens, considerably cheaper than on this day es'nnight-
In prices of other things no material alteration. Supply rather
limited, and trade brisk.

HAY MARKETS—(Tuts Day.)
(At per load of SO trusses.)
ST. JAllEn.—Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Nay, flew
2/. bs. to Si. 6s. ; fine Upland Meadow and Rye Grim Hay,
31. bs. to 4/. lbs. ; Clover Hay, Si. be. to M. be. ; Clint Straw,
11. 121. to IL 16s. ; Wheat Straw, 11. 16s. to 21. A short supply
and a very dull trade, at Thursday's priers.
Sattritrumn.—Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow MY, frma
2/. 10s. to Si. 10s. ; fine Upland Meadow and ityo.Orass Ilays
81. 10g. to 4L 10s.; Clover Hay, generally, a bs• 61' ;tret
ordinary fine, W. 10s. ; Oat Straw, 11. 12a. to IL I"
Straw, 11. 16s. to 21. Supply rather large, *pule dull: rte
prices barely stationary.

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THE LONDON JOURNALS,

-DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS,

APRIL 29, 1826.

[THE TIMES,]
It appears by an advertisement in this day's journal,
that Mr. R. Gurney retires from the representation of
the city of Norwich. We should not have noticed
this circumstance, had it not beell for one of the causs
assigned by that gentleman for his retirement; which
muse invblves a public principle, and therefore merits
attention. He intimates his conviction, that it is ut-
terly impossible to have free commerce, unless at
least half the taxes be taken off, But we will tell Mr.
Gurney what Ministers mean by a free commerce, or
free trade. They mean such an extended admission
of foreign articles, as shall enable them to draw the
greatest possible revenue from the entry or customs
and all other pretences on their part to a liberal system
of commerce, are fraudulent and knavish. , For if by
a free trade, they had meant a diminution of im-
posts, they would, as we had a right to expect, have
diminished the expellees of Government, which they
have not done. Every article of the estimates which
have been voted by the House of Commons, in this
their short 'session, indicates the thorough reliance of
Ministers upon an increased revenue, whilst in their
mouths they have nothing but " free trade," "liberal
system," and all that trash, which is now ceasing to
deceive. In the sense which Mr. Gurney gives to the
expression of free trade, it is, indeed, as he says,
utterly impossible to have the thing so described, un-
tess half the taxes be taken off; and the Opposition
are no better than a parcel of " Green-horns," for
fancying that after they have failed in their feeble ef-
forts to force Ministers to reduce taxation, they can
carry them through in the new project of opening our
ports. We are, as we have ever been, friends to free
trade, but conjointly with a diminished taxation ;—a
taxation too, we will add, diminished by retrenchment,
not by robbing the, public creditor : to which end we
see that Ministers are now hastening.

While we are mourning from day to day, the
d7eadful scenes which pass before us in this country,

and their more dreadful cause—the starvation of thou

sar;:ls of English manufacturers—the cry of misery is
echoed front Ireland, and a portion of cur' sympathy is
once more demanded for that famishing and despairing

people. An Irish faMine is like that of India only—
it exceeds the measure of all other human want. The

or.dinary subsistence of the Irish poor would be
wretchedness, to ahnost • any 'other living creatures.—

When the potato fails, their last, because their single
resource, is gone. Nature presents no meaner % viler
alioent,, and there are no poor laws for the Irish; It

way not, indeed, to be anticipated that the manufae

turers of the sister island could stand, when those

nearer home, ,so much more powerfully maintained by
wealth, credit, and longevity, have fallen into
a condition of such utter helplessness and
ruin. Yet is this evil not the more easy to

endure' or meditate, because every reasonable

mind must have foreseen it.

Nor can we now

haVe the cruelty to visit on the wretched suffering
creatures who waste away in the Irish capital under
the agonies of hunger, the rashnetis with which some
among them may have tempted, hastened, and aggra-
vated, their present insupportable distresses, as if there
had not been causes enough at work to bring its ful
share of calamity upon Irish manufacture as in every
branch. Many of these, unfortunate workmen became
parties to the most tyrannical and, lawless combina-
tions, committing outrageous violence upon those
among ',their brethren who would not yield implicit
obedience to their commands, and who scrupled to
starve—that is, murder-4heir wives and children,
at the will of an unrelenting biinditti. But this,
eS.sept as a lesson, we forbear to dwell upon. The
tyrant and slave—the guilty, and alasi the innocent,
are all now prostrate alike ; and, unless the hand
of mercy shall be _stretched forth to relieve and
as s,l! them, nothing short Of one ruthless and sweep-
ing. mortality can bring their sufferingsto a period.—
A. meeting was held in Dublin on Tuesday last, the
Lord Mayor presiding, for the consideration of this
disastrous state, to which the poor of the liberties have
been reduced ; when •it appeared from a paper. read by
the Rev. Mr. Groves, that in the Dublin silk trade
there are at present unemployed 1,860 looms, which
had given:employment to 6,280 individuals ; in the
WoOleri trade the idle looms are,Bso, which had eni-
Ooyti4 11,110 individuals; and in the cotton. trade
(comparatively new in Dublin) 443 looms are idle,
Which, throw 3,960 individuals out of work; altoge-
ther the number of people unemployed is 21,856.
But let it be remembered, in respeet of each of the
persons thus consigned to idleness, how many others
mg have depended for their daily bread ! The cases
of ,domestic and hUmble •misery, afflicting the most
innocent and helpless of humankind, Which had fallen
under the personal cognizance of Mr. Grattan and
other gentle cii, and were brought forward as appeals
to public compassion, we dare not trust our 'heart to
• rest upon, much less our pen to describe. The sum-
total IS, that multitudes of our fellow-creatures are
yutq,of hunger in Ireland as well as here ; that the
inister may tall, as he talked: before, of cotheory
",forbidding an enlightened Government to meddle
vii#l'the public subsistence ;"'that trade will revive,
.arid All will 1.;0 well again ; with other
,such
lir (lasted eonsOlationS, But can the noble Lard revive
the dead ? Can he nourish, out of next years's
wageS.'thotter- scliss expire from this year's want ? Can
he behold God's creatures gasping for food, and still
dogmatize' about " public subsistence ?" It is an
iniquestionabla Itet, that among certain causes-of the
hpublic misery. over which the Government may not
itt been able :to exercise a direct control, are to be
found certain others which are immediately ascribable
to these very Ministers. At the head of such causes
stands their extravagance—their enormous waste of
• the tuitional resources, upheld by majorities which
thAllaitie extravagance has fnriiished them with means
to scorript-by which they have entailed upon us, in
the midst of peace, • the heavy burdens asid,preearioUs
prospects of a most consuming warfare—by which they
have raised .uP' siva!tsto our Skill and plunderers of our
in .hairy in every corner of
.Europes-satid through
all the blessings that might result to this nation
from a dread of its power abroad, and by, internal ease
and comfort, have been ravished from our grasp ; fo-
reigners knowing that the finances of England will not
beer the shock of another recourse to arms ; and the
country itself having lost all hope that the financial
system, thus impotent in relation to freigners, will ad-