The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-26 00:00:00

MAY.
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RAT,f:t. WESTERN- RAILWAY.
WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS. ,
A.-.ei
On.-SIT/4113A.Y, May 30, 'and on MONDAY,
CHEAP XXCIIHSION. TitAINS.
May .31, trains will
leave Paddington, .at a Quarter before Eight O'clock in the morning,
.for BattLand Bristol, and will return in the evening of each day
•from Bristol at nale-pastFix' o'clock, thus enabling the public to
remain eithei one or two days in the country.
• • Monday)
..,.Farts in cloSed carriages—
To Bristol and back (to return the same dAYday)'- - -10 s. arid Gs.
ditto • . (down off Sund.,ty and, return. on •
- - .1: -14 s. and 10s.
To Bath and back (to return the sarne day). - - : Os. and 53.
ditto (down on Sunday and return on
Monday) • _ _•, . ;. '. -12 s. and Bs.
Another train will also leave. Paddington on SLINDAX, May 30,
at a• Qu,,r Ler before Nine o'clock in tae mornitig% for.Chepsto4. call-
lug- at Swindon, Clrencestir, Stroud, Gloucester, awl Chcllonham,
returning, from Chepstow: on Tow-day • arabblg, May 31, at Six
o'clock, thus affording the pubic an o mortunity of visiting ;Tintern
Abbey, and the cciebrAted scenery of the river Wye..
. : • Fares et Closed eturiagcS
To Chepstow and back . . ~ - ,.. ,.. - • - "13s. and 101:
To eirencesthr or :Aron/And' badly - - • •
To Gloucester or Ctietterelain and back _ _ -12 s. and Bs..
To Swindon and back - •.. • _ _ •:' .: • 51.' and •lls.
:?. On .ONDA,r, May' 31, a train will leave Paddington, at Twenty
Minutes before Nine o'c.ock, for Beadiag, Newbury, Hungerford,
asamed Oxford, returning tie sae evening from Oxford and Hunger-
lord, at•Half;:pitat Six o'eock. , . 10s. and 7s.
- • • - ,' Fares in closed carriages—
To Reading and back . - _ _ _ _ bs. and 3s.
To Oxford, Hungzrford, and Newbury and back - tis. and Sc. 6d.
Farther particulars may be had at the 'Company's Olilces, 27,
Klnz-stretA,-..••Cheapside, --'l A. el 9n
-4, Strand, and at "the Railway Sta-
tion, Paddington.
Paddington, May 21, 1852. .
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EAT WESTERN R.A.ILWAY.
NIX Notice Is lierabg —yen, that on WHIT-SUNDAY and
every succeeding it further Notice, FIRST and
SEC' ONI) A.SB ayaktabla for the day of
iSsuerillAigtralgalaed,ar dlngtdh Sr. all Stations on the Great
'Western Railway at SINGLI.E-FARtS. • _

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WINDSOR.—On SUNDAYS OPEN EXCURSION CARRIAGES
for WINDSOR will be attached to the 9.0 A.m., 10.10 A.m., and 3 P.M.
Trains down from Paddington to Windsor, and to the 1.40 r• 31,, 6.35
row., and 9.45'1,x. Trains up from Windsor to Paddington.
FARES TIDERE AND BACK, TWO SHILLINGS.
Paddington, 31 ay 21,•1852.

°HESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.
.An EXT 24. TRAIN (In connexion with this 6:o' A.M. Ex-
press,Train from Ruston Station) will RUN from CHES'ISR to
HOLYHEAD on FRIDAY, :he 28th of MAY; also an EXTRA
BOAT from HOLYHEAD to KINGSTOW.Ii.T. I'assengeis will thus
reach DUBLIN about 7.0 P.M. .

FARES AS USUAL, viz.:—
First Class, 31.; Second, 21. Return Tickets (available for a
fortnight)—First Class, 41. 10s. ; Second, 3/,
Irish Tourists' Tickets (available for a month) see " Bradshaw,"
paze.423.

Ot:NERAL SCREW STEAM SHIPPING
com.p.ory.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.)
2, Royal Exchange-buildings, London.
Notice is hereby given, that the SECOND INSTALMENT of 101.
per Share, upon such Shares in this Cornpavy ns have been issued
since the 19th of March, 1852, will be due on TUURSDAY, the ist.day
of,Taly next, and payable to this Company's bankers, Messrs. Currie
1852.
By order pf the Board. '
and Lod
this., ;doaryMoiessurfy.
,liankey and Co.; rencliurch-strcet.
J. L. O'BEIRNE, Secretary.

WEST GRANADA or VERAGUAS GOLD
and SILVER MINING COMPANY.

qUATRMAN. • . -
GEORGE THOMAS BRAISE, Ffsq., 8, Hyde Park-terrace.
TRUSTERS.
Frederick Mildred, Esq., Nicholas-lane.
George Clive, Esq.. 20, Eaton.square.
BANKERS.
34, Lime-street.
' Messrs. Mastermau, Peters, and Co.
• The Commercial Bank of London_
• , BROKERS. - • . . •
Messrs. lichens and Harrison, 18, T4readnoedle-street.
shortth Jennings,e title
distancet o these
orclro oni
increase
mines—thetons)andinqurich-
nessty
SOLICITORS.
England—the
exemp-
tionTh cf
ro unquestionable Messrs.royalty
rac,hdues—the
df
grteetsllielretests made—afford
proximity to the Atlantic coast—the quantity a
of the ore at surface, valued at 188,0001., extracted from the hill above
adit level—the prospect of speedy returns from this source—the
of great and increasing vale e.
ample o'ound for expectation that ,the Dividends of the• Company
greatin extent
proportiono f the
to thev einsae, p attn,d
according theirp prop
will equal those of the richest Gold and Silver mines now known, and
that the provisional contract entered into by the Diretors will, upon
possession; iu perpetuity, of a property
the verification of the report, have seettred'to the Shareholders the
The especial itttenCon'of the public is directed to the, fact, that
Shareholders will be entitled,if the Directors upon the reeetpt of the
report, shall determine to proce• d no further, to return back the ori-
ginal 205., less the actual expenses, not excesdio.g 28. per share.
Applications for Shares may be made to, the Directors, at the
Offices of the Company, No. 1, Royal Exchange-buidings; and Messrs.
Hichelis and Harrison, Steelbroters, Threalneedie-street.
For further pattiadars see Prospectus. . . •

TLIE WEST GRANADA or VERAGUAS
GOLD and SILVER MINING COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that NO APPLICATIONS for SHARES
In this Company can be received after MONDAY, the 31st May last.
By order,
WILLIAM WEBB, Secretary.

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—Lord Derby's declarations are lx,_coming so
put:wrens that we have given ap countlnt; them, in the
same despair :Is the young lady -in Juvenal who was
obliged to take breath 'three tithes in the enumeration
cf her mother's, lovers. To be always doing the same
thing over and over again never with effect is the clas-
sical idea of punishment, and men who have been as wily
vs Sisyphus, and as false to their vows as the Danaids
cannot reasonably complain ,of a similar expistion of a
similar fault. Xet who would not rather roll atones, ay,
orbreak them, rather than undergo the periodkal

iation to which the head of our Chiveirous tukttiui.stra-

time is forced to submit? Or what is fining a sieve
compared with the craving demands. of Protec-
tionist supportees, who will rot remit to their
leaders one atorn of the elegrenetien attending
contact with their worthless cause, hut require
front assure:ices of 'their fiklity even at the
very moment when they are most convinced
of their desertion? They know that they shall
never get it; but they like to be talked to about pro-
tection, just as a euporaneuated bcaety likes to be com-
plimented on those charms which her mirror assures
her have long since departed. If Lord Derby were act
so entirely the canoe of his own misfortune:, it would
really be pitiable to see him cursed with a cause which
he cannot support and dares not disavow; seeking to
conciliate the country by annexing impossible conditions
to a return to protection, and his own supporters by pro-
feesions of unshaken conviction of the beauties of scarcity.
There is, however, a keeping and fitness in ail this. Such
i a chief s. every way worthy of the party which sup-
ports him, and of the press ever ready to pour forth
fulsome panegyrics on him, or causeless vituperation on
his opponents. The cruel struggle to keep, up rents
under false pretences, to shift yet a little longer the bur-
den occasioned by reduced prices from the shoulders of
the landlord to those of the farmer, is well re;-,resented
by statesmen whose principles.are to be sought in their
professions, and not in their actions, whe have aban-
doned one policy without adopting another, and are as I
unable to deal with Ina future as to wide:lto themselves
from the embarrassments of the past. One really
would think, to read the speeches of Lord Derby, that
plainness and fair dealing had fled to the woods, and left
the populous abodes of man to bo the haunts of insincerity
end duplicity. We, the once downright stra,ghtforward•
English nation, have come to this pass—that we are
governed by men utterly incapable of expressing their
meaning or policy in a single speech; who give us no
other clue to their intentions than the endless task of
reconciling cootredictions, or speculating on which word
of a sentence the emphasis is to be laid; who will take
back to-morrow what they have conceded to-day; unsay
in the hot fi; what they have said in the cold, and recant
with the same facility with which they assert. We can-
not but regard such a spectacle as deeply humiliating to
the pride and discreditable to the character
.of the na-
tion. We have never before had a Ministry rbout
to
take the opinion of the country on its personal merits
alone, without identifying itself with a single principle
or connecting its existence with a single definite mea-
sure. Whether the majority of the next Par-
liament shall be for or against protection, for
or against Mayitooth, or any other measure,
Lord Derby is prepared to submit to the majority. To
him that majority is not the means of forming an opi-
nion, it is the opinion itself. To it he delegates all
those mental operations which ordinary men are in the
habit of performing for themselves. lie asks no better
than to be the instrument of its decisions, and, whether
those decisions be for good or evil, he is equally ready,
as long as ho is permitted, to execute them. Compared
with such a state of things as this, Eldonism itself is
desirable. Any principle steadily believed in end vi-
gorously cearied oat is better than the' coput mortuum,
which contains nothing but the dregs of worn-out no-
tions, the sap and vigour of which have long since eva-
porOted. Tihe supporters of Lord Darby de well to
enlist themselves under that name, for their leader has
left them no other badge of distinction. Honest Pro-
tectionists can see little to admire in a leader whom not
even victory itself will induce to carry their principlesinto
effect. Honest Free-traders can have es little confidence
in a Governmettc which denies the principle to which it
is forced to render homage, and, while rowing towards
tree trade, fixes its longing eyes on the gradually reced-
ing outline of its lost and loved monopoly. Thera) things
might have been far otherwise. Lord Derby cannot, in-
deed, undo ithe cruel and selfish delusion of the last six
years, but it was open to him either to foil with dignity
or to yield with grace. He might
.have stood true to his
colours, and, though with little chance of success, have
fought his desperate cause to the utmost, and buried
himself under the rains of his party, if not of the con-
stitution. Stich a danger—the danger of being called
upon to realizs his fervid professions and fiery exhorta-
tions, must have been foreseen by him during the whole
of his career, and the sequel, be it what it might, could
scarcely be more wild and reckless than the antece-
dents. He might, on the other hand, have avowed his
convictions that tho thing was impossible, and disclaim-
ing any intention of tampering with the existing com-
mercial policy, have engaged honourably and fairly to
carry it. out. A concession of the whole principle at
once would have been made at a less expense of
character than the gradual haggling by which item
atter item of the exploded system is in turn given up.
First it is the navigation-laws, the restoration of which,
notwithstanding Mr. Herries, is declared to .be impossi-
ble, while hopes are still expressed of squeezing some-
thing out of corn. Next the landed interest is thrown
overboard into the same abyss of comnetition as her
sister of the sea. But here the destroYar is to stop.
Lord Derby will take Sir Robert Peel's policy, but not
a step further. Sir Fitzroy Kelly can only go as far as
1845. Lord Derby has got up the subject as far as
Julie, 1816, but there he is deserted by the authority of
Sir Robert Peel, whom in that month his party ex-
pelled from office. The present stand is in favour of
sugar, and Exeter-hall is invoked to aid it. This also,
we suppose, will be yielded in its turn,. and then
Government, having conceded ono by one all the
improvements of the past, will have nothing left but
to prevent improvement for the future, and carry
into our commercial legislation the same narrow spirit
which actuated the Lord Chancellor last night
in his opposition to the onfrauehnement of copyholds.
The day is past when anything Lord Derby can
say would do much either for good or evil. People aro
tired of promises sure to be qualified, and announce-
ments certain to be 'contradicted. The country will re-
ceive with *indifference Lord Derby's concessions with
regard to the principles of free trade; and his own sup-
porter; attach little weight to what he may say on the
side of protection. Both sides are fairly nauseated with
the ever-recurring farce, and seem to be becoming im-
patient for its termination. The more enlighteaed part
of the Conservative party are day by day mores stranged
from the Government, whose paltry subterfuges and
dangerous principles tend to make the preservation of
authority more difficult, and to expose public men to
merited contempt. We have always recommended fair
play to the present Ministry, that they might extricate
themselves from protection, but were certainly not pre-
pared to see the object attained at such an enormous ex-
penditure of personal character, and are almost tempted
to wish, for the sake of public morality, that the mat-
ter had been brought to issue at once, without subject•
ing even our most heretic statesmen to the periodical
degradation of which Lord Derby has drunk !to the
very dregs.
HERALD.—Wo believe it to bo of vast importance
that the Protectionist party throughout the country
should fully and clearly understand the exaot position in
which the question of protection to British industry now
stands. Atter'all the mystification which has been, and
ao doubt will be still attempted, after all the premature
triumphs of our opponents, we do not hesitate to say,
that—as thorough, sincere, and uncompromising Pro-
tectionists—our earnest wish is that our friends through-
out the country should accept the speech of the Earl of
Derby on Monday night in the House of Lords as the
clearest, plainest, and most faithful statement of the trne
position which we now:occupy. ninthing, letdusnay, canbe
more candid, more explicit, or, let us ad , more
con-
sistent, than the statement of the Noble Earl at the
head of her Majesty's Government. Two .years ago
at
Lord Derby stated
ad that his ow opinion on the su
nge but that
of protection h undergonn e no oha
the question rested with the constituencies of the
empire. On assuming the office to which duty to
his sovereign called him in March last, ho re-
iterated the came' statement, and. on Monday night in
the House of Lords he repeated in substancaenthteo sat lee.
night the Opposition determinesedt
On Monday f tO every
the Noble Lord by surprise. It wasni
observer that their object was to goad, bglitaunts, by in-
vective, by sneers, the Prime Minister iynto some decla-
ration that possibly might be considered rash. They
seized an opportunity when the Ministerial benches were
deserted—when they found the Noble Lord almost alone.
art was sparefd—bno ml at 1
svi gauss
der t inastiondt
di eon.
No unworthy
was 'avoided. The object o t
jested by the manliness,
the
LgrolPat whom their artifices
'toe 'laity, the straightfor-
ward integrity of the
.Nobled p
were Maned.
oS.tung,binis. d, by their unworthy attacks,
etielf•possessiou and his dignity,
but preservine, both
Lord Derby indignantly e gelmellaeds
atahseiomgisrepresentations
that iho iuspo-
of those who
cornrepreeent elhwas a
matter of necessity.
singe of a duty on L
The words of the No le ord are worthy to be
dered cud weighed by every friend to the agricultural
interest:
" The Earl of DERBY—The Noble Earl is quite
thati I said a duty on foretiqn corn
wrong in E'l main;
was a matter of lite. sho y.b I stated, that for the' pur-
poseof relieving t suffering agricultural in-
terestimproving
, end also for the
therebybenabhng us to take off other taxes,
venue, andconsumer, I thought it might be
to t
without injury
desirable to imp moderate fixed duty on foreign
t°lettest stated that that was Inv
or-a opi-
nion.wasa matter of necessity,
nut
corn. I distine
hether the relief should be given by
state.d. that, I did not say that
w it
the imposition of a duty ou foreign corn waa.a mutter
judgment
which rested upon the of the constituencies,
but that I t
bought that was a desirable mode of affording
relief to the agricultural classes. I hold to that opinion
still; but I state again that that is a question which must
bb haft to the constituencies of the country; and, more-
over, it it give any satisfaction to the Noble Earl, and to
the Noble Lords opposite, my opinion is, from what I
have since heard and learned, there certainly will not
be in favour of the re-iropoition of R duty ou foreign

corn that extewiee majority; without which; as I stated
to your Lordships at the beginning of the session, it
Would net be desirable to propose it.7—(Cheers from the
Opposition benches.)
In what, let us ask, is this declaration in the slightest
degree inconsistent with the often-repeated statement of
the Noble Lord, that unless a large majority in the new
Parliament declared ter is duty on core, ho weak: not
propose it? .That statement 1.3 not new. It was made
.in opposition—it was made on accepting efface. We
think no true friend of the agricultural interest should
atie for more. But be this opinion right or wrong, we
have known for the last two years exactly what we
have to expect from Lord Derby. Wo wore n.-)t to find
in.hina a minister.who would stake his existence, as a
minister, upon the re-imposition of a duty on corn.
cover said that this lc LI 3 a measure of such necessity as
to justify a public man in deClining etßee unless he
-could carry it. Bat ho did say then, and he says so
still, that his own individual opinion is in favour ot it,—
nay, more, he seys that he is ready to advise Parlia-
ment and the Sorereign to • adept it, if the
text general election shall return such a ma-
.iority of Protectionists as will
.jastifj, that coarse.
It is quite true—let our enemies make. the m,est
of it—that ho added that ho now believed that there
would not be such a majority. Well; this is a
matter of individual cpinion. If it be au error in cal-
culation, it implies no tifdithfalness. The greedy haste
with which the opposition seiz?d upon the statement
proves nothing but the terror which in their heart of
hearts haunts them of the protective system which they
.profess to believe dead. It was, perhaps, well for the
country that their misrepresentations again called up
the Noble Earl. Words cannot be clearer, more ex-
plicit, nor, wo repeat, declaration more explicit than that
which their ill-timed boasting elicited from the Pre-
mier:— .

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" When the Noble, gerquis opposite says that I hare
ahareloned all wish or intention to make such a propo.4-
tin, I must take the liberty of saying that the Noble
Merquis has gone one step too far.—(ilea-, hear.) I have
said that I will not submit the proposition without a fair
majority. I have intimated that we are not likly to '
have each a majority, as far as I can judge from pre-
sent appearances. But if the sense of the people be
different from what I anticipate, then I hold to my
former oeinionnaarely, that there is no other
mode in dealing with the finances of tho country so ad-
vantageous for providing for the exigencies of the coun-
try as that which I have so often enunciated. Bet, my
Lords, the Noble Earl Paid (addressing me), Tiering
abandoned all idea of at any time re-imposine a duty on
corn, will you not go a step further, and declare you will
do nothing whatever for the purpose of what some Noble
Lords please to call tumperine' with the existing sys-
tem?' Now, my Lords, if the Nciele Earl means to
ask me whether. as Minister—if I am unable to afford
relief to the suffering 'agricultural interests one way (in
the way in which I believe it can be most advantageously
afforded), I can therefore propose to abanden them
altogether, and seek no other mode of relieving them—
my Lords, not only have I not said that, not only will I
not say that, bet it is the very opposite of what I have
said, and which I will repeat now. I declare, whatever
may be the consequence as to the support or oppo-
sition of Right Hon. Gentlemen or Noble Lurds,
here or elsewhere, that it is the purpose of the Govern-
ment to seek to afford a just and equitable relief to those
classes, who, even if for the benefit of the community
at large, have been made victims and sufferers. And
I believe that in the English people there is such a sense
of justice that they will not see one class, or two or
three classes, deprived of advantages which they have
hitherto enjoyed. I say, therefore, my Lords, distinctly,
that it is my intention, and it is the wish of the Govern-
ment and the determination of the Government, to direct
theft' attention to the best mode they can devise of re-

'loving thotle suffering interests. The extent of the
nature of that relief may not be within cur command or
control, bnt to the affording that relief, and at the same
time with full ju3tioo to all classes of the commu❑ity, I
declare now, and I have declared before, the attention of
of the Government will be directed; and we shall hold

it to be our paramount duty, in 901310 shape or other, to
afford that relief to those classes who have been suffer-
ing for the good, if it be for the good, cf the TM of

the community."
We have quoted this passage at length, because we
believe it puts our true position fairly, clearly, and un-
mistakeably. We have now a Minister in office who
does not consider the re-imposition of a duty on corn a
matter of such necessity as to oblige him to stale the
existence of his Ministry upon it. But who believes
that duty ought to be reimposed, and is therefore ready
and willing to propose it if the persons who agree with
him in the country will give him a majority in the new
Parliament that will justify it. But, If such a declara-
tion of the opinion of the country be not mods, then
he is pledged to this, that in some other mode he will
still attempt to alleviate the injustice that is now done
to the agricultural interest. We protest we conceive
this declaration is all that the most ardent friend of the
agricultural interest can ever either expect or desire.
Saying so, of course we imply that it is utterly false to
represent the Noble Earl as having, by this statement,
abandoned, retracted, or qualified his opinions on the
subject of protection ; and with this brief explanation
we confidently sehmit the matter to the _cacti judgment
and common tense of Englishmen.
CHRONIC LE.—We have not the heart to inflict a
homily on our readers, considering the circumstances
under which many of them will peruse these lines. The
Dorby day
is hardly the occasion for discanting on
fashionable dissipation, or for lecturing London on the
profanity of amusements. An anthem in a ball-room
would be scarcely less incongruous. We once fell in
with the book of a choice American divine who had
the weakness or audacity to tell the world in print that
he found himself by accident--"quite promiscuous-like"
—at Epsom on the Derby day. His Transatlantic re-
verence, who had gone down, as he assures us, to hold
evangelical iatercourso with a slricris and pious brother
—ono Mr. (or was it Mrs.?) Harris, residing at Epsom
—av,7rs this% he never learned the day and occesioa which
he had fixed upon for this purely professional journey,
until he discovered himself on the downs. So we find it
written in Dr. Clark's " Glimpses of the Old World."
Nevertheless, though the doctor inveighs against
the races as befits a writer of the straitost
sect, ha gives a very graphic account of
them lingering over the sinful scene with
a liquorish satisfaction which wo do not wish to
imitate. We are not going to quarrel with the glories
of Epsom on the Derby Day. The race, however, is
the least part of the attraction to most of those who will
this morning tread the breezy Surrey heath. It is the
chosen holiday of half London—the day of family par-
ties, of al fresco dinners, of flirting and fatigue, of bad
jokes and worse champagne. We have no desire to be
severe upon it. Nor do we care to look too austerely at
the conventional characteristic of the Derby. The lob-
ster salads and the long-necked bottles are not more
inseparable from the affair than gambling, in some form
or other, down to the customary bet of a pair of gloves.
We propose not to interfere with Jovin's spring profits.
But a great horse-race is much more than this.
sEp-t
som, Ascot, the Chester Cup, and the St.
festivity,Legesepen
a far more serious aspect than the gaiety, thee These
and the frolic of the long summer_
beolid y.
dishonest
thins too often hide an amount of rob. ry,
.y,
• h is daily .on the in-
crime, and sorrow, wine
a forced to oall oldest
attention. and to which we or
rhaps the oldest
attention. To bet and getable is pe .
characteristics of the Saxon race. Tacitus wonders at
it. But we question whether, in these days, we have
made much advance upon the barbarous perversity which
seven
teen centuries ago attracted the contemptuous
criticism of the refined and sarcastic historian. our
ancestors in the Hercynian forest, who gambled away
themselves and their personal liberty, were not much
lower in the ranks of humanity or common sense than
the fools who risk their all on the event of the Derby.
Tee multiplication of Betting Offices has become
evil, at least as regards the population of this metrop lnn
of the gravest and most menacing aspect. Races
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Races
have alwaya been the occasion of
betting. A man
on the turf is, in his way, a recognised m
mber
society. To make a book i 3 a eof
regular . call-
ing. Tattersall 's is part of the floating, traditionary
British Constitution itself. To have missed
ribbon of the turf "is historically the " blue
subjcot for a statesman's " superb regret."( legitimate
at least as hopeless to think of prohibitinglt were
horse-races as to propose to pat down horses,betting on
or Pre-
miers, actual or expectant. We are aware, then, of the
delicate ground upon which we are
riot for one law for the rich and another for We
ask
Lord Frederic's lackey has just as much,or the poor.
right to ruin himselt and his wife and or as little,
Frederic himself. We cannot make illegalfamily, as Lotd
ser-
vants' hall what we practise in the dining
in the
thing more natural than that poor room. No-
their shillings, or their pots of ale, men should sport
them venture their thousands. Moreover, t where those above
has use and wont on its side. Th the practice
have, for many a year, been as universally odds on the Derby
price of Consuls. Bat it is linden'
iversally known as the
norse-races has of late enormously labia that gambling on
middle and poorer classes. It he increased among the
where, a ft:w years ago, batting 's
penetrated into circles
of; and the excessive bin was a thing unthought
fostered, and indeed produeeen433 of
this vice has beent
ling houses. Historically, ;:., by the invention of bet-
ting
Wing marts—which are, in .•e believe that these
..
oases,g
nothing better than swindlincsashops—may
number,
tracedoro
what were called " Derby '''
bi
tier were
mere lotteries, in which each dv(Ce-
8."
The latter
name
fepeculator
of a particular horse entercda 'groat staxes, held
won or lost his venture a 2 dotr any i`hey were held
generally at public-houses, to
ihnythoy
attracted cus
tom, and they were chi II canevi 1 ed by the landlords.
e y encouraged
They are of c 'more or lees
ourse Illeal have been
put down by the police yard magistrates. Oct of
the magi
them has grown the more formidable and more exciting
no odds
sYsteal of betting houses. In the " sw°3Ps"
w ere t
given or taken—the thing was a simple lotery.
In a betting house, however,
and the odds are carefully
the owner of the
registered and announced;
establishment takes or gives odds against all comers.
In s
Ho -act, he keeps the bank against all gamblers.
is a " leg " by profession, and be has all the chances
of his position in his favour. He is all bat certain to
win, anyhow. He starts his concern at an expense of
about two pounds,
invested in a single desk and parti-
tien, like those at savings banks, and in a few yarns of
e anutilag paper. pie walls of the " office " are covered