The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-26 00:00:00

A FRENCH CRITIC ON ENGLAND.

(From the Daily News.)
ONZ of the fairest and friendliest of foreign
critics, and certainly one of the ablest and moat
discerning, who have written on the life and
manners of England during the present century
is undoubtedly M. Louts BLA-vc. No stranger

has ever come to live among us, and to live our!
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market movement. The following were the clotting prices :
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Well and perfectly equipped by education, by
study, by a large experience of men and things, by
rare natural endowments, by a full and various
instruction, by the stormy passages and vicissitudes
of public life, by the discharge of the highest re-
sponsibilities of authority in a time of trouble, and
by what may be called a gift of historic insight and
equanimity, refined by culture and sharpened by the
severities of fortune, he is one of those rare ob-
servers and critics of our institutions and our
manners whose sentences become a part and
parcel of the cosimusis salons of an increasing
number of reader 4 and are not to be dismissed
with a smile of impatience or unconcern, like
the flippancies of an occasional Parisian
tourist. M. Lours Buse's " Letters on Eng-
" land," published originally by our contemporary
Le Temps, and collected at intervals into volumes,
have found a place in the best libraries in France,
and doubtless have contributed in a great degree
to the formation among our neighbours of a clearer
and more kindly view of a nation so near to them
on the map, so far from them in all national cha-
racteristics. If it be good for nations as for per-
sons sometimes to see themselves as others see
them, these Letters from England may be confi-
dently recommended to the perusalof our country-
men. From time to time as the occasion offered
M. Lours Buse has investigated, not cursorily,
but deeply and carefully, all the problems of our
political civilization, taking our parliamentary de-
bates, or the speeches at ourgreat public meetings,
as his text. Nor has he neglected to peas in re-
view the lighter and the graver aspects of our so-
cial existence, our amusements, our festivities,
our solemnities, our law courts. In his latest,
letter, published in Paris on Tuesday'
last, he recounts the gaieties of our
week of visits, our round of hospitalities
to the SULTAN, the Viceroy of EGYPT, and to the
Belgian Volunteers. He does this, need we say
neither in the spirit nor in the style of a writer
whose first duty is to admire everything and
everybody he " reports," but with a philosophical
indulgence and human sympathy tempered and
seasoned with a drop of pity too sweetly mixed to
taste like contempt. Here is a remark of which,
now that our guests are gone and we have leisure
for reflection, few thoughtful readers will deny the
penetrating truth. " What strikes me most," he
writes, "in the spectacle I have before my eyes,
" is the eager desire with which everybody seems
" to be tormented, of looking on and standing by,
" and taking a long near look at power, and
" saluting it with cheers, in the person of the
" first comer who happens to bear its insignia.
" Never have I so well understood how very little
" wanted are loftiness of soul and genius to govern
" the herd of mankind." At the Zoological
Gardens on a Sunday afternoon M. Louis Burrc
found himself among a mob of men and women,
apparently " representing the rank, the riches, the
" habits of fashionable life ;" all that should seem
• superior to staring curiosity, or at least incapable
of descending to stupid amazement. " There
" was a moment in which this brilliant and die-
' " dainful crowd reminded one of an unmanageable
" crowd of London cockneys hurrying in heaps ,
" along the Strand to see as much as they can of ,
" the Lord Mayor's show." He was in St. James's-

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25 to 6 art Lecturer (t)
TATTERIIALL'S.—TGussoAr.
Only two or three members dropped in, and not a bet was
laid. The subscription will be open to-morrow (Saturday) for
comparing Goodwood beta, and the tranaaction of o
business.

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100 to 0 Tyoo4la, 17 ale
100 to 7 apt

BETTING AT MANCHSSTER.—THUBSDLT.
GOODWOOD srAKFA.
11 to 2 apt (lay of War- 100 to 7 agst Lucifer (t)
wick (t) 100 to 6 Tyndale it)
6 to I Jezebel (t) 100 to 6 Wild Briar 1t)
10 to 1 °omen it 0 , Hi to 1 Dulcimer ft,
10 to 1 VIM (t) i 10u0 to 10 Billikhoulle (t)
SOUTHAMPTON RACE3.—THURSDAT.
Following in the wake of Winchester, and being reinforced by
the company from Huntingdon, the attendance at Southampton
to-day was vary large. In addition to the usual followers of
racing, there was an immense concourse of pleasure seekers, the
large number of carriages filled principally with fashionably-
dressed ladies rendering the meeting worthy to be ranked with
any re-union in the kingdom. The course Is most charmingly
situated, about two miles from the centre of the town,
the scenery being truly delightful, interspersed as it is with
noble trees and the brilliant foliage of understood. The weather
was fine, and the management in every department being of the
highest order, nothing was wanting to render the meeting emi-
nently successful and enjoyable. The racing admits of but little
description. Challenge added to his winning bore by earn log
off the Hampshire Stakes, albeit not without a severe struggle
with Mouse, and 13ouguetiere redeemed a hitherto unfortunate
career by placing the South Western Plate to the credit of her
owner. Details of the day's sport are appended :
THE TIDAL STAKES of S son. each, with 40 added , for
B.yr-olds and upwards ; selling and other allowances. One mile.
Mr. Wright's Reindeer, by Mountain Deer—sultana 1
Mr. Ten Bromk's La Sorrentino
Mr. R. Porter's Evergreen ....
others also ran.
Betting : 5 to 4 on Reindeer, 6to 1 agst La Sorrentino, 100 to
16 each against Evergreen and Gentian, sod 50 to 1 each agst
Miss Alice and Knight Templar.
Tea SotrimAerron NURSERY PLATE, a handicap of 60 son. ;
for 71.. yr-olds ; winners extra. T. Y.C.
Mr. Samuel's Chivalry, by Tournament--Spot
Mr. J. Woolost's Apron Strings
Mr. A. Day's Our Mary Ann
Nov.. others also ran.
Betting : 6 to 2 agst Chivalry, 9to 2 xi* Miss Casa:eine, 5 to 1
apt Apron String., and 7 to 1 apt Our Mary Ann.
Talf SOUTH WEStERN SEILI6O STAxas of 3 son. each, with 50
added by the South Western Railway Company; for all ape;
selling allowances, T. Y.C.
Lord Vivian's liouquettere, by Voltigeur--Pauline
Mr. Brayley's Wild Dove
Mr. L Rickards' Rally
3
Four others also ran.
Betting: 6 to 4 on Bouquetiere, 4 to 1 apt Rally, 7 to 1 apt
Wild Dove, sad 10 W 1 spa Alarmist.
THE CRANTURT•PARI STAINS of 10 son. each, 5 ft, with 50
added, for I-yr-olds ; colts, bat 10lb ; fillies, list no; winners
eitra T.Y.C. About 5 furlongs.;
Marquis of Hastings' See Saw, by Buccaneer—Margery
Dow
Marquis of Beatings' Cuckoo it
Mr. C. Brewee•The Demon
No betting. See Saw made all the running, and was in a canter
by twenty lengths,
THE SOUTH HANTSMIII RTAKEI, a handicap of 16 OM each,
10 ft, 6 only if d' aired, with 20 added ; winners min. Once
round. (About a mile and a halt )
Mr. R. Porter's Challenge, byTrumpeter—Princess Alice I
Mr. T. Pares Moose .... .. . ... .................
s Mr. 0. Payne Maid of Ilasiara f
Thrce others also ran.
Betting: 7 to 4 on Challenge, 4 to 1 apt Moms, Bto 1 ant
Black Prince, 10 to 1 agst Chevalier D'Sciprit, and 15 to 1 apt
Meld of hash= f.
A MAIDES TWO-TiAJAOLD STALING PLATO of 40 soya : cone
gat lolb ; fillies, est fib; selling allowances. T.Y.C.
Mr. J. Weoloott's Apron String, by King Tom—Petticoat 1
Mr. Riggs Dinah
Mr. B. Land's Zoolite
Two others also eon.
Betting: 100 to 30 on Apron Strings, and 8 to 1 apt Dinah.
Tux WILPOIUTIOII PLATE, a handicap of 30 son., added to a
sweepstakes of 3 son. each,il ft, for all ages. T. Y.C.
Mr. Edgar's The Duchess, by St. Albans—Bay Celia 1
Mr. J. Wooleotee Distaff 2
Mr. Rickards' Tina 3
Three others also raw
Betting: 6to 4 apt Dieter, 4 to 1 apt The Dade a, 5 to 1
agst Tina, and 6 to 1 agst Pevensay.

THE YORKSHIRE Mooas.—The alarming ac-
earlier 1-

counts of the "grouse rinderpest" have caused ..er in-
quiries than usual to be made as to the prospects for the
12th proximo on the extensive rang* of moorlands reselling
from Scarborough to the Tees. Nine of the principal
watchers report th►t the birds are scarce and more or less
dimmed, and that the young broods are puny and very few
in number. Late storms have done harm too. Following
the example of ihe owner of the Bowes Moor, some others
bare resolved not to shoot at all this armon.