The Sun. — London, England, 1866-03-10 00:00:00

. . , . . . THE SON f LONDON ..e........... 1 C 3 0 .......h. .......h. The following also ran :—The 'Unknown,: Doubtful, . ----. 'sss - Diploma, Cossack, Tambour Major, and Lot 81 rffrERIAL PARLIAMENTBetting-3 to agst Tambour Major, 4to 1 . each agst o f thesis,t he motion.ln s c t l o t r - w G a e s n cl e u r ai qu it e oftrue lm that por t plied to the Customs' authorities to forward a petition to t h e ethaencdleErk:;ehrt.e.ebehlaiodyeepd,_ and e Aggravator and Lot 84, 5 to 1 agst Od Wind HOUSE 6 to 1 HOUSE OF LORDS.—LAST EVENING. it was perfectly true that the Customs' Treasury, asking fora r econsiderationo a f u t t h h e eri s t e i f d, each agst Woodpigeon and Cossack. Doubtful jumped o ff The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack athesenireeus, forward their petition two miles, when Aggravator, who had been lying well up, stating that they were not at present disposed to do so , . but . with the . lead, followed by Lot 84, and they ran thus for five o'clock , those clerks were perfectly free to and he believed took thelead,foll owed by Woodpigeon, but the latter INNOVATIONS IN THE RUBRIC. The whole subject could never reach Aggravator, who won easily by four The Bishop of PETERBOROUGH presented a petition that such had actually taken place... to the Treasury directly from themselves, . lengths three lengths • Lo t 84 from the parish of Christchurch, Warmington, Essex, was an extremely di ffi cult one, and required much cons], ; between second and third ; against any alterations in the Rubric. was fourth. Unknown refused at the brook, Diploma fell deration heavily at the post rails, Cossack and Tambour Major also GRIEVANCES OF INDIAN OFFICERS. the right hon. the member came to grief. There was no advance on the selling price The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH drew the attention of , Sir H. W. BARRON asked • PARLIAMENTARY OATHS BILL. the house to this subject, and asked the Government for for Buckinghamshire, when he proposed laying his of the winner. information with reference to the same. amendment on the Parliamentary. Oaths Bill on the table. Earl DE GREY and RIPON said that he had not yet Mr. DISRAELI said on Monday next. MANCHESTER BETTING— F RIDAY. made up his mind as to the concl us i on a t w hi c h h e wo uld In answer to Mr. CHAMBERS, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. arrive in regard to this matter. He was aware that it was The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he should bring in 6to 1 agst Mail Train (taken freely) desirable there should be no unnecessary delay, but the a Bankruptcy Bill immediately after Easter. CHESTER CUP. Sir R. PEEL called attention t o the nuisances arising subject required consideration. 100 to 6 agst Gong (taken freely) PRIVATE BUSINESS. from the smoke of furnaces in towns and country districts. 22 to 1 agst Dalby (taken) The Cork Harbour and Curraghbinney Extension Rail- After referring to the increased consumption and export 100 to 3 agst Surney (taken) Way Bill was read a second time. of coal, and the importance of econom i s i ng our sup pli es , Very little betting. THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVES. heArew an alarming picture of the deleterious effect of the poisoned atmosphere of large manufacturing towns on the In reply to Lord Cinnamortn, DONCASTER SPRING MEETING—MARCH 13. The Earl of CLARENDON said that he had received a health and comfort of the labouring classes. He showed telegram, from which nia • Age st lb Weights for the Londesborough Plate. 5 fur. 152 yds. been summoned to the presence of the King of Abyss' the use of efficient smoke-consuming apparatus, and that Twilight and from the result of that interview it app eared that ther e legislation by private bills for particular towns had for the D aw dl e 5 8 7 Carnizette 3 6 4 was every prospect of the speedy release of the Abyssinian most part f a il ed, he L yth am and he asked Sir G. Grey whethers 8 4 , Gundrede 3 6 2 captives. intended to bring in a general bill on the subject this Skylark 5 7 13 ; Warwick 3 6 0 Reindeer PRINCESS HELENA'S ANNUITY BILL. 'session. 3 5 12 Roderickßandom . 4 7 10IVigorous Earl GRANVILLE moved the second reading of this Mr. HENDERSON made some remarks on the injurious 3 5 9 Confederate - 4 7 8 ' Beg= bill, in the absence of Earl Russell, who was still unable effects of coke-burning and iron furnaces. La Mechante 4 7 51 I Inheritress to attend from indisPoeition• He referred to the exce ll ent Mr. HANBURY mentioned that his firm saved £2,000 The Count 5 7 0 t Mrs. Wallett 3 5 7 manner in which the royal family had been educated, a and to the domestic happiness that result e d from p aratus. After some observations from Mr. A. EGERTON and Sir mile and three quarters. year by the use of an efficient smoke-consuming op- Weights for the Grand Handicap Hurdle R a c e . About a the royal marriages w hi ch had already taken place Age st lb Age st lb There was every prospect that the Princess Helena's 6 10 7 Cl a i rv o y ants ap- M. PETO, Lucette • 5 9 10 proaching marriage would be equally fortunate, and the Sir G. GREY expressed his readiness to concur in any 610 2 John Gully ... Charming Woman alO 11 Betsy Copeland 69 12 Sandford 5 9 5 happiness of her Majesty would be increased by the rosi- general measure for uttin dawn this nuisance, but Turcos • alo 0 Rosins dance of the royal couple in this country. The noble earl Elsham also adverted to the admirable qualities exhibited by the - bated out that the p Local g Government Act, which had Greenland 5 10 0 Foxholes be P° en adopted in hundreds of towns, contained powers Emma g Prince Alice, and her devotion to her Majesty on the occa- quite adequate for the purpose, and that the real difficulty 6 9 13 Weights for the Chesterfield Handicap. One mile. pion of the death of the Prince Consort. - was to get the local authorities to put the law into execu- Age st llal Age st lb The bill was then read a second time. a 8 12, Lady Vane tion. He mentioned that the success of Lord Palmerston's Twilight 6 0 PRINCE ALFRED'S ANNUITY BILL. Act for the metropolis was owing to active supervision of Lytham 5 8 5 1 Lady of the Tees... 3 3 5 13 On the motion of Earl GRANVILLE, this bill, provid- the police • • under the directions of the Home Secretary, Skylark 5 7 10 ;Vigoro us ing his Royal Highness with an annuity of £15,000, was suggested that if the local authorities would give the same Success and Charming Woman a 7 12 Cerarnique 4 7 10 Duty Free 3 5 12 also read a second time; and both bills were ordered to be instructions to the police the existing law would be fou nd Roderick Random._ 4 7 6 Kingfisher 3 511 committed. equally effective. Arkansas 4 6 6 Inheritress 3 5 8 CONSOLIDATED FUND (£1,137,772) BILL. Mr. WATKIN called attention to the importance of M in ne tte 3 5 -7 Musician On the motion of Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY this adopting breech-loading rifles in the British Army, and Miss Williams bill was read the second time. gave some details of the great success of the Spencer and Scarf Cashel's Divorce Bill was read a third time and passed. Henry rifles in the late campaigns in America. Gundrede On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the ( THE DOG TAX. Weights for the Selling Handicap Hurdle Race. Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill was read a third Mr. ELLICE called attention to the ravages committed Age st lb Age st lb time and passed. by the ownerless dogs allowed to roam about the country, Sandford Veluti 5 10 3 Umballah The house then adjourned. 4 9 6 which on the sheep farms of Scotland amounted to a loss Jacob , 6 10 1 Foxholes of 10 per cent. of the whole value of the stock. He corn- Betsy Copeland 0 9 13 . Arbitration HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING. plained that the Revenue Department did not take suffi- Weig hts for the Great North of England Steeplechase . Mr. DunsoN,"owing to the indisposition of the SPEAKER, dent pains to enforce the payment of the dog tax, which About three miles and a half. took the chair at four o'clock. practically, he said, was a voluntary tax, and he pointed Age st lb Age st lb METROPOLITAN RAILWAY AND THE INDUS- out the additional damage these dogs might do during the Penarth al2 7 Meanwood...m alo 9 TRIOUS CLASSES. prevalence of the rinderpest. Ho mentioned that acts had Alcibiade Pigeon Mr. T. HUGHES moved the resolutions which stood on been passed within the last year or two to put down this 612 4 Sinking Fund ,is lo _ 9 a 11 13 tßhodomontade 5 10 6 Doubloon the paper in his name to compensate the labouring classes nuisance in England and Ireland. Creole a 11 9 The Czar a 10 6 for the inconvenience and losses they might sustain in con- After a few words from Major WALKER, in corrobora- Elsham - all 7 Rossington sequence of their houses or residences being required for tion of Mr. Ellice's statement. Tho Hornet 6 11 6 L. S. D. 5 10 5 the purposes of a railway. He said the subject had The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the La ura 5ll 3 I Montrose 5 10 0 assumed a very serious aspect, and it was to d og t ax, i n w hi c h were m i xed up considerations both of Accident ilitant ... all 0 , Skiff 6 11 0 Dermot Asthore ... 5 10 0 alleviate the inconvenience that he took the liberty revenue and police, had for many years been a standing Th e R ogue of bringing the matter under the attention of the house. difficulty of the Revenue Department, but he claimed for Globule By his resolutions tenants at will were made entitled to the department a fair amount of success in dealing with it, Emma gelding 6lO 9 I Sutton Weights published March 8, at six p.m. compensation as much as the rich landowners, and inasmuch as the tax was paid on 300,000 dogs. He ad he could not see that any great objection could mitted that the tax was too large to be universally levied, . CROXTON PARK MEETING. be entertained to his proposal, because it was only a and sketched out a plan for changing the system of levy- FRIDAY, March 16. matter of justice that the labouring classes should ing it—involving the abolition of all exemptions, its re- Weights for the Croxton Park Plate. Three-quarters of be considered in the wholesale destruction of houses duction to 4s. or 55., and an alteration in its character— a mile. which was threatened by the railway projects now before making it a licence duty instead of an assessed tax. To Age st lb Age st lb the Parliament. He :proposed that railway companies do this, however, he said, he should require the assistance Historian Pantaloon 4 8 4 Professor Anderson 3 6 12 should, prior to the demolition of small houses, construct of Parlia men t, an d sugges t e d th a t th e su bj ec t should be Cla irvoyants 5 7 6 Caustic dwellings of a similar description to those destroyed, that considered by a select committee. Vespasian 3 7 3 Panacea 3 6 10 all tenants at will and lodgers should be compensated just as Mr. BAXTER was of opinion that the changes men- Miss Harriette 3 7 3 Mazurka much as the rich man,because the loss occasioned to them by tioned by Mr. Gladstone would be generally satisfactory, , Weights published March 8, at six p.m --- being driven from their homes was much more serious than and that a select committee was necessary. BOSTON STEEPLECHASE MEETING. the same inconvenience was to those who had ample means After some observations from Mr. BLAKE, to which Mr. Weights for the Boston Steeplechase. at their command. If something was not done they might LAwsoN replied, on the sea fisheries of Ireland, Age st lb Ago st lb as well give np the metropolis to the promoters of railway Sir E. DERING made a statement as to the position of Bridegroom, by Vienna... .. alo 10 schemes, and convert it entirely into one large and general the engineers of the navy. Pompey a 12 5 Luck's All.. a 10 6 railway terminus. Lord C. PAGET intimated th a t th e i r case was un d er Creole all 7 Foresight Eltham Mr. PATTEN said it was not a fact to say that the the consideration of the Admiralty. affairs of the labouring classes were not cared f or i n th a t Th e su bj ec t was con ti nue d b y M r. Otway and Mr. Ser- -s•-s-- Weights published March 8, at six p.m. house. He thought the session was now too far advanced geant Gaselee, who complained of the dilatoriness of the ''''- WINNERS OF THE GREAT ST. LEGER. to alter the standing orders for the present year. He sug- Admiralty in coming to a decision, and the house then gested that thehon. membershould withdraw his resolution, went into committee of supply on the navy estimates. Yr. Owner. Winner. Rider. and that a committee should be appointed to consider the £173,655 was voted for the Admiralty-office. whole matter. He thought the resolutions were not a t a ll O n th e vo t e o f £1 , 368 , 971 f or d oc k yar d s an d nava l yar d s, 1776 Ld. Rockingham Allabaculia J. Singleton 1777 Mr. Sotheron Bourbon Cade calculated to affect the object he desired. Tho right hon. a long and at times rather warm discussion arose on the 1778 Mr. T. Gascoigne Hollandaise gentleman the President of the Board of Trade had a bill grievances of the dockyard labourers in regard to their pay 1779 Mr Stapleton Tommy G. Lowry, son. which he had brought forward, and perhaps he-could in- and allowances ; and, ultimately, the vote was agreed to. 1780 Mr Bethell Ruler Mangle duce him to adopt the principle of compensation he had in In committee on the Mutiny Bill, Mr. Taylor renewed 1781 Col. Radcliffe Selina Foster view. hi s a tt emp t t o s t r ik e out the clauses relating to flogging 782 Mr Goodricke ... Imperatrix Searle 1783 Sir J. K. Kaye ... Phenomenon Hall Sir F. GOLDSMID said without something was done, and branding, but was again defeated by divisions of 56 to Kirton 1784 Mr Coate and that very speedily, the greatest suffering would be 17 and 53 to 15. 1785 Mr Hill entailed, as there were two railway projects which The Marino Mutiny Bill was read a third time and passed. 1786 Ld A. Hamilton Paragon() would nnhouse and turn adrift a largo body The Pensions Bill was read a third time and passed. 1787 Ld A. Hamilton Spadillo of poor persons, whose loss by such a proceeding would be Mr. M. Gibson obtained leave to bring in a bill for con- 1 788 7 Ld A. Hamilton Young Flora Mangle 17 89 Ld Fiz william Pewett Singleton absolutely ruinous. solidating in one act provisions applicable to metropolitan 1790 Mr Goodricke Ambidexter Searle Mr. M. GIBSON said he could not give tho hon. mem- and other railways ; and another to make better provision 1791 Mr Hutchinson Y. Traveller Jackson ber for Lambeth any hope that he could embody the for the security of reservoirs, and otherwise to amend the 1792 Ld A. Hamilton Tartar Mangle principle he had in view in his bill. Th e h on . member law relating to waterworks. 1793 Mr Clifton 1794 Mr Hutchinson BeningbroughJackson proposed that the railway companies should build largo The house adjourned at five minutes past two o'clock. 1795 Sir C. Turner ..• Hambletonian Boyes model lodging houses, but then some one would have to 1796 Mr Cookson Ambrosio Jackson be removed to clear the site for such a building, and SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. 1797 Mr Goodricke ... Lounger Shepherd somebody would be sure to be inconvenienced. He 1798 Sir T. Gascoigno Symmetry Jackson -11. - 1799 Sir H. T. Vane... Cockfig . hter said that every person who could show a loss should be CHERTSEY STEEPLECHASES.—FRIDAY. 1800 Mr Wilson Champion Buckle compensated, but he could not go the length of saying This meeting , after being post oned by the flooding of 1801 Mr Goodricke ... Quiz . lBO2 Ld Fitzwilliam ... Orville Shepherd that the whole of the law of the land should be altered by the course, was g' commencedunder p very favourable circum- Singleton, jun. making such extensive alterations in the standing orders 1803 Ld Strathmore ... Remembrancer stances. The attendance was very good, a number of of Parliament. 1804 Mr Mellish Sancho Buckle carriages, intermixed with a drag or two, being on the 1805 Mr Mellish Stavele Jackson Mr. HENLEY sa id h o was qu it e conv i nce d something course. The racing was particularly interesting, and there 1806 Mr Clifton Fylden or Carr ought to be done to protect those who could not protect themselves. was some spirited speculation on the results, generally in 1807 Ld Fitzwilliam ... Pauline Olift 1808 Dof Hamilton ... Petronius ...... Smith favour of tie backers. The course was excellent going , Mr. SCOURFIELD said he should like to know 1809 D of Hamilton ... Ashton Smith taking the right hon. gentleman, the President of the and the fallowing is a return of the running :—'a 1810 Dof Leeds Octavian Clift Board of Trade's view of the matter, what was the good of The South Western Stakes (handicap) of 5 sous each, 1 ft, 1811 Mr Gascoigne .... Soothsayer Smith being entitled to compensation if you could not half. 1813 M r W a tt Al t i s id ora Jackson t it ? with 25 added. Winners extra. About two miles and a 1812 Mr Rob (Hear, hear.) The poor wore told they should be g mply Mr. 3. Dolby's Banker, aged, 12st compensated for loss and inconvenience, yet when the Mr. B. Land's Strike, aged, lOst 12113 (ii r ( . lll; ll lml or r r Ydj 2 ) 1 1814 Dof Hamilton .. William Shepherd 1815 Sir W. Maxwell Ffillo da Puta Jackson matter was put into practice the theory was all that was Mr. Woodson's John Gully, 5 yrs, ICst 1218 ...(T. Clay) 3 1816 Sir B. R. Graham The Duchess Smith found to exist. - Goshawk and Sporting Irishman also ran. 1817 Mr Peirse Ba:ker, 2 to 1 agst John Gully, 5 1819 Mr. Ferguson ... Reveller Johnson Nicholson Lord STANLEY said he sympathised very much with Betting-6 to 4 agst the lion. member for Lambeth, but ho thought the resolu- to 1 ngst Strike. Goshawk jumped o ff in front, but carried 1820 virr T. U . tions embodied a dangerous principle in a one-sided and on the running fora short distance only, when Sporting 1 1822 Mr Petro Powlett Jack Spigot Scott o Jackson incomplete manner. He thought, however, that the matter Irishman went to t h e front, and led (past the stand the 1823 Mr. Watt was one that should be thoroughly investigated in coin- second time, followed b y B an k er , J o hn Gully, and Strike, 1824 Mr Gascoigne ... Je rr y Smith mutes. Goshawk several lengths in the rear. The three placed 1825 Mr Watt Memnon Scott Mr. HUGHES said h e cou ld no t agree w i t h hi s no b le cleare d t h e l ast f ence , s li g htly in advance of Sporting Irish- 1826 Ld Scarborough Tarraro Nelson friend in the view h e h a d t a k en o f th e ma t ter; an d as f or man, Strike and Banker drawing away as they neared the 1827 Mr Petro M a tild a R o bi nson 1828 Mr Petro The Colonel ..... Scott the right hon. gentleman the President of the Board of stand, but the latter came out and won by a length and a Rowton Scott 1829 Mr Petro Trade saying he would not give him any countenance, he half. A similar distance separated the secnd and third. 1830 Mr Bwardsworth Birmingham Conolly begged to say he did not wantit, because he had the coun- Sporting Irishman, close up, was fourth. Goshawk fell at 1831 Ld Cleveland Chorister J. B. Day tenance and support of six or seven of the largest railway th e b roo k. 1832 Mr Gully 1833 Mr Watt Rockingham ..... Darling companies in existence, that they were perfectly willing to A Local Hunters' Race of 2 soya each, with 20 added ; 1834 Ld Westminster Touchstone Calloway take upon their shoulders the burdens he was desirous list 71b each ; professionals or gentlemen:who have rid- 1835 Mr Mostyn Qn. of Trumps .. Lye of imposing, He hoped the h ouse wou ld no t now sa y th er e den a w i nner o f a pu b l i c steeplechase, 71b extra. Ab ou t 1 836 Ld Lichfield was no necessity of their doing so. He felt that the sub- three miles. 1837 Mr Greville ' Mango S. Day, jun. jest was one of the greatest importance, and as he could Mr. B. B. Harvey's Firebrand, aged, 12st, inc 71b extra •1838 Ld Chesterfield... Don John Scott Y b h not induce the-house to agree to the resolution, he would (Mr. Baring) 1 1839 Major ar urgCharles XII. Scott Hon S. Montgomery's Queen Mary, aged, llst 81b 840 Ld Westminster Launeelot Scott accept the suggestion of the hon. and gallant gentleman t 1841 Ld Westminster Satirist Scott opposite, and'introduce his re4olutions on the understand- 1 (Lord C. Kerr) 2 Sir Peter and King Arthur also r an . Lye ing that the matter should be cons id ered in committee. . 1842 Ld Eglinton 1843 Mr S. Wrather ... Nutwith J. Marson THE NEW REFORM BILL. Betting-6 to 4on Sir Peter, 3to ISagst any other. After 1844 Mr E. J. Irwin ... Faugh-a-ballagh H. Bell The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER brought up getting over the brook below the stand the favourite took 1845 Mr Watts the papers relative to the election returns for boroughs , a clear lead, followed by King Arthur, Queen Mary several 1846 Mr W. Scott Sir Tatton Sykes Scott 1847 Ld Eglinton Tromp J. Marson and counties. lengths in the rear of Firebrand. They ran in this order 1848 Ld Clifden Flatman. ELECTION PETITIONS. all round, and Sir Peter came down two fences from the 1849 Ld Eglinton Mr. DODSON intimated that letters had been received brook, and was not persevered with. King Arthur held a 1850 Ld Zetland Voltigeur J. Marson stating that it was not their intention to per severe with: clear lead till approaching the last fence, when he delibe- 1121 Mr A. Nichol Newminster Templeman Surp n lice the petition against the return for Sandwich. The rately stopped and kicked, allowing Firebrand and Queen asa2 Ld Exeter Stockwell Norman re- 1853 Mr Bowes W. Australian .. F. Butler cognisances of the Galway petition had b een found Buff-le n gths.Mry to pass him ; Firebrand winning easily by two 1854 Mr Morris Kt. of St. George Basham dent. n 1855 Mr T Parr Saucebox Wells RIFLED GUNS. The Woburn Park Plate (Handicap of 50 soya ; winners 1856 Mr A. Nichol Warlock Flatman In reply to Lord ELcHO, extra. About two miles and a half. 1857 Mr J. Scott lmperieuse Flatman The Marquis of HARTINGTON said he had no objec- Mr. Belham's Acolyte, 5 yrs, lOst 41b (IL States) 1 1858 Mr J. Merry Sunbeam L. Snowden Lion Mr. Steele's Rapture, aged, 14st (B. Land) 2 1859 Sir C. Monck Gamester nto produce th e p a p ers ref erre d to in the first portion Mr. H. W. Peyton's Almeric, aged, lOst L. Snowden of the noble lord's question, but he could not give him the (Mr. C.Goddard) 3 1861 Mr W. l'Anson... Caller On Challoner other, as the matter was still unsettled. The following also ran : Sir Bobby, Goshawk, Tam- 1862 Mr S. Hawke The Marquis Challoner 1863 Ld St. Vincent... Lord Clifden Osborne WESTMINSTER SCHOOL. bour Major, and White Stockings. 1864 Mr W. I'Anson... Blair Athol J. Snowdon In reply to Mr. MOWBRAY Betting-2 to 1 (at first sto 4) agst Acolyte, 4to 1 agst 1865 Count Lagrange Gladiateur H. Grimshaw Sir G_ ap ...., -1 . L _ _ ' .. + v WESTMINSTER SCHOOL. In re p l y to it if a. .... - if OWBRAY, Sir G. GREY said the arrangement was still under con siderat' yet been but no scheme, as lie stat e d th e o th er e veni ng , had com pleted, the completed. When the arrangement was sanction of Parliament would be required, so that a me ire ,Would have to be introduced i n th a t house. Ther e vo p bc no obj ec ti on, w h en the scheme was ~e ° 3' of it on th e t a bl e o f t h e house. iitoops IN CHINA. Colonel NORTH ask ed the Secreta r y o f St a t e for War whether, in conformity \v i t t% 12,11.3 r eiterated recommenda tions of the Army Medical thorities, the Government haZret:',eat and Milit ary au employment of native troops in Chi n t a le ? termi ned upon the The Marquis of TIARTINGTox „ iii it was tion of the Government to sen d a portion the inten :'.rte Ceylon Rifle Regiment to Hong Kon g in place of ht he British troops. Mr. Belham's Acolyte, 5 yrs, lOst 41b (H. States) 1 Mr. Steele's Rapture, aged, 14st (B. Land) 2 Mr. H. W. Peyton's Almeric, aged, lOst (Mr. C.Goddard) 3 The following also ran : Sir Bobby, Goshawk, Tam bour Major, and White Stockings. Betting---2 to 1 (at first sto 4) agst Acolyte, 4to 1 agst Rapture, 5 to 1 each agst Tambour Major and Goshawk, to 1 agst Almeric, 7to 1 agst Sir Bobby. Acolyte made play, followed by Rapture, Tambour Major, and Goshawk to the stand brook, where Tambour Major came down, rolling over Captain Shaw, and Goshawk took second place, White Stockings going in third, Rapture close up next. On passing the stand the second time the favourite was still leading, but Almerie, who had been lying off, fol lowed him, Rapture lying next, White Stockings bringing up the rear. Goshawk rushed to the front after clearing the brook, followed by White Stockings, Almeric, Rapture, and Acolyte. About a mile from home Goshawk broke down, and Almeric took a clear lead, followed by the favourite and Rapture, and thus they cleared the last fence, but Almeric when several lengths in front ran very un generously, and swerving right across the course Acolyte shot past him, and won by two lengths. A neck separated the second and third. White Stockings was fourth, and Sw Bobby fifth. Captain Shaw was carried into the weigh lisngaknr,oom insensible, but so o n r e c overe d, arid although se... was Ewtunately not hurt seriously. two .13:1,e8 Steeplechasesi ew g 4-Yr-olds and upwards. Selling allowances. About of 1 3 sous each, with 25 added ; for Mr. B. Land's StilnettO4(s26o)4,goe-;r7st 71b Re st y il n e a tto rd , 12st (Mr. M (Ownerf rd ) 2 1 Betting—Even on aslloars::2ol2.alagst Redwing, and 3 th ße vin yn g ard did Intohte runntihneg'paonstd. w to o l n abgyst two lengths. There was no advance on the selling price o p f as tl s A Hunters' Stake of 3 soya each, with 20 added winner. allowance. About three miles. Mr. Morley ns The Aggravator (£100), aged, 12s t 71b (Colonel Enox) 1 Mr. M. Henry's Woodpigeon (Z 10), aged, list 91b Lieutenant-Governor Bross, of Illinois, thinks that it will not cost so much to build the Pacific Railroad as was expended in constructing the Pennsylvania Central or the Erie. 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Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and torpidity of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatment.— • In tins, Ilb, 2s 9d ; 21b, 4s 6d ; 51b, lis ; 121 b, 22s ; 241 b. 4os.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London ; also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street ; likewise at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, Strand ; 54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; 96, Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. John's-wood, Lo n d on ; an d a ll respec t a bl e grocers an d o h e - I inists.—Beware of spurious imitations. - - (Mr. Mum ford) 2 Mr. Calcraft's Old Windsor (£10), 6 yrs, lls t 2113 (Qi ner) 3 THE S(IN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING-, MARCH. 10, 1866, THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. In a few weeks the great aquatic contest of the year will be decided at Putney. The Oxford and Cambridge eight-oared match has become a national institution, and even the non-academic public would feel great regret were anything to prevent its oc currence. At one time, hewever, the dispute pro ' yoked by Cambridge, in raising the question whether students of more than a ce.tain standing should be allowed to row, threatened to prevent the match, at least for the year. Into the merits of the controversy we need not now enter. There was much to be said on both sides ; but, even assuming as a matter of hypothesis that the pretensions put forward by Cambridge could be justified on abstract grounds, it is clear that her representatives would have acted most unwisely in insisting upon rights which, if recognised, must prove fatal to the possi bility of an aquatic meeting between .the two Uni versities. They were not in a position to dictate terms. Had they persisted in their original de mands, and declined to compete with their former victors, unless certain rowers were virtually ex cluded from the Oxford crew, they would have ex posed themselves to unpleasant and unanswerable comments. The step would have been taken as a confession of inferiority. Everybody would have said that they raised the objection because they knew they must fail ; and the most loyal of Cam bridge men would certainly rather see the " light blue" beaten hallow year after year, than have it asserted that the modern representatives of the grand old rowing club were afraid to meet their hereditary antagonists. Happily this danger has been avoided. Whatever may be the issue, we are sure to have a gallant contest, in which, as usual, each side will do its best to win. Pro bably there is no other_ competition in which the best man so invariably gains the day as in an University boat race ; and impartial spectators will no doubt decide with truth that the victors de serve their honours. Already the banks of the Isis ,and the Cam are crowded daily by youthful spec tators, each concourse anxiously watching the pro gress of those who have been picked out to represent their University on the Thames. No doubt the same eager discussions, and the same surprises and disappointment, attend the selection of the Univer sity Eight, as Cambridge used to witness when she carried all before her. We may safely assume, too, that the interminable controversy about the respec-. tive advantages of a long stroke and a quick stroke, is now carried on at college dinners and boating suppers, with quite as little chance of settlement as when it was first started years and years ago. And lA/Q may still more safely assert, that—in order to qua lif y themselves for a task of intense physical exertion and clinful endurance, involving no other reward than honour--owe score of young men in the very prime and flower of youth are now under going a course of discipline and train:." from which many a soldier or sailor would sh r i n k in disgt.7 4 . 5 But our object in referring to the subject is, not to celebrate the glories of racing, or the prowess of our aquatic athletes ; what we want is, -to put in a word for the non-rowing and non-muscular portion of the community. Those chiefly interested in the match intend, it is said, that it should take place at some unearthly hour of the morning. Now, on be half of the public, we protest against such an arrangement. It is all very well for boys of seven teen to get up before daybreak, take a hasty breakfast, and then rush down to Putney, at the time when common people are beginning to think of getting up ; but to nine-tenths of the vast crowds who, of late years, have gone to see the contest, the necessity of rising at an untimely hour, with the consequent sacrifice of rest and breakfast, is a serious matter. Moreover, even if they could nerve themselves to the effort, they know very well they would not be repaid for the trouble. A boat race in the middle of the day, while the river's banks are lined with gaily-dressed ladies, with lunching looming in the future, pre sents a delightful prospect ; but a race in the chill of the early morning is a different affair. Prac tically, if the managers should fix upon the hour, the non-professional public will stop away. The ardent devotees of boating may answer that the absentees will not be missed ; but their opinion will scarcely be shared by men of common sense. The University crews, indeed, do not row to please the crowds along the, river side ; but their members must be • different from ordinary lads if the presence of a crowd of spectators is not a powerful incentive to exertion. The juvenile aristocrats of the Uni versities may sneer about the " mob," but, as a matter of fact, they would be sorry if the mob were not there to see them. Last year the occasion of the Oxford and Cambridge race was made a holiday throughout London; and while the muster w2s never before so numerous, probably no contest between the light and the dark blue ever won such favourable reports, or provoked so few objections. The " Derby day" of the river is becoming one of the national anniversaries, and it would be a mis fortune if any want of consideration for the public deprived the race of its chief attraction. Indeed, the advantages of havin g the contest at a reasonable hour are so obvious, thatan inconvenient selection would be impossible, were it not for two considerations. In the first place, it is thought that in the fresh of the morning the boats arc not so likely to-be impeded by the over crowded steamers. If such w ere th e case , we s h ould at once admit the cogency of the a rgumen t ; but we doubt the correctness of the b e li e f . Th e steam boats are chiefly filled with persona who take a pe cuniary or prof ess i ona l i nterest i n the matter, and they ts etaz fneer ee would sn. ce in, ho c a e o r t t: te i h sel,y beill nuisanceupe s r t e i s o e n n . present urgently under sm e d a c aa n yl y l so circum stances. o r o c rt u h i m eur believe i f tl ea p t present en s co y a s t t as e us m tt hr o c o o pr i n ht t i n ye e u xi e i , ns td iv se e e dt a o, r e i ptri likely sevd e uf difficultwit ness river te or steamboats from taking too many passengers on board, or following too closely upon the rowers. If nobody has the power or the will to make such re gulations as are essential for the safety of the pub lic, then somebody should forthwith be invested with the requisite authority. The advocates of an early race will probably add, however, that time and tide wait for no man ; and to the fact thus urged con siderable weighs must be allowed. We cannot for get the difference in point of date between the Ox ford and Cambridge vacations, or the objections entertained in many quarters to the occurrence of the race in Passion Week. The number of days during which the match can take place, therefore, is extremely circumscribed. The crews are natur ally anxious to have as much practice as possible ; and the hours during which the tide is just upon the turn are naturally preferred to any others. Leaving aside all question of the extra labour in volved when the stream is running strongly, the effect of a powerful current either way is to give an undue advantage to that party which has the choice of sides. Yet, in spite of all these considerations, the force of which we should be the last to deny, we believe that the convenience of the public need not necessarily be sacrificed to that of the ~ eights." After all, the event may b e fixed for any one of some seven days ; a n d a s eac h day shows a dif ference of about an hour in the rise and fall of the tide, it seems incredible that the time chosen should not be such as to let the Londoners witness the con flict. In making this appeal, we are speaking in the interest both of the Universities and of the public. Anything which tends to render Oxford and Cambridge more and more part and parcel of our national life, is an advantage to the country ; and the character of a national festival is not a thing to be despised. Mere idlers may think of nothing but their own comfort ; still more naturally may the crews think of nothing but the manner in which they can get through their task with the least strain upon themselves and the best chance of success. But persons who have at heart the social interests represented by the party of sightseers must express a wish that the two objects may be found compa tible ; and it is for the promoters and managers of the contest to consider how far a reconcilement may be practicable.— Telegraph. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—We are entering upon a question of a kind which will occasionally recur, and, though sometimes entailed as the consequence of error, is seldom invited. It is the comparison of impossibi lities. If universal consent is worth anything, not to speak of public self-respect, it is impossible to get on without a reform bill, at least it is quite im possible for the present Ministers to get on without it. On the other hand, it is no secret that it is also impossible to bring in a bill that has a good chance of passing. A double-barrelled bill, it - is alleged, will be certainly beaten by the representatives of the doomed boroughs, who must either be so few as to make the measure ridiculous, or so many as to com mand the division. We do not hesitate ourselves to declare a single-barrelled bill also impossible, be cause it is itself palpably incomplete, and because it involves the discharge of the second and more im portant barrel under much more perilous circum stances, and when, instead of its being in the hands of the present bearer, he will most likely be looking into its muzzle. So here are three impossibilities, all we believe utterly impossible—no bill, a double bill, , and a single bill. Our case looks as bad as that of a man who, pursued by a bear, finds himself on the edge of a precipice, or has to choose between run • ing in to the jaws of a tiger or a crocodile. In ordi nary circumstances, and with ordinary people, life is full of impossibilities, which some surmount or break through. There are, however, those who, like Napoleon, have erased the word from their vocabu laries, and they sometimes make great failures, sometimes great successes. The failures, of course, are natural, and according to programme. The suc cesses are often plainly ascribable to lucky chance or special interposition. Caesar himself, whose talents were such that it was said he could not fight a battle without winning it, nevertheless held that luck had a great deal to do with military affairs. Discounting the luck, which might be on one side or the other, he took care that the balance of skill, audacity, and determination should be on his side. But the truth is, such people do a little gentle violence to the con ditions of the problem. It is really impossible to make an egg stand on its end ; so Columbus crushed in the impossible basis, and made it stand, though with some damage to the refractory shell. Lord Grey found it impossible to get his bill through the existing Parliament, so he crushed in the shell; that , is, he changed one house, added to his own side in the other, and let it be understood that he would do anything else that he found necessary. The eggshell of our protective system was crushed in by the Irish famine. But if several courses are equally impossible, how are we to decide between them ? There are seve ral considerations that are valuable, and applicable, even in extremity. It is better to be beaten in agood cause than in a bad one. It is better to be defeated in the attempt to carry a really good measure than for the sake of a measure which is only politic or plausible. In the one case you fall in a cause • in the other you are beaten in a game. I n th e latter case your enemy trips you up when you are trying to trip him up ; and he can laugh at you without re morse, as he certainly will without stint. A measure confessedly incomplete is intrinsically bad, and is either a folly or a fraud. It must have a tricky and disreputable look. The proposal is like the scheme of the importer who sent 5,000 dozen right-hand gloves by one ship, and their fellows by another, thus escaping, or hoping to escape, the duty charge able on complete pairs. A revolutionist may think any break-up of our political system good as far as does ; but the Cabinet cannot possibly think a mere ex u 'c:aion of the franchise good as far as it goes, for it will; ,vidently aggravate all the ano malies, and hand over many seats to a class less settled, less respectable, less educated, less honest, and less constitutional in their opinions. Many good Reformers, anxious as they may be to have some thing done, will certainly feel it their duty to vote against a half measure. There is a dignity in these matters, and if people are to victimise themselves and go back to the country, not to speak of the part they have to act in the eyes of all the world, they would much prefer to fall decently, and with as much of the heroic as is possible. The conductors of a cause are bound to consider not only what best suits their game, but also what suites the consciences of their supporters, many of whom will refuse to be dragged through the mire, even with the possibility of good coming out of it. The bill should not only be conscientious, and addressed to the conscience, but also of a sort to command the conscience. There are Reformers with a game of their own, Reformers who wish to be independent, Reformers who can afford to be critical, Reformers who are so rather by party ties than by private choice, and Reformers who have a good deal to lose, more, perhaps, than the much-dreaded boroughmongers. All these will look at the bill, and, if they don't like it, will be able at once to except to the bill its gross one-sidedness and its manifold imperfections. Thus, if the bill is not complete, it will not only be unable to resist oppo sition, but will create opposition for itself. But that leads to the worst objection of all. The bill will have no momentum. It will not be able to force its way. There will be neither the intrinsic gravity nor the external impulse to send it crashing on through all difficulties, as a great political change can only advance. It ought to overbear opposition by a sort of brute force, as well as by reasons of a higher order; and neither of these can such a bill ever possess. By brute force, of course, we do not mean violence, which is about the last thing to be either desired or apprehended in this instance, but that momentum and weight which excellence of charac ter, design, and performance always obtains. The proprietors and conveniences of society require great things to be done out of hand, once for all. Medio crity—mediocrity of enterprise, as well as of talent —always wishes for less rigorous conditions. It would like to try and try again ; to try so that failure shall not be without retrieval ; to make sure of some thing and leave the rest to luck; to get a footing in the business and hold on ; in fact, to do things by halves, so as not to exhaust the chances. History is full of such attempts, neither successful nor g l or i ou s, which are only known to students, and have to be extricated from Annual Registers or older recurd There are reforms, indeed, that may is. be shoved on an inch at a time ,for thirty or a hundred years, such as reforms in our administra tive practice and in matters of local or departmental management. But even these suffer by never being settled, never completed, and-never let alone, The statesmen concerned also suffer. ;We might instance Sir James Graham, whose greatpersonal powers and high respectability never obtained for him propor tionate achievement, position, or renown, from a fatal want of moral courage. Even a revised Budget is held to be a reproach to its author, still more a second or a third. This once-for-all way of doing things is almost a national maxim with us. It is in the essence of our trial by jury. " Show your case," the country says; " tell your story, produ ce your witnesses, state your argument, and give your view of the law; fight it out now, abid e b y t h e verdict, and let's hear of you and your complaints no more, if possible." This, if not ideal justice, is practical mercy, for it is far better than that foolish or wrong-hea.ded people should spend their whole lives and fortunes in litigation to their own misery, and the misery of all around them, by perpetual attempts to repair the supposed injustice of Courts. But if anything can be worse than a life of litigation it is a life of revolutions, in which one change is only made to necessitate another. At present we all feel something like terra firma under our feet. We are aware that the public convenience may require it to be newly levelled or undermined at long inter vals. But we would rather not feel that the ground was always ready to heave, and as if, in fact, there was no firm ground at all. We can get accustomed to it, no doubt ; but we shall have to renounce some of our comforts, unlearn some of our tastes, dis card some of our ideas, and be prepared to sink not a little in the general scale, if we take to this sort of life. If the pavement must be taken up, and our houses underpinned, pray let it be done effectually once for all in our lifetime at least. POST.—Demands for money, whether they are made by a son at Oxford, or in a crack Hussar re giment, upon the governor who has outlived the pleasures of either or both, or whether they are pre ferred by the head of a public department to a House of Commons many of the component parts of which owe their seats to the practice of that kind of cor ruption which is begotten out of theoretical economy and loud-tongued parsimony, are always received with no welcome ; and even on each recurrent oc casion their presentation provokes an onslaught which is more distinguished by discursive vehemence than by accurate or laborious knowledge. Army and navy estimates afford the most convenient oc casion for loose objections to expenditure ; and they are, and have been for many years, the pet peg on which to hang harangues upon economy generally, and upon the enormity of expending money wrung from the band of the hard-working honest man upon aristocrats clothed in scarlet and gold. We are now going through the annual performance, and demands for sweeping reforms and wholesale reduc tions in the' house are backed by strongly-drawn ill u strations of the evil system in articles of journals out of doors. In the house we a r o told that the soldier of Continental Governments costs a large per centage less than the soldier of Great Britain ; and out of the house we are assured that the officer who commands the comparatively over-paid English pri vate lives in scarlet and fine linen, at a luxurious mess, at the cost of the overwhelmed taxpayer. It is quite right, quite just, quite wise that a due economy should be enforced in all branches of public expenditure, and that care should be taken that the nation gets value for its money laid out. It is most desirable that the House of Com mons should carefully watch the estimates and bring under discussion every item which demands The largest crowd ever assembled in Pittsburg to witness any amusement wero gathered at the Central Skating Park on Thursday, Feb. 19, to witness Miss Carrie W. Moore's skating; it is estimated there were from 10,000 to 15,000 persons present, including many of the clergy. discussion, but the house, whose time is occupied, and the country, whose attention and support is demanded, have a right to require that those who originate discussion and initiate objections should take pains to previously master the subject. Now, first, with regard to the officer. What is his real pecuniary position in relation to the Exchequer ; what is his cost to himself and what is his cost to his country ? He buys at various times, as he rises from one grade to another, a very inadequate annuity, technically called his pay. 'This pay in a cavalry regiment would, in the case of suppose we say a captain in a Hussar regiment, just about cover his mess bills, and he has, besides meeting this demand, to buy his chargers, his saddlery, and his unifzrms—the latter enormously costly in the first instance, and rendered much more so by the frequent alterations introduced in the shape or materials of caps, busbies, sabretaches, and other paraphernalia, by authorities who busy themselves with such things. Who than stands the larger part of the cost of the Hussar officer—the officer or the tax payer ? Let any representative of the economi cal school go on parade when the Inspecting-Gene ral looks over a cavalry regiment, let him take a captain as he sits on his charger —let him analyse him and pick out of him the items of his purely regimental expenditure—let him make a debtor and creditor account, items on one side and pay on the other, and then say which is in debt to the other— the country to the officer, or the officer to the coun try. But then it will be said, with a look of incre dulity, why does a man accept such a position if it is pecuniarily.such an indifferent, not to say such a bad one ? For this reason : The officer does not look at his profession, as the Parliamentary and newspaper complainer does, from a purely money point of view; and for the country it is fortunate that he does not, or we should have to make a very different bargain with him. Pecuniarily the position of the officer is not a good one, not even an equit able one, but socially it is better than that afforded by almost any other profession. And there is the real secret of the willingness with which gentlemen enter the service. Whenever that state of things ceases, or is changed, our army will cost us a good deal more than it does now, when Mr. White and some news papers raise together a voice of complaint. Then as to the private soldier. He costs more, it is complained, than the French soldier. This is true to some extent, but not to the full extent of the allegation. It is not, however, worth while to go into any calculation of degree, for there is really no parallel between the two. The circumstances under which the English and French soldier enter into and remain in the armies of either country are so essentially different that the comparison is worth less ; there is little to be learnt from it, and no practical result can be evolved from its institution. Complain as they may, calculate as they may, the White school will find that the cost per man of the privates of our army will increase instead of de crease, unless we can be induced, which is not pro bable, to substitute compulsory service for volun tary enlistment. That it should be so is no more a circumstance to be lamented than the, fact that the produce of the customs revenue has increased, not withstanding the large reductions which we have yearly been making in various important duties. It shows that' employment is more accessible, that labour commands a higher price, and that the working man has more resources independent of the State and in his own hand. That the soldier, however, may be made more generally useful, that he may be relieved from that ennui which is the bane and destruction of the private in the English army, and that he may be made thus to contribute to the diminution of the general expenditure; we are far from denying. We believe that many reforms might, with great benefit to the army and to society, be introduced into barrack life to the great improvement of the men, both as soldiers and citi zens ; and we should be heartily glad to see many of the vaguely active members of Parliament turning their attention to the reality of reform' in detail. We believe that something, perhaps something considerable, may be saved by the institution of an improved organisation of the civil departments charged with the conduct of the business of the army, although the Committee of the Treasury did report that they saw no prospect of reducing the establishment without impairing the efficiency of the service. We believe that the Treasury Committee are so far right that it would be difficult and unwise to make reductions in the force of clerks employed so long as the existing organisation of offices is maintained, and so long as, Parliament and its members are permitted as their own fancy, or any statistic-collecting constituent, may suggest, to em ploy clerks in departments in the construction of returns which can serve no purpose but that of enabling patriots who have a passion for the acquisi tion of vicarious knowledge to write pamphlets and compose social science congress speeches at the public expense. In truth, a reform of our admi nistration is much more required than electoral changes, and very much more money might be saved by it. THE ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES" ON AN Ex- CoNTEDERATE ON THE Ex-CONFEDERACY. Ex-United States Senator Henry S. Foote, lately Confederate Senator at Richmond, has given to the world .his history of the Rebellion. Being a participant in the crime against the Union, he is probably as good an author on that side as we could expect to hear from on the question of treason, its phases while it existed, and the finale which over took it so suddenly last April. Mr. FOOTE is an erratic genius, and altogether egotistical. While in the national Congress he gave unequivocal proof of this at divers times. He possesses a restless dispo sition, and can never brook restraint. Dissatisfied with the National Government he went over to the rebels, and had not been in their ranks but a short time before he began to find fault with the whole rebel establishment at Richmond. Nothing could or did please him, and in this book he does not hesitate to say so. Of course he has not a word to utter against slavery. He appears unable to see that it was the sole cause which led the South into Secession. On the contrary, he lays the blame upon the Northern Abolitionists and the ultra Secessionists of the South, and calls them section alists, just as if there was no cause which produced a feeling of hostility between the two sections. Any schoolboy, of ten years of ag e , can en li g ht en Mr. Foote in this matter. Had not slavery existed there could have been no grounds for this ani mosity. Yet Mr. Foote wholly ignores a fact patent to the world, and illustrated to its entire satisfaction by the bloody war of the Rebellion. But there are some things in his book which will be perused with interest. The author never seemed to have a very highly exalted opinion of Jeffer son Davis, and this opinion was not changed dur ing his observations of Davis's administration as President of the so-called Confederacy. He says that--" Mr. Davis and his official associates had, no correct conception of the true cha r a c t er and dimensions of the war into which they had so hastily plunged, as was afterwards frankly con fessed in many a lugubrious harangue, and in more than one solemn official document. They did not believe at first that the conflict would endure for a twelvemonth, and were even weak enough to calculate most confidently upon strong Northern aid, which it is now well known there never was the least probability of [their receiving ; albeit ex-President Pierce and several others, whose letters to Mr. Davis have recently seen the light, had plied this confiding personage with secret promises of support, upon which he built in part his hopes of one day wielding an im perial sceptre. . . . Mr. Davis vetoed more bills during the short provisional reginze than all the Presidents of the United States put together, from Washington to Lincoln inclusive, and no at tempt to pass a single bill over his head was ever made." Of Davis's Cabinet Mr. Foote speaks in the most contemptuous terms, and intimates that there were only two of these functionaries whose official qualifications were even respectable—the Attorney-General, Mr. Watts, and the Post master-General, Mr. Reagan." Of Mr. Benja min, the Confederate Secretary of War, he remarks that—" Besides his inability to meet the military exigencies which he hadj been encountering, :as well as the more serious ones in prospect, he was subject to other objections as the incumbent of a high Cabinet position of the greatest and most vital character. His reputation for integrity had never been good, and of late years it had become deeply tarnished by his known participan cy in schemes of notorious corruption, both in the State of Louisiana and in Washington city. The offensive moral odour arising 'from the celebrated Houinas fraud (one of the most unblushing and profligate legislative transactions that had ever disgraced the annals of a free people) had affixed such a stigma upon the reputation both of Mr. Benjamin and his friend and patron, Mr. John A. Slidell, as it was not possible that any lapseof time would entirely efface." This is severe on Benjamin, and will not assist him much in his endeavours to attain position at the London bar. For Mr. Seddon, who was also at one time Secre tary of War, Mr. Foote has not a single eulogistic word, and says of him, that " it may be safely as serted that he :did not possess one of the qualities needful to a creditable and us ef u l pe r f ormance o f , the duties which were now devolved on him. He was never able to learn even the ordinary routine of official business, and often scornfully declined attendance to matters of the most urgent import ance. He was as arrogant and insulting to those who approached him in his official sanctum, as he was notoriously servile and fawning to his own executive chief. He evinced, from his very en trance into office, an utter disregard of all con stitutional obligations; and in the exercise of the authority committed to him, he proved himself to be the most heartless and ruffianly tyrant whom I ever yet saw in the possession of official power." Hindman, of Arkansas, the Gessler of the South, was a pet of both Davis and Seddon, and notwith standing his cruelties to the people of Arkansas and Texas, he was kept in position, andused to boast that when sentence of death was pronounced on his victims he always took care to be present and witness their execution. In proof of Seddon's inhumanity, Mr. Foote relates the fact of there being confined in the Richmond prison house, under the orders of the War Departm en t, several hundred men, " not one of whom was charged with anything but suspected political infidelity, and this too, not upon oath in 3 single instance. Many of these prisoners died in their dungeons and the remainder dragged along their miserable lives until released by the Union army when it entered Richmond." But we have neither time nor space to comment further on Mr. Foote's revelations. One thing is certain ; they prove beyond cavil the weakness of the men who undertook to destroy the Government , and their wanton heartlessness, not only as dis played toward the Union prisoners who fell into their power, but also to the poor white people who were in very deed their subjects. Thus it Is that gradually the world is getting an insight into the ambitions, the workings and the wickedness of the leaders in the great Rebellion, and out of the mouths of their own dupes are they convicted be fore the bar of public opinion, if not before the bar of justice. TIIE CUSTOMS CLERKS. Mr. TORRENS asked the Finance Secretary to the 1 Treasury, whether it was the fact that the cl erks of the Inspector General of Imports and Exports had applied t o the Board of Customs for liberty to forward a Petition to the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, praying for a reconsideration of a petition presented in May 'last, with a view to giving them a more substantial benefit than is afforded by the recent Treasury minute upon Customs salaries; and whether such permis sion had been refused ? Mr. CHILDERS said the Treasury was at that time en gaged in a very difficult operation in considering the sa laries of the clerks in the Customs. :Part of the scheme had been completed, which directly benefited about 1,000 clerks, and indirectly benefited a great many more. Every change in the salaries of one class affected those whose salaries were not interfered with, and he thought it was a so mewhat hasty step to ra i se a ques ti on a t 4 o ' c lock in the aft ernoon on a matt er w hi c h h ad only been made known at 1 o'clock the same day, as had Wen done in I COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL. —FRIDAY. To-day's market was only moderately attended by buyers, but for wheat there was a moderately good con sumptive sale at the figures of Tuesday. Flour also met a tolerably good demand at unchanged rates. Oats slow of sale, but unaltered. Oatmeal quiet and unchanged. Beans dull. Indian corn dull, and 6d per qr down. DERBY-FRIDAY. There was a fair supply of wheat, and the demand WAS slow at late rates. Barley has an improved supply ; th e trade ruled firm at extreme quotations. Oats and beano were a steady trade at full prices. New white wheat, 43s to 48s ; old red, 49s to 52s per 3 6 stone. Barley for malting, 38s to 40s per qr. ; grinding, 27s to 28s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 22s to 28s ; old, 28s to 32s per 24 stone. B eans, o ld , 47 3 to 50s; new, 44s to 463 per 38 stone. WAKEFIELD.—FRrmv. Wheat trade dull. Prices still have a downward ten dency. Barley rather cheaper. Other articles unaltered. Averages, March 3—Wheat, 1,590 qrs, at 458 Sid barley, 320 at 39s 6d ; oats, 29, at 27s 6d. S TAMFORD.—PRI,DAY. To-day wheat was about an average supply, and met quiet sale at last week's terms. Barley was a scanty show, and fully maintained its value. Other kinds of grain were in moderate supply, and sold at former quotations. Now white wheat, 48s to 50s ; red do., 46s to 48s per 3, stone. Barley, malting, 38s to 435; grinding, 34s to 3i 6 per qr. Oats, new, 24s to 28s ; old, 25s to 27s per 24 stone. Beans, 44s to 508 per 38 stone. Peas as of late. LINCOLN.—FRIDAY. Our market was tolerably supplied with wheat. Trado steady at the currencies of last week. Best sorts of bailor were in good request at advancing prices, other sorts wend unchanged in value. Oats and beans sold at last Week's prices. _ . New white wheat, 51-s to 56s'; new red, 438 to 478 per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 36s to 44s per qr ; grinding/ 32s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, 248 to 328. Beans, 43s to' 51s per 38 stone. BRISTOL SUGAR.—FRIDAY. The demand has been steady during the week, and a moderate business has been dono at fully former rates. Refined sells freely at full prices. Rum—No sales to ro ped. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. q . (i. . s. d. n Holywell Main l6 0 H ar tl epoo l u Walls End Gosf or th 15 9 H eugh Hall 18 9 Eden Main m Bddyoll's Hetto n ..., 17 9 E ast Hartlepool 18 ' Walls End Hasw e ll... 1 8 919 0 South Kell o e Walls End Hetton ... 15 9 T ees 18 0u Hetton lB 9 Shaw's Ha rt l ey lB Cassop - - - ships at market, 61; sold, 40. Foreign Mail Packet List ---~ MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Mar. 2 2 . Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 16• Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet April 6 Ditto, by French packet Mar. 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. hlelena M4r• ‘24. China, Penang, and Sing tpore. via Sou,hampton Mar. 22. Ditto, via Marseilles Mar• 16 ' Faikland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 2Z. Ditto, via Marseilles . ....Mar. 16 India (Bombay), via Southampton. Mar. 10. Ditto, via Marseilles . . Mar. 10. Mauritius, via Southampton Mar. 16 Ditto, via Marseil!e.3. Mar. 10. Newfoundland Portugal .• 00000 •••••April 6• Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. United States and British North America, byßri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton _ _ Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Mar. 9. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico Feb. 28 . Cuba and Mexico Feb. 28 . Bahamas, via New York. April 8 . Bermuda, ditto West Coabt of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Mar. 12. THE QUESTION STATED. The New 1.°1.14 Times, discussing the divergence of opinion be tween the President and the majority in Con gress with reference to the freedmen, thin ks that, after all, the complete restoration of all the States to their normal relations in the Union 13 to-day the paramount question. The destinies of the freedmen, like those of every class of the peePl e ' are bound up in the destinies of the nation. W il l freed the negroes ? The war w hi c h cr ushed 01-1 " the rebellion. What w ill b es t secure t o them an d their posterity the blessings of liberty ? Nothing so surely as the security of the Republic itself. i‘ lr a Lincoln said, " This country ca nno t c ontinue ba l. ' slave and half free," while at the same time he never contemplated a division in the house. He trusted to time and to the institutions of the Republic, both to save the Union against traitors and to displace slave labour by free labour. Mr. Johnson stands e n essentially the same ground. „lie says, ic R es tore the States with. sir presennocal laws, altered to imetiPthe - actual results of the war, and insisting ou l A r on the loyalty of their representatives. Time as our institutions will accomplish the rest." A FLOCK OF SHEEP DRQWNED._A serious rais; hap occurred a few days ago near Barnstaple. A ft o c lc O f nearly 60 sheep were grazin g on a mars h , w h en , by one o those unaccountable freaks that sometimes possess an ila t they strayed on to the beach and gained a spot when ce, the tide came up, there was no retreat, and they were con sequently surrounded by water and drowned before any assistance could be rendered. ; VMS' rADVERTISEMENT. J — Holloway's Pills.— The try=n-, h .. ther of the last few months has laid many in the cbl es yard who might still have been a blessing to their faral.,. if they had, by some such means as these famous pill s, kept the blood pure, the stomach sound, the liver activ e, and, the bowels regular. Mild, wet winters always P r o s with heavy hand on the aged and the infirm, who ills stantly require some balsamic tonic like HollowaY to sharpen their appetites and to maintain their strong,_. The pills cannot work wrongly nor weaken unnecessa rily ' The invalid, under all circumstances and in every n,,. tion, should get a box of these noted pills, attenplyv f f read the directions wrapped round it, and release linla se from his malady. Births. DEVEZE—On the Bth inst., at 18, Brunswick-squa re, t" wife of Louis Deveze, Esq., of a son. ROBERTS—On the Bth inst., at South Norwood, Surren tit° wifo of Christopher Roberts, Esq., of a son. STEWART—On, the 7th inst., at Rockferry, Cheshir°l 3lll. Andrew Stewart, of a son. TUCKER—On the 7th inst., at Wharton Grange, Fratig(3l4l the wife of Major-General Tucker, C. 8., of a son. Marriages. POCKLINGTON—CAMPBELL— On the Bth inst , at 0 4. Torquay, the Rev. Roger Pocklington, vicar . of Walesbict, Nottinghamshire, to Anne Amelia, third daughte r of tpa late Alex. Campbell, Esq., of Pos s il, Lanarkshire, an Torosay, in the county of Argyle. yr 1- WHYBROW—ALLUM—On the Bth inst., at St. Mark' s, "'V lington, Walter Whybrow, Es q ., o f Gipsy-hill, Esq SurrN to Katherine, second daught er o f John Allum, ~ ° Canonbury-park. Deaths. DANIELL— On the Bth inst , at Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1111°1a° KYNASTON—On the 7th inst, ~ Daniell, Esq., late of Trelissick, Cornwall. Paddington, Sir John R. Kynaston, Bart o f Liardwic k Hall, Shropshire. RICARDO—On the 7th inst., at his residence, Montpeli°l'. road, Brighton, Moses Ricardo, Esq., in hi s 90th year. at the Great We stern Hote l , Surrox— On the Bth inst., at his residence, Surrey place ° Rotherhithe, Mr. Charles Sutton, late f the BaIA Stafford" England, aged 79. THORNEWILL— On tho 7th inst., at Dove Cliff, shire, Edward Thornowill, Esq., aged 65. TILLING—On the 7th inst., Mr. Robert Tilling., of 3 7 , Al P btt' road, Regent's-park, aged 62. WHEWELL—On the 6th inst., at the Lodge, Tr init y Colle C t Cambridge, William Whewell, D.D., M aster of College, aged 72. ...----fr_ • WE, ,ondon : Printed and Pubiibhed by WILLIAIII A Nlfitg.,, of No. 112, Strand, Painter, at THE SUN Of li ee, No. 11 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. in the Comi t y 4' Ididdlelex.— Saturday, March 10, 1866. 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