The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-05 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE•

()INNER TO MIL HUGHES, M.P.

T AT T ERSALUS. —Mos DAY.
It is oily very recently that a " wiestirte devoted ez-
cluively to steeplechasing (sore es Oteyero has been pro-
ductive of heavy speculatioe, and, as • esesesary cum-
queues, an equally important settling. Mr. J. F. Venal;
has, however, succeeded, by the simple and straightforwerd
process of " square" dealing, in elevating that branch of
our national sports toe position worthy of the support of
its best patrons, thus pressatiog a glaring contrast to the
gatherings of thou gentlemen who affect the management
of hybrid meetings, the main object of which is pom
oumel
pin, to the utter extinction of every principle which cunt
to govern them as caterers for that sport which
ought to be encouraged by every Englishman who loves
his nationality. The interior of the subecription-room
this afternoon was as lively as if the occasion had been the
settling on some important flat race meeting during the
summer months, and owing to the heavy nature of the
" accounts " generally, it wee late in the afternoon before
the speculative mind directed its attention to the Derby,
that being the only event which was touched upon. 7,8,
and 9 to 1 were offered respectively spinet Lord Lyon,
Rustic, and Student, the only investment about either
being on the favourite, about whom 15 to 2 was taken ours
to 100/., while a point more than the price already men-
tioned about the ether two would have brought them
strong support, Auguste, whose promotion to 20 to 1 some
days ago has been looked upon as somewhat spurious,
declined to 1,000 to 40 offered without a vaporise, while
the deadly Stabber wan in terrible demand at 30 to 1, at
which odds he was backed to win some three thousand
pounds. The Bribery colt still maintains his prestige at
about the same price. Lord St. Vincent's colt Haden who
has been rather quiet for some months back, exhibited to-
day some strong symptoms of • "corning " tendency,
having been inquired in good quarters, one result being
a single bet of 1,000 to 40, the layer declining to go on.
Of the extreme
outsiders, the only new one worthy of
special mention is Sir Frederick Johnstone's ]lies Lavinia
oolt, about whom 4.000 to 40 was accepted by • gentleman
not always in with the Woodysates stable. Closing prices

lipwardsof2ooofthesupportersannd f rierids of Mr.
floghes, the member for Lambeth, yesterday, entertathed
that gentleman at • public dinner at the Bridge house Hotel,
Loodon.bridge. Mr. CHARLES BUXTON. M.P., preside_;
sad mooed the musts were Sir T. F. Baxter", M.P., Mr.
Midterm M.P., Mr. cf. Neate, M.P., Mr. G. F. Wilson, Mr.
C. Stuart Barker, Mr. W. B. Solway, Mr. S. Plimsoll, Mr.
• Macmillan, Mr. Merriman, Mr. J. M. Ludlow, Mr. Geo.
Hill, Mr. F. W. Chesom, Mr. A. W. Shaw, Mr. E Dresser
Joe" he.
The traits of " The Quern," „The Prince of Wales and
the rest of the Royal Family," were given and received with
all the honours.
To the toast of the " Army, Navy, and Volunteers," Sir
F. BUXTON, M.P., responded.
The CtiailtilAN then rose to propose the tout of the
evening—" The Health of Mr. Hutto., the new member
for Lambeth." In doing so be complimented the electors on '
their having returned that hon. gentleman as their repro.
putative. He had knows Mr. Hughes • long time, and be
could tenure them that the longer his cosatituents knew
him the better they would like him. Hr. Buxton next ad-
dressed himself to the affair, of Jamaica. The question
was had the outbreak been suppressed with needless
and shocking cruelty, or, on the contrary, was it the
fact that the tremendous severity which, by Governor
Eyrs'a own admission, had been exercised was justified
by what had been @pekoe of as the "extreme peril
st the hour"? That was a men question of facts end
dates ; and we need turn to nothing whatever except the
official dispatches of Governor Eyre and his colleague. He
affirmed, end leaning himself on Governor gyre's despatches,
he utterly defied contradiction, that when their seventies,
or, as be called them, their atrocious cruelties, were com-
mitted. there was not the least shadow of justification for
them, upon the ground that at the time there was any ap-
prehension whatever for the safety of the colony for
say further outbreak on the part of the Degrees.
Having recapitulated the occurrences is Jamaica
as they have berm stated in the official documents, the hon.
gentlemen brought his remarks on the subject to a close
by expressing his opinion that what bad been dome by the
whites in Jamaica was as atrocious as any of the acts for
which we execrated the memory of wick men as the Duke
of Cumberland in days gone by. He thought the liberal
party ought to clear the fame of the country from the
stain which rested upon it, as far as cored be now done, by
demanding • most rigid inquiry into what had taken place
in Jamaica. The hon. gentleman concluded by stating
that he heartily rejoiced to me men like Earl Result and
Mr. Gladstone at the head of the government.
Mr. HUGHES, who on rising was received with loud and
repeated cheers, midi he was sure that all present would
agree with him that amu is bispoatioe, however grateful be
Might to be—and he was very grateful for their kind temp.
itch—must feel himself in some little difficulty in respond.
into the toast. For he could not forget that they were
taldng him entirely on trust so far as his power to represent
them properly in parliament was concerned ; that all their
hearty greeting was in feet given him in respect
el
services which had yet to be performed. How-
them again to give an amount of the meaner io
which he bad performed the trust which they bad reposed
in him, they might then be able to receive him as *lithe.
elastically, and feel that they had Dot been mistaken alto.
'ether in their choice. (Cheers.) He felt, indeed, that
their representatives would have no easy task in the coming
parliament. Times had changed since they bad due him
the honour of electing him. We bad lost the statesman who
for ton years had been at the head of the government of the
comtry with honour to himself and with advantage to Eng.
lead. (Rear, hear.) He was a representative Englishman
is •peat many punts of view. He was a representative
rag Inian in the geniality of his character. He was
thorougbly staunch to the men who supported
him, and never turned his back on any of hie
subalterns. That was a great quality for • prime
litigator, for a statesman, for • man, and it was a
Beyond
which Englishmen thoroughly valued. (Chews.)
Beyond all this he was • stsuach anti.slavery man, and
did his utmost to carry out that policy which would do
honour to England for generstioos to come. (Cheers.) That
fine old statesman had gone, sad with him had been buried
the lustre of which he was the representative. (Loud
sheers.) During the last 10 or 12 years we had bees
noting OD our oars—during the last five years we bad been
watrbiog the great struggle of our time. The most liberal
institutions the world had ever seen bad
ass on their trial in the great civil war thst
lad ben raging la America. That nation had I
dope several remarkable things. It had brought out
the most godlike and righteous ruler that had presided over
apy people for the last 200 years. It had enabled that
sountry to keep on foot a million of soldier, and had
Mesabi out as great generals as bad ever appeared
during
say of the great European wars, and it had supplied those
fighting men with comforts of all kinds to a greeter extent
then had been done during any war that had ever takes
place on the face of the earth. (Cheers.) These free in-
stitutions had enabled the people to fight that, war to a
successful issue, not merely to win the odd trick, but the
rubber and the game. (Cheers and laughter.) And what
had the people done? They had forgives everybody..
Be was proud to say that a nation sprung from ourselves
had concluded • tied war by saying: "Gentlemen, come
back to us. We have so desire for revenge." (Cheers.)
As he had said, we had been resting on our oars whilst
that great strife had bees going os, but it was impossible
that men calling themselves liberals should rest upon
their oars any longer.
(Cheers.) Be would ask if the
country had not very good prospects ander the present go-
vernineot. He felt that there bad seldom bees a time in our
history when there bad been abetter chance for the party
of progreas—for the party that looked forward instead of
backward—guise that we now had at the head of the go-
vernment that veteran reformer Earl Russell, and we ---
had now as the loader of the House of Com.
Ipollagnlas nda folrranthewfhuoturehtires,thtrusatt itbs hg true
tper7ple,P°mlicorledot On Saturday evening a large meeting was held
wily by prudence. (Cheers ) The present was a very at the Queen's Hotel, Alderley, under the auspices of the
critical time. We had to choose whether we would con. Freedmen's Aid Society, the object being to raise funds to
tines to fill the place which we had hitherto emu. help the emancipated slues America who are suffering
pied in the nations of the world, or should lore it. He had from disease an want. The chair was taken trth.• Hoe.
sot the least fear of the destiny of all the people oil the E. Lyulph Stanley, son of Lord Stanley of A army, the
earth who spoke the English language. We as • free Protoi"toriteaeral, who in tdbe. °°s°l°°: spge.
English speaking people had fewer popular rights than any on the affairs of Jamaica, t erencling Dr. u a
eehill.
people spiking our language in any other part of the b h
Duple of Jamaica had no S
progress t ey m g t
world. Such thoughts were sinking deeper and deeper I havedone, but it was became these people needed raising,
into the minds of our people, and if we did not lake I education, and the fostering hand of the superior race, and
care the effect would be that we io England should i had not had it. On the contrary, the superior race in
lose tare best and strongest parts of our papule. Jamaica had done all in its power to keep down the
don, arid we should not be able to hold the bead. negroes. And everything that was said about the bad
ship of the English speaking people of the world. (Hear.) I condition of the ounces was to him not • proof of their
He did not believe that the present government meant to I hopeless character, but of the change required
in their
play false with the question of reform. On the unwary, !g° Lad
Its believed they were thoroughly and eunestly sincere, and I Last night a large number of gentlemen who in.
for these reasons. It was not only that Earl Russell had tweeted themselves io promoting the exhibition of the
been all hie life a good reformer, or that Mr. Gladstone had I works of French and British artists ad artisans. which has
made some magnificent reform speeches, but he weld not been held at the Crystal Palace. met at &convivial reunion
suffer the fact to escape his memory that when the govern- in the Freemasons Tavern, under the presidency of Mr.
meat was put on its choice as to which wing of the liberal W. HAMEs. Dinner was ordered for 150, but there were at
party they should select from in order to obtain more I least 250 persons present, and amongst them were several
streogth, they went to the really young and energetic wing, I Frenchmen.
and nut to those who were merely intellectual and ready to REMOVAL OF THE FENIAN PRISONER.S TO Kie-
s° over to the enemy when the campaign opened. Mr. I WAINHAM GAOL.—At eleven o'clock on Saturday eight last,
'Forster, whom he had known for many years, was a man I O'Callaghan, A rchdeacon, Scatty. Mulcahy. Fogarty,
smineetly in sympathy with the people. He bad thoroughly O'Bavle, Cleary, Carey, Rosettes, Oldahony, Kane, Matti-
studied ell social questions, and, though a muter manufam I gas,-O'Cloliiasy. Sweeny, Duffy, O'Bretinan, Byrne, Fal-
terer himself, he was acquainted with the views of the moo, Kessy, Donovan, Gillis, O'Neill, Heyburn, and
and be appreciated what they had to say on questions I Quigley, who had been confined in Richmond Bridewell,
between masters and men. (Hear, bear.) Mr. Forster, too. I were removed in vans to Kilmainbain Gaol, under an moon
had come from an anti.alavery family, and was opposed to of the sth Dragoon Operas, the 11th Hussars., sod a nom-
slavery in every quieter of the globe, and be believed her of the mounted police. They arrived at Kilmaicham
that be never would have joined the present govern- a prison at hall-put eleven o'clock, and were at once given in
meat bad he not obtained a distinct pledge , charge to Mr. Prim, the governor, who had them at once
that the dreadful thanes so recently enacted in a locked up in separate cells for the night. There are fifty
Jamaica should be subjected to the most searching men belonging to the Bth Regiment. under the command
inquiry. (Cheers.) He believed that the government Is. of a captain and two subaltern', and a body of the metro-
leaded giving them a real and genuine measure of reform, I polities police, on duty at the prison. The troops are under
and that they would proceed in the path of progress. (Hear, ' arms day and night. This order was carried out in por-
tiere) He would tell them what he meant by a good reform inane, of a warrant signed by the Lord-Lieutenant, in sun-
belt. No reform bill te be brought in by this or that govern- I sequence, it is alleged, of a feeling of disaffection existing
meet would go as far as he should go. In the views which amongst some of the warders of the pri.on. Shortly after
he entertaised on this all-important subject be knew that the prisoner. left Richmond Beigewell, Sir Robert Peel
may of his best friends did not agree. Half a loaf was . and Colonel Lake visited the prison, where they remained
ia his opinion better than no bread. He did not expect to for some time, after which they left for town. At the
get the half loaf, but he did expect good bread, though ?hang of the court on Saturday evening, O'Leary,
act suck bread es they were entitled to. kW O'Donovan (Roam), Hopper, and O'Connell, who had been
should accept the best mucus offered, and he believed I Green-street court se day, were removed direct to
that that measure would be a thoroughly good one, givingKilensinhans Owe. The guard of the Bth Regiment that
to the people of England a bona tide repreuntatioa. (Hear, a bad been on duty at Richmond &Wesel'. has been
hear.) They might, some of them, be tired of hearing di removed, but the police are still retained on duty.
she working men, but rely upon it they would bear of that . O'Keefe, who had been ill, was not removed until Sunday.
important class until ample justice was done them. He I —Saunders New.
thanked the company moat cordially for sbe manner in which I ST. JAMES'S, WILSTMINSTER.—A COMPREHENSIVE
they had received has health. His only hope was that when I MO7lOll.—A special vestry meeting will be held in the
he returned to give an account of his stewardship, he would Vestry-ball of the parish of St. James's, Westminster, on
be received in the urns way ou .bowingthat a° Tuesday (this day), at tom o'clock, to consider the following
bad stood up in the House of Commons to sup. motion submitted to the last vestry by Mr. Real—" That it
port all good measures submitted to the con. be a representation through the Metropolitan Board of
sideratios of parliament. All be asked them was tO Works to the Home Secretary, that it is desirable to con.
examine his parliamentary conduct. If be acted rightly wide,. the vestries of Westo,joot„ into one municipal
they would approve of that conduct. It he did wrong body; that it is desirable to extinguish the powers of the
they would tall him of it. If there was a better man to be Middlesex magistrates over the metropolis, and to effect
Woad, then by all means let them select him ; but if there the following changes:—to establish • municipal authority
was no better man, then he said Ist them retain him apis. in each parliamentary borough, metes, all vestries within
(Hear, bear.) They had elected him as their representative, the boundary thereis ; to extinguish the Metropolitas
and they might rely upon it be should do his best to miry Board of Works as at present constituted, and in place
oat their views and wishes as an important body of metro. thereof to form a metropolitan council, el.cted from the
politan electors. (Cheers.) *wend municipalities, to whose charge should be entrusted
Mr. Neel's, in returning thanks, said that he should sot the work now done by the Metropolitan Board of Works,
teach upon thole topics respecting which there was likely pertly what is due by the City corporation, and all that is
to be a difference of opinion. He congratulated the ousel- done by the Middlesex magistrates in London; that districts
Ulan' on the return of Mr. Hughes, a gentleman who had not included in any parliamentary barna:h be merged in
gained the affection and confidence of the working classes larger districts; that*. City of London should be merged
without pandering t i their delusions. (Cheers.) in each metropolitan ootina4 and the Lord Mayor sot as
Mr. &mutes, in complimentary terms, proposed the chairmen; that to carry this reform the metropolis be &s-
-health of Mr. Doulton. clued a county by itself, bevies transferred to it all bridges,
Mr. Doomote, in retereing thanks, said be might perhaps Innatia asylums, gaols. and courts of law, with nomination
differ in opinion from hie boo. colleague on the subject of of all coroners, election of sheriffs, appointment of obese-
the American wee and other topics, but he would not throw diary magistrates, control of police, sad all powers and an-
• mark into that inflammatory assembly. (A laugh.) A tboeities now vested in the several bodies exercising jerk'.
good nederstanding between the representatives of a comb- diction io the
team was of great. importance, arid be was desirous of co- SOUTH KINSINGTON Mrszox.—During the week
eperating with his inestimable colleague. (Chews.)
ending December 2 the visitors have begs as follows:
Several other lassls wars aftaraards given sad responded Os
10 ma. Monday. Tugela sod Saturday. free days, Tea from
to. y,
to 10 p.m., 8,383 ; on WeAseftiay. Tentwlay,
sod Friday. students' days (aimissiou to the public, 64),
The great Christmas show of fat cattle and Sheep open from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m.. 1,318. Total, 9,701. Fran
male held at Liverpool on the 19th la& limo spin*, of Ur amseism 5.673.513.

DEBBY.
7 to 1 agst Mr. B. Sutton's Lord Lyon (off, tlsto 2)
8 to 1 Duke of Beaufort s Rustic (off)
9 to 1 Mr. Merry's Student (aa)
26 to 1 Lord St Ylnoritts Bodin (t)
25 to 1 Count F. de Lagrange's Auguste off)
3000 total Mr. T. 8 Mtwara's 81abtor (t)
30 to 1 Mstuals ad RuUnp
Blue Mond (t to 251.)
6000 tolso Lord Allesbury's cby Stockwell—Bribery (t)
1000 to 20 51. Lupins Moments (t)
1000 to 20 lion. S. Ha
e by Stockwell—Midsummer (t)
1000 to 16 Marquis of Pieter's Haight of the Crescent (t)
1000 to 15 Mr. Pantos's Artesian (t'
1000 to 15 Prince D. Boltykoff s Duke of York (t)
1000 to 10 Couat F. de Lagrange's Bayou w
1000 to 10 Mr. St. George s Tom Bing f)
1000 to 10 Sir F. Johnstone's e by Newminster—Miss La.
Inis (taken freely)

READING STEEPLECHASES.
WIDNISDAT.
ACCEPTANCES FOR TEI BIREIEURE OPEN STEEPLECHASE,
of 10 son. each, 3 ft, with 100 ►dded. About thr►e and s
half miles.

Ago et lb Age et lb
ry6sher
lrouslchrs
Sportsman
Laura 4 11 2 Ariesoott
Rochester • 11 2 Bristles
AOI72I.TANCEB FOR THE WHITLEY STARR( (Free Handicap
Steeplechase) of 5 nova each, with 30 added. About three
milm.
AP St n) Ago et lb
Sir Bobby
Serious Case
[Sportsman
ENTRIES FOR THE SWING STERPLECR•SZ of 3 son each,
with 25 added. About two maim—Bravo (501.), Strike
(5 Redwing (30/.1. Little Pickles (300, Idiot (30/.),
White Stockings (300, Ace of Trumps (3014.