The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-15 00:00:00

NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING.

Our last dispatch was made up to two o'clock on Sunday
afternoon, and had reference only to such .engagements as
had already appeared in print. We were afterwards informed
that, in the course of the morning, a match had been made
for the following day, between the Duke of Bedford's Oakley
and Lord G. Bentinck's Discord, Bst 101 b each, to run from
the starting post of A. F. to the end of Ab. M., 300 each,
h. ft.—Oakley the favourite, at 5 and 6 to. 4. A second
match was subsequently made for Friday, between Oakley,
9st 101 b, and Hartshorn, 6st 51b, T. Y. C., 200, h. ft. In
the course of the day, Lord G. Bentinck tendered a formal
objection to Perkin Warbeck for the Newmarket Handicap,
calling upon the stewards to enforce the second resolution
passed at a meeting of the club, in October, 1838, and the
fifth resolution of the June meeting in 1844. These
resolutions render it imperative on the owner of the horse
objected to, to prove his age and pedigree before
he will be allowed to run. It is scarcely necessary to remind
our readers that Perkin Warbeck, as Bloodstone, by Bubastes
out of Romaike, won the New Stakes at Ascot last year, but
was afterwards proved to be the three yrs old, and was dis-
qualified. He is known to be by Beiram, out of Romaike,
but, as in the case of Zanoni, who is represented and believed
to be the Gladiator colt, bred by Sir C. Ibbotson, has not
been proved to be so. Owing to the rain very few assembled
in front of the rooms before dinner, and the only bets laid
were 12 to 1 agst Idas to 754 1,000 to 10 agst Due au Durras,
and 2,000 to 20 agst Javelin, offers to take 15 to 1 about Cob-
web colt, who was reported to have been tried on Saturday
with I-am• not-aware, Hersey and Seakale filly. The sub-
scription was opened in the evening, and the list read before
a very select assemblage ; not a bet was laid during the
reading, and it was only at midnight that they were enabled
to make up the following brief quotation :

CHESTER CUP.
9 to 1 agst Cataract—taken I 20 to 1 agst Winesour
9to 1 agst Semiseria—tak. I 30 to 1 agst Queen of Tyne—i
20 1 agst Portrait and Ould Ireland—taken.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
2to 1 agst Idas I sto 1 agst Cobweb colt.
5 to 2 agst Kedger

DERBY.

13 to 1 agst Idas—taken
15 to 1 agst Cobweb colt—

22 to 1 agst Weatherbit—t.
50 to 1 agst Fuzbos—taken

takeii to 1501.
The Minikin colt and several other horses in Boyce's
stables reported to be coughing.
MONDAY.

The arrivals hitherto have, with few exceptions, been con-
fined to the usual frequenters of the Newmarket meetings,
and, looking at the character of the events to be decided,
and the " gathering" of Derby nags in the town (including
the four leading favourites and Newsmonger) are less nume-
rous than we had anticipated. Speculation, too, continues
extremely languid, the weather is boisterous, and the pro-
spects of the week—irrespective of the sport, of which we see
no reason to change our opinion—not by any means brilliant.
The Craven Stakes not being filled, one of the handicaps
was selected as the opening race of the meeting, and at one
o'clock Mr. Hibburd, the new starter, made his debdt at the
starting post of the D.M. for—
A Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, and only 5 ft if
declared, for three and four yrs old. D.M. (9 Subs., three
of whom paid).
Mr. Howe's ch c, by Ratcatcher, 4 yrs, 7st 61b (Chapple)
Mr. Newton's fby Jerry, out of Pastille, 3 yrs, sst 101 b... 2
The following also started but were not placed :—Lord G.
Bordinck's All-round-my-Hat, 4 yrs, Bst 91b—Lord Exeter's
Mocha, 4 yrs, Bst—Col. Peel's f by Slane, out of Seakale,
3 yrs, 6st—and Lord Exeter's f by Velocipede, out of Ama-
ryllis, 3 yrs, Est 41b. 2 to 1 agst Turquoise c, and 3to 1
agst Mocha. All the running was made by the Pastille and
Seakale fillies and All-round •my-Hat, the Ratcatcher colt
lying off. At the T.Y.C. the Seakale filly gays up, and at
the cords All round-my-Hat had had enough of it. The
Ratcatcher colt then joined the leading horses, quitted them
half-way up, and won by a couple of lengths. Mocha and
All-round-my-Hat were close up.
Handicap of 25 Sovs. each 10 ft ; for four year olds, &c.
T.Y.C. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Howe's Khorassan, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b... (Chapple) 1
Lord Exeter's Dr. Hill, 4 yrs, 7st llb
5 to 4on Khorassan.—A good race from the bottom, and
won by half a length.
Sweepstakes of 50 Soya. each ; for three year olds • colts,
Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 41b. D.M. (6 Subs.)'
Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair (Nat) 1
Lord Exeter's Tunick

Duke of Beaufort's Captain Phebus 3
Lord W. Powlett's Energy 4
Mr. Booth's Nevi Year's Day
sto 4 on Captain Phebus, and 2 to 1 a-st Lady Wildair.
Tunick and New Year's Day made play alternately at a good
pace, attended by Captain Phebus and Lady Wildair for
about half the distance; the two pairs then changed places,
and the Captain carried the finning to the cords, where he
was beaten, and the filly taking the lead, kept it to end, and
won easy by a length, Tunick beating Captain Phebus for
third place.

The fielgrave Stakes of 200 sovs. each, h ft ; for three yrs
old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 31b. D.M. (3 Subs.)
Colonel Anson's Kedger walked over
Match, D.M., 300; h ft—Duke of Bedford's Minotaur,
5 yrs, Bst 71b (Robinson), beat Mr. John Day's The Ugly
Buck, 4 yrs, Bst 131 b (John Day, jun.) Even betting, the
Buck for choice. Minotaur made running at a great pace to
the cords, where the Buck went up, headed him, and had the
best of the race, but tired, and was beaten in the last two or
three strides by half a length.
The Riddlesworth Stakes of 200 sovs. each, h ft, for 3 yrs old ;
colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 4th ; Ab. M. (3 Subs.)
Mr. Wreford's Winchelsea ( T Howlett) 1
Lord G. Bentinck's Ratafia
5t04 on Winchelsea. Winchelsea waited on the mare to
the top of the hill, made the rest of the running, and won in
a canter.

A tremendous storm of wind and rain came on immedi-
ately after the match, and cleared the course instanter. It
did not cease until after the Riddlesworth, and caused the
postponement of the match between Discord and Oakley to
Tuesday.
Produce Match—Duke of Rutland's c by Royal Oak, out
of Minx's dam, Bst 81b, agst Duke of Portland's fby Csagar,
out of Canis, Bst 51b ; D.M., 100, h ft, off by consent.
Mr. W. Edwards, the trainer, was thrown from his horse
during the race between the Ugly Buck and Minotaur, and
very seriously injured.
DERBY BETTING.

10 to 1 agst Idas —l5 to 1 agst Cobweb colt
11 to 1 agst Alarm 22 to 1 agst Weatherbit
14 to 1 agst Kedger 35 to 1 agst Laird o' Cockpen
1,200 to 800 on Idas agst Cobweb colt.
CHESTER CUP.
9to 1 agst Semiseria—t. fr. I 11 to 1 agst Obscurity
10 to 1 agst Cataract I 40 to 1 agst Roe's lot--takr.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVINING rari.ns OF YESTERDAY

GLOBE.—It was already known that John Tawell, the
murderer of Sarah Hart. be, a few hours before his execu-
tion, placed in the hands of the Rev. Mr. Cox, the chaplain
to the county gaol, a written confession of his guilt. The
contents of that document the t ev. gentleman declined to make
known. It was, in his opinion, a confidential communication •,
entrusted to him in his official character as a clergyman ; and
therefore sealed from the knowledge of any other individual.
But for the criminal's verbal admission to the governor, after
lie had delivered the written statement to the chaplain, the
public would have been ignorant of any confession of his
guilt. The extravagant hypotheses of his counsel on his
trial, and the equally preposterous assumptions put forth
by certain catch-penny pretenders to science after
his conviction, who endeavoured to impugn the
medical testimony by which his guilt was esta-
blished, would have been gathered up and expatiated
upon by the ignorant and credulous. The danger of con-
victing on circumstantial evidence would have been dwelt.
upon ; and John Taw-ell would have been chronicled as
another martyr to its defectiveness of proof. The county
magistrates of Backs, at their Quarter Sessions held on
Thursday, very properly took up the subjt ct of the ell aplain's
retention of Jol:n Tawell's written confession. It was proposed
by Mr. T. R. Barker, and, after some discussion, almost unani-
mously agreed to, that the chaplain be sent for, and asked,
4.whether any, and if any, what confession was made by John
Towel', and under what circumstances it was made ?" Lord
Nugent was among the few dissentients. His Lordship al-
leged that " the confession made to Mr. Cox might have
been under a solemn promise, or dying wish, that it might not
be made public." His Lordship's objection was supported
by the Rev. J. Harrison, who contended that " Mr. Cox
stood before them as a clergyman of the Church of Eng-
land, and the fact of being their chaplain would
not alter his position. He thought no questions
should be put to Mr. Cox relating to a matter
of so strictly a confidential nature." We have stated the
grounds on which those magistrates who objected to the
question being put to the chaplain rested their objections,
because they were actually those on which Mr. Cox, when
called in, rested his respectful refusal to answer the inquiry.
We are not about to argue this important question on gene-
ral grounds; nor to enter into the obviously difficult inquiry,
wnether a confession of guilt made by an accused
party, before trial, to a clergyman of the Church of England,
' ought to be used as evidence against him. The caste of a
convicted party about to pay the penalty of his life for a
crime which he had pertinaciously and circumstantially
denied, rests upon other grounds. °The question is brought
within very narrow limits. It is simply, whether the con-
solations of religion and the hopes of forgiveness from the
Divine Being can be consistently held forth by a
Protestant clergyman to a man on the threshold of
the scaffold who declines to make an unreserved and
unconditional confession of his crime as the only repara-
tion he can make to society, while he is willing to make
a confidential and conditional confession to the chaplain, if
that officer will promise to keep it to himself? That is the
question in issue : and to that question we give a decided
negative. The affirmative would be to cherish de-
lusive hopes in a wretched man about to pass into eternity;
and would be of dangerous influence on the public interests.
By concealing the confessions of guilt made to a clergyman,
at the last moment,by criminals who have strenuously denied
their guilt of the offence of which they were convicted, the
juries who convicted them are left under apprehension that they
might be mistaken in their verdict. The impression produced
by' the facts, or the circumstances on which they arrived
at the conclusion, though strong as proofs from holy writ
when in the jury-box, becomes weakened by the opera-
tion of time; and the fear of having doomed a fellow--
creature to the scaffold on inconclusive evidence, haunts
the imagination, and destroys the peace of conscientious
but highly sensitive minds through future life. All this
agony of doubt in such minds would be spared, were
the confessions of guilt made by-criminals to chaplains
only to be made public by them immediately after the
law has received its penalty. We contend that a clergy-
man ought not to become the depository of a conditional con-
fession. His intercourse with the prisoner is in the character
of a religious instructor. His office is to make known
to the wretched criminal the Gospel terms on which he
niay obtain forgiveness and reconciliation with the Most
High. If in the recesses of his guilty soul the convict
cherish hopes of escape from the death to which he is
doomed by " cloaking" his offence especially if he
secretly admit his guilt to the minister of religion, while
he adheres to the denial he has put forth to the
world—then, in such a case, it becomes the imperative
duty of the clergymen to show him the fallacy of resting in
such a confession, destitute as it is of the elements of contri-

tion, and to publish hiscontession so soon as the wretched and
deluded man has passed into the unseen state. For a Protestant
clergyman to lock up in his escrutoire such a document as
that which it is admitted 'fawell placed in the Rev. Mr.
Cox's hands, is, in our view, alike inconsistent with his
duty to the hurch and to society. It assumes some
mysterious efficacy in auricular confession, which the Pro-
testant Church repudiates. " If," said the memorable
John Hales, " a man be stung by an adder, will he
obtain healing by whispering his misfortune into the ear of
an ass ? Equally absurd is it to suppose that secret con-
fession of sin to a priest, who is but a man, can avail to ob-
tain deliverance from the punishment which God has de-
nounced against it."
STANDARD.—Sir Robert Peel has not said that he will
retire from office, if defeated upon the question now before
the House of Commons. Probably the Right Hon. Baronet
feels that such a declaration on his part might be construed
as disrespectful to his usual supporters, if not to the House :
but though the Premier may observe a respectful silence
upon the point, there than be no doubt that if defeated he
must resign. His own resolution of 1841.---that a Ministry
unable to carry through Parliament measures which it con-
siders important to the public interest is unworthy
of the confidence of the Crown and the country—
would stare him in the face after such a defeat
as we suppose. And nobody acquainted with the character
of the Premier, can doubt that he bas made up his mind to
act in the spirit of his own resolution. Upon the result of
the debate now in progress will, therefore, we may be very
sure, depend the fate of the Ministry; and every man who
shall vote against the Ministerial Bill will, in effect,
vote for the dismissal of the Cabinet of September,
1841. We are very far from saying that,
in a very clear case of moral or religious duty, a man ought
to allow the fate of a Ministry to influence his vote. But
we hold, and we think no reasonable man will dispute the
proposition, that every one who meditates a step tending
to produce a violent, and what may be a mischievous,
change is bound to satisfy his conscience that the moral
or religious duty which he thinks himself bound
to discharge, is clear and certain. Let us add, that con-
science in this respect is not to be properly satisfied by the
echoes of public meetings, or the mechanical mul-
tiplication of petitions, but by the appeal to each
man's own reason and judgment. The award upon
such an appeal, fairly and calmly made, cannot,
in our judgment, be doubtful. The Bill be-
fore Parliament does not introduce any new principle, this is
certain. It does not go to increase the number of the Ro
man Catholic clergy. On the other hand, it for the first
time limits the number of these clergymen to be educated at
the public expense. It does not go to augment the
influence of the Roman Catholic clergy—that is impassible,
except by, if possible, making both clergy and laity more
ignorant than they are. We do not hesitate to say, that the
present influence of the Roman Catholic clergy is at the
maximum, and that a more learned and polite clergy would
possess much less influence—that Angelo Mai or
Doctor Wiseman, for example, would have no chance
whatever in competition for influence with Father Tierney
or Father Tom Maguire. The State finds the Roman
Catholic clergy, such as they are, in possession of
unbounded and unincreasable (if we may use the word)
influence, and the Government purposes to soften the exercise
of that influence, by means which we think (whether we
are right or wrong is no matter) must weaken its founda-
tions—which certainly cannot strengthen them. Is the
obligation of moral or religious duty.to resist this measure so
very clear, that men are bound to incur a very serious risk
in its discharge?

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COUR
OLD COURT

(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN and Mr. Baron PLAIT.)
BURGLARY.—John Murphy and Edward Sullivan, both aged
25, the former an itinerant dealer in poultry, and the latter a
labourer, pleaded guilty to breaking into the house of CharleN
Filcher, and stealing a coat and other articles. They were
disturbed in their depreda,ions by some of Mr. Pitcher's
family, and made a precipitate retreat with the above-men-
tioned property.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN sentenced them to two years' im-
prisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction.
STEALING Lerreus.—Edward Spicer, a mail guard, aged
39, who was convicted last week of stealing a letter con-
taining property of the value of 201., was sentenced to trans
portation for life.
STEALING A MARE. Charles Stickins, a groom, aged 24,
was indicted for stealing a mare, value 31/. 108., the property
of Charles Bevan, Esq., a barrister, of Lincoln's Inn, on the
31st of August, 1843.
It appeared that the prisoner, who wai in the employment
of Miss Savile, livery-stable• keeper, of Fetter-lane, was di-
rected by Mr. Bevan to take the mare in question on that
day to Tattersall's, that the might be sold on the following
Monday. He pever went, having absconded. from his em-
ployment and Sold the mare on the 21st of September to Mr.
Webb, stable-keeper, of Gray's Inn-lane, for 161. 10s., giving
him a recefpt in the name of Mr. Bevan's clerk. Since that
period he had not been heard of, until the 3d of March last,
when he was taken into custody at Cambridge, by Police.
sergeant Russell, 207 City Police, to whom he stated that he
left London immediately after disposing of the mare, and had
not returned since, and that he spent the money in a fort-
night's " spree."
The jury found him Guilty, and he was sentenced to one
year's imprisonment and hard labour.
INTENSIVE ROBBERY.-- Wm. Jagger, a middle-aged man,
pleaded guilty to stealing a quantity of plate, consisting of
candlesticks, silver forks, and spoons, &c., valued at 200/.,
the property of his mistress, Mrs. Shipley, a lady residing at
Brompton, in whose service he had been for the last seven'
years as utler at a salary of fifty guineas a year. It ap-
peared that he had pledged the articles at different periods,
and had expended upwards of NZ. in paying the interest
upon them. He was strongly recommended to mercy by the
prosecutrix on account of his long services and hitherto irre-
proachable character. It appeared that he had a wife, who
was now enceinte, and several children.
Mr. Baron PLATT, after a suitable address, sentenced him
to two years' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of
Correction.
Upon the application of Mr. Bodkin, who is instructed for
the prosecution, and with the consent of Mr. Clarkson, who
appeared for the defendant, the trial of Mr. Lowe, against
whom a bill for manslaughter, arising out of the explosion of
a steam boiler, at Blackwall, has been returned by the Grand
Jury, was postponed to the next session.
Several cases of felony were disposed of during the day, but
the details were of no interest to the public.
NEW COURT.

STEALING A ClllLD.—Margaret Doolan, a coarse-looking
woman, aged 28, was convicted of stealing John Swann, a
child aged eleven months, and was sentenced to be trans-
ported for seven years.
The RECORDER said the object of the woman in stealing
the child was no doubt to palm it upon some person as her
own, for the purpose of extorting money.

THE NEW .MASTER OF THE HOIISEHOLD.—CoI.
George Bowles, the new Master of her Majesty's House-
hold, vice the Hon. Charles Augustus Murray, who was
gazetted to that appointment on Friday last, commented
his duties on Tuesday, the let instant, on the return of the
Court from the Isle of Wight to Buckingham Palace.
Colonel Bowles entered the army, as ensign, by purchase,
in 1804, and served in the North of Germany, under Lord
Cathcart, in 1805 and 1806 ; and was also present at the
siege and capture of Copenhagen, in 1807; was actively
engaged in the Peninsula from 1809 to 1814. The Gallant
Colonel was present at the passage of the Douro; the
battles of Talavera, Salamanca, and Vittoria; the sieges of
Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Bourgos, and San Sebastian;
the capture of Madrid, the passages of Bidassa, Nivelle, Nive,
and Adoni ; and the investment of Bayonne. He was also
present at the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, and at
the capture of Paris by the allied armies. The salary of
Master of the Household, which was fixed shortly after her
Majesty's 1403.940111 is LIU/. par annum.