The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-17 00:00:00

RONIFORD RACES—TiiiinsDAY.

The Ro►nford Stakes were won, in two heats, by Mr.
Werniack's Patchwork; the Cup Stakes, by Mr. Docke-
ray's Pickwick; and the Hurdle race by Factotum.

FRIDAY.

The Liberty (Handicap) Stakes of 5 sous. each, with 40
added. Once round a distance, heats. (6 Subs.)
Winner to be sold for 1501., &c.
Mr. Scott's b m Ellen, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (Cohen) 0 1 1
Mr. Carter's Sister to Ferneley, 6 yrs, 7st . 1 2 2
Two others started Won easy.
. .

The Ladies' Plate was won by Mr. Higgins's Charl-
ton, and the Scurry Stakes by Mr. Cowley's Adrian.

LEICESTER RACES.-THURSDAY.

Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Thrice round.
Duke of Rutland's bf by Bizarre, 3 y.r5....(J. Boyce) 1
Duke of Richmond's The Currier, 5 yrs
Mr. Collins' Isaac. aged
Mr. Wildman's b fby Mundig, 2 yrs.... 4
Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each, with 50 added ; the second
to save his stake. Heats, thrice round.

Mr. Jackson's Wings, 6 yrs
Mr. Robbins's President, 4 yrs 2 dr

Mr. Raworth's Cattonian, 4 yrs

3 dr

The Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each. Thrice round
Duke of Rutland's The Genius, 5 yrs
Mr. Packe nd Chance, 5 yrs

THE QUEEN AND THE KIRK.
We give the following extract from the Church and
State Gazette of yesterday, without at all adopting
the views of the writer, respecting her Majesty's rea-
sons for not attending Divine worship in a Scotch
church. We believe there were other causes, which
Dr. Chalmers can explain :
"The journey of her Majesty through a portion of
her Scottish dominions has been at once agreeable
and satisfactory. It was intended to be one of free-
dom from restraint, and hitherto it has precisely
answered to the original intentions of the Queen. The
reception she has met with has greatly delighted her.
In alluding, however, to her Majesty's visit to Scot-
land, we have a special object in view, to which we
desire to call the attention of our readers—it is the
wise and truly admirable conduct of the Queen with
reference to the subject of religious worship whilst in
that portion of the British empire. If a love of mo-
mentary popularity, which passes away with the
next breeze or the next change of opinion, had
actuated the Queen, she would have charmed
the unreflecting and the irreligious by attending at
Presbyterian worship, and would have neglected the
Episcopal Church, of which she is the head, for a
mother Church which, however respectable, makes no
such acknowledgment, and is not the religion of the
State. When the Queen was requested to be present
at Presbyterian service, that was a moment of tempta-
tion. We cannot but feel that it must have been so.
The General Assembly, the ministers and elders of
hundreds, not to say thousands, of congregations,
would have boasted of the attachment of Royalty to
their form of worship, to their doctrines, and to their
noncomformity to the Episcopal Establishment of
the State. They would have done more than that:
they would have eulogized the " magnanimity
of the Queen " and would have praised her
" for shaking off the trammels of education and pre-
judice." They would have gone still further; and the
cry would have been heard from hill to mountain,
and from_valley to valley—" Long live the Queen
and the Church of Scotland !" The Queen knew all
this—she must have known it—hut she preferred
principle to popularity, and she felt that it was her
duty to show to the intelligent, thoughtful, reflect-
ing, pious Scotch, that as they, in England, would
not seek the Episcopal churches of that country to
worship their Heavenly Father, neither could she, in
Scotland, set so bad an example of indifference to
religious considerations and principles as an attend-
ance at Presbyterian worship would have implied?

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.
The prices of Consols rather improved at the
latter end of the day, and the last rates were 921
buyers for Money, and 93 to 931 for the Account.
India Stock, 249 251; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53;
New, 49 51 prem.

The Foreign Securities were not quite so firm
Belgian, 102 103; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents..
521 52+ ; the Five per Cents., 1021 103 ; Danish,
83 84 ; and Brazilian, 671 681. The quotation for
Mexican rose to a similar price as yesterday, 351 1.
The Share Market was a shade better ; London and
Birmingham were, 181 183 ; Birmingham and
Gloucester, 42 44 ; Great Western, 82 83 ; the
Half Shares, 59 59f ; South Western, 57 .58 ; North-
ern and Eastern, 36 37 ; North Midland, 56 58 ; the
New, 27 28; South Eastern and Dover, 22 221 ;
Eastern Counties, 8f 8; ; Blackwall, 64 7 ; and
Brighton, 33 331 per share.
The rates of Exchange all exhibited an improvement
on those of Tuesday—Amsterdam, 12 51 12 61;
Rotterdam, 12 6/ 12 64; Antwerp, 12 41; Ham-
burgh, 13 11f 13 12 ; Frankfort, 1501 150+; Paris,
25f. 75c. 25f. 80c. ; Vienna, 9 551 9 56 ; Lisbon,
521 52k, all at three months.
Although this was the day appointed for settling
time bargains in the Bonds, but little variation oc-
curred in the quotations :—Colombian, 201 21 ; Peru-
vian, 15 16 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 354 351 ;
the Three per Cents., 204 211 Spanish Five per
Cents., 161 16f ; the Three per Cents., 21 211.
The departure of the Hindostan steamer to India,
via the Cape, has caused some attention in the City.
The idea of the possibility of a complete line of ves-
sels to traverse the route has never yet been aban-
doned, and parties are sanguine enough to believe that
it will ultimately be successfully carried into opera-
tion. The great obstacle which has hitherto existed is
the want of a supply of coals at an intermediate sta-
tion, but the late discoveries in the neighbourhood of
Algoa Bay will, it is supposed, obviate this difficulty.
It has been urged that the route through Egypt offers
such facilities as will supersede the necessity of the
longer passage, and doubtless so long as Mehemet Ali
rules in that country, so long will English travellers
receive a safe conduct. Sufficient, however, has
transpired to show that the safe transit of Europeans
is not by any means securely guaranteed across the
Desert, and hence the necessity of forming such a
fleet, and providing such auxiliaries, as will preclude
the necessity of any dependence upon foreign Powers.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)

The money market has been in the most inactive
condition to-day, with scarcely a transaction to note.
Consols remain at 92-7,- buyers for Money, and 93 for
the Account, with rather more firmness than at the
close of business yesterday afternoon ; New Three-
and-a-Half per Cents., 104 ; India Stock, 250 251;
India Bonds, 36 38 ; xchequer Bills, 51 prem.
In Foreign Securities the price of Brazilian Bonds
has advanced to 68 ; Dutch are also a shade higher,
the Five per Cents. being 1001, and the Three per
Cents. 52* 52g.
The quotation for Mexican is again lower, being 35*.
Beyond a purchase in Great Western at 82, and
the Half-shares at 594, but a shade higher than yes-
terday, there has been no business in the Share
Market.

The Bonds quoted to-day are—Colombian, 204 ;
Spanish Five per Cents, l ; the Three per Cents,
20i- for Money, and 211 for the. Account.
A letter from a highly intelligent gentleman, re-
sident in Texas, furnishes some valuable information
as to the present condition of that country. Presi-
dent Houston, at the same time that he is fully pre-
pared to resist aggression from Mexico, is
.quite as
anxious to preserve peace, being fully convinced, as
he has stated, that tranquillity will prove the only
way by which the independence and prosperity of the
republic can be maintained. The convention entered
into between them, for England to act as a
mediator, has already bad its e'ect, amid although