The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-01 00:00:00

SPANISH

ie betting.
For the Cambridgeshire, value 1,0801., eighteen
started : two or three remained at home, not liking the
weather., Had Mr. fat James Robinson chosen to get
down to the weight. I suppose no one will now ima-
gine that Ralph could not have won the Cesarewitch
and I expressed this opinion immediately after that
race, as well as my opinion before that race, that he
would win. I have been hardly treated. A finer race
was never seen. These six were abreast as they entered
the cords :—Ralph, Florence, Lady Adela, Garry
Owen, Knight of the 'Whistle, and 13ellissiina. The
horse won very clever at last. There was very little
betting on the race. Books were opened late, and I
should saythere were very few losers or large winners.
It is my opinion this race would be better run on the
Tuesday. Vulcan, Melior, and Florence were backed
for more money a great deal than any other three.
The Nursery closed in two classes, as I anticipated,
this evening (Tuesday). the settling took place in
the court-yard attached to the rooms. 'Why this
should not be enclosed in a glass case, and the ad-
mission be one guinea per annum, I know not; I am
sure it would be a most popular improvement ; people
wrearien
m.
are not fond of paying and receiving thousands in the
wind
andmatches pound to a shilling
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againasa six races, but the
on each. A sort of a wrangle took place for the last
race, but the winner won easy. Old Chifney displayed
a fine bit of riding in the first, and, to give the devil
his due, did win a race right out of the tire.
Five races were run on the NVednesday : in the
first Portrait and the Knight of the Whistle ran a
dead heat, and the former, I believe, never did any-
thing better in his life: how they could back him as
they did at 8 to 1 for the Cesarewitch is a mystery,
but there are many such on the turf. Jeremy Did-
dler won the Jack Plate—i. e., the plate won by Jack
last year—by a short head. Had the Prince of
"Wales won, they would of course have taken 8 to 1
about him for the Derby. Another reason exists
why they never should now—he does not happen to
be in the Derby. The betting on this was heavy
after the races. Murat, Philip, and Jamal were
backed to win great stakes ; the latter is entered in
the Derby under the name of Bacon. Although in-
creasing the sport the dividing the Nursery into two
classes proved an effectual check to book-making, for,
up to this evening, I question if two bets were laid on
the two races.
On Thursday we are gratified with the important
declaration that it is not Lord George
Bentinck's
present intention to run Gaper for the Derby. Now,
as it is not my present intention to be Lord Mayor of
London next year, Ido not say it is ; but if I did,
and changed my mind in the spring, there is no Act
of Parliament to prevent my so doing, and of what
avail would have been my declaration? I re-
member the same manifesto
coming out about
a horse called Grey Milton. The public
having their own curious way, of interpret-
ing this pretty language, immediately backed him
heavily. I wonder if they will Pay his Lordship the
same ambiguous compliment a second time. There
was a grand coursing match in the morning, and not
much racing in the afternoon. Murat, looking rough
and bad in the coat, won his race in a slovenly style,
and Forester, like all the Irish horses, comes out after
being beat half a-dozen times, and wins half-a-dozen
lengths : his owner, however, has made a sad hash of
what might have turned out a most valuable horse;
he might have almost made a certainty of the next
Goodwood Stakes.
FRlDAT.—Rhodanthe has won a race at last, so ex-
claimed the ring after the Audley End Stakes. 'Tis
a long lane without a turning. On the first class f
o
the Nursery there was very little betting, notwith-
standing one of the finest handicaps ever seen. Co-
therstone, I pronounce, will see a better day.
More horses were backed in the second class, which
was a good
had a me been
tween the two. The fraternity would have preferred
one class. Garryovven lost his match : the orders
given to his jockey were surely most injudicious. In
a short race, it seems preposterous that the little horse
should wait upwards of two lengths behind his oppo-
nent, the horse pulling so hard that he appeared to
run all over the course. Perhaps lam wrong, but I
think, properly rode, Garry°. wen would have beat the
mare. In spite of their being ;
e-gat races already on
the list for Saturday, the departures this evening were
numerous.
I told you in my last that we might fairly expect
five and thirty races during the week ; thirty-eight were
actually run, and four matches did not come off. I be-
lieve there would have been more, and that such a su-
perfluity would not have been reserved for the last
day, had not the Marquis of Exeter been summoned
to Windsor to attend her Majesty ; his
Lordship did
not get back to Newmarket until Friday night. Twelve
races in the day are too much for man and beast—if
Nat, the jockey, does not agree with me, I'll be upon
my oath his hack does—this popular insect actually
rode in ten races, and I have calculated that he could
not have travelled much less than forty miles to do
this. Of the ten matches it particularly behoves me
to speak of those won by Celia, that I may introduce
to your notice the extraordinary performances of
the Touchstone stock (my favourite blood, as you
very well know). Touchstone is the sire of Auck-
land, Blue Bonnet, Celia, Lady Adela, Rosalind,
Dilbar, and (as in every litter there is always one
very wretched little pig) Jack. Auckland was once
tried to be an extraordinary good horse, Blue Bonnet
won the St. Leger, Celia was amiss in the spring or
would have won the Oaks in a walk ; if the
running of her opponents is right this last week,
there is no three-year-old in training that would
have a chance with her. Lady Adela was the
only three-year.old in the Cambridgeshire Stakes 'not
distanced; she was a good third, Look at the run-
ning of Ma Mie, and recollect Rosalind beat her in a
canter the other day. Dilbar was at 7 to 4 for the
Oaks, and beat Celia at Goodwood easy. I will leave
the little pig to squeak for himself. Cotherstone
(goodness gracious, there are only two other by
Touchstone in the Derby) runs a dead heat for the
Nursery, not half prepared : reader, never forget him.
I congratulate Lord Exeter most sincerely on his good
fortune in possessing such a mare as Celia, a mare
that beat in succession the three supposed speediest
horses in Neivmarket, viz. :—Garryow en, Cameleon,
and Jeremy Diddler. Pompey has been lucky in his
matches, having won them all. He Was in the Derby,

7 —7
By a communication issued on Friday from the
Committee of Spanish American Bondholders, the
following is stated to be the position of that part of the
Colombian debt attaching to the Republic of New
Granada, which is 50 per cent. on the whole :—An
agreement was made at Bogota in April last, between
the agents of the Bondholders and the Government,
subject to approval by the Bondholders in England,
for the adjustment of this portion of the debt. It has
been found impracticable to carry this agreement into
effect, in consequence of its containing a clause to
which the assent of the British Government cannot be.
i-Qlltaineci. _ '.l:laclause is to the effept., that in order
to prevent the branches of revenue ailproPriated to the
payment of the dividends being at any future time
interfered with by factious disturbances in New Gra-
nada, the British Government will bind itself, when-
ever called upon by the Government of New Granada to
do so, to lend its assistance towards putting down such
factious disturbances. The British Government, al-
though always ready to do every thing in its power
to protect the interests of the Bondholders, has
declined to enter into an engagement the consequences
of which it does not foresee; and, as the aforesaid
agreement with the Bondholders has been made to
depend upon obtaining the agreement of the British
Government to this clause, the proceedings are of
necessity referred back to Bogota, in order that the
clause in question may be abstracted from the agree-
ment. It is quite clear that the Government of New
Granada could have no right to impose any such con-
dition on the Bondholders. The Committee of Bond-
holders have sent out peremptory instructions to
Bogota to have the negotiation brought to an instant
close, without the introduction of any condition which
it is n A in the power of the Bondholders to perform.
The last accounts from New Granada state that tran-
quillity was restored throughout the Republic ; but
there is no doubt that the mischief which the last re-
volution (extending over a period of nearly 18 months)
has produced, has greatly thrown back the resources
of the country from one extremity of it to the other.
The Committee have at the same time sent instruc-
tions to obtain an immediate arrangement of that
portion of the debt which devolves on the Republic of
the Equator, viz., 211 per cent.—Times.

THE WINE TRADE.
The following correspondence of the leading mem
hers of the Portuguese wine-trade with the Foreign
office bears immediate reference to the state of negotia
tions with Portugal :
~;r Loitp—v
910, St. Sw,ithie
in's, the undersigned-lane, London,
Britishoct.ls m
15, 1842.
chants, having establishments at Oporto and Lisbon
engaged in the commerce in Portuguese wines, re-
spectfully beg leave to represent to your Lordship the
great and serious injuries under which we have been
for a long time labouring—injuries which are daily
increasing—in consequence of the entire stagnation of
the trade in wines, owing to the expected reduction
of duties.
"That which thus affects us affects the whole of the
wine-merchants of the United Kingdom in an equal,
or perhaps a greater, degree.
"We feel satisfied that her Majesty's Government
must be anxious to do all in their power to avert
these evils, and to relieve the wine trade from its pre-
sent most embarrassing situation ; and we venture to
point out to your Lordship, that had it not been for
the declaration that the usual drawback on duty paid
stock in dealers' hands would not be allowed, the pay-
ment of duties on wine would have gone on as unin-
terruptedly as ever (as in 1834, prior to the reduction
of 1835), and that the impetus given to the wine-
trade, whenever the duty shall be reduced, would, if
thf return were granted, be such as rapidly to reim-
burse the Treasury the amount so returned.
" Whatever may be the ultimate decision of her
Majesty's Government on that point however, we beg
most earnestly to press upon your Lordship the adop-
tion of every measure which can tend to bring this
long-pending negotiation with Portugal to a speedy
issue.—We have the honour to be very respectfully,
my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient and very
humble servants,
[Here follow the signatures.]
" To the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen."
ANSWER TO TIIE PETITION.
" Foreign-office Oct. 25.
" GENTLEMEN—I am directed by the Earl of Aber-
deen to acknowledge the receipt of the letter which
you and several of the principal merchants engaged
in the commerce in Portuguese wine have addressed
to his Lordship, representing the stagnation which at
present prevails in that commerce, in consequence of
the new duties not being settled, and calling upon
his Lordship to adopt every measure for the speedy
settlement of those duties ; and I am to state to you,
in reply, that the amount of those duties is included
in the various points which are now in negotiation
between Great Britain and Portugal, and that every
exertion is making to bring the negotiations to a
speedy conclusion. —I am, Gentlemen, your most
obedient humble servant,

" 11. M. ADDINGTON
" To Messrs. Sandeman, Forsters, and Co.,
and others."

DEATH IN BRIXTON HOUSE OF CORRECTION.-
Yesterday Mr. Carter, the Coroner for Surrey, held
an inquest in the Brixton House of Correction re-
specting the death of Henry Brice, a prisoner who had
been committed from Union-hall, for fourteen days,
for refractory conduct in Newington Workhouse. It
appeared the deceased was one of those who would not
work after breakfast, but preferred, as soon as that
meal was over, taking a walk to some other place for
the same purpose. By lyinz about in the open air
and damp he had greatly impaired his health and con-
stitution, and was ill when admitted, and, although
every attention was paid to him, he got worse, and
ex fired. Verdict—" Natural death.
EFFECTS OF THE FALL OF PRICES.—The land-
lords in Ireland, like the landlords in England, having
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they
landowners,te
phrasetheir
before,
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fodori
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the
ne nce
no
el possession,ofint
in general mortgaged their estates, see that the fall of
priceshs
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ni
heard
dl t
hp
that
ha
they begin to call out for equitable adjustment. We
interpreted it, we recollect, to mean a tax levied exclu-
facturers, equal to the sum which
the Corn-law has
annually, since 1815, taken out of
the pockets of the
people.
RATES OF INSURANCE. --We
e are given to under-
stand that, owing to the seri • ous losses which have re-
cently been sustained by cFire Insurance Companies
generally, a very unanimous determination has been
come to amongst them to make a considerable
in the rates of premium for the insurance of cotton-
mills and Liverpool and Manchester warehouse risks,
which, we are informed, will come into immediate
operation. Manchester Guardian.
CUPAR ANGUS--.SUDDEN RISING OF A RIVER.—
So suddenly did the river Ericht, near its conjunction
with the Isla, a little beyond Cupar Grange, rise on
Friday last, that it nearly swept the boatman and his
coble down the stream, while crossing about mid-day.
The river was at its usually low ebb and calmness at
this season when he crossed with a passenger, which
occupies about two minutes, and on his instant return
it had risen so quickly, and so strong was the current,
that he had great difficulty in effecting a landing,
and the spot from which he emigrated so recently was
occupied by a black foaming peatish flood. The late
rains amongst the hills account in some measure for
this uncommon flood ; but the oldest persons in the
district do not, from their earliest recollection, bring
to mind a similar instance where so great a body of
water came breasting down on the same day.—Perth-
shire Advertiser.
A number of supernumeraries, shipwrights, from
Deptford, &c., have been re-entered, for the purp
of building anew battery of large dimensions
outh. for gun-
nery practice, on Southsea-common, Portsm It
is being framed and fitted in the dockyard.
DEATH OF THE REV. SOLOMON HERSCHELL.—
Died yesterday morning, in the 82d year of his age,
the Rev. Solomon Herschell, 40 years Chief Rabbi,
and during that long period beloved and respected by
all classes of perms, without reference to religious
opinion.