The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-03 00:00:00

COURSING.

CLYDESDALE CLUB MEETING, DEC. 28, 29, AND 30.
The Douglas Stakes were won by Mr. Pollock's Crosshouse—:
Lord Eglinton's Duke of Wellington ran up. The Eglinton
Makes were won by Mr. Campbell's Blythswood—Marquis of
Douglas's Crazy ran up. The Lanarkshire Open Cup was won
by Mr. A. Graham's Long- long-ago--Marquis of Douglas'
Checkmate ran up. The Consolation Stakes were won by
Mr. Geddes's Tam Ritchie—Captain M. Innes' Velocity ran up.
PEN[ RIDG E MEETING.—The Puppy Cup and Stakes, for
16 dogs, were won by Mr. Best's Molly Bawn ; and the Puppy
Stakes, ler 14 dogs, by Mr. Scott's Topper.

FOREIGN SUGAR FROM THE
BRITISH COLONIES.

It is genera.ly known that our enlightened and consistent
Government, although it will not allow the sugars of Brazil
and Cuba to be consumed in the three kingdoms, allows them
to be refined in this oountry in bond, and to be sent to the
West Indies, to he eaten there by the free negroes and their
employers. In consequence of this permission, foreign sugars
refined in this country are sent out to the West Indies and the
:Mauritius almost every day, and along with the refined sugars
there go out also considerable quantities of bastards, that is, of
the inferior kinds of sugar, separated trom the better parts in
refining. This bastard sugar is in appearance very like unre-
fined sugar, and as the bastards can be bought in Liverpool
for 14,.. whilst the raw West India and /Mauritius sugar is
worth 30s. per cwt. in this country, there is a great temptation
to mix them in the colonies, and to send the mixture to this
country as plantation sugar. We have reason to believe that
this kind of ;rand has been practised more than once of late,
especially in a case of which we heard last week, and we do
not doubt that if the law continues in its present state, it will
become more common every year. In some descriptions of
sugar it is scarcely possible to tell the difference between bas-
tard and raw sugar by the eye, so that it is not detected if the
sugar is sold in an unrefined state, though it becomes quite
evident if the attempt is made to refine the mixture, when
the residuum of the previously refined sugar is easily detected,
as it was in the case which we have mentioned above. —Liver-
poo,

New TRICKS IN LONDON.—There are few per-
sons who are acquainted with the streets of the metropolis
but must have occasionally noticed some poor and wretched
object gathering together the contents of a parcel of lucifer
matches, which have fallen from her hands on to the pave-
ment of a crowded thoroughfare. In nine cases out of ten
this is purposely done to excite the sympathies of the passer
by. It would seem, however, that encouraged by the success
which has attended this system, a desire has been raised to
improve upon the original idea. The vagrant having selected
for her objeet a well-dressed, charitable looking person (a
country gentleman with drab gaiters is sure game), places
himself suddenly in his way, and down go the matches.
The innocent victim of premeditated collision is immediately
, surrounded by a host of ragged confederates, who lousily cry
shame. The public take up the part of the "suffering," and
a compromise is entered into by the payment of an amount in
silver. This trick is often performed by a woman in High
Holborn, who, during the hours of the labourers' dinner,
would represent the wife of one of that class, with some
pieces of mockery ware and a bottle of greasy water, suspended
in a pocket handkerchief, acts in a similar manner to that ex-
emplified in the lucifer scheme. Yesterday the match trick
was performed with great success upon the pavement of the
National Gallery, and although at one time there were more
than three parties at work upon this small space, the results
appeared to be highly encouraging.
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE PRINCE
DE LA MOSKOWA.—The National publishes the following
details relative to the fact of the Prince de la Moskowa (Ney)
having resigned his commission in the army, which was stated
in Ihe Sun some days since:—" The Prince de la Moskowa
has been for a long time a chef d'escadron (major of cavalry),
impatiently waiting for promotion ; he tendered his resignation
several months since to the Minister at War, who induced him
to change his resolution by assuring him that in a short timAie
would be promoted. The period specified having expired, the
Prince waited on Marshal Soult, and asked him if he had
forgotten his promise. The Marshal replied, that it was
his anxious wish to have performed it; and he added, that
nothing could have given him greater pleasure than to have
proved to the son of Ney that he was not unmindful of the
friendship which existed between him and his old comrade.
He had given his word, and he wished to observe it, but
an invinciLls obstacle held the Minister's hand. The
Prince de la Moskowa took the first opportunity to complain to
the Duke de Nemours, who replied, that it was impossible to
promote those who gave a systematic opposition to the Go-
vernment- We should have perfectly understood the mode of
reasoning had the Duke de Nemours declared, ' You com-
mand very much at your ease in the Chamber of Peers, at the
Jockey Club, or behind a piano ; your comrades perform their
duty, which is often a painful one, in garrison towns ; you do
not suffer any of the fatigues of your profession, and you de-
ceive yourself if you imagine that your name or your rank of
Peer of France, gives you a right to promotion which you do
not deserve.' And it belonged to the Minister of War, and
not to the Duke de Nemours, to distinguish between those
who served and those who did not. Instead of that, the Mi-
nister induces the Prince to retain his commsssion. He
makes a promise, and it is the Duke de Nemours who inter-
feres between the Minister and his subaltern. What, there-
fore, must the army think, when it finds that it is not its legal
Chief which it is bound to obey, but a Prince upon whom the
Charter has conferred no power ?"
BRIGHTON, TUESDAY.—On Sunday night we were
visited with a tremendous hurricane, which lasted until the
following morning. A number of large fishing-boats have
within the last few days been fitted out to proceed to Plymouth
to commence the mackerel fishery; fortunately they had not
started. The wind has done considerable damage to houses
in exposed situations, and it is feared that disasters have
occurred at sea. About ten o'clock yesterday morning the
wind lulled, and was succeeded by a fall of snow, the first we
have had here this winter.

A very extensive fire broke out on the premises of
Mr. Brews, clothier, Bute-street, Cardiff, on Thuisday, the
21st ult., which destroyed property to the amount of 8000/.