The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-07 00:00:00

SPORTING RE VIE IV.

The Curragh Summer Races at Kildare at-
tract the Editor in the sporting season, but his
disappointment betrays itself in the remark that
though in no country ou earth sporting forms so
popular a conversation-subject as in Ireland, it is
nowhere less carried artistically into effect.
Two plates, a plain and coloured, represent
" Midsummer and Mosquito," the Earl of Strad-
broke's celebrated greyhounds, and the royal
paddock. In " Cambridge arid Cambridge men,"
the various sporting characters and packs in that
vicinity of late years are noticed : the hounds are
accounted good, but the country is unfavourable
both to them and horses, being in many places
rotten, and abounding in awkward grips.

VENTNOR,„ ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
JAN. 6, 1842.—We are now in the hcighth of our
season, and the most of our houses are let, yet we feel
the effect of the times ; Money is not circulated so freely
as usual, and to make things worse some heavy runs
have been made on the banks. The long-continued
southerly gales drove some of our company away, hut
the wind having now set in from the north many will
wish themselves back again under our sheltered cliff's.
Much has of late been done to accommodate the visitors,
but much remains to be done in this Madeira of Eng-
land; our flowers are even now in blossom, spite of the
northern gales, but we have too few of them to please
the eye of the invalid, and too much of stone and sea
—scarcely an evergreen shrub can be found. The
white cliffs, the white roads, and the white stone-houses,
with our mild air, may make the stranger almost con-
ceive he is in ie parched-up regions of still warmer
climes ; but he would be better pleased was he also to see
the beautiful myrtles, bays, arbutus, laurels, evergreen
oaks, and other lofty evergreens, in that wild luxuriance
in wlich they at every turn meet the eye in the neigh-
bourhood of Cowes, where they are exposed to the wild
north and east, while here they would be sheltered from
it. This, and the removal of some of the hills which lie
between this town and Newport and Ryde, and are
rather too much in a state of nature, would be a great
improvement. The island has suffered more from fail-
ures in the past year than in any former one, which,
added to the wet season, has crippled its trade. New-.
port has suffered the most, and Cowes next—the latter
place has her shipwrights, rope-makers, and sail-makers
unemployed.

AUSTRALIA.
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MIRKETS.—The following ac-
counts are taken from the Adelaide Price Current:—
Wheat per bushel, 14s. to IGs. ; barley, per ditto, ss. to
6s. ; wool, per lb., Is. to Is. 4d. ; whalebone, per ton,
9CI. to 100/. ; soap, per ten, 48/. ; tea, hyson skin, per
chest, 141. ; coffee, per lb., 10d. to Is. Gd. ; sugar
(Mauritius), per ton, 321. ; ditto (East India), per ton,
26/. ; tobacco (in bond), per lb., Is. Gd. to 2s. ; oil
(sperm), per,irnperial turf, 701 ; ditto (black), per tun,
251. ; beef (salt), per cask. 41. ; ditto (fresh), per lb., 3d.
to Gd. ; bread, 41b. loaf, Is. 2d. ; butter (Irish) per' lb.,
10d. to Is. 3d. ; ditto (Colonia), is. 3d. to Is. 6d. ;
cigars, per 1,000, 31. Os. 10d. ; potatoes (Van Diemen's
Land), per ton, 161. to 21L; Colonial ditto, 161. to 241.
Sydney Monitor, Aug. 23.
SYDNEY SHIP NEws.—The Eleanor sailed from Cork
on the 18th of April, having on board 253 emigrants,
besides a number of cabin and intermediate passengers.
While in the Bay of Biscay, she fell in with a heavy
gale, in which she lost several of her spars. The hatches
were compelled to be battened down during the time
the gale lasted, when the first case of fever was no-
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ticeci. She afterwards put into Teneriffe for supplies
and repairs, and sailed again early in May. During
the passage, there. were as many as eighty cases at
one time, but most of them of a trifling nature, the only
deaths being six adults and seven children. When she
arrived here, she was completely out of provisions and
medicine, there having been only four months provi-
sions put on board, and the vessel being four months and
three days on her passage. On her arrival at this port
there were only two cases of a severe nature, and she
was placed in quarantine, fearing any fresh cases might
make their appearance. Since the vessel has been in
quarantine, we have not heard any account of the state
of the emigrants.
SWAN RIVER SHIP NEWS.—The Trusty, Captain
Elsdon, arrived at Swan River, from London, on the
31st of May ; passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Stringer and
two children, and Messrs. Hazlewood, Ray, and Pearce,
with seven in the steerage. The Kilinauns arrived from
Port Phillip on the 4th of June ; the Vixen, from Sou-
rabaya, on the 29th of May; and the True Love, from
Sydney, on the 24th of May. The following were also
lying there, viz.: —The Henry, from London ; the Hero-
ine, -from Rangoon ; the Union, from Timour, and the
William, from Sydney
Tile Elizabeth, from Liverpool, 29th of April, arrived
yesterday"eVening with 350 bounty immigrants, under
the superintendence of Dr. Fallon, and shipped by the
house of A. B. Smith and Co., Liverpool. Two adults
and nine children died during the passage—the rest are
reported to be in good health. About one-half of the
immigrants are from the towns of Liverpool and Man-
chester, the remaining portion from Cork and the adja-
cent country ; upwards of seventy young children are
included in the number. The Adam Lodge was to sail
with immigrants from Liverpool, for this port, three days
after the Elizabeth. She spoke no vessels connected with
these colonies during the passage.

EXPENSI YE AMUSEMENT.—On Thursday
night, some disciples of the Marquis of Waterford,
played off some of their pranks in this town, by break-
ing a number of lamp glasses, wrenching off a few door
knockers, and engaging in other innocent and aristocratic
pastimes. Fortunately they were but young hands at
the fun, for next morning one of them was so " jolly
green" as to confess the whole affair, and criminate his
accomplices, by which means they were all, four in number',
by the aid of warrants, prevailed on to attend at the Ma-
gistrate's office, where, after a lengthened investigation,
they were ordered to pay 261. for damage done, and were ,
further fined in the sum of 51. each, being at the low
price of 411. for the evening's entertainment. —Cheltenham
.Ezantiner.
Mr. Palmer, the Lord of the Manor where the
fatal accident on the Great Western line of Railway
took place, we have heard, will give 1001. to the rela-
tives of each of the persons killed, out of the 1,0001.
deodand to which he is entitled, and divide the re •
mainder among the sufferers who survived this dreadful
calamity.
Rather a serious disturbance took place a short
time ago at the Ecole Polytechnique. Last year the con-
duct of many of the elder pupils was so turbulent, and the
punishments inflicted were found so inadequate, that
Marshal Soult, a month ago, issued a new set of regula-
tions for the government of the school, in which it was
stated, that in the event of any fresh acts of insubordina-
tion, the offenders of the last year, whether proved to
have taken a part in them or not, should be expelled, or
otherwise severely punished, as the old offenders were
considered to be the soul of all rebellion ; it was hoped
• that, as they would not under these new regulations
be able to incite the junior members to revolt with..
out bearing themselves the penalty, they would
keep within bounds ; the result, however, was
very different from what the Marshal expected. The
school rose en masse; and sonic of, the ringleaders having
been taken into custody, a plan was formed for their for-
cible liberation. In vain did the great officers of the
establishment alternately menace and exhort ; the pupils
would listen to no arguments, and loudly Oemanded the
release of their comrades and the revocation of the reFu-
lations. In this state of things the Marshal was waited
upon by the heads of the school, and, after a long confe..
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warrior will make them more tractahle.Parts Letter.
The Right Hon. Henry Holihouse, formerly
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department,
has been appointed on the Commission of Inquiry into
the Exchequer Bill Fraud, 80., in the room of Lord.
Ashbutton.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Everybody must be struck with the
complacency with- which Sir James Graham talks of
his colleagues and himself ; and the contrast between
this complacency and the absence of any cause for it
known to the public, is equally striking. The most
sterile of all Ministries is, nevertheless, the most
self-complacent. With what unction Sir James
talks of the Premier, the Duke, and himself ! Yet,
except a barefaced attempt to take the credit of
the Anti-slavery Treaty, he does not produce a single
good deed done or intended, as a pretext for his unc-
tuous complaisance. " Look at me and my col-
leagues—did you eyer see the like of us?' Yet not
one good thing can he adduce. " Did ye ever," said
a happy father, addressing a Scotch hostess, " did ye
ever sec sic a sight in your house before, as me and my
three sons a' placed ministers o' the Kirk o' Scotland'?"
" Never, Sir," was the reply of the dame, remembering
that none of her guests could preach a good sermon,
" but once, when I had a Highland piper and his three
sons o' Highland pipers, and deil a tune among them."
Of all the Administrations which have held power of
late years. none has equalled the present in sterility of
ideas. Their friends, when saying the best they can
for them, have merely hinted they still have sense
enough to adopt parts or imitations of the measures of
the men they have displaced. Ideas. of their own they
have not, nor pretend to have. Nobody knows what
they will do, nor does any one of themselves know. Sir
James Graham only seems to think it clever to vapour
about how soon and readily they will resign. Search
the universe. and you will not find a more con-
temptible sight than a purposeless Government
And the Cabinet of Sir Robert Peel is purposeless.
Observers, who have Tory friends,. know that they
always consist of two kinds—men who wish to retake
poorer which has been conceded to the people, and men
Rho wish to concede still more power to deMocracy.
In Ireland there are men resolute for taking away
the grant to Maynooth, and those who are bent on
cooLtliating the priests by increasing the grant and
giving endowments to the entire priesthooi.. Yet these
men of opposite purposes both belong to the Govern-
ment party. Scotland has Conservatives determined to
give up their party if a power is not given to the people
in the election of their clergymen ; and the strength
of Scotch Toryism lies in the patrons from whom this
power must be wrung. How long will these men hang
together? In England, an active and zealous body of
Tories are Ultra-Protestants, who have societies all over
the land for agitating against Romanism. Another, and
more powerful body of Tories, are banded together to
make the Church of England more like the Church of
Rome. Can these persons continue to pursue the same
path ?—to form companies of the same army in the same
war ? We trove not. Again, in the last general eleo-
tion the rallying cry of the Tory party was, the preser-
vation of the Corn-laws untouched. Already the
altering of these laws is reckoned a certain thing—per-
baps prematurely enough. Undoubtedly, however, the
Tory party is divided on this very matter, and consists
of free-traders, who feel the necessity of concessions to
allay the distresses and the discontents of the manufac-
turing interests—and of bigots of aristocracy, who
menace the Government with destruction the instant a
reforming hand is lifted up against their monopoly.
STANDARD.—That the public distress has had
some influence upon the revenue, if not in producing
the whole or any considerable part of the Excise de-
crease, at least in preventing an increase, which the
great increase in the other sources of revenue would
seem to promise, we are not disposed to deny. The
sinking of the edifice is first felt by those on the
ground floor, and they are unhappily the last to
emerge from it. The humbler classes, the great con-
sumers of exciseable commodities, are always the.
earliest in suffering by general distress, and the latest
to enjoy a recovered prosperity. That the nation is re-
covering is proved by the signal improvement in the
Customs' revenue. Allowing, as we have done, that
some of this improvement is borrowed from the Excise,
still an improvement in the Customs, at the rate of
1,658,0001, per annum, manifests a wonderful aug-
mentation of public confidence, and a corresponding
revival of foreign trade—the trade upon which so
many tell us the happiness and security of the country
depends. It will not do to say that this improvement
is the Customs is all the produce of corn duties, be-
cause it is an increase upon a quarter of the same year
in which 1,200,000/. was received in corn duties ; and if
414,0001., or any great proportion of it, has been realised
upon corn duties,—much of these duties being col-
lected at the rate of one shilling the quarter,—what is
to be said of the practical exclusion of foreign corn, It
is idle, however, to pursue the inquiry further, until we
shall have before us the particular details. We have
now but to congratulate our fellow-subjects upon the
first financial fruits of Sir Robert Peel's Government,
the enjoyment to which for many years they have been
unaccustomed, of a well-grounded prospect of improve-
ment in the revenue of the country.
COURIER.— We do not seek to justify the indis-
cretion, for it scarcely amounts to more, committed by
the Herald in fixity, the imputations falsely current in
public rumour with apparently so much distinctness on
one or two noble persons, and two there were equally
answering by title and other circumstances to the one de-
scriptive process employed; but we may be allowed to say
that had the existence of such rumours only been referred
to, without personal application, the Herald was no more
than in the just performance of its duty towards the
public, not only without prejudice to individuals, but
the reverse, for the notice of such rumours would
have led to more particular inquiry on all sides, and
thus parties injuriously and falsely implicated, but still
in ignorance of the privately circulated slander by
which their fair fame was hourly being assailed, would
come to cognjance of the fact through some friend
or other, so asto enable them at once to meet the ca-
lumny, and vindicate their reputation. What most
surprises us, in the otherwise proper retractation of the
Herald, is the terms in which it is made, at least so far as
the first paragraph, as follow :—" In our paper of the
21st ult. we noticed upon authority, on which we have
been accustomed to place implicit reliance, the exist-
ence of rumours relative to the Exchequer bill fraud,
which we were assured had gained an extensive circu-
lation in the City. The result of inquiries which we
subsequently instituted on the subject now leads
us to the conviction that we have been im-
posed upon, and that such rumours had gained
no such circulation as our informant confidently
stated." We can only say that the Herald,
if imposed upon at all, was grossly so, but not certainly
by the informant by whom the " existence of the ru-
mours" eas asserted and their circulation in the City.
The " inquiries instituted" must have been conducted
in a strange fashion to lead to the " conviction" that
the rumours alluded to "had gained no such circulation"
as stated. For in fact they were unfortunately the
talk even in taverns of public resort. From the moment
that the rumours were first guardedly broached in the
Tunes we oyrselves heard them broadly connected with
names, not in the City merely, but in the west end of
this metropolis. We sincerely rejoice that at length
they have been disposed of, as the base fabrications of
calumny for which there existed not the slightest foun-
dation.

REVERSIONARY INTEREST SO-

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CIETY.
A meeting of the Proprietors of this Society was held
yesterday, at their Office, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-
street, for the purpose of electing a new Director. One
of our reporters attended, but he was not admitted to
the meeting, as he was told it was entirely private.

NORTHERN AND EASTERN RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.
A general meeting of the Shareholders in this Com-
pany was held yesterday, at the London Tavern, for the
purpose of confirming the forfeiture of certain shares on
which calls had not been paid.
W. CIIAWBIIAY, Esq., took the chair, and said he was
happy to inform them that there were only fifty Shares
to be forfeited, all tho others previously declared for-
feited buying been redeemed. He then called upon some
Proprietor to move a resolution, confirming the forfeiture
of the Shares.
Mr. BULT mw;ed, and Mr. S3IALE seconded, the reso-
lution, deel;tring the said shares to be forfeited to the
Compav, and empowering the Directors to dispose
of :bem.

Mr. BELL, inquired if the shares would be sold in the
market?
The CHAIRMAN said the Act of Parliament empow-
ered them to sell them in any way they thought best.
The motion was put and carried.
Mr. Ilaavee said the London and Birmingham Rail-
way had set, them an example worthy of their adoption,
which was tht ti( stating the probable amount of divi-
deld at rl.
-,Q next distribution.
11.1 e CHAIRMAN said he should be sorry to state any-
thing which lie was not certain of. They had not made
OUt the year's accounts, but they should be happy to
allow any_ gentleman to go into the office and inspect the
books. He knew nothing with respect to that railway
'which he would not communicate to any individual.
Mr. Wieeints made an application to the meeting
respecting the payment of shares, but it was decided
that the subject could not be taken into consideration at
that meeting. The Hon. Gentleman also wished that
the forfeited shares should not be disposed of till
June, upon which a short conversation arose
but it was decided that the subject could not be enter-
tained except at a meeting called for the purpose.
A PROPRIETOR inquired what portion of the 240,0001.
granted at the last meeting had been raised ?
The CHAIRMAN said that about:6B,ooo/. had been raised. '
Some conversation then arose as to the propriety of
At once commencing the line to Hertford and Ware,
which will be fully discussed at the next general annual
meeting of the Company, which is to be held in February
next.
A PROPRIETOR inquired when the railway would be
opened throughout ?
The CHAIRMAN said he had consulted Mr. Peto, and
he had stated that it would be finished in April next.
In answer to a question from a Shareholder,
The CHAIRMAN said that the Company could not carry
goods yet, as accommodation bad not been provided.
Mr. HARVEY said that with respect to the prevention
of accidents on the railway, he wished to inquire if the
plan of placing an empty carriage neat the engine' and