The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-20 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock.

WEIGHTS FO
METROP OLE

THE GREAT
'AN STAKES.

Age st lb
Rataplan
Virago
Muscovite
The Nabob
Balrownie
Little Harry 6 9 0
Goorkah
Talfouri 5 8 5
Scythian 4 8 0
Joe
Epaminondas 4 7 12
Bracken
Jonathan Martin 4 7
Huntsman 4 7 10
Mincemeat 4 7 10
4 7 8
La Belle 5 7 7
lanthe a 7 7
Star of Surrey
Royalist 4 7 6
Kaflir 4 7 6
Catspaw 5 7 6
Dr. O'Toole
N.wbold
Neville
Caliph
Cardigan (late Mo-
nie Moses) 4 7 3
Boddicot 4 6 13
,hap
Lamprocles -. 4 6 13
Postulant 5 6 12
Quince 4 6 12
Gamekeeper
Humguffin 4 6 11
The Exile of Erin 4 6 10
Seducer
The Yore
SirJamesGraham 4 6 10
Jack Sheppard ... 3 6 7
Rotheram

Age st lb
Saraband
Rodomeli 4 6 6
Jujube
Pharsilus
Lady Tatton 3 6 4
Billingham 4 6 2
Linbcln's Inn 4 6 2
Border Chief 3 6 0
Bolton
Fandango
Remus
Cores us
Redemption
Saucebox
Cock of the North 3 5 12
13rinklow
High Priest
Nell Gwynne
Paletot
Vandal
Julia— Launcelot 3 5 7
Cloud 3 5 7
General Picton.... 3 5 7
Chisel 3 5 5
Joshua
Vandyke
Neoptolemus 3 5 4
Vandyke
Cossey
Sis. to Singapore 3 5 2
Lancewood 3 5 2
Kettleby 3 5 2
Noisy
Redlands
Pantheon
His Piper
Steelyard
Matilda 3 4 7
Imogene 3 4 7
Homily
Fiona ma Coul

(dead) 5 7 4

Terily the handicapper at Chester and the handi.
capper at York display a wide difference of opinion. For
the Metropolitan Stakes, an event which is decided as
early in the year as March, the) scale of weights is
fixed as high as lOst 21b, whilst for the Chester Cup,
which is run for in May, it is only raised to get. That
the Handicapper employed at Epsum was a "pet
theory" is well known, but he will on this occasion
fail to reduce it to practice. Judging from the man-
ner in which the imposts have been allotted, I
am inclined to believe that the acceptances for the Me-
tropolitan will be comparatively Small, and the field
proportionately insignificant.
The weights have yet appeared inno other paper than
The Sun.

A FRESH MAN.

Saturdy Evening.

PRUSSIA.

In the Second Chamber on the 17th the Minister
of Finance applied for permission to continue to
levy au additional 25 per cent. on all inland taxa-
tion (for the purpose of meeting the interest on
the 30,000,000 thalers voted last session for war
purposes) up till April, 1856, and for powers to
continue to draw on the not yet exhausted
30,000,000 during the present yaar. These applica-
tions were referred to a c(ommittee.
On the report of the committee on the Budget
being brought up the House passed the first two
items as recommended therein—viz.' Land-tax,
10,084,182 thalers (1,512,6271.) with the rider,
" the House expects that the Government, if pos-
sible in the present, but at any rate in the next
ensuing session, will bring in the law promised in
the charter for the repeal of all exemptions from
land-tax" (this is an attack on many irrescriptive
but invidious immunities from taxation enjoyed by
the old Tory nobility,and was as such resented byHerr
von Gerlach); and2d, Income-tax, 2,928,000 thalers
(439,2001.) This item contains the addition of 25
per cent. for war purposes to the usual amount of
the Income-tax, 2,344,000 thalers, and it was ex-
pected that an interesting debate would have arisen
on this point, seeing that the whole 25 per cent.
additional taxation has been levied ever since last
August, although the whole amount of the loan,
30,000,000 has not been taken up. The Finance
Minister, however, referred the House to the am-
ple explan Ltion which would be given in the Com-
mittee, on his application for the continued addi-
tion of 25 per cent. mentioned.above.
The Austrian Minister at the Court of Hanover,
Baron von Koller, was recalled from thence on the
13th inst. ; whether permanently and on what
ground is not known. The Baron has at any rate
given up his apartments there. A change of Minis-
try is expected at the Court of Hanover.
Persons who have applied at the English mission.
in Stuttgard, with the desire of entering into Eng-
lish military service, have been informed that,
under the present more pacific constellation of cir-
cumstances, no definitive answer could be given
them. A motion now lies before the Bund at
Frankfort, on the ground of the 18th Article of
the Federal Constitution, for prohibiting the en-
listment of German subjects in other than German
military service. It is said that Austria will oppose
this motion. As far as I can judge of the prospects
of enlisting Germans in English military service,
only the very faintest hopes of success ought to be
entertained.