The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-02 00:00:00

MIAND.

DUBLIN, Srvr. 30.—A special meeting of the Corporation
has been called for to-morrow, in order to give Mr. O'Connell
an opportunity of stating his views in reference to the borough
hoes. The Hon. and Learned Gentlemen leaves town on
Friday evening for Killarney.
THE CORN MARKET.

There was a farther decline of Is. 6d, to 2s. per barrel on
wheat at this day's market. The provincial papers received
this morning contain very favourable reports of the harvest
in the late districts. The potato panic has nearly subsided.

—Yes.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING.

WEDNESDAY.

Of the three stakes proposhd for this day in support of the
standing engagements, one only filled, and the Plate, not-
witbstandingsall the, stables are full of horses, having had
only one entry, the promise of sport was very meagre : it was
better, however, than we had looked for, the Handicap having
produced a dead heat. The weather was delightful, and the
company large and fashionable. The bill of fare may be
very briefly discussed.
Match, 50, h ft. T.Y.C.
Colonel Peel's Garry Owen, ftst 61b
Lord Maidstone's Arcanus, 6st 131 b
Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, for two yrs old.
(4 Subs.) T.Y.C.
Mr. Shelley's Chandelier (late Farthing Candle) 7st
101 b (Abdale) 0 1
Air. Greville's Deer Chase, 7st 121 b .............. 0 2
Lord Albemarle's Nell Cook, 7st 51b
Farthing Candle made running at a moderate pace to the
cords, where Nell Cook gave way,. and Deer Chase, who had
been lying off, took the second place. The race commenced
in earnest half-way up the cords, was severely contested, and
ended in a dead heat. Nell Cook was beaten off. .
Deciding Heat-6 to son Deer Chase, who again ran a
waiting race, tried half-way up the cords, never got up, and
was beaten by half a length. The pace was good.
The St. Leger Stakes of 25 sovs. each ; for three yrs old colts,

Bst-71b, and fillies, Bst 41b. D.I. (7 &lbs.)
Lord Lonsdale's b c by Jerry, out of Turquoise
Duke of Richmond's Refraction
Mr Ford's Attorney .. 3
Betting-5 to 4on Refraction (taken), sto 4 agst the
Turquoise colt, and 8 to 1 agst the Attorney.
The Turquoise colt made all the running, and won in a
canter by five lengths.
50/., for three yr olds, 7st 51b ; 4 yrs, Bst Blb ; 5 yrs, Bst
131 b ; 6 yrs and aged, 9st. D.I.
Lord George Bentinek's Longitude, 3 yrs, walked over.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY. )

KET, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
BETTING.
tes.—(Thursday.)
ldas..
ITCH STAKES.
25 to 1 agst Boarding School
Miss
30 to 1 agst My Old Hack—
taken
:30 to 1 agst Amaryllis f—t.
55 to 1 agst Metal.

NEWMAI
LATEST
50 sovs. Sweepstal
6 to 5 on
THE CESAREW
4 to 1 agst Kent's lot
11 to 1 agst The Baron
12 to 1 agst My Mary
15 to 1 agst Jenny Wren—t.
17 to 1 apt Wee Pet
18 to 1 agst Agis
25 to 1 agst Keshing—taken
Very little done.
DERBY.

THE MAGAZINES.
DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE.

12 to 1 agst Sting
- 20 to 1 agst Brocardo
to 1 agst Ginger—taken
40 to 1 agst Fancy Boy—taken
3,000 to 50 agst Binnacle—taken
1,000 to 500 Sting agst Brocardo.
ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY.

Queen's Plate—lnheritress, 5 yrs—Boarding School Miss,
4 yrs—Longitude, 3 yrs—Event, 3 yrs—Prairie, 3 yrs.
Town Plate—Longitude, Foremast, Hawkesbury.
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each—Zarah, 3 yrs—Astern, 2 yrs
—Nell Cook, 2 yrs.

BASINGSTOKE RACES.—Mosnar.
The Basingstoke Town Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added.
The winner to be sold for 1201. Heats. A mile and three-
quarters.
Mr. White's br m Teresa, 4 yrs (Wakefield) 1 1
Mr. Kingston's r c Sparsholt 2 2
Mr. B. Lintott's b g Waterloo, 6 yrs 4 3
Mr. R. Sowerby's b g Tom Tough, 5 yrs 5 4
Mr. W. Lintott's ch c Yeung England 3 5
The Hackwood Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 25 added. The
winner to be sold for 100/. Heats. A mile and three-
quarters.
Mr. Smith's br m Beggar Girl, 5 yrs (Wakefield) 1 1
Mr. Parr's b m Norma Creina, aged 2 2
Mr. Bray's ch g Adrian, aged
Mr. Young's bl c Corinthian Tom 3 4
Mr. Love's br h Midas, 4 yrs ... 4 5
The Tradesmen's Plate of 4 sovs. each, with 20 added, a
mile and a half, was won in two heats by Mr. Balchin's
Sylvanus (W. 13alchin), beating Mr. White's My Pet, Mr.
Bray's Paul Clifford, and Mr. Field's Devil-among-the-
Ladies.

There are certain parties who imagine that they have
been readers of history in their youth, but discover, in
mature age, that they have not only been egregiously
deceived in assuming that to be authentic which they
have read, but that its most important passages are pre-
cisely those which they have since forgotten. They
then endeavour to console themselves, under the un-
pleasant conviction to which they are reluctantly brought,
by finding mares' nests, in the shape of events which
they suppose the most eminent historians to have over-
looked, or the most intelligent readers to have put some
false construction upon, if they have been recorded. It
is always amusing to observe the high value they put
upon their " waifs and estrays" of history, where they
consider them to be discoveries ; or the grave com-
placency with which they dwell upon the erroneous im-
pressions they pronounce all the rest of the world to
have entertained of the bearing of facts that are on all
hands admitted. The writer of a paper called the
" Stuarts in Exile," with which the present number of
Dolman opens, comes within this class of readers of
history. There is as much oblivion of some facts as
there is misconstruction of others, in the following so-
phisticated attempt to palliate the treason committed by
the most imbecile of the Stuarts to the constitution he
had sworn to respect:—
" With the name of James the Second, Catholicism and
arbitrary power are, in the minds of a great majority of per-
sons, superficially acquainted with the facts of English
history, inseparably connected: and nevertheless, the worst
crime which can be laid to his charge is, that m the exer-
cise of a prerogative which he believed himself to possess, and
of which the legal limits ha 1 in fact never been authoritatively
defined, he attempted to carry out certain great principles of
civil and religious liberty, whereof in our own more en-
lightened times all parties have recognised the justice and
wisdom. The alleged designs of James to subvert the Es-
tablished Church, and reinstate Catholicism in its stead, were
simply tantamount to the enactments of the Catholic Relief
Bill, which, a century and a half later, conferred equality of
social rights upon a long proscribed and persecuted portion of
the general community.

This special pleading has not even the defence of
novelty. It-has been urged and argued by the personal
friends and servants of the last of the Stuarts, from
Pepys and Evelyn to the Jesuit pamphleteers of our own
times. It is only necessary to supply one omission in
this plea to rebut and extinguish it. The vindictive dis-
position exercised by James, in 1687, in dismissing the
judges for refusing to recognise the " dispensing power"
he had assumed in 1686, cannot, at any rate, be softened
down to " an attempt to carry out certain great principles
of civil and religious liberty." The royal mandate, too,
for the induction of a Popish priest into the mastership
of a Protestant college in a Protestant university, was
something very like an overt act to justify and corrobo-
rate the "alleged designs" of the same infatuated King
" to subvert the Established Church and reinstate Roman
Catholicism in its stead." The narrative portion of this
paper has singular merits. It is highly wrought, well
sustained, and gives us graphic portraits of the im-
moveable insensibility of George 1., and the sanguinary
brutality of the " butcher of Culloden," the Duke of
Cumberland, as of the unhappy James 11., and the Old
and the Young Pretenders. "Darby Duff, the Madman,"
is continued and concluded—a tale full of horrors, but of
thrilling interest. The three stanzas, entitled " Ave
Maria," have certainly never been equalled for their un-
mitigated " namby-pamby" and no meaning since the
" verses" ascribed by Pope's waggery to " A person of
quality." An "Analysis of Wit from lEsop to Punch"
is drawn in this number to a close ;—a spirited and smart
affair, worthy of the subject. Here is a fine, fresh, gush-
ing pastoral by the Rev. J. Fitzgerald, quite an accept-
able supplement to the very late instalments of fine
weather, which, with all thankfulness, we have to ac-
knowledge at the commencement of October :

THE SONG OF THE SEASONS.
SPRING.
I breathe of the zephyr, so fresh and so cold,
And the crocus and primrose are shining in gold,
My skies full of sunshine, with blue-coloured wing,
With dew-drops are sprinkled, my rivulets sing,
All hail to thy glories, beautiful Spring!
This is my lay, •
Huzza! Huzza!

SUMMER,.
My glory is felt when the daylight awakes,
O'er valleys, hills, rivers,-and beautiful lakes;
Then my zone flower-woven is gemmed with dew,
While the roof of my temple is Heaven's own blue,
With the diamonds of midnight shining thro'.
This is my lay,
Huzza! Iluzza!

AUTUMN.
Hark ! hither I come, thro' wave, thro' air,
O'er drooping boughs, with their golden hair,
To the song of the vintage and lay of the lute,
Now dances the corn, now blushes the fruit,
While valleys are vocal and cataracts shoot.
This is my lay,
Huzza! Huzza !

`mischief may be prevented by a steady adherence on the part
of Sir Robert Peel to one set of principles and one line of
conduct. If his faith in the support of the enlightened public,
and reliance on their strength, should increase, it may be
hoped and expected that his course will become more uniform
and steady; that a wavering and somewhat tortuous direc-
tion will no longer detract from its merit, and render his
tenure of office precarious. At the present moment he is, in fact,
without a party; he is Minister solely by necessity; and
this necessity he may strengthen by separating himself from
all mere party ties, and by guiding himself entirely by those
great principles of civil, religious, and commercial liberty,
which from time to time he broadly enunciates, but which,
unfortunately, he seldom consistently follows. He cannot,
indeed, nor can any man, rule this country, without con-
stantly and sedulously watching the conflicting opinions and
interests which pervade every part of our system. Something,
doubtless, must in most cases be yielded to compromise; but
such compromise ought not to assume the character of con-
tradictory principles. No man who really desires to 'govern
this country, for its good, and with its own enlightened con-
sent, can safely h,tzard the contradiction involved in the pass-
ing of the Irish Colleges Bill, and the rejection of Mr. Ruther-
furd's proposed measure. The repetition of such a proceeding
would gravely compromise the power of any minister, no
matter how firmly established, and must &like to its centre a
power resting on foundations so unstable as those of the pre-
sent Administration. What is really needed by Sir Robert
Peel is a generous confidence in popular enlightenment. We
sincerely hope experience is giving him this absolutely ne-
cessary quality fur a really great statesman."

WINTER.
I come with a spirit untouched by care,
Tho' Time and his breezes have thinned my hair;
Hearty, tho' cold, my vigour unbroke,
Like the time-honotted boughs of my own old oak !
Thus Winter exclaiad, and he sigh'd as he spoke.
This is my lay,
Huzza! Huzza!
"The Countess Clemente" (by the elitor of Dolman's
Magazine) is continued through several chapters. "Re-
vival of Christian Art in Germany" is a renewed at-
tempt (on the folly of which we have already expressed
a strong opinion) to exalt the school and the produc-
tions of the Van Eycks and the Durers—the Giottos
and the Peruginos— above the school of Raffaelle espe-
cially, on the notable principle that the sublime artist of
Urbino has imparted too much of the material beauty
of form and refined elegance of sentiment of the best
ages of classical antiquity to his representations, not
alone of the Apostles and Martyrs, but of the Divine
Founder of the Christian faith and His sainted mother.
The hard Umbrian school of the Middle Ages, and the
fresco revivers of modern Germany, are to supplant in
our veneration and respect as Christian men, it seems,
the glorious " Materialism"—say, rather, the intellectual
inspiration of the Bolognese, or the Florentine and the
Venetian schools, since the Pontificates of Alexander
VI. and Pius 111., Julius 11. and Leo X. We are to
look coldly on the Titians, and the Guidos, and the
Guercenos;—but we are to sing Te Deem for the
triumphs of a hundred " unkempt' Germans, who, since
Frederic Overbeck " first crossed the mountains" (like
another Hannibal) in 1809, and has since been followed
by Cornelius and Schad ~w, Schnorr, Vogel, Eggers,
and all the rest of the " Teutonic school" (God help
us!), whose disciples are to displace from their thrones
those incomparable masters of the art to whom the
civilised portion of the human family has rendered, and
continues to pay, the willing homage of its respect, and
admiration, and gratitude!—" Risum teneatis?"

TAI T'S lIIAGAZINE
The English Opium-Eater has an article on the
Temperance Movement of Modern Times," and no
man could treat the subject better. He writes from
experience. He suffered grievously from the excessive
use of opium, and finally conquered a habit which he
feared had become inveterate and uncontrollable ;—his
advice therefore to those threatened with backsliding
in the temperance movement. The instructions arc
classed under nine different heads. In one of them he
says: —" I counsel the patient not to make the mistake
of suppo,ing that his amendment will necessarily pro-
ceed:
:pc
suppose
oo rsn ao e
to r b
bey such
Sunday, l an
continuously, or by equal increments ; because
sel
Sou have got over the
this, which is a common notion, will certainy lead to
dangerous disappointments. How frequently I hare
When
fourth languaged a y
heard peopleaos r aencouragithisng a
i
then Monday will find you a trifle better ; Tuesday
better still,—though still it should be only by a
trifle ; and so on. You may, at least, rely on never
going back ; you may assure yourself of having seen
the worst ; and the positive improvements, if trifles
separately, must soon gather into a sensible magni-
tude.' This may be true in a case of short standing ;
but, as a general rule, it is perilously delusive. On the
contrary, the line of progress, if exhibited in a geome-
trical construction, would describe an ascending path
upon the whole, but with frequent retrocessions into
descending curves, which, compared with the point
of ascent that had been previously gained and
so vexatiously interrupted, would sometimes seem
deeper than the original point of starting. This
mortifying tendency I can report from experi-
ences many times repeated with regard to opium."
We recommend the entire treatise, however, to the
wavering disciples of Father Mathew. The critique on
Nelson's Dispatches is well written, and possesses in-
terest. We may make the same remark on "Monastic
Studies, Jests, and Eccentricities ;" but the best article
in the number is on the " Present State of Politics," from
which we give the subjoined extract. Speaking of Sir
Robert Peel, the writer says :
"His strength, now, is derived from two sources;—the
one is the opinion, in his favour, of a large and enlightened
section of the public. This favour has been won by the evi-
dence which his conduct bas afforded, as well of skill, as of a
regard to the governing spirit and increasing enlightenment
of the times in which we live. The other source of his
strength is the weakness of all other parties, and all other
partymen. Many have been the occasions during the two
last years, when, if the Whigs had not been utterly destroyed
in popular estimation, Sir Robert Peel would have been ex-
cluded from his office. Had the Whigs, in the year 1837,
magnanimously resigned, because unable to carry out their
views of what the necessities of the nation required, they
would have regained much of the reputation they had for-
feited, and would now have been able to appeal to a favoura-
ble people for their suffrages. But, as they chose to cling to
power while a shred of it remained, each day saw their wan-
ing consideration grow less, till the bright luminary of 1832
became extinct in 1841 ; and many are the revolutions and
changes, and long the time that must pass, before any section
of the Liberal party have acquired power and consideration
sufficient to enable them to seize upon the government of the
country. The Tory party, in the meanwhile, are divided,
weakened, and without any leader of ability to head them.
Were Sir Robert reel to resign or be ousted to-morrow, one
mouth's Parliamentary campaign would utterly embroil all
parties, and every attempt to organise a stable administration
would prove abortive. The affairs of the country would in-
deed go on, by means of their inherent force and energy; but
all real advance would be seriously delayed, and the utmost
good that we could expect or hope would be, that no positive
calamity would occur ;—a fearful risk, when we consider what
is the condition of the world abroad, and that the peace of
Europe and the world may at any moment be seriously en-
dangered by the death of the King of the French, an old
though a vigorous man. These considerations contribute
largely to the maintenance of Sir Robert Peel's influence.
We do not believe, indeed, that he can be ousted by any coin-
bination.of Tory forces ; and, as we have already said, no
Whig administration is at this moment possible. Yet we can
well understand that many circumstances might occur to
place him in a minority; and thus, perhaps, induce him to
resign. A scramble would follow, honourable to no party,
and by no means beneficial to the public. Any retrograde
course cannot safely be adopted. If Sir Robert Peel, in the very
flush of victory, and with a large '
and obedient majority at his
command, found Tory rule impossible, we need not fear any
permanent establishment of such a dominion. Rash men
may attempt to fix such a yoke on the people; but they will
quickly discover their own folly, and learn how wise and pru-
dent WllB the abrse of 'their wary predeees3i*, But this

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