The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-02 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

I'ATTERSAL

:S. -.-1114,1 RC II 1.

The betting was sharp toward
Leger, for which latter Reviewei
The odds closed as under :

is the close, on
,the Derby and St.
r, as might be expected, is goiog.

DERBY.
6i to 1 agst Web 22 to 1 agst Gustavus
9 to 1 agst Tatler" 22 to 1 agst Spondee
'l4 to 1 agst Defence 23 to 1 gst Catherine
14 to 1-agst Espagnone 33 to 1 agst Turcoman
!..'0 to 1 agst on:Teter'
_33 to 1 agst Cressida
20 to 1 agst Gaberlunzie 33 to 1 agst Gamelius
20 to 1 agst Dahlia 35 to 1 agst Lord Ailesbury'a
22 to 1 agst Mameluke 50 to 1 agst Huldibraud
4,000 to 60 agst Fillagree
.5,000 to 15 agst Cressida, Maria, and Posy*
RIDDLESWORTH.
5 to 2 agst Web, p.p.' and even that he does not start.
6 to 1 agst Cressida, and 5 to 1 on Edwards's stable agst the field.*

OAKS.

No betting of any consequence.
ST. LEGER.
50 to 1 agst Coalition*
50 to 1 agst Medoro*
50 to 1 agst Beggar Boy*
50 to 1 agst Pedlar*
50 to 1 agst Kit Cat*

16 to 1 agst Jupiter
18 to 1 agst Reviewer
18 to 1 agst Sancho
20 to 1 agst Olivera
20 to 1 agst. Popsy
20 to 1 agst Granby
2,000 even Kit Cal
Those marked the

agst Beggar Boy.*
is (*) were taken.

During the late frosty weather, general attention
was one day attracted on the Canalde la Villete, at Paris, by the
appearance of a lady who was skaiting with equal grace and con-
fidence. She was habited in a black dress of Gros de Naples,
rather short, ornamented with three rows of hauls volans ; a
rose-coloured bonnet, and black buskins; a gentleman accom-
panied her, occasionally giving her his hand, and displayed also
much elegance in his motions. They were both natives of
Holland. The eyes of all the amateurs were upon them, and the
fair foreigner, especially by her graceful and easy manner, excited
the admiration of all, and merited the encomiums generally be-
stowed on her.—Le Furet.

, Answer to the memorial of the merchants, as to the
duty on corn from the Mediterranean :

Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Feb, 26.
The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
having had under their consideration in the memorial presented
by you on the 14th instant, praying on behalf of yourselves and
other merchants of the city of London, that •sucli vessels as may
have been cleared from the ports in the Mediterranean with car-
goes of beans and oats, in time to justify a reasonable expectation
of their arriving in this kingdom before the 15th instant, may
be permitted to entef their cargoes for home consumption on the
payment of the duties fixed by his Majesty's Order in Council of
the Ist of September last, and subsequently continued by the
Act of 7th Geo. IV., sect. 2, c. 3, until the 15th of February—l
am directed to acquaint you, that the period being now expired
which was fixed by this last mentioned Act for the admission
of the several sorts of grain specified in the order in Council,
the Lords of the Committee have no power to dispense with the
provisions of the Acts of 55th Geo. 111. c. 26, and 3d Geo. IV.,
c. 60, by which the importation of foreign corn and grain is re-
gulated, and the duties thereon determined.
(Signed) THOMAS LACK.

It is earnestly to be desired, that amongst the im-
provements about to be made in the criminal law of the country,
some alteration will take place in the present custom of indiscri-
minately passing sentence of death at the Old Bailey Sessions,
upon all persons who may be capitally convicted. It is well known,
that about three years heel:, an act was passsed empowering the
Judges to record the sentence of death in certain cases where it
was evident capital punishment would not follow, in order to avoid
the impropriety, not to say the absurdity, of pronouncing the aw-
ful sentence upon criminals convicted of offences technically capi-
tal, yet of a degree comparatively venial. The Judges of Assize avail
themselves of this power of recording the sentence of death, but
the expbunders of the law have decided that the act does not ap-
ply to the county of Middlesex and city of London ; in consequence
of which, the judgment of death is given with the same solemnity
upon the idle boy of twelve years of age, who is convicted of
housebreaking, because he cracks a pane of glass and introduces
his finger with intent to steal, as upon the ferocious highway rob-
ber or midnight burglar. Any one who has attended the Old
Bailey Sessions must have observed the Judges frequently labour-
ing to avoid the capital parts of -an indictment, and the -Juries
even straining their consciences for the same purpose; notwith-
standing which, there are now above seventy prisoners under sen-
tence of 'death in Newgate, upon only a very small proportion of
whom the extreme punishment of the law will fall.— Times.
CONSTRUCTION OF MEN OF WAR.—The Alpe-
riaans have adopted in their line-of-battle ships, a pumpdale be-
tween the beams of the lower deck, with a bole through the side,
for the water to run through; which must make their fall so little
distant from the water's edge, that when the ship rolls much, or
rather, when pressed by canvass, and driving at the same time to
leeward, must close the scupper so quickly, that the vent for water
is materially injured by it. Propositions have been made at ,diffe-
rent periods in this country to place the pumpdale under the
beams of the main deck, but the additional power necessary to
raise the water so high, has always operated against its introduc-
tion, and thus the old wooden pumpdale, running directly across
the lower deck in the way of training the guns, besides other in-
conveniences, 110‘been allowed to remain in our service. Captain
Charles Phillips, R.N. has proposed a plan upon the common
hydrostatic principle of water rising to its own level, of placing the
pumpdale under the lower deck, the one end connected with the
cistern or trough, at the head of the chain pumps, the other to a
pipe that carries the water up to the scupper hole through which
it vents at present ; by which means all the above-mentioned oh-
! ieetions are obviated, as, from the head of the pumps being higher
than the scupper or upper end of the pipe, the water will run as
, quickly as the pampa discharge it.. Captain Phillips's plan was
fitted in his Majesty's ship Asia, previously to her sailing from
this port, and Sir Edward Codrington has expressed himself
bighly satisfied with its operations. We understand the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty have ordered one of his Majesty's
ships in ordinary at Chatham to be fitted with a second, to give
Capt. Phillips the time and opportunity necessary to perfect his
plan by experiment.
CHARACTER OF THORWALTZEN.—Tliorwaltzen
is a native of Copenhagen, and his father of Iceland : he bears it
about him—his residence of twenty years in Italy has produced
no change—years have glided over him
,without an impression.
In the structure or muscles of his couiltenanc,e, there are none of
those nicely defined delicacies which indicate that happy sensi-
tiveness to beauty, or that sagacity almost instinctive, of taste,
which is the appanage and glory of the Smith. But he has per-
haps, instead, the externals of, a higher order of intellect. His
forehead is capacious, and trenched, with the traces of bold and
grand thought; his eyes, though small, and of the light savage
blue of the Goth'and Hun, have a steady mental lustre about them
which is well set off by their enchasement. The softer parts of
his character, that good-nature so characteristically and nationally
German, lie in honest and ungracious smiles about his mouth.
The entire head is crowned with a waste of neglected hair thinly
sprinkled with grey, which gives a venerable air to the whole, and
frames well the portrait. It is just such a model as I should
choose for a Scandinavian Jupiter. Throughout, there is great
power and firm will, much genius and more reflection. His own
bust; executed by himself, concentres both. It is a noble work,
and bears well a comparison with that of Canova. It is the
ideal of the elements which compose him, preserving still the
actual and grosser lineaments of the man. I know nothing finer
than the profound gaze of thought, the antique solemnity engen-
dered over the whole being by high and noble meditations, which
is so pregnantly expressed in every trait. There is, throughout,
much of the " terribil via" of his great predecessor; a muscle of
mind, if I may so express it, as' well as body; a grasp and
strength, singularly opposed to the open mouth, the Virgilian
inspiration, the soft devoticmal enthusiasm of the head of Canova.
There is another portrait by a German artist; and a third by
Camuccini, executed for him in the meridian of their friendship,
and in gratitude for the admirable restoration of his relief of Tra-
jan. Camuccini's is a cold and gloomy performance. When I
afterwards saw it, and knew Thorwaltzen well, I neither recog-
nized the man nor his mind. The German portrait is the
favourite of the artist himself: the likeness is there, but it is
still clay,--the mere prosaic recollection of his character, labori-
ously and painfully wrought to the matter of fact of colour and
shape. He has shorn him of all the higher rays of intellect,
and terrestrialized the divine particle, as much as was in his
power. His manners are open and affable; a natural simplicity,
with more than the warmth of,4is countrymen, enhances the
value of, his courtesies ; nor is their sincerity a little heightened,
bAthe strongly aspirated German Italian, which he still speaks.
He soon sets you at your ease ;—is communicative without being
talkative--kind without affectation ; and you cannot leave him
without the impression that his moral character, instead of suf-
fering, receives and communicates additional lustre to his intel-
lectual, by the contact.

DIFFERENT MODES OF SALUTATION.

- -The 'Greenlanders never salute one another; they cannot,
without laughter, advert to the notion of one person being inferior
to another.

The Islanders in the neighbourhood of the Philippines lay hold
of the hand or foot of the person whom they accost, and rub their
faces with it. - •

The Laplanders press the nose strongly against that of the in-
dividual they are saluting.*
In New Guinea they place leaves on the head of the person
saluted.

In the Straits of Sunda the foot of the person saluted is raised,
and passed gently along the right leg,-and over the body.
The inhabitants of the Philippine Isles bend very low, with
their bands on their cheeks, and with, one of the feet raised in the
air, and the knee bent.

The Ethiopian takes his friend's garment and binds it round
himself in such a w-. 3, as to leave the former naked.
In saluting, the Japanese takes off one shoe, and the people of
Arracan their sandals, when in the street; in the house they take
off their breeches.

Black Kings of the Coast of Africa salute each other by squeez-
ing three several times each other's middle anger.
The inhabitants of Caramania, in testifying peculiar attach-
ment, open a vein, and present to their friend the blood that
springs forth to drink.

When the Chii.ese meet their acquaintance after a long separa-
tion, they cast themselves on their knees, incline their heads to-
wards the ground two or three times, and put in practice, be-
sides, a great many marks of affection. They have, besides a
kind of ritual, or academy of compliments, where the number of
reverences and genuflexions, and the words suitable to each, are
regularly laid down. Ambassadors repeat these ceremonies forty,
days before appearing at Court.
The Otaheitans cock their noses at each other.

The Dutch, who are great eaters, have a morning salutation,
common to all ranks, Smaakelyh &ten? Do you eat apper-
tisingly ? They ask one another, Hoe vaart awe? How de
you voyage? The latter form is derived, undoubtedly, from the
early times of the Republic, when every one was a navigator and
a fisher.

At Cairo the question is, " How do you perspire ?" because,
dry skin is looked on as an indication of a deadly ephemeral fever.
In comparing the haughty Spaniard with the fickle French-
man, some authors have discovered the pride and lofty bearing,
and inflexible importance, of the former, in his usual salute, " Come
esta ?" " How do you hold up ?" Whilst the " Comment von:
portez vous ?" " How do you carry yourself?" of the second is
equally expressive of their joyous humour and ceaseless activity.
In the southern province of Chile the salutation is y a fan?
Have you ate your rice?
In Africa, a young betrothed damsel puts a little water in a
calibash, and, kneeling by the side of .her lover, invites him to
wash his hands in it; the girl, then weeping, with pleasure drinks
the water. This is looked on as the greatest proof of fidelity and
attachment that can be manifested to a lover.—Furet.

* The practice among the Laplanders,. above mentioned, we
rather think to be incorrect—at least we do not recollect any no-
tice of it in Clarke. Captain Ross describes such a mode of salu-
tation among the Esquimaux. The practice of the African brides
is not quite so singular as that mentioned by some of the early
travellers, as prevailing among several Tartar tribes. We cannot
venture to give it in plain English. The bride, says the traveller
Ad hoVitetn quem maximo honore afficere voluerit mittit
poculum urinae suae pleoum quod necesse sit ut bibat ; aliter fecisse
baud levi injuriae dueitur."—This is worse than swallowing the
contents of a wash-hand basin, but lore and fashion reconcile us to
many strange things.

ARUNDEL MARKET.—Feb. 27.
4s. Od. to 4s. RM. I Veal

gd. to oe.
ga.
Supply, for the time of y. ar, Inoderately good, and trade rather dull.

Reef......
Mutton

CHICHESTER MARRET.—Feb. 28.

Beef TOW. Os. Od. to Os. Od..
Mutton.. 4 0 46 I Pork—,— .4 0 4 4
In lean stock but little was doing. A fair average nlpply, and a
sluggish trade.