The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-06 00:00:00

FROM TIIE SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE GI

FRIDAY.

At the Court at liuckingl;ain Palace, the 3d day .f
June, liM2, present, the Queen's most Excellent Ma-
jesty in Council.
It is tins day ordered by her Majesty in Council that Ma
Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury do prepare a form of
prayer and thanksgiving to Almighty God for his late mer-
ciful preservation of the Queen from the atrocious and trea-
sonable attempt against her sacred persor, on Monday the
30th day of May last; and that such form of prayer and
thanksgiving be used in all churches and chapels in Eng-
land and Wales, and in the town of Berwick-on-Tweed, upon
Sunday the sth of this instant June, or so soon as the
ministers of such churches and chapels shall, respectively,
receive the same, and be continued for thirty days afterwards.
W.M. L. BATHURST.
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 3d day of
June, 1842, present, the Queen's most Excellent Ala•
jesty in Council.
It is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council, that all
ministers and preachers, as well of the iistablished Church in
that part of Great Britain called Scotland, as of the episcopal
communion, protected and allowed by an Act, passed in the
tenth year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, cap. 7,
(10, at some time (luring the exercise of Divine Service in their
churches, congregations, or assemblies, on Sunday, the .sth of
this instant June, or as socn as the ministers of such churches,
congregations, or assemblies respectively, shall be enabled so
to do, and for thirty days afterwards, put up prayers and thanks-
giving to Almighty God for his late merciful preservation of
the Queen from the atrocious and treasonable attempt against
her sacred person, en Monday, the 30th day of May last.
WILLIAM L. BATHURST.
Some discoveries were made on Sasurday by the police,
connected with the charge of high treason, for which Francis
stands commit,ed.

About three or fuur o'clock on Friday afternoon, several
persons canal at the shop of Mr. Geerge Havener, a pawn-
broker, of No. 19, Tothill-street, Westminster, and stated
that the pistol which Francis had discharged at her Majesty had
been purchased at that shop. These observations were re-
garded merely as jokes, and no doubt exists that in some in-
stances they were so intended. However, between four and
five o'clock Inspector Hughes, of the A division, dressed in plain
clothes, visited the pawnbroker's, and upon examining Mr.
Street,the shopman, found that a person answering the descrip.
Lion of Francis had purchased a pocket pistol of him on Friday
afternoon, the 27th ult., for the sum of 3s. The pistol, it
appeared, bore the name of Smith, and had been pledged
about 18 months ago with Mr. Havener. The inspector im-
mediately communicated what he had heard to the Police
Commissioners, and the pistol taken from Francis was ordered
to be shown to be Mr. Street, who immediately identified it
as the one he had sold on the day already mentioned.
In the course of Friday evening and Saturday, Colonel
Bowan and Mr. Mayne, the Metropolitan Police Commission-
ers, with Inspector Hughes, had an interview with Sir James
Graham at the Home-office; the result was, that a communi-
cation was sent to Mr. Cope, the Governor of Newgate, and
orders were given that Hughes should take Mr. Street to that
gaol, for the purpose of ascertaining if he was able to identify
the prisoner. This step was taken about ten o'clock on Satur-
day morning, hut the witness was merely permitted to see
Francis as he paced the airing-yard, through the bars of the
prison-gate. The precautionary step of others being in the
offender's company was adopted in order to test the value of
the evidence of identity, and Francis himself was not aware of
this important link of the evidence being supplied against kim.
After Mr. Havener's shopman had identified the prisoner as the
purchaser of the pistol, he returned with the Inspector to the
Home-office, where his deposition in writing was taken by Mr.
Maille. the Treasury Solicitor, with the view of making his
evidence available on the prisoner's trial.

SPORT/is/G.
The only rar.ecourse habitually patronised by Royalty is As-
cot Heath. True, her Majesty did once honour Lpsom with
her presence, but it must be some untoward accident that
shall ever prevent the party assembling at Windsor Caztle
for Ascot races.

'1 he sport commences to-morrow, and the Directors of the
Great Western Hallway are once again liberal only in the
number of trains they provide for the conveyance of the
publie to and from Slou,zh : there is no Hal way plate or an-
nouncement of one shilling being added to the race fund by
the great. uidcrtaking that makes some thousands profit by the
races. Shame.

In the calendar, I observe, that 111 r. Brown is authorised by
the Master of her Majesty's buckhounds, to print the card and
sheeet lists. So long as we remember, the cry has been,
" Oxley's correct card :" the change has been attributed, by
the morning Radical paper, to the politics of the printer, which
I no:ice merely for its absurdity. It is the Earl of Rosslyn's
opinion that her 111ajesty's tradesmen should share, and not
monopolise, the patronage of the Court—a system so totally
contrary to Whig- Radical principles that of course they cry out.
There will be seven races run to-morrow. Out of the 19
acceptances for the Stakes, some ten or a dozen will come to
the post, but the ground is so terribly hard, that the la.t prepa-
ratory gallop may do up any one c f them. Rhodanthe and
Monops arc turned loose, and if they arc beat., I fancy a three
year old will win, but this is only a fancy. As the allowances
and penalties are rather confusing in the conditions attached to
the Gold Vase, presented by her Majesty, I give the neFght
each hoise must carry, and, I believe, accurately :
Beeswing, aged, fist 41b St. Francis, aged, 9st 91b
Eringo, 4 yrs, ost 41b The Nob, 4 yrs, 9st
Muley Ilamet, 4 yrs, Bstilb Bosphorus, 6 yrs, Bst blb
Jack, 3 yrs, ist 31b Eaglesfield, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b
Pannakeen, 3 yts, Est 131 b Albion. 3 yrs, 6st 131 b
Rosalind, 3 yrs, Est 121 b Yorkshire Lady, 3 yrs, Est 81b
Filly by Touchstone, out of Adela, 3 yrs, Est 81b
It must be observed that Bosphorus gets the greatest al-
lowance, and 'faith he deserves it, for he has in the last
three years started 23 times and won only once. viz., in the
match with Camelino ; nor must it be forgotten that
Bloomsbury gave him two stone in the Cesarewitch Stakes
and beat him, both then four years old. It Auld be a race
between the old mare and the favourite for the Oaks, but
the latter was coughing at Epsom. and may not have reco-
vered. Canadian can hardly have recovered his lameness : the
Ascot Derby, then, is between Sir Ilarry and Arehy. Auck.
land, another Epsom invalid, receiving bibs., meets Firebrand
in the 290 Sots. Stake : the mare for choice : the horse cannel
t.e himsilf in the time. In the Trial Stakes, Meal, second ii
the Oaks, meets Satirist, the weight being more in favour o
the old horse than in the Craven Stakes at Rasom.
He- Majesty's Plate has clost d with so respectable an entry,
that Wedn?sday will not be the blank day it so often is, net only
here, but at Newmarket, Doncaster, and other places. There
are also stv,inteen catered f r the 50 Soy. Plate.

A horrid rumour is afloat that our old friend. Lanereo t, is
to be deprived of his chance fur the cup, because entered as a
six year old instead of an aged horse, the weights being the
same in either case. I hope to state in a postscript that this
is not to be the case. I believe the old horse never was eo fit,
and I need not say he never had such a chance before.
Beeswing, St. Francis, Eringo, The Nob, and Jack, are on
the ground. Judex stood on Lanereost last year, and it
is not probable he will desert an old friend in his old
age, hut in his absence he is not prepared to say, as the
public imagine, that Beeswing winning is a certainty.
At present there has been no money hardly laid out
on this far and wide exciting race. Many thousands
have ere now changed hands in the settling for the Ascot
Cup, small as the field has often been. In 1837 four started,
and Touchstone won. In 1838, three started, and Grey Mo.
mus won. In 1839, four started, and Caravan won. In 1840,
seven started, and St.. Francis won. In 1841, six started, and
Lanercost won. It is impossible to say how many may rue on
Thursday, every one of the horses arrived being also entered in
the Vase excepting Lanercvst. There will be seven other
races, without heats—an intolerable nuisance at. such respec-
table meetings as Ascot and Goodwood. Twenty-seven horses
are named for the Grand Stand Plate, and let us hope this
handicap will be rather more like a race of that description than
the same List season. Beyond the two classes of Woking hams,
there will be no sport on Friday worth mentioning.
The Goodwood entries are out. There are 51 subteribers
to the Cup, and one hundred and thirty-eight horses named
fur the stakes. Why, what a farce is this? No man in Eng-
land shall handicap them within half a mile, and he may have
a manth to do it. I have before now advocated the division of
this stake into two classes, the winners of each to run again,
allowing the beaten horses so much weight if they pleased to
challenge ; but I am now of opinion that there are horses' enough
for three classes, a plan formerly adopted with the greatest
success with the Oatlands at Newmarket.

June 6. JUDEX.
The Lanercost question is settled, and he may run, and wilt
too, if he likes.

STATE OF TRADE.—In common with other parts
of the British Empire, Boston and its immediate neighbour.
hood have been subjected to the almost universal depression
of trade. The annual fair—the " fortnight" market—" pack
rag " day—have all passed by, and lett very little money be-
hind them. In the midst of the beautiful summer, with the
promise of a continuance of excellent. weather, there is little
doing; many mechanics ale unemployed, tradesmen,will
starving
and the labouring classes are badly provid'.d •this
end ? All hope of salutary measures of relief from,Peel
'°Bribery Parliament ''has long since ceased.—Stanford
Mercury.
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it landed hertil e pas_ths
Tint Genernl Steam
Antwerp
steam-ship Rainbow, Captain .1.
Fife, which left
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rrirning, after a pleasaisittiir
OsasmteenCiloalt7ipiainneyo's'esloue'akmla-st night, and landed her passengers at
London-bridge Wharf shortly after ten this morning.—The
new steamship Princess Royal, Capt. J. W. Mortis, belonging
to the same Company, arrived from Edinburgh this morning ;
made the passage in 41,,4 hours.
At a public, meeting of the Governors and sup-
porters of the Lock Hospital. Asylum, and Chapel, held on
;Saturday last, at the Thatched House Tavern, it was stated by
the Report that the new building, when completed, will fernish
accommodation in the hospital for fifty male and fifty female
patients, and in the asylum protection would be afforded to fifty
females, while the chapel would accommodate 1,200 persons.
The gross estimated deficiency, however. of the establishment
at the present moment, is 10,089/. Subscriptions to the
amount of 2,000/, were announced.
A Belgian lady, 71 years of age, known for her
excessive avarice, afthough• possessor of 25,000 fr. a year, has
just been condemned by the Tribunal Correctional of Brussels
to two veers' imprisonment, for ill-treating and nearly starving
her neice, a woman of 45 years of age. This conduct, which
has continued for some years, has reduced the unfortunat,
wornitll to a state of imbecility.

THE LATE ATTEMPT UPON THE
QUEEN'S LIFE.
THANKSGIVING PRAYER.
A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for
his late merciful Preservation of the Queen from the atro-
cious and trea,onable Attempt agairst her Sacred Person. ors
Monday, the 30th of May, 1842. To be used at Morning
and Evening Service, after the General Thanksgiving, in all
Churches and Chapels throughout. England and Wales, and
the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, on Sunday, the sth of
this instant June, or so soon as the Ministers thereof shall
receive the same ; and to be continued for thirty days after-
wards.
Almighty and Everlasting God, Creator and Governor of
the world, who by Thy gracious providence hast oftentimes
preserved Thy chosen Servants, the Sovereigns wham Thou
has set over us, from the malice of nicked men; we (-Lir unto
Thee our humble and hearty thanksgivings for Thy great
mercy rose again vouchsafed to us in frustrating the late traitor.
Otis attempt on the life of our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria.
Continue, we beseech Three, 0 merciful Lord, Thy watch-
ful care over her. Be thou her shield and defence against
the devices of secret treason, and the assaults of open violence.
Extend Thy gracious protection to the Prince, her Consort,
the Prices of Wales, and the whole Royal Family. Direct
and prosper her counsels, and so guide and support her by Thy
holy Spirit, that evermore trusting in Thee, she may faith-
fully govern thy people committed to her charge, to their
good, and to the glory of Thy Holy Name.
And to us and all her subjects, 0 Lord, impart inch a
measure of thy grace, that under a deep and lasting sense of
Thy manifold mercy, we may show forth our thankfulness
unto Thee, by 1o)al attachment to our Sovereign, and dutiful
obedience to alt thy commandments.
Give ear, we be Thee, 0 merciful Father, to these our
supplications and prayers, which we humbly offer before Thee
in the name and through the Mediation of Jesus Christ, cur
only Saviour and Redeemer. Amen.