The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-21 00:00:00

TILE EXPRESS, TITZSDAy

nno .er and the motion Wall
ncguticc~lWya inniority of 19 :)2 to
33. At the. dose of the division, neither the
Chancellor of the Exchequer nor Lord R.
Montague, who had charge of the bill, took
their liliteva on the Treasury bench ; but still
their huppoiterri cried out to "go on." Sir J.
Palington, however, was there, arid at his in-
stance the connnittec• at lad reported progre4s.
The other order„ were rapidly disposod of, and the
!mune adjourned.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TA'rTERBA S. —Mom DAY.

There wan a limited attendance at the Subeeription-room to-
day, nevertheless' buninenn went on pretty briskly. For the Good-
wood Stakes Oomera wan supported quietly, but well, at 7 to 2,
several bet. of 70 to 20 being booked in the mina of the after-
noon, and notwithstanding demonstrations in behalf of new
favourite., the mare kept her ground with unwavering Manx,
and not • fraction beyond the odds named, was offered M any
period of the afternoon. The new favourite, Kidderminster, wan
as • matter of comer in gnat demand, and wherever 9 to 1 Could
be obtained it was booked, and the concluding offers against the
horse did not exceed /3 to 1. Tabouret was also in considerable
request at 11 to 1, and towards the finish, this prim being no
longer procurable, 10 to 1 was in some instances accepted. Some
apparently genuine huskies' was transacted about Stradbroke,
(CO to 6 being booked several times, and if 20 to 1 had &unforth-
coming, substantial investments would have been made. At the
asme moment that Tabouret was meeting with support, his
stable companion, Tynedale, also came in for • ahem of
favour. One commiasioner accepted 600 to 30 three or four
times, and some minor bete of 100 to 6 were booked.
One of the features of the wagering in connexion with this event
was the backing of Chows!, whose owner laid out upwards of
£3OO at 20 to 1, and also invented an even £2ooan his repre-
sentative seabed Cannon Ball. Subsequently 103 to 6 was taken
to a limited amount. Fidelia made • rapid advance, for, starting
at 25 to 1, she was no substantially befriended that in ashort time
sbe found takem at IGO to 6. 900 to 10 was taken about Papillon,
but after the doings at the Cuba in the morning this can scarcely
&regarded as her proper prsce.at any rate there were no other
offe re tot ark her beyond this. An offer of 2,000 to 100 failed to
tempt the admirers of RtngOirl, and among the outside divi-
ne:lP there was litarally nothing supported. For the Goodwood
Cup, 6 to 2 was the highest offer against Blinkboolie, while 3 to 1
was taken and asked tor. Julius and Speculum were offered
against at 100 to 30 and 7 to x respectively, and probably 4 to I
would have been taken about arch; the two coupled met with sup-
port at 180 to 100. For the St. Leger 6 to x was taken and
wanted about the Earl, and some good investments were made on
behalf of Suffolk at 100 to 9. For the Derby the Imamate' were
quiet. Abstinence wan barked at 6,000 to 180, 1,000 to 30 was
booked three or four timer' in favour of Portsmouth, and 1,000 to
20 twice about Ismael. Closing quotations:
GOODWOOD RTAMPA.
7to t slat Doke odoff)f Newcastle's Gainers, 6 yrs, Bet 61b
(t an
sto 1 Lincoln's Kidderminster, 4 yrs, Tat (off,
9 to 1 t)
10 to 1 Mr. Johnatone's Taboaret, 3yrs, 5,4 tolb (t)
19 to 1 Ilfr. T. Pere. Ecorp, 3 yea, Ist alb (off)
100 to 6 Mr. J. Stephennon Stradbroke, 4 yrs, eat 6113(t)
100 to 6 Mr. Johneteme'e Tynedale, 4 yrs, art 71b (t)
100 to 6 Mr. Drceritt". Choral, 3 yrs, art 71b (t and off)
100 to 6 Mr. T. Wadlow'n Fidelia, 3 yen, bet lab (t& off)
100 to 6 Lord M. Vincent's (}tenon Ball, 4 yrs, let 71b
(off, t 20 to 1)
200 to 10 Mr. Brayley's Papillon, 3 yrn, Oat 71b (t)
20 to 1 Sir B. Graham's Romping thri,4 yrn,74 teb (off)
:t5 to I Mr. Lincoln's Ilium, 3 yrs, betlBll. (off)
40 to I Lord St. Vincent's Luster, 5 yrs, Bet 61b (off)

to 1 Mr. Bowes's Taraban, 4 yrs, fast 41b (off)
30 to 1 Mr. W. Day's Our Mary Ann, 3 yrs,set 7M (off)
10uu to 10 Mr. Drewitt's Elmira, 3 yrs, ast 71b (off)
Ito I Choral, 1,2, 3't)
700 even on Choral v. Cannon Ball, best of 1,2, 3, both to run. t)

aoonwoori CUP.

sto 2 agst Mr. Chaplin's Blinkhoolie, 4 yrs, 9.4 int!, 3to 1
t and w)
100 to 30 Duke of Newcastle's Johns, 4 yrs, 9td (off)
7to 2 Doke of Newcastle's Speculum, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (off;
100 to 9 Baron Rotlischild's Suffolk, 3 yrs, 74t 71b (t)
20 to 1 Rir J. Hawley's Satyr, 4 yrs, 9st (t)
150 to 10) Julius and Speculum coupled (t)

_ .
HT. -LEGER.
sto 2 test Marquis of Hastings's The Earl 3k w)
sto t 8111/011 Rothschild's Alfred (off)
1000 to 3) Baron Rothschild's Rtntion ion)

CEBAREWITCH.
1000 to 10 agst Cannon Asll (t)
1000 to 10 Mortemer It)

15000 to 150 agst Doke of Newcastle's Abstinence
1000 to Su Mr. W. S. Crawford's Portsmouth it`
lutsi to 20 Count lagrange's Loud ;t)

BETTING IN LONDON.-MONDAT.

For the Goodwood Mak.% (foment kept at about the mine
figure as previcsody recorded. Kidderminster and Tabouret were
in equal favour at 9to 1, and both found backers to good sums.
Eearte and (Sinnott Ball retained the same position as on Satur-
day. Cliorid, after being supported at 90 to 1, receded three or
four points, and Stradbroke, at one moment barked at tog to 8,
subsequently bad 20 to 1 offered against him, but at the finish
returned to his original price. Tyndale was supported to
win 27,000 or LB,OOO, at prices rowing from 2.5 to Ito 90 to 1.
Thum improved his position from 40 to 1 to 25 to 1, but Papillon
bad lOW to 30 offered against him without a response; throe
were the principal features. The transactions on other forth-
coming events were unimportant. Prices as follows:

STEWARDS' MT.
25 to 1 mid Sibthorpe 1100 to S aged Snowdrop (t)
2.5 to 1 Hermitage (t) 1(10 to s Warrington ,t)
too to S Sir. Fitt 100 to S lAneret ,t)
GOODWOOD STAKES.
75 to 20 apt Gomez .it &otri I 40 to 1 aged Pidelia(off,looo
9to 1 • '

9 to 1 Tf;l:ouret (t)
100 to 8 licartt (t)
Bfu to 7 Cannon Ball
(t and off)
100 to 6 Stradbroke (t
and off)
20 to 1 Trnedale A &
off)
25 to 1 Choral (C& of,

to 15 pre-
viously laid)
1000 to 20 Wellow (t6iff)
500 to 10 Our Mary Ann
(off)
Minster Bell
(off)
1000 to 10 Lady Blanche
ally Cuff)
UM to 5 Balpinetes (off)
1000 to 25 Mr. Havik'slot
(off)
60 to 40 on Tahouret v
Tynedalebe4
of 1 2 3, both
to run (t)
15 to 10 on Cannon Ball
running (t)

1000 to 10

after 20 tc!

had bi;•.a,-,
25 to 1 Ilium (t k off)
1.5 to 1 Fitz Ivan (off',
lot) to 3 llonestinh (off
IOtO to :JO l'apillon (off)

to to 1 07. t Suffolk (o)

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THE BULL 111111174 yRE.

(FROM OUR tirk.Oßl• COW.MSPONDENT.)
HAVRE, Jmy 10.
At trio o'clock this rimming Nome eight thous:ind
persons were aarembled in the Spanish emus maw
the Intermiticautl Maritime Exhibition, to witness
the " Combat des Tuureaux." Nothing more
net d be said to show the interest which the inha-
bitant% of the department of the Seine Inferieure
take in this, to them, new species of excitement.
From the surrounding country, from Trouville,
Honfleur, Ilarfleur, from Rouen, and Paris grout
numbers of persona arrived here to enjoy the
wort. By wuy of compensation for the failure of
e last exhibition— a failure not arising from any
want of spirit in the bulls or eurtdrilla, but from
the impossibility of going through with the
performance in the miidst of a thunder-
storm, and in the muddy condition of
the arena—the public were promised an
entirely new set of animals—all natives of Navarre
—in the fourth year of their age, when they are
in their greatest strength and possess most ferocity.
In order still more to whet the appetite these bulls
were said to be able to distinguish between the
substance and the shadow, and would be sure not
to leave a banderillero or a picador for his mantle
or mulcts. The performance, however, hardly
corresponded with the promise, for some of the
animals which appeared to-day most assuredly
made their debut in Havre before, and butted at
and trampled on the rod mantle instead of the real
man.

I confess I was greatly disappointed when a
dingily-dressed caballero, mounted on a horse
bearing a striking resemblance to the pictured
representation of Rosinante, entered the arena from
the right of the circus. He moved slowly towards
the box of the Spanish consul, and I imagined
for a moment that he mistook the fair occupants
for windmills, but he merely appeared to pay an
act of deference to the representatives of Spain.
The whole company, or cuadrilla, consisting of
eight persons, next appeared, dressed in bright-
ooloured cloaks, and, after due obeisance before
the same box, they flung their mantles away and
stood forth in their professional costume. The
principal member of the troupe—Gonzalo Mora—
was dressed in chocolate-coloured silk brooches,
thickly striped with silver, a jacket of the
same, still more richly ornamented with silver
embroidery, a red sash, flesh-coloured stock-
ings, a pair of light shoes, or rather
pumps, a black cap, and, what was most
singular of all—a kind of chignon. The dresses
of the others varied in colour, but all of
them wore the same kind of cap, and
the chignon seemed to be indispensable.
The picadors were on horseback. They wore silver
embroidered jackets, thick leather pantaloons, the
feet were protected by short iron stirrups, not un-
like those worn by the knights of old. Neither
stirrups nor spurs would have lost anything if
their wearers bestowed a little more labour in re-
moving from them the rust with which they were
thickly covered.
The entrance of M. Alexandre Dumas shortly
before the fight commenced created some little
sensation. The " great man " seemed to enjoy
the feeling, for he marched to his loge with as
much hauteur as his namesake of Macedon could
have shown. Indeed, I doubt whether the con-
queror of Darius and of Porus considered himself
of half the importance to the world as the fertile
author, who at this moment is one of the lions of
Havre. An amusing instance of this vanity,
which, after all, is only a national sin, admitted
by none more freely than Frenchmen themselves,
occurs in a correspondence which he has written
from this place to the Petit Journal. After letting
his public know how he got a poor singing girl of
sixteen and her mother to dine with him at the
Frascati Hotel, he breaks forth into this apos-
trophe: " La misere unie au talent eat une majest4."
Of course his poor guests were misery, Dumas
represented talent, and the combination farmed
majesty, of which the talent constituted, no doubt,
the nine-tenths.

But we are recalled from this digression, caused
by the entry of M. Dumas, by the presence, from
the toril, or bull-stall, of a black compact and
well-formed animal, which rushes through the
opened gates into the arena. In he comes full of
fire and strength, and apparently, as Homer single,
" rejoicing in his strength." For a moment,
when he has got to the middle of the circus,
he looks around, inquiringly and amazedly.
The repose which the fine animal would desire to
enjoy, and which he looks for by a return to the
gates through which he entered, but which are
now closed upon him, is disturbed by the action of
the picadors, Antonio Ara and Antonio Osuna.
The object of course is to stimulate the bull into
fury. When this is effected, the picadors retire by
sound of trumpet, and the business of the bande-
rilleros and torreadors chiefly begins. The horns
of the animal were rendered comparatively in-
nocuous by the addition of a wadded top
covered with leather, but a push from him would
not he without danger. It would nut be just
therefore to say that these Spanish artists did not
exhibit courage as well as wonderful agility. They
approached near enough to fix cockades on the front
of the animals, they planted banderilles on their
manes, and to some of these were attached
crackers, the bursting of which round the head
rendered them still more furious. Six bulls, each one
more furious than the other, were thus baited tor
the gratification of the Havrais and the visitors to
their town. The " first sword," Gonzalo Mora, of
Madrid, displayed wonderful dexterity and au-
dacity. He fought, as it were, the animals hand
to born. In the Madrid circus he would be armed
with a sword, and the bull would be killed, but the
cruelty of the exhibition is so far mitigated here
that it is made a condition that neither beast nor
man, so far as it is possible, shall be destroyed.
We say " as far as possibe," for no one could
guarantee absolute impunity to life in the close
encounters which take place between tore and
torero. With a red cloth in one hand, and a little
lance in the other, representing a sword, this ex-
pert came front to front with the most furious
animals, exciting the= to the combat by every
means in his power. The bull raises the dust of
the arena, be bends his tail into a ring, his eyes
dart fire, he bends his head, and rushee at his tui-
tagonist, but the practised toreador slips now to
one side, now to the other, and after oft-repeated
struggle.* he plants his lance in the point
where the sword, if he had been allowed to possess
one, would have entered. At moments it seamed
all but impossible for him to escape being crushed
against the hoarding of the enclosure, but his dex-
terity always brought him out of danger.
Although life is not permitted to bo sacrificed,
the picadors drive the points of their lances into
the flesh, and the " first and second swords " do
the same with their iron-pointod darts, so that
it was nut unusual to see half admen small streams
of bleed flowing from the shoulders of the ani-
mals. One of them, called the leaping bull,
bounded over the enclosure, which is nearly two
yards high, into the oouloir in pursuit of a bande-
Micro, to the astonishment of all and the oonsterna-
nation of some of the spectators.
It has been said, by way of excuse for this
species of amusement, that it brings out the cou-
rage and the ingenuity of man, and that it shows
the superiority of mind over mere brute strength.
There can be no doubt that the coolness, the
agility, and the courage of man is developed by
the contest, but it is no less true that it has a
brutalising effect. It is painful and shocking in
the highest degree to witness the cruel unuity
by which these noble animals are stimulated to
more than their native ferocity ; and from what I
have seen of the lisle imitation of the Spanish bull
fight here, and the cries evoked from the spec-
tators in the most dangerous situations, I do not
hesitate to say that their effect is more to lower
man to the level of the boast with which he fights,
than to elevate him by developing his sense of
superiority to the brute creation.
The " Courses dos Taureaux" was finished to-
wards one o'clock, just at the time when the good
part of the world are leaving morning service in
London. It is impossible not to be struck by th-
contraFt between the habits of the people of both
nations. Ido not mean to say that there were
not men and women at cLurch here, but tiers