The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-11 00:00:00

Cif F.STER CUP.

10 to I agst Mr. Kirby's Lanercost
17 to 1 agst Mr. Plummet's Alice.'llawthorn—taken
11622 tti
000
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3Lsllorrr:d
sii\LlCaemus Vulcanteemsoirngset,es r
3:) to I•agst Mr. Knot's George I Soult
35 to 1 agst Mr. Grevinllveß'sElly.ory O'More
7 to I agst Col. Anson's Attila
20 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Chatham
25 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's three colt
25 to 1 agst Mr. WrefOrd's Wiseacre
27 to 1 agst Mr. Dixon's BalLnkeele
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30 to I agst Lord Westminster's Auckland —taken
33 to 1 ao Mr. Gregory's Defier—taken
45 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Palinurus—taken.
45 to 1 agst Mr. Ramshw's Moss Trooper—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Bowers' Meteor—taken
50 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Canadian—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Greenwood's Lasso—taken
50 to 1 agst. Mr. I'ettit's Espartero
66 to 1 agst Mr. Scott's Artful Dodger—taken .
66 to 1 agst Mr. Bird's Dr. Allan
2000 to 30 agst Mr. Goodman's Gobbo— taken
3000 to 30 agst Mr. Peel's Seahorse—taken
1000 to 10 agst Mr. 'Thornhill's Equation—taken
600 to 500 on Canadian asst Equation—taken.
30 t) I apt All the mares
OARS.

9to 1 agst Scott's S):ren—taken
8 to 1 agst Mr. Thoruhill's lot—taken
18 to I agst Lord Exeter's Amina filly—taken
35 to 1 agst Col. Westenra s Rapture—taken
TWO THOUSAND GUINRAS STAKII§.
4 to I agst Mr. Wrefurd's Wiseacre
7 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes' Meteor
RUGBY STEEPLECHASES--YEsrEana v.
Sweepstakes of 2 soya. each, and 10 added. (13 Subs.)
Mr. C. Shearing ml. br g The Actor (Worth) 1
Mr. James's Lanaquenet
Several others started.
Sweepstakes of b soya. each, and 30 added. (II Subs )
Mr. Langharn's gr g Buffoon (Mr. Bretherton) 1
Mr. Brown's Lather
Mr. Jones's Antelope • 3
Mr. Varley nd, b m Matilda
Mr. T. Oliver's Cheroot and five others started. •
Matilda came in first, hut having gone on the wrong side of
a flag, was declared distanced, and the race given to Buffoon.
Both races were Well contested.

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITURE
. ON PAPER, '
PRODUCED BY THE CALOTYPE PROCESS.
This new deseription of portraiture, discovered by
Mr. Collen, of 29, Somerset-street, Portman-square,
Miniature Painter to her Majesty-, forms an attractive
exhibition of Fine Art. By ale improved process of the
calotype, the photographic power is increased, and has
the advantage of being indelible in its impression, while
any number of portraits may be obtained from one sit-
ting. The manner in which Mr. Collen's method acts
is thus :

By the calotype process, a likeness is produced by the ca-
mera obscura, through the blackening action of light on chemi-
cal combinations with silver, which arc introduced into the
paper from whence the likeness is taken. The lightest part of
the object is thus represented by black on the paper in the
camera, whilst the darkest part makes no impression on the
paper. This reversed picture (for such it is) is laid on another
prepared paper, and is submitted to the influence of light,
which, passing through the first, blackens the paper under-
neath in those parts which had not been affected in the camera
operation, acd the result obtained is an exact reverse of effect.
These likenesses may be multiplied to any extent.
The portraits of Count St. Ault-lire, the French Am-
bassador, Professor Brandt., Mr. Charles Young, and
many others which we viewed, were excellent specimens
of the rich mezzotint which, under this process, like•
nesses assume rind retain.

LORD HILL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

w liSati a,—.Wis illeyoout Lhoarvde
appeared in the Court Circular, nor any of the public papers,
for a very considerable time
Ht hiel l pia
iess s
rt,do
ridnsfhiipnis yonuamr subscribers
i bneorts
While his Majesty the King of Prussia honoured us with a
visit, it does not appear his Lordship's name was ever mentioned
in the gay doings at Windsor. If the Commander-in-Chief is
laid up at his seat in Shropshire, the public will be glad to.
hear occasionally what rrogress the Gallant and Noble Lord is
making towards recovery.—l am, Sir, year obedient Servant,
llereford, March 9, 18-1•2. AN OLD SOLDIER.

Some sensation has been created in Madrid by a re-
port that the Queen and her sister, whilst walking in the
gardens of the Retiro, had been fired at, but the Corresponsat
gives the following explanation of the affair :—lt appears that
a respectable tradesman of Madrid was leaving the capital, on a
shooting excursion, with his musket of the National Guard,
which was loaded with ball ; and, as it had been loaded for several
days, he fired it in the air, in order that he might clean it,
and put it in order before he began his sport. The ball passed
over the wall of the Retiro, and fell near the Queen and her
sister.—A correspondent informs us that the government is on
the qui vice, in consequence of the rumours of an intended
attempt at counter revolution, and that measures of a strong
nature, out of the regular provisions of the laws, are expected
to be adopted.—.A letter from Algcsiras states that at Tarifa the
most rigid surveillance continued to be exercised.
The High Sheriff, E. B. Lonsade, has appointed a
divine of the Established Church as chaplain. How much
superior to the Christian practice is this liberality of the
Hebrew gentleman ! He provides a chaplain of the Judges'
religion to attend on their devotions. Had a Jew been Judge
and a Christian High-Sheriff, we doubt whether we should not
have seen the Hebrew compelled to receive the priest of the
Christian.— Nesters Times.
THE COURT AND TIMES OF FREDERICK THE
GREAT. —This work, just issued, under the editorial auspices
of Thomas Campbell, bids fair to take its place in all historical
libraries. In a lengthy review of it iii the last number of
Riacku'ood's Magaaine, it is justly remarked that—" The
late visit of the King of Prussia to England renews the publio
interest in the Sovereign and his country. In this feeling, we
think, we shall gratify our readers by giving them some sketches
of that period, which raised Prussia to the rank of a monarchy,
'and of that extraordinary man of genius, who first made her
throne conspicuous in Europe, and asserted for himself one of
the highest places among the warriors and statesmen of the
modern ss'orld. The above work, whieli sketches the career of
Frederick the Great and his immediate predecessor, is .a re-
tale answdea
haveintelligent
ecollectionve rnta,sfreretanrt
aiitfes ;tohbefeyeEcot.
ailpm ratricskosaiiiabl
nil,yakainsiotilrangia,tteandne,dvb‘ae,
racier, in themselves as curious as any, perhaps, ever furnished
arTitotautb
by Royal biography. The material is condensed rah such
dexterity, and combined with such judiciousness, that we.recsl.
Icct but few biographies which have more highly and constantly
kept up our attention."
FASCINATION.— EDITED Dlr MRS. GORE.—This
charming tale seems rapidly proving its claim
.to the title
Mrs. Gore has bestowed upon it. Its lively, vivid, and pic-
turesque sketches of French and Getman manners and society
during their most picturesque period, its spirited and original
draughts of character, and its dramatic cast of plot and in-
cident, are commanding for it universal perusal. Its " fas-
cinating" hero, so famous in the romance of real life of the
time of Louis X V., the noble, pa.sionate, and devoted Princesse
de Soissons, heroine of the tale, the three Aulic Councillors, on
whose oddities and peculiarities the whole plot turns, the jolly.
German boar-hunting Baron, the henpecked Gourmand, the
crack •brained scholar, not to forget the igenerour-hearted little
tailor and his shrew of a wife—all these first-rate characters,
anti half a dozen more of a secondary class, give to this tale a
" Fascination" which will no doubt be as irresistible in our

' day as its celebrated hero was in his.
IVATER COMP.% NIES.—W“ (lid not, it appears, err
greatly in predicting that the opening of the Parliamentary
season would present its usual number of projects
.f?r new
pa largetirig
"pater": eos pceoemt ups7ens i essy la i enloi r mwiegrlei twteemmputcht lmaeisetaakpvitnaliinst anwtitchi
but visionary profits." The projectors of some of these
companies have realty surpassed our expectations ; capital
400,0001., 25,000 houses at 2/. per house, 50,000 r. per annum ;
expenses, 1.1;000/. per annum —net amount 36,000/., or 9/.
per cent, on capital. Why such moderation, by the way ?
why not, have taken credit for 27,000 houses ?—for the one
assertion is about as likely to be verified as the other. In
the latter case 'there would have been a Let 10 per cent—a
lure infinitely more captivating. When it is added that
every house of the '25,000 is to be taken by a process of compe-
tition from the existing companies, it is enough probably to show
that our former observations were far from being too strong
or unelicited. There is, however, no great risk of such pro-
jects receiving the sanction of the Legislature. Even were it
possible for am Act to be obtained,- the'cxperience of a few
short years would cause all connected with such undertakings
to call to mind, with feelings of no slight regret, the warning
they had neglected. Putting aside the correctness of the
estimate of outlay (questioned, it would appear, by those most
competent, to form a judgment on the subject) the calculation
of income is wholly illusory. For years, any new company
would not get enough to pay their expenses, as the existing.
companies, driven to despair, would go below the price, what-
ever it might be, at which the new company would offer to
supply ; and if, as tho.result of a long and weary struggle, a
compromise should be effected which would assign to a new
company some portion of the districts of the old, the income to
he derived from it would, even with the assistance of an in.
creased charge to the public, not realise 21. per cent. upon the
capital expended.
We find the following in a letter from Perpignan :
—" The inhabitants of the small town of Ma.ssanet, on the.
Spanish side of the frontier, were a few days ago celebrating
•
the fete of their patronal saint, when, in the middle of a dame,
in the public square, a man, named Da Costa, saw his bre•ber-
in-law, who was a Carlin, and with whom he had a family
quarrel. Da Costa immediately left his pattiter, approached
his victim, and in the presence of at least 1,200 persons plunged
a dagger twice into his heart, and then went leisurely, and,
without being pursued, across the frontier, which was fall
three leagues distant."
The fltrinblugh Vazette of the 20th nit. publishes
the following from a correspondent, as his opinion of the effect
which would be produced in Germany by the nrw Corn-laws,
proposed by Sir Robert. Peel .—" The sliding-scale of import
duties in England on foreign corn, not only prevents safe specu-
lation in distant ports, but necessitates the purchase of corn in
. the ports of the norih of Europe, particularly Hamburghfianed
l)antzic. The sliding-scale of Sir Robert Peel is, therefore,
much much more advantageous to Germany. whoseP"r" woduiddut thus
have the exclusive supply of England, than the fixed duty
of
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hour, and then returned a verdict of "Manslaughter
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John Marsden and Edward Crook," and -they
were both
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assizes at Liverpool.