The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-16 00:00:00

(RECEIVED LAST NIGHT).

NEWMARKET, TUESDAY NIGHT, TWEIXE o'CLocK.
At a very numerous meeting of the Jockey Club, held this
evening after the races, a vote of thanks was unanimously
passed to the Duke of Richmond, for his eminent services in
the House of Lords in procuring a revision of the laws relat-
ing to the turf. A similar vote was passed to Lord Palmer-
ston, for his exertions in the House of Commons; and, the
rules and orders of the Club having been suspended for the
purpose, his Lordship was elected a free and honorary mem-
ber without a dissentient voice. It was also resolved, una-
nimously, that it is not desirable to have stands erected on
the race-course. The attention of the Club was next directed
to the proposed railroad from Chesterford to Newmarket., and
the plans having been submitted and explained, they were
unanimously approved.

WEDNESDAY.
The settling for the Cesarewitch took place this morning,
and a:tilt ugh rather heavy and unfavourable to the betters
round, went off well. Two Noble Lords are the principal
winners (between four and five thousand pounds), Mr. Watt
and the stable having stood to win but small stakes.
We would here suggest to speculators that it would be
more prudent to pay and receive in the Subscription-room
than in the street. Pitkpockets were in great force, and one
nobleman was eased of 2001. ; that others escaped was more
from luck than carefulness.

The rating to-day commenced at half-past two, with
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, two yrs old, 7st 31b ; three, 9st ;
fillies allowrd rdlb. The winner to be sold for 801., if de-
manded, &c. T.Y.C. (5 Subs).
Mr. Greville's Deer Chase, 2 yrs (Pettit) 1
Mr. Steer's Caroline, 3 yrs
Mr. W. Sadler's The Pretender, 2 yrs 3
Lord G. Bentinck's b f Malvoicie, 3 yrs
Mr. Worley's b f Syllabub, 3 yrs ... 5
Betting-2 to 1 agst Syllabub, 2to 1 agst Deer Chase, 3
to 1 ngst The Pretender, and 4 to 1 agst Caroline.—Caroline
made the running, followed by The Pretender and Deer
Chase till half way up the con's. The Pretender then de-
dined, and Dear Chase challenging, Caroline defeated her,
after a fine race, by a head.
Match, 200 sows. 50 ft. Bst 71b each. First half of Ab. M.—
Lord Exeter's Celia (Mann) beat Lord W. Powlett's
Espoir.
The Oatland Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 10 ft, if declared, &c.
B.M. (7 Subs., 4of whom declared.)
Lord Exeter's Jet, 3 yrs, 4st 111 b (J. Sharp) I
Mr. Meiklam's Trueboy, 5 yrs, Bst 81b
Lord G. Bentinck's Longitude, 3 yrs, Est 31b
Betting-6 to 4 against Jet, 6to 4 against Trueboy, and
7 to 2 against Longitude.—Jet took the lead, Trueboy lying
at her quarters, Longitude following them, but very soon out
of the race,' In rising the hill, Trueboy collared the leading
mare, headed her at the top, and ought to have won, but
shut up a few yards from the post, and was beaten by a
neck.

The Town Plate of 501. for three yrs old, 7st 41b ; four, Bst
41b; five Bst 111 b ; six and aged, 9st 11b. The winner
to be sold for 200/. if demanded. T.M.M.
Mr. R. J. Shafto's Metal, 3 yrs (Brown) 1
Mr. 3lostyn's bl f Stream, 3 yrs ...
Lord Verulam's Hawksbury, 3 yrs 3
The following also started, but were not placed :—Sir C.
Monck's My Old Hack, aged—Sir S. Spry's Subduer, 5 yrs
—Duke of Ru:land's Welbeck, 4 yrs—Mr. R. Clifton's b g
Little John, 4 yrs—Lord G. Bentinck's b f Longitude, 3 yrs
—Mr. Batson's fby Plenipotentiary, out of Acacia,:3 yrs—
Lord Sandwich's Prairie, 3 yrs—and Mr. W. Sadler's The
Cook, 3 yrs.
Betting-5 to 2 agst Welbeck-5 to 1 asst
sto 1 agst Metal-5 to 1 agst Hawkesbury—'7, to 1 agst My
Old Hack.
Hawkesbury and Longitude
the running for the first
half mile, and then gave place'
Lo Prairie, who carried it on
to the Ditch, when she
In his turn, ".esigned it to My Old Heck, who,
gave wsry to Metal and Stream, the horse leading.
In nearly this the race continued to the erd, Metal win-
ning by a P":„ck, and Stream beating Hawkesbury, who came
rt the ilst, by half a neck ; My Old Hack fourth, and nothing
' up. The winner was claimed.
Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, h ft. D.M. (3 Subs.)
Duke of Bedford's Prologue, 7st 101 b (Whitehouse 1
Lord Eglinton's Vaudeville, 7st 121 b ... 2
6 to 4 on Prologue, who made all the running, and won
easily by a length and a half.

THE LATE THOMAS DAVIS.
(From the Nation, a Dublin paper.)
While the death-knell of those whom, of all God's creatures
we held most dear, is yet rit!ging in our ears, and it still
seems a question whether there is anything left to hope or
labour for on the earth, we are assured that a conspiracy has
commenced, whose base object is to malign the living and
the dead, and to resist and destroy the labours of love and
conciliation which have made Thomas Davis immortal.

Oh I poor knaves—foolish as base—you have ill-chosen
your time.
Foolish knaves---o believe that the generous Irish heart,
full of love and tenderness as a mother's, would go with you
in bringing bitterness and anger into the house of death.
Base knaves—not to feel that titel simple people would
recognise instinctively the assassin's hand (that hand that
would murder with the knife as with the pen) in a blow
made in such a guise, at such an hottfi
We place, as a shield between us and you, the memory of
Thomas Davie, already risen to be a star in our firmament.
All men (even you, bringing the tribute Vide pay§ to deceticy)
have offered incense to his lie was our beloved
friend and brother. What he believeJ, we believe; what he
preached, we preach. How can you, shut-sighted knaves
that you are, hope that a neo-17-4;; ithb liitve learned to love
his name as tit tiAine of a de:iverer, will hate in others the
principles and practices they honoured in him. You dare not
lay hands on the sacred dead. The humblest of all his friends
would take by the throat the highest head that ventured to
breathe a slander upon him. Neither shall von touch; with
impunity, all that we have left of him—his .(10etrities and his
labours. We have spared you long, that dissension might
not come into the national counsels by us; but h thousand
times rather would we trample you into your native mud—a
thousand times rather would we strip bare the political scare-
crows who frighten good men away from our cause-rather
than that a shade of dishonour, an hour of disrepute, should
come on the fame of Thomas Davis.

We will not stop to-day to rend to pieces the web of
vulgar sophistry. God knows we have little inclination now
for angry controversy! But, for the future, the memory
.of the illustrious'dead, and the political faith which he ha 3
bequeathed to the living, shall not be misrepresented in
vain.

We are threatened with popular disfavour. No ; the
people know us, and shall know you. But it is not for po-
pular favour we labour ; but for far other 'results.
We desire public support; but there are conditions on
which, if ii were tendered, we would scorn to accept it.
We would not tell lies for it.

We would not hunt down, by ealumlly, a good man who
dinred from us, nor would we glorify and exalt a scoundrel
who profes.ied himself a repealer.
It is a crime, we are told, to be complimented by a Conser-
vative. Now, we care not to conceal this fact, that there are
many Conservatives whose good opinion we would feel proud
to enjoy, and some renealers whose applause we should be
ashamed to possess. Which of us does not know a repealer
whose praise is infamy—one whom we know to be a hollow
and venal advocate of a good cause? Say that he is a po-
litical apostate, who now covers with coarse and vulgar adu-
lation a holy whom he at one time assailed with more coarse
and more truculent abuse. He measures out his flattery now,
as he did then his vituperation, by the pence which he is
paid. He is a Protestant, and lie assails the very t=eed which
he professes to hold, and audaciously puts himself forth as
the champion of a faith whose tenets he does not believe.
What is most exalted and sacred is not beyond the reach of
his calumny. His trade is hypocrisy—his life a continued
and consistent lie. Shall we desire the applause of a man like
this ?

On the other hand, do we not know many a man who is
astray on one vital question, but still sincere in his error—
whose spirit shrinks with instinctive abhorrence from false-
hood and dishonour—in whose breast the seeds of national
feeling are deeply sown, and who only waits, perhaps, to wit-
ness the failure of those vile attempts to raise the dead spirit
of bigotry into life, to fling himself with ardour into the
struggle for the independence of his country?
From which of these two men is there more to hope? i Of
which of them shall we deiirt the good opinion ?
In the course of these protracted struggles, we have be-
come too much disposed to accord to mere professions that
respect which is due only to sincerity—we are too tolerant
of falsehood and hypocrisy—too apt to overlook the most
flagrant violations of the fundamental virtues of honesty and
truth. Alas! shall the day ever arrive when true men shall
come together, and look into each other's hearts, and learn
that they have nothing to fear; and when association with a
political knave shall be shunned as carefully as association
with a pickpocket?