The Express.
London, England, 1857-01-29 00:00:00

SPORTING.

EARLY HINTS FOR THE SEASON 1857.
No. XII.
THE ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS STAXISS.
TO THI ILDITOR OP TIES ZXPRPIM•

Stn,—lf the above race is not stronger than anal as
regards numbers, it certainly never boasted such a lot of
known cracks before. There are thirty-tire fillies engaged,
and the value of the stake, at 100 son. emit, h. ft., is con-
siderably more than "one thousand guineas"--that snm
should be about doubled. Only one of those la the Two
Thousand is down bare—Bagitta—eind abe may not show for
either. Both races are deckled Across tits Hat," thin
being on the last (called the "Ditch mile") WIN while its
brother is on the Rowley mile—the fest mils of the A.P.
course. Electra is dad, and the only one I know of oat of
training is Genius. The following are the different "lots":
Brvkin's, W.—Duke of Bedford's Crurada, by Cowl-
License; and Lord Stradbroke's Rosa Bonheur (sister to
Type.), by Tonehrenne—Boarding-school Mum
BVIMIDGIeII.—Mr. B. It. Clark's Violet Fins, by Sir
Tenon Sykes—Cawroneh's dam (li. b.).
Dawsores Josnrn.—Mr. T. Walker'. Orland; by.

Dar's, I.—Lord Clifden's fillies, by barplice—Coles and
Surplice—Rose of Cashmere.
DAY'S, J.—Mr. O. W. Fitzwilliam'a Asymiss, by Pyrrhus
the First—Bohemienne; Load Portsmouth s Ayaessora, by
Birdcsarher—Pocahontas ; Sir J. B. Hills's Bar-orm, by
Orlando—Cymba ; Sir J. Hawley's Festhity, by Surplice—
Chamois, and Swats, by Surpbco—Dart ; and the Duke of
Beaufort's Vigil, by Bay Middleton—Cruisres dam.
DAY'S, W.—Lord Anglesey's Rebecca, b}' Sweetmeat—
Moonbeam, and Tricolor, by Touchstom— dangle.
Escoves.—Mr. s Paula Monti, by Weatherbit—
Rhadcina.
ESKyRZET'S.—Mr. Citatwlckes Saxe Wismar, by Weather-
bit—Here Homburg._
Pomorr's—Mr. W. S. S. Crawfurd's Codicil, by Annan-
dale—Executrix, and Lady Harriet, by Touchatono--
Marlon.
GOATLIN W.—Mr. Howard's Cricket by Flying Dutch-
man, Wicket, and Strawberry by Flying Dutchinan—British

lissLoces.—Lord Eseter's Beechnut by Nuttrith—
Celia
l'Ansotes, W.—Mr. W. I'Anson's Blink Bonny by
Melbouine—Quasat Mary.
IN Inn...aut.—Lad llowth's Finwint by Windfall—lre-
land's Eye's dam.
Pacz's.—&r R. W. Bulkeley's Tasmania by Melbourne
—dam by ricaroon.
Pluses's, J.—Mr. Merry's Lady Albert by Chanticleer—
Artl;FATE.—Mtl. Osbaldeeton's Dardanelles by Pyrrhusthe
First—darn by Touchstone.
RICK ARY.B.—Mr. Rickaby's Arts by Pyrrhus the First—
Ellen Middleton.
STICPUILNYON'S. It.—Lord Prford's ally by Footstool—
Adelawnd.
Score's, I.—Mr. J. Scott's Imperieuse by Orlando--
EulTogy.
ar koes, A.—Lord Olasgoves filly by Eledcatcher—

Mill Whip.
THEW...ea.—Mr. J. S. Forbee's Double Glo'ster, by Mel-
bourne or Mentor—Jennala ; and Mitraille, by Alarm—
Volley.
Rosa Bonheur is to represent Butler's stable, the " dark"
Crusade not being half good enough. The former luta 'hewn
three times, and on her first appearance—at Newmarket
Second October—despite her backward condition, long odds
were laid on her against the Miss Whip filly and Queen of
the East for the Brethy Stake., where she best them easily,
yet running unkind throughout. At the Houghton she was
the favourite for the Criterion, in which she was completely
outpaced, Beechnut winning eerily, and Sydney end
Drumour, giving her 61b, also before her in their placer. At
the same meeting she met the Mira Whip filly again in •
match, when she gave her 31b, and beat her even more easily
than before. There in not a litter-looking three-year old in
training, sad, when thoroughly prepared, she is not likely to
belie her looks. Having done so little work sa yet, she may
not be perfect so early as the tiros for this race, still she will
be made • favourite.
Double Gleam promised well lest spring, for she ran a
good fourth—about a length from tho winner, Lambourn—in
the Meetyn Stakes at Chester, beating Saunterer, while re-
ceiving Id& In their places; and at Manchester; ran wend
to Mb& Benny for the Sapling Stakes : Saunterer, with 31bn.
lairs, being again behind leer, At Ascot she was sixth for
the New Stakes (won by Zaidee) and third for the Great
Western Stakes; Theodore giving her Mlle. for • year' and
Gamma di Vergy bibs. for nothing, in the latter ease, and
running first and second. At Newmarket Houghton the had
top-weight for the First-Class Nursery, and she ran lest,
M.D., the winner, having Me. the best of the weights with
her. She is • good mare, but will not be wanted here, pro-
bably ; her esrear might commence a little later in the
season, as she is not favoured in the Chester Cup. Illitraille.
" dark," is only mound best to her.
Violet Fane ran but once—about last for the 114—Ra
Stakes, won by Saunterer, at Doncaster Spring—and she
will not disgrace Newmarket by a similar exhibition.
thianda has dote many • " good thing " at home but in
public she has done—her backers. At Liverpool ol July she
was emplaced for a lisndiesp, medy, the winner,
giving
her 101 b. At Goodwood, after a " trial " spin witlGemma
di Vergy, she was heavily supported—by the • public "—for
the Nursery ; but whatever the trial said, she did not run ;
and the same fever was got up at Brighton the following
week,. where she did run, starting the favourite for the
Nursery there, bat only to get third to Martinet's first and
Bannockbeth's ascend, the former presenting her with about
101 b. Evelyn received 141 b, and finished almost level
with her. Next day she was beaten easily by the Farmer's
Daughter filly. At Reading she Warted for the
with no money on, when she ran a bad
Worcester, whores in a similar situation, winning easily, to
the dismay of his friends. At Doncaster September she
Insane of the thirty starters for the Portland Plate, where
she never showed in front; and at Newmarket, for the
Sneed-Clam Nursery, she managed to run last. Her
Brighten performance may he reckoned moderate, and as
that was the only bonnets where she ran with the money on,
the others bad better he forgotten. She is dot plenty of
week, end may ethrestut her party in some of the ;
but I think we may trust one or two in this to hold
safe. With • moderate weight, however, there is no myths
what she may do elsewhere.
Lord Clifden'a two are "dark ;" but with the strong trying
tackle he has he ought not to nudge • great mistake here, and
if the money were to go on, I would not, for one, eland against
either. One may probably run for a line, if nothing elects
done with them.
Nearly all al J. Day's have been before the curtain. As-
pasta ran a umbrae fourth for the New Stakes, at Ascot.
won by &thee; end at Stockbridge, while dead amiss, beat
a moderate let--the best el whom was her stable companion.
Via, wise ma kr the methy—for the Triennial. Apes-
nors'eqls pwilweethree are decided superior. At
StockbT ahe wee Mast "unaccountably" defeated by
Fugitive the Melt dent Stakes ; yet at Goodwood she
beet ZuLt.z...7=sek), the Physalis colt (a very bad
third), and Chow, for the Hate Stakes;
and the same day Fugitive, reciting 31b. from Lembourn,
was beaten half-e4then lengths by him, instead of whirl,
had his preview vietery been true running, be ought When.
been Dearly that dbeanoe before Lambourn, taking
a line from the letter through his running with
Zuyder Zee et the Newmarket July. Two days
afterwards else was beaten eerily by Blink Bonny for
the Bentinek Blemeeith At Newmarket First October she
beat Lambeth& (srreety by a neck), Vanity (a very mode-
rate third), Beethast, Jessie, Admires, and two others, giv-
ing all but Umbers Sb, far the Hopeful Stakes; and about
an hour aftermath ally ea onwhed to Mcestissini• by a neck
for the Triomf.% sad Inadiefi7 she ought not to have
loot the taco. No War Ist Blink Bonny has run so
well, as Tatham& bell & In defeating Lambourn at
Demuth;
IBM hod the Wel= dr
sr advantage of her in condi-
kerma., log Apththors is the best-looking of
a. bet be walk it eblethie to reserve her for the
Aeraebe erth meet setthely the to like the distance
muse se well. Emu It all runs, end is defeated
ben, I EA wet &afar Ist that, with health,
thewill turn the take NI Ewen on nearly all who finish
before her. la bur eiteents.
Ursula will worthily repreeent
the stable. Bawer the ben beaten in public by Ayacanors,
and Vigil by whir Festivity was nearly lest for the
Althesp Palk woeby S Nadsme Cliquotea, so that there
need be no fur al anytMeg Me at Stockbridge, the dark
Sogitta not Wag likely to blwe with whatever arrange-
ment* might be made.
Rebecca hth min last on her only attempt, for the Cham-
pagne Stakes 1,1 Mary; and Tricolor must represent W.
Day. At Sallate=rdwas beaten cleverly by Arsenal for
the Bien=yeed ran a dead heat with Hurdle,
Yom.
Apathy, Martinet, and several others,
for thbeatheillfithe Park Stakes. Chevalier &Industrie beet her
in • punier &the Whittlebury at Nortlitunpton, she giving
him Db; stlfetheerket First Sprirg she was bimten easily
by Lord Seires,whis attempting to give him 51b, tor
•
sweepotthee; sad al Doncaster she gave Strawberry 121 b and
Janet 111 b, for • MEOW' VIM there was only a head W-
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arme.thetwpicee,arimi.Niacythiyan.i.llnis
ifishinazgomossuliktiadheer;
Or that she is the as. Mee efirming will depend greatly
on whether the weight she bee In the Chester Cup is satis-
factory, se she is likely le mho &handicap horn.
Jan. M. METEOR.

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government engineers have just decided on the definitive
plass for the docks of Marseilles, conceded to M. Teasley
sad wiY see about to be established betwoen the port of La
Joliette ail Pert Napoleon. The engineers as et about
1;11 mama the edliticaal spate required for the new
tie serviced the memegeries, sad the maritime ste-
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LONDON, TIIITRSDAY, JANUARY 29.

TINE Mercantile Law Conference now holding its
sittings under the auspices of the Law Amendment
Society is in many respects a very valuable demonstra-
tion. In two points of view it is especially calculated
to be of great service to the community. It fur-
nishes a sort of antral fulcrum tram which to work
upon the ria inertia of the Legislature. And it
alkyds the best possible organ for that action of the
mercantile mind upon the legal mind which we hold
to be absolutely indispensable for any practical and
alicient reform in our system of mercantile law.
The vast commerce of this country has grown
up to its present unparalleled dimensions in spite
st the defects of our commercial jurisprudence,
not in consequence of its excellences. The
nabdantive laws by which it is regained have
been to a great extent framed not by business
men but by lawyers; the procedure by which those
haws are rendered operative, and the tribunals in
which they are administered, are to an extent un-
known in any other country,—they are the creation
and tie patrimony of the legal profession. Trade
Aasociations and Chambers of Commerce have been,
indeed, established in all the principal seats of mer-
cantile activity throughout the provinces. Bat in
this great emporium—this metropolis of the world's
trade—a Chamber of Commerce is still • desidentam.
It is whispered, we know not with what anent of
truth, that a certain merbid reluctance on the pert of
at mreehent ptinees M soothing ea opal Inns
with the Ye 'plug hut stm inieentiel Imam% ore
zembees at &jag mossiihm, Ms hid mach to de
with tads remediable deleleney. Tbe
it is said, bid 'ha lila the simpliespen, sad the
the
et the lizehange bad Whir submit in
Wine. to the Imedships of defective law, than abate
UP dignity by a amearted attempt to amid the law.
Whatever the memo may he, the fact is certain, and
timer can he no dealt that the interests of the
general innendle enenemity of the empire have
snared in eseseqnseme. The local anti of the
provincial Chwelme hove hem leas eillictual than
they otherwise mania barns lea, hem the want of a
common rallying point—the absence of a central
organisation. It is one et the most valuable inci-
dents of this Mercantile Onference that it tends
greatly to remedy this dopier defect.
It is impossible for the lAgielature to ignore
the importance of the pressediap af a Con-
ference which, on the subject of Mmesatile Law
Amendment, represents, as the Tercet inkeme
es, the views of twenty-one towns (including
Olestow, Dublin, Liverpool, Manchester, Bir-
mingham, Leas, and Bristol), “ nempleing op.
womb of fire millions of inkshitendti and
concentrating the wealth, energy, and Inieprili
our shipping, manafeeturing, sad twat. inAmesta.•
Bach a maniketation of opiaisa as at a aims et
salleets with which theme mho ememide ti py
asses it are intimately end hahltedlp senmesent,
eight to supply preeisely dot whisk Is mod minting
to the progress of law rate —an adequate mo-
mentum brought directly to beers no indlihrent or
issetive Legislature. It is from this view of the
matter that we are led to regard with great Delia-
hetion the recommendation with which the report
of the committee who have superintended the
arrangements of the Conference concludes. We
entirely concur in the suggestion, that the superin-
tending committee should be authorised to continue
their functions as the "accredited representatives"

of the powerful gathering now assembled in Water-
loo-place, " and that to their number should be added
the President and Claims= of mazy Cheale. '
of Commerce and other public body represented at
the Coalbreme." "Such a committee as thia,"
madams the report, "will speak the voice not of a
town or a county, but of the kingdom at large ; it
will gibed a rallying point for all mercantile law
redgemers, and may lay the foundation for an organi-
maim which will at last move the Government and
Legislature to Abdo worthy of the national great-
ness, and calcalated to bring the laws of the United
Kingdom into permanent harmony with the require-
ments of jotice end sense, and with the customs and
exigencies at trade." The anticipatious thus ex-
panned are not chimerical, and we trust the com-
mittee will "constitute itself en perneaneeeee," to
watch with unremitting vigilance over the future
progress of Mercantile Law Reform.
_ _

Of the great necessity for such reform the
anipkot proof wa• afforded in the course of yes•

terday's proccedinga. If nothing else were amiss
except the three systems of law now regulating the
administration of Insolvent Estates—the Law of
Bankruptcy, of Insolvency, and the Winding up of
Joint Stock Companies—the strongest possible case
would be made out faradic prompt interference of
Parliament. The state Of these three systems of law is
scandalous. The mere feet of their separation into
three systems, the mere fact that there should be a
separate set of legal rules and a separate class of
legal tribunals, for regulating the concerns, first of
insolvent persons who are traders ;secondly, of insol-
vent persons who are not traders; and thirdly, of
insolvent companies—this alone is a discredit to any
jurisprudence which aspires to the praise of syste-
matic uniformity, or practical utility. Can any
reason be assigned—any reason, we mean, ex-
cept the bad one of multiplying judicial offices
in order to increase ministerial patronage—for
not combining, in compliance with the wise sugges-
tion of Lord BROUGHAM, all these separate and too
frequently conflicting jurisdictions under the
management of a single court—or at all events under
a single class of tribunals acting under one uniform
act of legal rules, and upon one uniform procedure?
Can any man—lay or legal—produce a single
reason which would stand the test of ordinary com-
mon sense, why the law and practice of Insol-
vency should not be forthwith assimilated to that
of Bankruptcy ?—or why jurisdiction in winding
up companies should not be vested in the same tri-
bunal that is found capable of winding up indi-
viduals?

The extent to which the grievance o' the existing
Bankruptcy Law is felt by the trading community
of this country may be judged of from the fact stated
in the report of the superintending committee, that
on this subject they have received communications

from every single public body represented at the
Conference, as well as from many private individuals.
We have not space here to dwell in detail on the de-
fects in these ill-framed and worse administered laws
as elaborately set forth in the able report of the
Leeds Chamber of Commerce. These defects had
long been notorious. They had been brought into
prominent light by the evidence recently taken be-
fore committees of either House of Parliament.
They were recently made the subject of a most
masterly report by the Chamber of Commerce
of Birmingham. The source of the whole evil
appears to us to be traceable to this simple
fact, that the whole system of our Bankruptcy
administration appears to have been devised, not for
the convenience of our traders, but for the profit of
our lawyers. Courts, especially in the provinces,
have been multiplied anneeessarily—salaries have
been fixed at a most extravagant scale, as though for
the very purpose of contriving snug sinecures for
barristers disappointed of higher promotion. The
procedure of the courts seems, in a similar manner,
to have been framed with especial reference to the
two-fold object of increasing to the utmost the emo-
luments of the officers and the fees of the prac-
titioners. The last thing thought of has been the
interests of trade and the convenience of the Trader.
The vast expenses of administration—the removal
from the creditors of all effective control
over the working of the estate—the unne-
cessary trouble given to them in the proof
of debts and the receipt of dividends—the official
formalism with which many operations of the court
are unnecessarily encumbered—are the common sub-
jects of complaint with all business men who have
been brought into practical contact with the working
of the Bankruptcy Courts. There is another topic,
which more particularly regards the Commissioners
. . .

themselves ; and that ie, the tao great leniency which,
a. we have on more than one recent occasion
pointed out, is apt to be shown by the court toenails
fraudulent bankrupts. We shall take another
opportunity of going into the details by whisk
these grave charges are borne out. It is a matter
on which silence on our part would be an abne-
gation of duty ; for the scandal and disgrace of
the system have reached a height which calls for
the most emphatic reprobation and the moat
prompt amendment. On the present occsaion,
we will commend to the attention of our
readers only one single fact with reference to the
cost of administering estates in Bankruptcy. When
an estate is wound up by private arrangement out
of court—i.e., by traders among them selves--the out-
side cost is a per centage offrom 10 to 15 per cent. on
the assets ; when it is wound up in Bankruptcy—
i.e., by the lawyers—the orernge recorded cost, for
the six years ending in 18.52, as appears by the evi-
dence taken before the last Bankruptcy Commission,
is 361 per cent., in addition to accountants charges
and various other items not recorded, which would
probably increase the actual average to more than 40
per cent. Surely if the amendment of such a sys-
tem of law es this was the only object of the Mer-
cantile Law Conference, it would not have been held
in vain. How much greater is the need for it when
even a grievance so gross and indefensible as that of
the Bankruptcy Laws is but a single item in the list
of evils which the mercantile community has at
length roused itself to resist and resent!

The nowt (lays the Timm) that a company of
Ogres ark Miser is plead under order@ for Norfolk
Lied, to min Y fonsiag • make setinseat, is. mistake.
Me yeah win her leer giver hese mall fora is to be
to the Palklarin to nylon the lowed gee* but oely
Ar emlirry duty, sad set to ryes a aravlet alettliirsea.
WI VACANCY ON TIM JUDICIAL RIOICIL-111*
d a soccowor to Mr. Deno Aldrusa i lhe Court 4
we the torte 4 rusk erreerke sod ger-
Lir amegit the henries in Westrirlir Milkyareig
eireenen. It wee eseirmtly Meted by lerra.:l.r=
re•—ups• whet rstbratty wis an le be
Mr. MEM Worry the lielithar-Oreesl, 411 .wmuss
eggeirmat, rbe le drier 4 brig • lust 2 the
gragfe lbw" vide riered le hewer wrest by the
relberat dem die beard Myr The id ineerile
mewl fhe herding to Mr. 121 rat Chard . wire to.
bean greed ewer en may eserdsra whoa the greed to
M • seeidir 4Me desedla The. asered ivouste 2 de-
rift Mr. leerig, M.P. fee teedies, who is mewled to
Mta seri Inwrir, sad who lase given a Wady awl ri-
weraelx.segreet to Lord Peirretais goververat. Legal
rare Mr. Airier M.P., Mr. 'Awl& Jems,
ErM, g.C., ail ers ; but probity Wea-
riest Hell say be angeleed by a " stuff " gewarra (so
in the ors of Mr. Julio Mlles) overriding the whole of
the esperist condlifee.—Nwrit.
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per=nsatle market, • ratkurn bt lesattr days
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