The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-14 00:00:00

EVENING, JUNE 141

tableaux are exceedingly beautiful, and the acting
throughout very creditable.
Madame Anna Bishop has been giving concerts at
Columbus, Macon, and Atlanta. She is now on her way
to Augusta and Charleston, and expected in New York
in the middle of this month. Bochsa is still playing on
the harp.
Miss Davenport, the distinguished tragic actress, has
been playing a very successful engagement in Pittsburg.
The newspapers speak of her talent in the most flattering
terms. She leaves for England on the 12th inst., in the
steamer Arctic.

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Mrs. Sinclair closed her engagement a New Bedford
on the 28th inst.
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Miss Catherine Hayes is a great favourite in Canada.
She was met by the mayor of Toronto and a committee
of gentleman, on her entrance to that city, and escorted
to her hotel by them.—New York Herald.

o longtly
ENFRANCHISEMENT of COPYLIO.LDS.
The proposed compulsory enfranchisement of copyholds
is a matter which greatly concerns all our readers, and
indeed, as it seems to us, the whole community. No one
denies the unsuitableness of copyhold tenure to the pre-
sent state of society : all acknowledge the injurious
effects of the copyhold laws, the powers of oppression
litigation and ruin which
ago as 1838, a Committee
of the House of Commons recommenC,',Al the compulsory
they which 0
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theeny
enfranchisement of copyholds, and yet here is 1852 and
nothing has been done; and what is more, unless an
effort be made out of doors, nothing, will be done, so
powerful is the influence of stewards and other indivi-
ignivvoel've. the
sco s
indivi-
duals personally interested in the maintenance of an evil
system. Some think that if all the copyholds of a
manor be enfranchised, the waste will become the abso-
lute property of the lord, as there will be no longer any
copyholders to exercise the rights, and that most of our
heaths and commons will be covered with buildings.
This is a question of such importance that all doubt
should be removed by a Clause
expressly reserving all
existing rights of common. Let us keep about us some
free spaces where we may see the furze in bloom—Na-
ture's livery of green and gold. Pending conclusive en-
franchisement, copyholders should be at liberty to lease
and improve their lands without license, and in case of
building-leases, fines uncertain or arbitrable should be
assessable upon the ground rents. There are strong
reasons in favour of
enfranchising copyhold lands, but
we have probably said
enough to convince our readers
that it is a subject in which they are all more or less
concerned, and to lead some of them to aid in obtaining
a satisfactory settlement of this important question.
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RACING FIXT

RES FOR 1852.

JII,
Lumberton ............. 15
Hampton .................. 16
Newton .................. 17
Tenbury .................. 17
Macclesfield ............... 21
Newcastle ................ 22
Bibury .................. 23

Stockbridge
Winchester
Knighton 25
Carlisle
Ludlow
Chelmsford 3O

JII
Salisbury ............... 1
Newmarket ............... 6
Worcester ............... 6
Woodford and Lough ton 6
Lancaster ............... 7
Jersey ..................... 7

Ipswich
Stamford 2O
Knutsford
Nottingham
Abingdon
Guildford
Goodwood 27
Downham Market... 28
Wenlock 2B
UST.

7. ..... .................. . 9
Liverpool ......... .
....... 141
AUG
Ripon ................ 2
North Staffordshire..... 3
Brighton .......... 4

Lynn
Lichfield l6
York
Radcliffe 23
Egham
Derby
Stourbridge
Lincoln

‘±
...
Edgware 5
Brighton C1ub,....... 6
Wolverhampton 9
Great Yarmouth lO
Reading
Coventry
SEPTE:
Warwick
Whitehaven
.....
Rochester and Chatham 8
Doncaster
..
EglintOn Club
Bedford

Chester ................... 5
Royal Caledonian Hunt
and Edinburgh Club 6
Yorkshire Tinton Hunt 6
Wrexham ............... 7
NOVE
Worcester Autumn ..• 2 I