The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-31 00:00:00

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The great events are over,and'Queen Attneis dead—l hear
the reader say to himself.' To pursue nay usual course, without
preface or•prelude then, I will begin at the beginning of the
past eventful week, carefully eschewing the lies of the day.
nor setting down aught in malice.
The weather could not have been more unpropitious for the
opening of the ball, if the gods had been even so spitefully in-
clined ; it rained incessantly all Tuesday. The entry for the
Cray.n was good as far as the number was concerned, but the
quality was inferior. Satirist was the only horse entered of
any pretension, and although the weights for this stake are
decidedly in favour of the three-year-olds, the winner of the
Doncaster St. Leger was hacked even to win. Mr. Dixon's
mare won by a head, carrying 301bs. less weight than the
favourite ; a good three-year-old would be tried with
Satirist at 14 lbs. :tar. Forth won this same stake last
year with Miss Stilton, afterwards second in the Oaks. A
pretty race followed between Nessus and lole, won (solely,
by
.giiod riding) by Nessus; this was succeeded by a decla-
ration that Canadian would not start, the reason assigned
being lameness behind. I believe the horse to have been un-
sound more than once during the winter ; hence his condition
when he first appeared in public at Newmarket. He was as fat
as a Smithfield ox. When you have stood on a horse all the
long, long winter, it certainly is unpleasant to hear a declara-
tion that he will not start four-and-twenty hours before the
; such things are hard to bear, and we cannot be sur-
prised at any remarks we hear at the moment on the subject.
The least reflection, I think, must convince any one that the
blow falls heaviest on the purchaser of this horse, and how-
ever. in common with many gentlemen on the turf, 1 may de.
prsrste the system of sellicg a Derby favourite so immediately
-nefere the race, it must be and is a considerable gratification
to know that the horse went into a good stable, and barring
this untoward accident, would have started under every advan.
tage with one of the best jocke)s living on his baeL. Some
equally efficacious accident, but sans the declaration, appeared
to have befallen Auckland : he fell in one minute from seven to
seventy to one, and it was generally believed he would not
start. I suspect tire policemen were not sent down to watch
tins horse without reason, but more under the head of Wednes-
day, the Derby day. The description of the different roads
to Enso. m is no doubt very amusing, and doubtless many of
your readers like the annual repetition. They will not find it
here, for I believe everybody in the world now goes to Epsom ;
theretore they know all abort it. 1 first speak of the proceed-
ings iu Epsoru opposite the Spread Eagle, and on the steps
leading.you from the street into the hotel (one of the very con-
venient spots chosen to form a r leg). Contrary to the infor-
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=lion conveyed to you by the cart's of the day, we were here
informed that Barrier, Moss Trooper, Fireaway, and the c nut
of .4liat Craven's dam would not run; thus the number actually
starting reduced to twenty-four, the number that I stated
wouA pos,cively run in my letter prognosticaring Auckland,
the ill-fated Auckland, as the winner of this unprecedented
large stake, value 4,900/. The most important change in the
tow° heti iog was the fall of Jack from Sto ISt° I. It is true,
but scarcely credible ; ti to 1 was taken about Jack to several
bundred pounds on Tuesday evening. 1 gave my opinion, I
be ieve, without any mistake about Jack a week, aye, thirteen
wmek.i ago. He started List for decency's sake; he came in last
--k.eause he could not help it. Two to one was betted to a
considerable. sum on Coldrenick against Attila.
before I -ay mote, allow me, Sir, to give that explanation I
promised )ou in case of defeat, an explanation, I regret to say,
tota'h
.too satisfactory even for myf own liking. In selecting
Auckland to win the Derby, I alluded to my contempt of all
gond and evil report, and the immense sums of money laid
against mai i© the winter. Now, I care tot who says nay; we
. snood on a good horse. Why did he go to 4tol in the betting
the day before the race ? Why did Osborne, his trainer, leave
his hurt' and go to London to see the Marquis of Westminster
on the Tuesday? And why, at the eleventh hour, was the
j..ickei, changed? Tommy Lye is not a bad jockey, but •he is
not. esactly the man I should put on a large ind powerful horse
hike Auckland. Would that 1 could reply to these questions.
And, after all, the horse runs third, and, I believe, might have
been second, had he persevered. Perhaps it is as well
he did not win : settling would hardly have been the word
for the ceremony usually gone through on the Tuesday
after Epsom. It does not muds matter what is second,
but trusting to those usually so accurate in their trials, and to
the liberal manner in which the Danebury gentlemen backed
their nag. I fancied Coldrenick must be an extraordinary good
horse. Reader, did you ever come over in one of the Irish
packets? If you have, you remember the appearance of the
ill-.od animals that crowd the deck, and squeal with delight
at leaving their native land Ido not allude to the Hamp-
shire hogs, but the Kilkenny porkers. When I first be-
held Coldrenick, I could not but think of the ill-treated and
hungry animals, all legs and ribs. How different the ap-
pearance of Attila! The public thought him fat, hence his fall
in the odds just. before starting. This horse was purchased
when a yearling for 2001., and although I said nothing about
his winning, I certainly said not one word against him. This
is the second time John Scott has ever won a Derby. John
Day has never trained or rode the winner ; and, with due de-
ference to honest John, Ido not believe he ever will. In the
dm place he over-works his horse,; in the second place
he over-rides them; and I believe where John Scott tries once,
John Day will try four times. No horse can run every day in
the week. 1 always endeavour to give the devil his due; and,
1. must say, this is the first instance of so awful an impostor
appearing from Stockbt idge. The question has been asked
fifty -nine times. " How came Robert de Gorham second?"
'Faith, and it is not so easy to answer. Attila won in a canter.
Auckland, dead amiss, was a good third, Belemur being close
up to him ; then came the Agreeable colt, a horse universally
pronounced to be the greatest brute ever seen, when at Tatter-
sall's in November last.

It does not appear from these remarks that the horses of the
year are first rate; but rime will show. " Chatham pulled up
lame," as I read in your reporter's account of the race : I much
question if he started sound. My tale of the greatest Derby
ever known ends here : so many horses will probably never be
backed to win one race again, and, in the absence of the huge
)eatling books which last year monopolised the market, such
odds will never again be obtainable about those which are backed.
Thursday was a miserable blank : one stake and two races
with heat.,,partracted to the course some twenty horsemen, an
extremely limited portion of the ring, and afew straggling gip-
s. Why the cup, which has made many a good ace ere now,
is abolished, I know not ; any how, I should think a handicap
stake, now the leading fea.ture at every racecourse in England,
• might be got up for the quantity of old horses and hacks sent
to Eisuiti to lead gallops for the animals engaged iii the Derby
and Oaks ; think of this Mr. Lumley, for I believe you are
chef de cuisine at Epsom. The Oaks betting was heavy ;
vtuboldened by ,ueeess, the Scott party laid out teir winning;
freely, and it certainly is a pull to stand on velvet. The Adeis
mare was al .o backed.

rit!DA Y. —The Oaks has certainly lost caste. The public
do not tare the 'same interest in this great race that they
did some few years ago. People hate betting about the race
even in the winter; the fact is, that the betting has been so
had during tt e last. four years, the favourite having always
thrown in," that the public will not stand crucifixion
ant lonzer. The present race is an exception as far as
the betting is concerned. Passion was backed for a great
dearal taoney at 6 and 7to 1. Belle Dame and Sir Gilbert
Ileathente's bit were also among those that did not venture to
the post:—so much dead money to bookmakers, while the
winner, the Fury filly (the property of Mr. Dawson, I be-
lieve), was never heard of before the second week in April.
I hive never had to record a woo se, race : Deception did not
wit easier, and the pace was wretched; they seemed to be
travelling at about eight. miles an hour, until round the corner.
't Isere were several false starts, and Nat, not wishing to
br. ak another collar-bone,. threw himself off Ma Mie, as the
well-bred spabiel ,eseends the stairs, when he tees prepara-
tions making for his departure by a more precipitate retreat.
Tue ware was exceedingly restive. The Adele mare was
cou,dene strange to say, she was as good a favourite as ever,
after her preparatory gallop. Mr. Forth once more gets the
haedred sovereigns for being second, but, as usual, no one
knew, be-iies his worthy self, that Meal was better than
Lu'y Banks, the latter being much the best favourite of the
two. I have heard that the training ground at Mitchell
Grove La peculiarly favourable in dry weather. Twice has
Ali. Forth won the Derby, when the ground has been,
tinting the previous month, as hard as adamant. I certainly
saw no stud at Epsom snore blooming than old Forth's. I
ttney there was not much money won or lost on this race,
the tenths!: far which anti the Derby takes place on Tuesda, ,
that is, to-morrow ; and considering that one of the favourites
has won, I believe the needful will be forthcoming to a satis•
factory extent.

We cannot surely regret that the Hippodrome is abnlishrd.
Four days' rest between Epsom and Ascot are good for man
and beast. If either think otherwise, there is racing at Newton
on Wednesday and following days.
.flay 30.

JUDEX.

MEP:TiNG FOR COMPLETE SUF-
FRAGE AT KNIGHTSBRIDGE.
A meeting of the friends of Complete Suffrage was held on
Saturday night last, at Thornton's Coffee-house, Knights-
bridge.; Mr. Devehaw in the Chair. The adjourned discus-
sion on the necessity and practicability of an union between
the midlle and working-tlass Reformers was resumed, and
the result was the appr: val of Complete Soffra.,2,e Unions as
the ne.st means for the purpose.
The following Address to the Electors of Nottingham was
read by the Secretary, Mr. Westerton :
TO THE ELECTORS OF NOTTINGHAM.
"" FEI,LOW- COUNTRY MES,—You will shortly have an op-
petundy of removing the disgrace brought on your town by
he r.flilacy of some of its inhabitants, and enabling you to
regain your former position in the estimation of your country
and the world. Are you prepared? Do you participate with
us in feeling that, morally and politically, you are degraded and
despised?. Have you yet perceived, that by bartering your
votes for a bribe, your representatives assume the right of sell-
ing thorn to the highest bidder for their own?
• Nlea of Nottingham !—llarl you witnessed the contempt
manifested for your past ronutiet by foreigneis, as well as your
countrymen, the hand extended for the blase would have been
:severed rather.than son would have exposed yourselves to such
humiliation! You would at once resolve to be men, and act.
Lice free men!
• Show that you feel compunction, and your repentance is
s;ucere, by doing what you can to secure the return of Joseph
I:::CUrge as your future representative.
ss Let those among you who have scorned the bribe—despised
the irrin:idation—anit withstood the influence of your former
Members, crown their past exertions by supporting that (rood
man, arm thereby securing the approbation their noble conduct
has already deserved.
" Men of Nottingham !—The result of the forthcoming elec-
tidn is anxiously looked for by numbers of your countrymen.
Your town is to be the arena of a deadly struggle between prin-
ciple and corruption—and that struggle will show whether sus
fi,ient patriotism remains in oar people, to scorn the bribe of
the despot, and declare for the freeman !
" On one side these is corruption from those who flatter,
despise, and sell you ; on the other, the untiring exertions of
one who will do his utmost to secure the peace and prosperity
of ail.
" Rise, theretore, and acquit yourselves as men ! Be as the
men of. old ! The men whose names make radiant the page on
which they are recorded—whose resting-places are hallowed in
our mesnories—and whoe lives were sacrificed for our right',
seed

" That inn will do so, and 3ecure the return of that great
and good man, Jaseph St urge, is the hope and prayer of your
trievt4 and VT ell-wishers, the men of Knightsbridge and its
nrigbbottrhood."

''—
AXNIVERSARIES.—This day is the anniversary of
swue interesting events. particularly the burning of the cele-
brated heroine, Joan of Arc, in the year 1431 ; three years
previously she repulsed the English at the siege of Orleans.
It will also be the anniversary of the death of P. P. Ruben%
the celebrated painter, who died in 1610, and the anniversary
of the death of our pnpular and accomplished poet, Alexander
Pope, who died in 1711, anti of Voltaire, who died in 1778,
and
will of She ir James Macintosh. who di, ti in 1832. The next day
be t anniversary of the taking of Spiritu Santo, and of
thedeath of Sir James Malcolm, in 1833 • and the day following will be the anniversary of the death of the distinguished author
C. Marlowe, in 1593, and of the birth of that great artist N. Poussin, in 1594,and of the splendid victory of Lord Rowe, in
1794.—Sen of Last Night.
BRUSSELS, MAY 27.—The Passengers from London
via Antwerp have arrived. Those by the General Steam
Navigation Company's British steamship, Rainbow, which left
London yesterday at one in the afternoon, eame in at half-past
seven this morning ; thus, the journey from London te Brussels
has been performed by the passengers of the British steam-ship,
Bilinbovr, in iBi hours.

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