The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-16 00:00:00

SPORTING.

It is rumoured that Mr. Thornton has commenced an action
against the stewards of the Jockey Club for a libel in pro-
nouncing him, according to the established laws, "a defaulter."
G, on law nothing like it in life. I believe the laws of our
country, relating to libels, want revision as well as the laws of
the Jockey Club : who shall say, then, if the action is brought,
what may be the daniages—and who pays the piper ? That
this ( I can find no epithet strong enough) Gurney business is
far from concluded is also proved by the following notice in
No. 1, " Calendar :"—" A general meeting of the members of
the Jockey Club will be held at the New Rooms, Newmarket,
on Tuesday in the first meeting, upon special and urgent
business."

Indeed it is as clear as mud that the matter cannot rest
where it is now ; but we shall not benefit society by here
anticipating the measures that will be adopted, and shortly
made public.

There appear to have been strange proceedings at Coventry ;
no posts or s ails, and scarcely any police to keep off the most
abominable mob ever congregated on a race-course. A nice
place to start a valuable horse like Coronation, and to try a
Derby nag. The owners, however, although entering these (I
allude to Coronation and Dr. Allen) pan:: forfeit, wisely pre-
ferring to run at Warwick on Wednesday next, where they
manage things in a very different style. The consequences at
Coventry were a false race fur the Trial Stakes, and in the
Hurdle race about six horses down, jockeys, yeomen, farmers,
without distinction, rolling in the mire. This is not racing.
In the Trial Stakes at Warwick, on Wednesday, a race cele-
brated for the introduction of the Melody colt in 1840, for the
debut of Coronation last year, are entered, William de Forti.
bus, Gobbo (half-bred), and Dr. Allen—all in the Derby. The
first was heavily backed at 30 and 25 to 1 at Goodwood and
Doncaster last season, being then one of Scott's lot. Gobbo,
in consequence of his democratical origin, has been laid against
liberally at the rate of 200 to 1. Dr. Allen has been backed
for a great stake at 100 to 1, odds still offered. Which ever
wins, or runs a decent second to Coronation, should the crack
appear, will be a kind of favourite for the Derby, good, bad, or
indifferent as he may be.
Some one has remarked somewhere that the free handicaps
did not fill at Newmarket, because the horses were so unfairly
handicapped. This is not the reason. These handicaps
scarcely ever produce engagements, because trainers object to
expose their horses so early in the year, thereby annihilating
their chance for the remainder of the season, naturally pre-
!erring to reserve them for the much more valuable stakes,
where money is added in the autumn, and which stakes, by the
by, appear to be annually increasing in value.
The only other information I have to give you is, that we
shall all be swallowed up at twenty-two minutes past two r. at.
on Wednesday next, for, on that day, and at that hour, I am
credibly informed, by at least nineteen and a half old women,
is the earthquake to happen. JUDEX.
March 18.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons. )
MONDAY, MARCH 14.
CORN-IMPORTATION.
MINORITY of One Hundred and Seventeen (Tellers in-
cluded) who voted for Mr. Ward's Amendment, " That a Se-
lect Committee be appointed to inquire whether there are any
peculiar burthens specially affecting the Landed interest of this
Country, or any peculiar exemptions enjoyed by that Interest,
and to ascertain their nature and extent."
Aglionby, H. A. Grosvenor, Lord R.
Ainsworth, Peter Guest, J.
Aldam, William Hall, Sir B.
Barclay, David Milford, Summers
Baring, F. T. Harris, John Q
Barnard, E. G. Hastie, A.
Bell, John Hawes, B
Berkeley, C. Heathcoat, John
Berkeley, F. H. Hinaley, C, arles
Blewitt, Reginald Hobhouse, Sir J. C.
Bowes, J. Holdsworth J.
Bowring, Dr. Horsman E.
Brocklehurst, J. Humphery, J.
Brotherton, J. Hutt, W.
Buller, E. Jardine, William
Busfeild, W. Johnson, General
Cavendish, Hon. C. Johnstone, Alex.
Cavendish, Hon. G. Labouchere, H.
Chapman, Benjamin Langston, J. H.
Childers, J. W. Larpent, Sir G.
Clay, Sir W. Layard, Captain
Clive, E. B. Mangles, R. 0.
Cobden, Richard Mitcalfe. Henry
Colebrooke, Sir T. E. Munson, William
Crawford, W. S. Alostyn, Hon. E. M.
Currie, Itaikes Murray, A.
Dalrymple, Captain Napier, Sir Charles

Ponsonby, Hon. John
Protheroe, E.
Rawdon, J. D.
Ricardo, John Lewis
Rice, E. B.
liurnbold, C. E.
Russell, Lord John
Scholefield, J.
Scott, R.
Scrope, G. P.
Smith, Benjamin
Smith, R. Vernon
Somers, J. P.
Somerville, Sir W.
Stanstield, W. R.
Stanton, W. H.
Stewart, P. M.
Stuart, Lord J.
Strutt, Edwaid
Tancred, H. W.
Thornely, Thomas
Towneley, John
Turner, E
Villiers, Charles P.
Vivian Hon. Captain
Wakley, Thomas
Wawn, Johu T.
Williams, Wm.
Wilshere, W.
Wilson, Matthew
Winnington, Sir '1
Wood, Benjamin
Wood, C.,
Wood, G. W.
Wrightson, NV
Yorke, H. Redhead

Daw;on; Hon. 'T. V.
Dcnnistoun, J.
D'Eyncourt, C. T.
Duncan, George
Duncombe, T. S.
Eastliope, Sir John
Ebrington, Viscount
Ellis, Wynn
Elphinstone, Howard
Forster, Matthew
Fox, Charles Richard
Gill, Thomas
Gordon, Lord F.

Norreys, Sir D.
O'Brien, J.
O'Connell, D.
O'Connell, tJ J.
O'Connell, J.
O'Ferrall, More
Ogle, S. C. H.
Palmerston, Viscount
Parker, John
Philips, G. It.
Philips, Mark
Plumridge, Captain

TELLERS.
Ward, H. G.
Gibson, T. M,

BILL FOR CONSOLIDATING THE
QUEEN'S BENCH, FLEET, AND MARSHAL-
SEA PRISONS.

This Bill, brought in by Sir James Graham, and now
amended by Committee, proposes:-1. To consolidate the
above three-mentioned prisons into one, whereby the prison of
the Court of Queen's blench shall be thereafter called the
Queen's Prison, and be the only place for commitment of all
such as were before liable to incarceration in any of the three.
Clause 2 enacts the removal of prisoners by Judges' warrant
to the new adopted prison, who shall be in custody
at the time of the passing of the Act in the other prisons.
By clauses 4 and 5, officers, whose places are abolished by the
abrogation of the Fleet and Marshalsea, shall be entitled to
compensation, which shall be paid out of the Civil List.
6. The discontinued prisons, with all property appurtenant to
them, to become vested in the Crown. 7. That all acts and
provisions relating to the abolished prisons, unless otherwi-e
altered or repealed, do exist in force in the Queen's Prison.
11. Prisoner's lees and gratuities to be discontinued.
12. Abolition of the Liberty of the rules, and any in-
fringement of the strict rule of confinement, by prisoners
being suffered to go beyond the prison-walls, to be punishablo
as an escape. 18. That on the next vacancy of the
Marshal of the Queen's Prison, his • uccessor shall be appoi,te.l
by one of the Secretaries of State, and thenceforward be called
the " Keeper of the Queen's Prison," with his office tenable
at the appointer's pleasure. The offices of Deputy-marAA
and Clerk of the Day-rules to be abolished, with other minor
official changes, among which the power of appointment of Tip-
staffs, heretofore in the hands of the Warden and Marshal, to
be transferred to the Judges of the respective Courts from
which the prisoners are committed. 17, 18, 19, clauses refera-
ble to the fixation and payment of official salaries.

Two or three days ago a hair-dresser at Neuilly,
having discovered his wife in a situation which left no doubt of
his dishonour, a violent scene took place, at the end of which
she left the house, and threw herself into the Seine from the
bridge of Nenilly. She was kept afloat by her clothes, and a
b 4 at put off to her rescue. After floating for more than half a
n ile she was taken out uninjured; and the husband, thinking
he had been sufficiently punished by her cold bath, censented
to a reconciliation.