The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-18 00:00:00

THE CORINTHIAN COLUMN.

" These men (the working classes) are the glory, and the strength,
and the foundation of the country. bhould they perish, and the
Corinthian capital (the Aristocracy) with its delicate tracery, its
beautiful strawberry-leaves, and its po ished shaft be preserved ?
He would not touch those who were the glory of the country, and
its strength, and its foundation. No, ILITHER LET THE COLUMN
FALL!"—Speech of Mr. George Thompson at the Great London
Anti-Corn-law Conference.

NO ! LET THE COLUMN FALL !
Though thousand-times more glorious and tall,
Through the serenes of air,
Clomb its rich Corinth-shaft and clustered top :
Though thousandfold more fair
Rose its,full-flowering Acanthus-crop,
Carved of white marbles, with their snow-sweet shinings
In wreaths of royally-enmingled twinings :
Though sovran and ethereous of mould,
Ivories wove with interlucent gold
Lent its fine architraves and ornaments,
A beauteousness immense,—
Arrogant Column! still—
Symbol of pride and ill !
Prone thy haught feather-head should bow and cower,
Before a Name almightier of power :
Name loftier far than Lord, or King, or Khan,
Or all that yet by blood or lineage ran,
Or blazed heraldical in tongues'of dresg,—
Name simplest—name sublime in nakedness--
The name of—MAN!

Aye, let the Column fall !
Why should it longer cumber the free soil ?
Why shadow down
The palsies of its ever-baleful frown,
On thee—thou reverend, holy Son of toil I
Under whose outward husk, and rough-hewn seeming
Rays of the infinite light give sleepless gleaming :
Thou—man the labourer—man the workman—man,
Grower of dewy food and daily bread,
For which sweet thankful grace to Heaver, is said :
Patient long-sufferer I—hard-entreated brother !
Who, with thy strength and sinews for another,
Eight weary centuries bast sown and heaped,
But yet no armful to thyself hsst reaped;--
Who for long ages hast with trusty duty,
Smote the rebellious ear►h to golden beauty ;
Who night and day thy prowessea hast spent,
Obedient ever to thy lord's intent,
Him the Oppressor—him the Tyrann arch :
Speak ! as before the Universe thou standest
Of forms created, sacredest and grandest,
While all Earth's spirit-host surround and shout thee,
And Sanctities stand thick as stars about thee;
Thou—God's own Noble--wilt thou rot a thrall?
Thon ! born to beam—a Power supreme to all ?
NO—LET THE COLUMN FALL !

Aye—let the Column fall !
Needs had it be like Saul,.
Smote with reproachful Colts of fieriness :--
Time, so o'erflowery, so profuse a Crewn,
From its purpureal altitude were hurled !
Enoligh fair noons—enough sweet glittering starlights,
From the old Feudal heaven it hath shared—
Manhood stands now prepared,
Anew to build the great House of the World !
Why longer darkened should he sit, or shaded .
Dimmed by that Column, crumbling and far-faded ?
Better a million-times,
Its gorgeous wreath of trim Acanthus-woof,
Were rended from aloof:
Better were torn its architectural posies—
Unpulled its flourished heads of pomps and roses—
Better were cropped its full ambrosial flowers,
Sprung from Corinthian bowers :
And broke its composite and airy shaft—
Dust for the winds to waft :
Than should the men and labourers of the land,
Who as its walls and solid basements stand,
(Like the Majestic Doric, plain but grand);
Who form its glory—its superbest hope--
Are its foundation-beams, its firmest rafters,
The hopes and promise of its fond hereafters
Should in ephemeral weakness meet such fate,
Or God's august designs so desecrate—
Rather than MA N should perish on earth's ball—
O'ertumbled with its towery pride and state—
(He the strong Sampson tugging at its weight)—
DOWN LET THE COLUMN FALL !

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S--YESTERDAY.

Several Derby horses were backed in the course of the after-
noon, and at odds, except in one 'instance, agreeing rather
closely with those last reported: The exception was Chatham,
who was advanced 11 to 1, taken, and had rather a formidable
supporter in a party who has repeatedly invested " through
evil and good report." Auckland, it will be seen, has fallen
back, a movement that might have been expected from the
feeling shown of late. Some outsiders were touched upon,
but only one (William le Gros) backed to any amount.
The Chester Cup betting was of some little importance, as
showing an improvement in Vulcan and Alice Hawthorn ; and
the Oaks, as exhibiting a very different change in Lasi of
Lonton, who is now at double the odds at which she was in-
troduced. Closing averages :
DERBY.
1,000 to 30 agst all the mares •
11 to 1 agst Colonel f'eel's Chatham—taken
30 to 1 agst Lord Verula►n's Robert de Gorham—t and off
30 to 1 agst Mr, IVreford7s Wiseacre—taken
30 to 1 asst Mr. Dixon's Ballinkeele
33 to I- agst Lord Westminster's Auckland
bo.to. 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Joanna colt—t and off
50 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes' Meteor-4aken
50 to 1 apt Mr. Gregory's Defier—taken
50 to I agst Mr. Scott's Artful Dodger
1,000 to 20 agst Mr, Goodman's Rover—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Mr: G. Clark's William le Gros—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Phoenix—taken
1,000 to 10 agst Mr. E. Wood's•Timoleon—taken
5,000 to 30 agst Mr. Faulkner's Observatory—taken
OAKS. "
9 to 1 agst Mr. Etwall's Passion—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Wilson's Sister to Yorkshire Lad—taken .
13 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Adele. filly
20 to 1 agst Mr. Allen's Belle—taken
20 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Dil-bar—taken •
20 to I agst Mr. Scott's Syren—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes' Lass of,Lonton
CHESTER CUP. •
11 to 1 agst Mr. Holmes' Vulcan—taken
13 to 1 agst Mr..Plummer's .Alice Hawthorn—taken
14 to 1 agst Mr. St. George's Jolly Tar--taken
25 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Rhodanthe
ROMFORD STEEPLE-CHASE.—YESTERDAY.

Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 says. each, 5 It, with 100 added.
4 miles.

Mr. Elmore's Lottery, 13st llb (Mason) 1
Mr. Elmore's Sam Weller, list 121 b

The following also started : —Mr. Tilbury's Buffon, 1 Ist 71b ;
Mr. Smith's Anonymous, 1 Ist ;31b; and Mr. Maddock's
Creole, 12st. The line was two miles out and home, by the
side of the railway. Won easi!y, after a pretty fast race.
A SHDOWN PARK COURSING MEETING—Tti ESDAY.
THE Cur—Mr. Bennett's Brahmin, beat Mr. Agg's Ama-
zon ; Lord Stradbrooke's Magdalen beat Mr. E. Cripp's
Equerry; Mr. Bowles Boscobel beat Mr. Lawrance's Lucy;
Mr. Etwall's Eton Boy beat Mr. Morant's Mole; Mr. W.
Etwall's Westwind beat Mr. Goodlace's My Granny ; Mr.
Bennetts Brunel!, beat Mr. E. Cripps' Emperor; Mr. W. Et-
wall's World's End beat Mr. Goodlake's Gracchus; Lord
Stradbroke's Merryman beat Mr. Agg's Asp.
The Claret Stakes.—Lord StraAlbroke's Minerva beat Mr.
Laurence's Longstone ; Mr. Goodlake's Gentility beat Mr.
Mr. Bowles's Beroko beat Mr. Etwall's
Morant's Mischief ;
Westward ; Mr. E. Cripp's Extacy beat Mr. Agg's Amurath.
First Class Craven.—Mr. Goodlake's Gruel beat Mr. Agg's
A mabelle ; Lori Stradbroke's Magna beat Mr. Morant's Mus-
selroan : Mr. Bennett's Delta beat Mr. Bowles's Barofylde ;
Mr. E. Cripps 's Empress beat Mr. Etwall's Excuse-me.

THE NEW' POOR-LAW AND
DEAR BREAD.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta—lf a Member of the House oCCommons were to move for
a return of the quantities of wheat bread and flour supplied to each
Union during the last three years; the public would be put in pos-
session of a highly interesting and valuable document, showing
that such supply must have materially tended to keep up the price
of wheat during such period. It may be urged that we had the
same number of mouths to be fed under the old Poor-law as under
the new; but it cannot be denied that ' there are thousands and
tens of thousands of poor persons in country parishes now fed upon
wheaten bread, who formerly never tasted: anything but the
coarsest barley bread from one year's end to another; and it should
be observed that the guardians always contract for the lest porn,
although ground into seconds flour. •
I merely advance this point as an additional argument in favour
of an alteration in the Corn.laws.—l am, Sir, yours, Sm.,
Ilfracombe, Feb. 13. It. W. D.

MEETING of MIDDLESEX MAGIS-
TRATES.

There was a numeri,us attendance of the Magistracy yester-
day at the Sessions'-house, Clerkenwell-green, for the despatch
of County bnssness. Mr. Sergeant Adams in the Chair.
After the usual routine business, Mr. LAURIE said that he
thought the importance of the subject which he had to bring
under their notice, demanded another interruption before they
proceeded with the usual County business. They were all
aware, and therefore it required no eulogium from him, of the
upright and very able manner in which the Duke of Portland
had fulfilled the high and impoi tant post of the Lord-Lieute-
nant of the County for the last fifty years.--( Hear.) That
very excellent Nobleman had clone all that was in his power to
support the dignity and independence of the Magistracy,
and as one of the many who admired the virtues which the
Noble Duke possessed, he (Mr. L.) begged to move that the
thanks of this Court be given to his Grace the Duke of Port-
land.—( Hear.) He was satisfied that the resignation of his
Grace would be a source of regret to the whole of the Members
of the Court.—(Hear, hear. )
A number of the members supported the 'motion.
A Committee, consisting of the Chairman, the two Members
for the County, and the mover and seconder of the vote of thanks,
were then appointed, and in a few minutes the following address
to his Grace was framed by those gentlemen, and read to the
Court; viz.— _

" To His Grace the Duke of Portland.
"My Lord Duke—We, the Magistrates of the county of Mid-
dlesex, in General Session assembled, beg to express to your
Grace our deep regret at the resignation of your Grace, of the
dignified offices of Lord-Lieutenant and Custos Hotulorum of
this county, which your Grace has so filled,for nearly half a
century, as to acquire not only the respect, esteem, and confi •
deuce of the Bench collectively, but also of those whose duty it
has been individually to communicate with your Grace on the
business of the county ; and to express our acknowledgements
to your Grace for the efficient and impartial manner in which
you have discharged the responsible duties of those high offices. "
The Address was unanimously agreed to, and ordered to be
signed by the Chairman on behalf of the Cout t, and transmitted
to the Duke.