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curious inquirer into the meaninghlrof o.
vbns pero eiewoeepdt believebii
vnne
egegao
-phrases may have to search a glci:lcir
onfathbo°sPee'aidsj
planation of the word "turf." Bqtthat timol,
ustoiolltsfawrhdiioshtaunitz.‘o„.tßiegtiosartedie;
hitt
tmahneods inseparableetrciaui
nailni
gies with
horsestii ohmwi
tiht ,
whicht the
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vac, c e
experiment
dimthenemt
t,heanrdeauslutabseefqutehnetliyatesting by actual.
which have been so employed, would seem to be
one which ought to be
intelligible why long-lived.lt
the seems per-
fectlysavege amusements in
which the people of past o delighted have gone
out of fashion. The gladiatorial
Bear-
baiting has disappeared from this aorml shows of ancient
Butlowpeiii
Rome have no parallel at the
chiefbiesurcao,n_indttrhye,Lft..alemnnede:
presenttb. day.
lasnt
nationald believe,
wn
nriisdehe_
hull-fighting, there is reason
will shortly cease to be the
onluernstelovfesthuepoSnptahnoi Spanish
excellence cpeelol LP, ecli of the
Las made horse-racing what it is in this country,
and the harmlessness of the amusement itself, we
would do well to consider whether horse-racing,
considered in its entirety %lint those adjuteta to
which we have already alluded, dots not contain
within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Eliza-
neth honoured boar-haitiegi with her presence ; the
present Sovereign, until prevented by affliction,
annually visited in state a neighbouring heath, and
sanctioned what she considered to be a becoming
national amusement. The time may come, however,
when the reigning Sovereign,with his or her Court,
l‘wioauj
el would t
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dattendkaehf ogrosien
going
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et
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an
nn
unforpresenttun
ate
bear confined in a pit and worried to death by dogs.
That the " turf" is no longer what it was is a
fact which does not admit of dispute. It has sunk
below its former level. It is not composed of the
same men ; we doubt very much if it has the same
code ; and it certainly furnishes scandals more fre-
quently than of old. The objects of the turf have
also become singularly changed. Formerly.the end
is now,
of horse-training was, as it ostensibly
the improvement of the breed of horses. Then bets
were made on the trials of skill to which horses were
subjected; but the practice of making them was, so
to speak, ancillary to that of testing the merits of
the horses who ran. It is now, however, different.
Betting is the all in all of the rec=ap Even the
cups and the other prizes awarded to the owners of
successful horses have ceased to possess that sub-
stantial attraction which they once possessed. To
come in first past the winning post according to the
present system, by which the making of " good
books" is the great end and aim of the horse breeder,
although it may make the owner possessor of a
valuable prize, will inflict upon him a pecuniary
loss by diminishing the odds given against his horse
for future races. Hence the interest a man may pos-
sess in losing a race, an interest which in the infancy
of horse-racing was happily unknown. It would be
idle to multiply examples, or to show that horse-
racing, unless conducted on principles of honoar
which many " respereeoc.tnacbollmet" men on the turf would
considerdheolras horse-racing
i-er ea Quixotic,ianagd oaf
ai tnsa is little else than a mockery, a
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gigantic proportions,
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act,
eh
wi
ws
ehe vmi
ci lahyi hast
w haseattainedebapidltret oyse
edtbrri ieeevsgetee
uhsne tneft
to undermine. The race-courses of England unfortu-
nately hold out the same temptations as the gam-
bling establishments in Germany, the licensing of
which we so pharisaically deprecate, and many a
man will know to his cost to-day that he can lose
h ambourg
his money with the same facility on
at H the green sod
d
E
-Baden. I
on
thes
indeed to be regretted that an
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Bnt
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ne
nt and really meritorious amusement should
be inseparably wedded to one of the most degrading
vices with which humanity is cursed.

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ising our manufactures and commerce. The port of
London and the port of Liverpool are affected by
the sem° destroying agents which are gradually
shutting up the mills of Lancashire and Cheshire,
end changing their industry. The ruin of the Ame-
rican States. Confederate and Federal, is in itself a
loss to the whole human family. It is fil much
riches and power taken from the civilised world. It
is so much progress cut off from the commonwealth
of nations. Ages will not repair the mischief done.
Centuries will not, restore the thiivance and hoppi-
nebs ruthleeslo abandoned. Is this a case, then, for
neutrality P Or is not the policy here cold-blooded,
savage. and stupid ? There is no appearance of the
end, Grant that Gt n . Hooker were successful, and
Richmond in ruins; that Lee and his army were an-
nihilated. Another Lee and another army would
spring from their gory remains. Girls and women
would fill the voided ranks, and take the piece of
the youth slain. But conquest here in not subjuga-
tion. There is a vast area of territory, and there is
a scattered population. There is fierce hate. There
is black wrong. There is undying resolution. Here
there can be no victory. For the enemy will still
hold the field, only shifting its position. Mutual
extermination is all that can be expected. Is this
butchery to be permitted by the Powers of Europe?
Are crimes and atrocities which cast us back to
the days of early barbarism to be perpetrated al-
most before our eyes and amongst our kinsmen ?
If neutrality be wisdom here, then it is the wisdom
of the fiends. It is the cold Mephistophelian gaze
on the slaughter of brethren. It can effect nothing
for good ; it must be productive of evil., Let it not
be said that Europe has no power to stop this
quarrel. We assert that she has—a peaceful au-
thorityi too, Which need only speak and not draw
the sword. The Federals would listen t(. file voice
of united Christendom. t3iieh an issue hag .0.'03
sought by some, at least, of their chiefs, and would
have answered. But, admit that they were obstinate,
nothing but the refusal would be incurred. This
France has already experienced. But is France
worse off now for her interposition ? Are Paris and
Washington in less close alliance P Has England
gained by cautiously standing aloof ? Ask our mer-
chants, interrogate our shipowners, question our
travellers, read the public dispatches, and the dia-
tribes of the Northern newspapers, to learn what
Great Britain has gained by her determined spirit
of non-intervention. The attempt at mediation in
any event would be humane and honourable. It
would draw the Powers of Europe into alliance on
a matter which concerns all nations in some degree,
less or more. England, France, Russia, Austria,
Prussia, Spain, Portugal, Italy, lelgium, Holland,
Sweden, and Denmark, all combined in one pacific
and Christian request, would carry with them the
highest sanction. Here would be the vox populi in-
deed. That would be a bold and strong nation, or
fragment of a nation, which could successfully resist
such an appeal. A rejection might well be followed
by the recognition of the South, on the supposition
that it had accepted the mediation. Something of
this kind must be done at last. There can be no other
solution of the difficulty —no other termination
of the war. This is not like hostilities between
foreign nations. Here it is a veritable contest
of kinsman against kinsman, of brother against
brother, of citizen against citizen. Only some for-
cible and persuasive external power can drag them
asunder, Let there be an armistice—an armistice
will lead to peace. We know that while we write
the sudden success of either of the foes—an unex-
expected victory on one side, a signal defeat on the
other—might assure the conquerors. But the de-
struction of whole armies, the capture of an entire
commissariat, the utter rout of grand divisions, will
bring the enemies no nearer to final triumph or
final submission. To the victor proud and vaunt-
ing here, the crushed and defeated foe there will
utter defiance to his last breath, and wreak his
vengeance with shattered limbs and broken wea-
pons. Again, we repeat, there can be no subjuga-
tion—and even, if possible, its inevitable conse-
quence, a military government, would bo impossible.
The most shocking problem of the age is the apos-
tacy of the Peace party during this war. The
Friends have become bellicose and ready to battle
with fisticuffs. There is no mission to Washington THE CITY PRISONS.
now. No mediatory addresses. No Exeter Hall . Mr. Alderman and Sheriff LAWRENCE presented
gatherings. No denunciations in Parliament. a report of the state of the City prisons, by which
Broadbiim is mute. His love for the negro has
it a
made him obdurate to ihe woes of his master. Union ppeared that there are at present confined in
and Secesh may cut their throats, if Samba can Newgate 205, in Whitecross-street 93, and at Rol-
and
off his shackles. This is not only hypocrisy, loway 406 prisoners.
it is fatuity. The extinction of negro slavery is not WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
advanced by a savage struggle—or, if it is, the do- Alderman CoPELAND brought up a report of the
mestic treason and butchery stimulated are evils too inspectors of weigbts and measures of the number
dark for comparison with the worst phase of servi-
tude. If these mouthing peacemongers, these oaten- of convictions that had taken place during the year
tatious zealots for abolition, had only done their 1862 among tradesmen for wing unjust weights
plain duty this abominable contention would have and measures, and he said it was satisfactory to
been ended long ago. The Peace party, as it is find that there was a considerable diminution in
called, is not powerful, but it has its influence. the number of such charges, particularly in those
This arises from the demonstrative turn of its
districts of the City that were occupied by the
leaders. Their exertions in the cause of tran-
quillity would have found large support in this Poorer classes who was the greatest sufferers by
country and elsewhere. It is Lot too late now. The (Hear, hear.)
frauds of this description.
spring campaign has only just commenced. The CITY BROKERS.
wrath, which had somewhat subsided for a time, has Mr. Henry Hall and Mr. George Seymour were
not yet been entirely rekindled. Many weapons sworn in as brokers, and Mr. Thomas Clarence was
are still in their sheaths. It is for this reason that
we ourselves attempt to renew the cry for mediation discharged from the office at his own request.
—a cry which has been ours from the beginning. The usual precept for Midsummer-day, and the
There are cases where neutrality becomes callous
order for keeping the hustings clear on election
indifference, or coarse and brutal sanction and en-
days, were directed to be issued.
couragement. The present issue is of this descrip- PAUPER LUNATICS.
tion. We cannot be neutral and civilised and
Christian here. And withal, our policy is narrow- It will be remembered that at the last sitting of
sighted and disappointing. For whenever the and the Court allusion was made to the subject ofthe
does come it will come by mediation, an:: not be- great expense that was cast upon the City by what
fore. The present Government is doggedly sullen on great expense that was cast upon the City by what
may be termed pauper lunatics being sent from dif-
this subject; it has been said—God forbid the sus
ferent parts, and particularly from abroad, into the
pinion—with the diabolical intention of witnessing .
the wreck and utter extinction of that great republic city of London, where the :magistrates were com-
which threatened the future of the old monarchies 'Jelled to provide for them ; and it was said that it
of Europe. If this be the Machiavellian design of might eventually become necessary to consider
Ministers, nothing can be more repugnant to the whether a county rate might not be required to be
sympathies and ingenuousness of the entire British levied generally upon the citizens to defray the
population—nothing more suicidal and destructive expense. The idea that a county rate for this pur-
to English interests, and nothing more hostile to
the progress of the whole human race ; for this is pose might possibly be added to the already heavy
not a question of policy, but of humanity, Chris- burdens borne by the ratepayers of the city of Lon•
tianity, and civilisation. don naturally created a good deal of interest, and a
POST.—To-day the great annual holiday of the great many of the parishes have held meetings to
Londoner returns,and the metropolis and its suburbs
consider the subject.
will be almost depopulated in order to cover with
their thousands the downs of Epsom. At an early Alderman ABBISS presented a petition to the
hour all will be astir. Every species of " trap," from Court from the churchwardens, overseers, and
the four-horse drag down to the cost ermonger's guardians of the parishes within the city of London
donkey-cart, will be put in requisition in order to the Courtnot to proceed in the
supply the necessary quota of vehicles which will Union, praying
stretch in an unbroken line from Clapham-common . • - settlements can-
toquestion of making a county rate for the purpose a
the Derby race-course. Special acts are certainly until the Court of Common
i not passed by the Legislature to anticipate by a day
i • maintaining pauper lunatics whose
not be ascertained, .
bills falling due on the great Wednesday in the Council shall have had an opportunity of consider-
.
racing calendar, but in every other respect nnmis- ing the question of providing the necessary funds
takable evidences are afforded of the hasty and ear-
neat intention of the denizens of the greatest coo- his duty to present the petition in accordance with
petitioners, he must at the
mercial city in the world to discard the cares ane The worthy alderman said that, although he felt it
the
eat a very great misapprehen-
anxieties and obligations of business during the
hours devoted to ascertaining to what horse in par- sae
titular for the current year ought to be awarded the sion
thfnedteismiree
had gone abroad as to what had occurred
blue riband of the turf. On these occasions the at the` stoafte
former Court ; and, in point of
House of Commons invariably suspends its sittings. there wets not the slightest intention,fact,
and in-
No matter how grave may be the interest at stake, deed they did not possess the
no matter how important the debate which is still
a rate upon the citizens power, of making
jpur-
unconcluded on the eve of the Derby Day, those for any such
pose as the one referred to. He
interests must still pond, and the debate must said he hoped that
remain unfinished until both Ministezialists and this statement would have the effect
Opposition have five t annual visit to the Epsom the misappr,(!hVlSioa that •e ect of removing
the prevailed
Dawns. Some five years since a debetec on t jest (Hear.)
upon the sub-
Government of India,. which involved
_he
_B a-
bility of the then Administration in this kingdom, Alderman COP:ELAND, \I
was thus cut short, much to the surprise of a dis- the idea had •.• .1. .P., said that possibly
hat thne ha en il ori6 mated from the observations
to
be Frenchman who at. t pp 6- he had made that
of the b
to be amongst us. But no portion - very far
on the former • occasion, but it was
written pamphlet which d
M. de Montalembert ery from - , •
his ini when to have it inferred that
shortly afterwards published mere forcibly marks the Court of
the distinguishing eharactenstcs of our form of
go. rate for the sAldermew intended to make a county
bur-
vernment than that in which he comments support of it,,f, pauper lunatics, the
singular interruption of a great partyon the den of whose •
Contest, in- maintenanot was thrown upon the
volving the fate of a Government and in- City of
destinies of a mighty and distant the future
first 1 London. The Coim'. of Aldermen, in the
neatly so simple and so Common empire' bY appa- place, ace, had no power to rae eke such a rate, and
horse-race in the vicinity of the an incident as a the only legal tribunal for tlealt purpose was the
yet that incident testified metropolis. And Court of Quarter s • 1 hear.) At the
Sessions. (1 6, ar,
strongly than the (and rightly so) more same time he must observe that wa regular system
institutions Could have minute examination
of
dance placed b the done to the heartfelt. our appeared to prevail of sending •
lunatic paupers
y English con
ofcondos,
fi from all parts of the world into the ca!Y
system by which they people in that r• a .roons were
The fortunes of have elected to be governed.itic l and if the burden of maintaining
.slirchwoisale become
be in the scale, b Administrations may
at any
to be thrown upon the City'swouldcacsehriainly hecotif e ne-
the beam turns, ut it is known that •ti" + time a serious matter, and it _
d be done. Se far as.
ns, thosewho happen vt le iever way cessary that something shout
cendant trill • to be inhowever, the Court of
cowmen " the as- a county rate was concerned,
,Whatever to do • cvith that
true interests oftiously study to advance the
Aldermen
had nothing
the • a most errc ineous ime
for the I nation. The English, happily and it was eeriaL n
IIiSC,VCS question, se
arena of i vetch contests in the political•• prevails
Heart
they had any' inten
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ie pression that prevai _.
St. Stephen' (Ifear, h, ar.)
race on the Downs to-day.,hen's muc,h, as they will do the to take such a stepo.it
after some: firth er desultory
tar likings 'They may have partici'. The LORD MAY )
and partialities (and • expressed an opinion that as the
dno one is free from conv e r '3:ton.
them), but as a class thef Aldermen had nothilag to do with the -
in the one case as in thepeortvhaerinmgisehnttibmeefnutllof
eaxll.., Court
question the petition could not be- received, but 11
pressed in the sportsman's wish-5 May they best said that, of course, it would be understooki that
horse win." Regarded as illustrative of the estima- not the slightest disrespect was int,ended to th e pc-
tion in which a particular species of amusement is tioners. (Hear.t. heara.) b
held by the English of the 19th century, the vast ,nor suggestion
andy the Lord' Mayor
concourse of people which annually congregate at "Fel:te mattery with after the diseusb Wall
Epsom will for many years to come attract the at- pill, . closed doors, lot, of a,
tention of the commentator on our national sue- Journen• the C"rt ad-


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