The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-02-23 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE.

OBJECTIONS TO THE BUDGET:

PAIR PLAY,

THE EARLY CLOgfAi MOVEMENT

orting Autrilifieurc.

NOTTigblibli RACES.
FOREST PLATE.
I I Lord Berkeley..
LITTLE JOHN STAKES.
Little Lady 1 g Zodiac . ..........
Twelve ran.
HURDLE RACE.
1 I Par tOluS .... ......
Eleven ran.

Confusion .

...2

.......

The Dane

jiAIkiCHESTER BETTING.
tiliffUßßA N.
12 to 1 agSt Chtie Aftto, (t). Nothing else doing.
THE GREAT WATERLOO
ALT CA C
R.OURSING MEETING,
OVER
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1860.

President : The EarlpoefSeelf., Ran
Sefton,
Stewards Capt. Bathurst, Capt. Sne
J. Gordon Esq. deli, Esq
FieldiSteward A. Graham, 'Flag Stevard s,
Director of the Ground Slater, Esq.
Judger Mr. Mizell. Slipper : Alr.
The GREAT WATuntnid Ctri valt/e specie), b
scripti n of J.',25 each ; the Winner 'to receive 3' sob-
E2OO, two dogs to receive £5O each, foipr J;,30 see"d
each, sixteen £lO each, the •Waterlod
u7:4Tht £2o
£.L360 ; total, X 1,600. The winner to give tlitefy dozeln't
claret to the dinner.
Mr. Catterall's Altermiie beat Mr. Grenfell's Sweetbriar
Mr. Hyslop'. Canopy beat Mr. Thompson's Annoyance
Mr. Ditywood's Rattly beat Mr. Jefferson's Java
Lord Grey de Wiltan's Greek
Mr. Borron's Bloody- Heartbeat
Vire
irifd SHlon's Sampler b;-at Mr. Gibson's Ayrshire Laddie
Mr. Peitc(kk's Penrith beat :Mr. md's Lam' I,ad
Mr. Hamitic/n(I4G Drodnothing beat Mr. Thomas's Derwent
Lake
Mr. Cartwright's Tiing,ton beat Mr, Sim
Mows St, Anbcr
Mr. Daintree'... Wildflower beat Alt. Boa_
Mr. Dixon's 11 .slight beat Miss E. Bornal,
Mr. Dunlop's Cantina' Yon. heat Mr. Gehlerd's Cainden own.
08Ramatitob Roy.
Mr. Graham Penny- beat
Mr. Randell's's Perfectiont-liner beat Mr. BaMr.ke's latciy •
a
innor
Captain Spencer's Skittles beat Mr. Irving,b s
c.
Brondrill's Bird of Passage beat Mr. liorhby's War-whoop.
Mr. Boute' beat Mr. C. and ors
Snap.
Mr. Dicksott's IMybreak beat Mr. Lewis's Waterloo.
Mr. Croft's Red Lion brat Mr, Jones's Joust.
Mr. Brocklebank's Wilberforce beat Mr. Cass' Daniel.
Mr. Daintree's Lancewood beat Capt Vattiburst's Trip the nni,—
Mr. Illackstock's Maid of the Mill beat Mr. Store'', 11;,,p,,.14
Mr. Brown's Beranger beat Mr. Gregson's Raveosworlb
Mr. Campbell's Canaradzo beat Mr. ctinningliarn's Cavalier
Mr. Holme's Hidalgo beat Mr. spmks's Sponsor
.
Mr. Moore's 1141 moral be4t Mr. Wightman's selby
Mr. Gordon's Cazzarinit beat Mr. B undell's Bowman
Mr. Cooper's Canrither beat Mr. Hodson'n Gil Bias
Mr. Blanchard'. Baffle heat Mr. Morrall's Middleham
Mr. Grey's First MIA beat Mr. Steele's Bird of ney
Mr. Vipan's Reber beat Mr. .T. Jardine's Orator
Mr. Russell's Blue Hat beat Mr. Knowle's Breachloader
Mr. Sandeis's Alice Hawthorn beat Mr. Eankart's Camden
Villas

SECOND TI PS,
Altermire beat Cano;4y lied Lion beat atybreak
'Hardy be it Bloody-Heart Lancewood beat, Wilberforce
Sampler beat Penrith Maid of the Mill b lleranger
Dreadnothiog beat Kingston Hidalgo beat Canaradzo
Wildflower beat Daylig 't Balmoral be it Cazzarma
Cardinal York o Penny-a-liner Caurither beat Battle
Skittles beat Perfection Rebel heat Frst Blood
Bird of Passace h Wild Ware Blue Hat b Alice Hawthorne

PRIZE FIGHT FOR £2OO.
The prize fight for the above .stun between 'Mace and Travers
took place yesterday. when, after a contest which lasted one
hour and a-half, lighting about fifty rounds, Mace was declared
the winner.

STEEPLE CHASE FIXTURES FOR ISGO.
Derby Midland Feb. 23 Pembroke
............
23 Bangor .............. ............ 13
Gullane
28 Coventry ........................
Tenay
March Folkstone ............. .... 20, 21
Tenby
6, 7 Warwick
...................... 22
Liverpool
12, 13 Military (I,,Pthimpton).. 4‘, 3,
Shrewsbury
March 8, 9 Abel gavenny ...... April 12, 13

RACING FIX CURES FOR 1860.
FEB !WARY.
25
28 Liucoln. .
..............
M A RCII.
Shrews
Mgeeting. Niirthainpton
Liverpool SPring
bury Sprin • . 8 Llani-,
Corttitry Spring
oidy
Park.
Warwick spring

Cheltenham Club

........... 29

.....2i
......... 39

.7....______
LIGHT WEIGHT~ OF RACE HORSES.
' Last week Lord Itedesd. de introduced into the House of
Lord: a bill for regulating. 'h
when running for any plate ~ 'Lights carried by race-horses
Ills lord-hip said,
ridiculously ligat -r
lnneY.
t„, gambling practices on tt oughts non carried in some cases led
ce:'"li"giS Preiudicial t, the turf, and were, he believed, ex.,
Parliament imposed • • • i..e breed of horses. At one time
iestrictlons on the IVcights allowed
cart ed at races, and aith. to be
evil now prevailed to. aligh that act had been repealed, the
no be possible t ' such an extent that, although it might
o remedy it altogether, something might to
•t. that. if . -
heft) me* Even' 22e, he thought, would orlon t a horse
couhl not carry
crowd of ho-ses'Y' 7 1 he could be of no ive except to swell the
i m a race, could not answer any i ;
:eg.tiinat
Purpose of racing. 14 ' and
prize
the tirst year r • --e vroposed to enact by his bill that after.
pre,:pt name a day
earring less
unlit() horse should start for anY. racing
74. ' lle would not at
for the second '
reading, in order that have sufficient time for'itill-
persons interested niivh't.
was
read a first time. considering' the matter. The
Kerarilltz to the above speech by the noble lord, a- wtite
in one of the sporting journals remark::—" Lord Redes-r • dale has perhaps taken too high ground in estinllating' lowest weight at ist., as it would barely
Benpv ' • for , afford a weight-for-age stake, unless the welter Weight of:
124. be appointed for five and six years old iw- d
aged ho'rses,
but it is certainty worthy of consideration whether Hi,, lowest
weight in any race ought to: descend brow list. or sst. 71b.
In a recent article upon the-Spring Handicaps,- I suggested
"that the lowest weight in all handicaps supuld be .53t and
'that a law E hould be passeit_to that .effeet.: . Lord Itedeslaw,
:.proposed !Oil will, therefore, I trust, love the' cfreet of calling
'the attention of our racing magnates to the subject, and if,
they adopt the reasonable medium course of fithig the lowest
*: weight at fist. or .even sst. 711)., it 14- 11 have the effect, .0f
proving the present system of handieaPPing, although it
might scarcely meet Lord Redesdale's views :Is to the
improvement in oar breed of race-horses. The remarks of the_.
nobly lord relative to gambling on the turf being increased be
the system of light weights is but too true, as the chances of
some of the feather-weights arc entirely thrown out by their
inefficient riders, thus destroying the original intention of
' handicaps, which arc presumed to pigce all horses on fin
i equal footing."

We do not hold ourstl6l:ol* 6.14M1e jr6)y the opinions of
our correspoiidlitfs:l

14 THE EDITOR OF THE DA MT TIMES.
Stg, —The Chan
ge llor of the Exchequer having pro-
' ini44 to reeopSider iti detail the numerous changes pro-
ik)4d lots blitet, iis• to bo' &ITO that the main fea-
torti df '!,l4',ObVtieft§ raiseif it+pott it will not be lost
sight of. I affOrfe'irltal6 elibeialky to' the panty impost
upon small packages, field tTit extra' ro,i-ojaingehatge of I
ray use the term),' as set forth' elaiAes^ Pi and 11
Those etc in ,effect extra blirthetm
ttma, ttadb, which
aPpear at ttLtE.-'46 sigbt ikrbhp§' fti atm:A:mt.,
but from their citinplexity are vexatious, an+d,
in many instances, buittkrtsoine:- They impose
a barrier to the interchange from Vat t 6.:p6ft-interfere
by th.tlie employment of labour, and wilt tz:nnihilafe the
witcilVofte dealer' or middle-man, whose profit is ttlYeadY
at its minimi:rit The ,articles of tea ad sug:ar seerri ?/
be selected to bear tiie "heaviest weight;" and not
only do they already contributehyond their due share
to the revenue, but can fairly claim fhb, first remission
of any burthen when the finances of the. tonn.try can
afford it. Parliament has promised this. And id .those
times of " legislation for the masses,' are not cheap
bread, sugar, tea, coffee, and beer, more necessary than I
at e; altd brandy, and silk gloves ?

TO THE EDITOR. OF THE DAILY TIMES.
Sin,—Some time has elapsed since we last called your
attention to this important subject, during the which
much agitation has ensued,
.private and small public
rneetingS", have been held, circulars distributed, and
placards issued—all tending to give information to the
ptkb is on this very neglected question.
The test& has been a visible benefit, and success of
the pulventelit: Merchate, tradesmen, and others
speak
of the nio?oriten, de.httting and Innis worth y. oppo-
sition has been Mit 41k,V, MA.ithen evinced, shown to
be purely of a sordid arid sellish character:
Indeed the movement ...ietirie ha Ve' prosTrred .
well, and to have been carried on vrith' stut Vigour and
spirit, ably helped as it has been by your ittle,
Sri', that
we believe the Early Closing Association most Vow
have derived much experience, and be able to convey
to the town much information, on the movement.
And it is for the purpose of asking for such informtion that we doff write; for, certain it is that some-
thing is wanted, for here we have tradesmen ready to
close eatly--=sente, every day, except Saturday-,-others,
every day and gatiiittfi earlier than the rest, We have
merehants prepared ta close on Saturday afternoon ; we
have Tradesmen's Rifle Corps, needing members and
time ready to be granted assistants to ;, we have
Artillery Corps, wanting Saturday afternoon parades___
and merchants willing to allow time for such—yet, still
it is not done: Why ? Because,• as we believe, there is
wanted a great iitatc meeting, at which the whole
question shall be stated; sad here we would remark on
R. Jeffery's speech on this maementz who-advises
the Early Closing Association to memorialise, the Town
Council to close the markets earlier. The early closing of
the markets would certainly be a great boon and help to
the movement ; for, as a very extensive tradesman krt the
locality has said, did the markets close an hour earlier on
Saturday eveniiin% he could close two hours earlier ;
and a large number of tradesmen inform us, that they
otihe en
biestti
meanst he '
orti f ole4tis.4l7e
r g
are kept open wholly through the ineALets, the purchasers
cnieov,eera.
thinking
we fangofvisitinyg
the earlier closing of the markets would be to memorialise
the Council, but not without giving such memorial the
Aron; support of the approval of a large public meeting.
We hear that it is contemplated to hold such a meeting;
we have heard this now a month or so. Then,- why
is it net carried out S(urely merchants, tradesmen,
and philanthropists sittficient in this town, have
already expressed their approval -otthe movement, and
would be willing to attend such meeting ; :and, if we
mistake not, our worthy nirOlY T.. D. Anderson, Esq.,
would nobly follow the footsteps of oar respected repre-
sentative, 11Ir.
110,..p0i by taking the chair at such
meeting ; so that we might officially hear what progress
his been made, and what success has attended the
eiertions of the Early Closing Association.
Again, information is needed ; for already tradesmen
the north and south of the town begin to look with
sitspiciort at the partial Saturday half-holiday movement
itt teta/1 establishments in the centre of the town, to
the injury of the Movement—not that they are less in
favour of the same, but because in the absence of arty
information officially given—they helieve the exertions
of the association might he used for gaining. the
results in their respective districts ; 1110 - same we correctly
Understand—and we think we do—the principle upon
which the association works, it is, that, business
should
cease when the demand is so small as to become imma-
terial to their employers' .benefit ; as, for instance, the
trade done in the central district after four o'clock on
gatutday is very small; indeed, consequently, they
pray for a• partial half-holiday. Whilst in the other
districts of the town the business of Saturday- is all done
after, and but little Wore four o'clock, consequently
they pray for an early closing on every evening except
Saturday, upon which day, as the business day, they are
willing, and better able, to work with alacrity and bole-
fit,_ the later and longer hours.
We trust, therefore, that this great, nay more, holy
movement will progress as it deserves—that speedy steps
may be taken to convey information, and stimulate the
Etgitation in connection with the movement by means of
a ptddie meeting, and that the result will be the earlier
eldshigf of the public markets, and thereby the throwing
drift the only barrier to many tradesmen adopting its
principles, the carryine• of which will greatly tend to
the early payment of wages, which in the end will
prove the extinction of Sunday trading, and the more
perfect adoption of that sacred day to rest and devotion
—Yours, &e., B. H. G
February 21.