The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-30 00:00:00

enter upon.

The general opinion that this year's entry was of an in-
different quality was borne out by the fact of no ono animal
being prominently in the betting until Anfield came with a
rush, on the strength of a very favourable trial with
Stanton. Messrs. Payne and Greville are gentlemen who
do not often make mistakes, and the public endorsed their
judgment by elevating their horse to the Premiership. This
post he continued to hold through good and evil report,
though Bellman trod close on his heels. The Wasp gelding
was held in high estimation by his stable, and Balham had
his friends. The result was a blow to the gentb men, the win-
ner turning up in an extreme outsider, Blackdown, a colt
who had been tried very high with Bally Edmond, but the
secret had been so well preserved that up to the last moment
his friends were able to obtain a remunerative price about
him,* Bellman and Zapateado, as will be gathered from
the account of the race given elsewhere, broke down. The
Findon brought 12 young ones to the post, and an interest-
ing contest resulted in the victory of Paris, who had been
satisfactorily tried with the Clown. Linda represented Mr.
Naylor's stable, and was in immense demand, but she could
never quite reach Paris, whose victory was the more surpris-
ing as on his last appearance in public he ran a very mode-
rate animal. Tomato was reported a little off, which will
account for the figure she cut in the race, Macaroni's ap-
pearance in the Drawing-room Stakes was of course an
event. The winner of the Derby looked and went splen-
didly and had the race in hand, despite his penalty, from
the first, winning easily by two lengths, The following are
the full details of the racing, which commenced with
The Goodwood Derby of 25 soya each, 15 ft, for 3-yr-olds ;
colts Bst 101 b, and fillies Bst 71b. Maiden horses allowed
3tb. Gratwicke Stakes course, one mile and four fur-

longs. 11 subs.
Count F. de Lagrange's Jarnicoton, Bst 71b (A. Watkins) 1
Sir H. Des Vceux's Warhorse, Bst 71b. (Custance) 2
Betting-6 to son Jarnicoton, who waited on the non-
favourite to the stand, when he went up and won in a can-
ter by a length.

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A Handicap Plate of £5O, for 2-yr-olds and upwards.
T,Y. C.
Lord Uxbridge's Liston, 3 yrs, Est 51b (J. Grimshaw) 1
Mr. Bowles's Despair (late Fig), 4 yrs, 7st 41b (Dooling) 2
Mr. G Bryan's Zora, 5 yrs, Bst
Captain Christie's Spicebox, 6 yrs, 7sl 131 b
(G. Fordham) 4
Mr. James Smith's Melandra, 3 yrs, Est slb .... (Page) 5
Mr. G. Lambert's Weatherglass, 2 yrs, sst 71b (carried
sst 91b) (Morris) 6
Betting-6 to 4 agst Spicebox, 3to 1 (at first 4to 1) agst
Despair, and 4 to 1 (at first 3 to 1) agst Liston.
Zora on the extreme right, in company with Despair,
were the first to show in advance, having Liston and the
favourite on the left, Melandra and Weatherglass lying off
several lengths. They ran in these positions to the bottom
of the hill, where Despair was headed by Liston, who waited
upon Mr. Bryan's mare to the enclosure, where she was
beaten, leaving Liston to canter in the winner by a length
and a half. Despair, who headed Zora in the last few
strides, finished second by half a length. The others were
beaten off some distance.
Sweepstakes of 300 soya each, h ft, for fillies, Bst 71b each.
Winners extra. Craven Course. 4 subs.

In this answer Mr. Bruce has either avoided the question
put to him—which was, whether Mr. Walmesley would be
prosecuted for the false entries made in the register—or he
is wrong in his view of the law. For Mr. Walmesley has
clearly violated the 29th section of the act referred to,
which adjudges any one to be guilty of felony who know-
ingly makes a false entry in a parish register; seeing that
he has registered the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Hulin as
that of a bachelor and spinster, he at the time knowing that
they were legally man and wife.
He cannot even shelter himself behind the provision of an
act of Parliament passed since the occurrence of the Grey-
well case, and passed for the purpose of meeting the views
of High Church clergymen, who are shocked at the idea of
contracting a marriage without any religious service. For
the 12th section of the Marriage Act passed on the 29th of
July, 1856, provides, that if the parties to any marriage
contracted at a registry office shall desire to add the reli-
gious ceremony of the body to which they belong, they may
present themselves to a minister of that body for the pur-
pose. But it is expressly provided, that the Superinten-
dent Registrar's certificate of marriage must be produced,
and "nothing in the reading or celebration of such service
shall be held to supersede or invalidate any marriage so pre-
viously contracted, nor shall such reading or celebration be
euterd as a marriage among the marriages in the parish
registry."
As to the off-hand official assertion, that if the first
marriage was valid, " everything that happened subse-
quently was null," it may satisfy Churchmen, but it will
not satisfy Nonconformists, who are the best judges as to
the mischievousness of such proceedings as those of the
vicer of St. Briavel's. With much difficulty they have suc-
ceeded in securing the right to celebrate their marriages in
their own places of worship, instead of in those of the Es-
tablishment. They know by experience how assiduously
Churchmen try to prevent persons availing themselves of
that right Is it likely, therefore, that they will quietly
allow a public functionary, who is bound to respect and
uphold the law, to break the law for the purpose of casting
contempt on Nonconformist marriages, and producing the
impression on unthinking people that they are neither
sanctioned by the legislature, nor can be followed by the
blessing of Heaven ?
Fortunately, what the Government declines to do may
be done by others ; and, without wishing for any resort to
vindictive proceedings, we hope that this case will be vigo-
rously deal- with by the Committee of Dissenting Deputies,
who did good service by their proceedings against Mr.
Lush in 1856. It is more than a matter of feeling which is
involved ; for the greatest practical evils may arise if tile
clergy of the Establishment are allowed with impunity to
make delusive entries in our parish registries.—(From the
forthcoming volume of the Liberator.)

Mr, Gladstone's Chance of Becoming Leader
of the House of Commons.

Mr. Gladstone's management of the House of Commons
closely resembles the Irishman taking his pig to market
than any other kind of leadership. The want of sympathy
between him and his audience shows itself very strikingly.
He cannot bring himself to understand an Englishman's
aversion to crooked ways, either intellectual or moral. His
performance upon the night on which the Exhibition build-
ing was disposed of has left behind it, in the minds of num-
bers of men, doubts of his political honesty which it will
take years to efface. Yet it was a blunder which a genuinely
dishonest man would never have committed. A man who
had been accustomed to practise upon the credulity of his
fellow-men might not have been afraid to induce an assem-
bly to purchase a bit of land which was heavily encum-
bered, by the assurance that the title was clear from all
encumbrance; but he would not expose his own trick to his
mortified dupes within a fortnight of its success. It was
eminently the proceeding of a man who had every desire to
be honest, but who had so crocked and warped his own
mind that he had become unable to discern whether a given
course of conduct was or was not likely to offend other men's
moral perceptions. All these defects intensify each other
in the minds of those whom they affect. A very large mass
of the House of Commons are offended by the extreme
superciliousness of manner with which Mr. Gladstone treats
every opposition that threatens to be formidable. He treats
the house as though he seemed in all good faith to believe
that his supercilious objurgations are gentle and dignified
remonstrances. His E erceptions upon this subject are so
strangely blunt, that it is difficult to shake off the imP rts-
sion that he learnt his present style of speaking in some
previous state of existence, when he was in the habit of ad-
dressing other Gladstones formed like untu himselt. It

would seem that these wonderful beings decidedly liked
being snubbffl in the tone in which the usher of a country
school rebukes his little boys, and found that an abundant
garnish of unnecessary words was rather an assistance to
them than otherwise in comprehending the statemen:
aot.
simple matters of fact. But there is no immediate p b
this height
bility that an English assembly will attain to t".
either of tolerance or of perception. A considerablede against
num-
ber in the House of Commons again bear a g
him for the harshness with which his legislation
directed against their class interests. grudge against
been
however, are
These,
eeto avow very
grounds of dislike which men do not care
wear
away if
openly ; and possibly they would gin
they were not supported by othersvig
they add no little in►ensity to
sins against direct and straightforward
and to the force with which
Lord Palmerston's popularity of
kind to the virtues of hisp
has become a second naturetero
his professed sup
blind-
' ness to his many
ore respectable. But
vigilance with which his
thf:rward dealing are detected,
are denounced. Just as
of manner makes men very
the schoolmaster tone that
to Mr. Gladstone prevents even
from affecting the slightest
-PoliticalP" failures.—Saturday Review.

SLLEas' MATCH POR £2oo.—The exciting
sc ic:rs' mutch for £lOO aside, between Robert
Chambers, champion of the Thames and Tyne, and Robert
Cooper, was decided on the Tyne on Tuesday evening, in
the presence of a large muster of spectators. The race was
rowed in outrigged boats, the distance being from the high
Level-bridge to a boat, moored off Waterson's Gate, about
one mile. A vast deal of interest was centred in this
contest from the well-known speed of the champion, and
the fine rowing power displayed by Cooper in his late race
on the Thames with Everson ; while the hollow manner in
which ha defeated Tagg in a mile race on the same day in
which he beat Everson induced his friends to back him
freely at the odds of six and seven to four, which were laid
upon Chambers. At the appointed time the men rowed cff
to their stations, Cooper, who won the toss for choice,
taking the north side. A very even start was effected, and
at the end of WO yards Cooper was leading by half a length,
and maintaining his positiOn throughout, finally won by
nearly three boats' lengths, thus lowering the champion's
colours on his own favourite water.

THE MAJORITY OF OUR ORCHESTRAS, growls a I
fastidious Saturday Reviewer, consists of men who scrape
and blow at so many shillings per hour ; and when they
have seraped and blown the settled quantity, and have got
their pa), they are sati:ified. They have little love or feel-
ing for music as such a tailor has no ardent passion
for trousers in the abstract, and a grocer can feel no senti-
ment for sugar. They call themselves " artists," but they
are mechanies, and the result is just what might be looked
for.
M. ALEXANDRE DintlAS has written a new
piece, " L'Atni des Femmes," which will be played in
Paris Pt the Gymnase,

MR. WALTER MONTGOMERY.
This gentleman assumed, on Tuesday, the arduous
character of Hamlet, and very considerably en-
larged his previous favourable impressions. If we
were forced to think his Othello was not sufficiently
inspired by passion, the same defect was to be de-
tected in his present impersonation—but, of course,
rendered by its different medium infinitely less
imperious. To Othello, passion is truth—want-
ing that he is no reality, but the double-
sided Hamlet, who, equally compounded of thought
and feeling, so marvellously reflects the human
mind, allows an actor great scope on one side, who
might be wholly wanting on the other. Accord-
ingly the Hamlet of Mr. Montgomery, if not dis-
tinguished by its emotional, may claim no ordinary
credit for its reflective characteristics. If not suffi-
ciently electrical, it is full of thought and judg-
ment, exhibiting the evidence of a very close
and careful study of the poet, and in the present
state of our stage is entitled to be accepted as a
sound Sbakesperian contribution.
Mr. Montgomery's best scenes were those with
Ophelia and the Queen, in both of which he rose to
expressions of great vigour ; the reference to
Pulonius in the first, especiAly, striking us to be
new as well as impressive, whilst his climax to the
play scene had a most adequate intensity. We
could refer also to a variety of points in the per-
formance which were ingenious, if not correct. Oa
the whole, this was an achievement that entirely
justified the impression it produced upon the audi-
ence, who were frequently aroused by it to great
applause, and who further evinced their feeling by
calling for Mr. Montgomery at the close of each of
the acts. We have only to add that he was very
worthily supported by Mr. Marston in the Ghost,
the very best that we remember, by Mr. C. Verner.
in the King, and by Mr. Belmore in the Grave-
digger.

The Volunteer Review at Wimbledon.

Horse-Guards, 24th July, 1863.

My Lord,—Having reviewed the volunteer corps of the
metropolis and its neighbourhood at Wimbledon on Satur-
day, the 18th instant, I have pleasure in stating that I was
well satisfied with the general efficiency of the corps then
assembled and a ith the drill of the battalions.
I directed the force on the ground to be divided into two
corps—the one, the attacking body, under Lieut.-General
the Hon. Sir James Yorke Scarlett, who was assisted by
Major-General Taylor, and Brigadier-General Bates in
charge of Divisions ; the other, the defending body, under
Major-General Lord Frederick Pilule. The former force
was composed of five brigades, commanded respectively
by the senior officers of volunteers on the ground—Lord
Colville, Lord Ranelagh, Lord GrosvenOr, Lord Bury, and
Lieut.-Col. Bigge. The latter, of three brigades, com-
manded by Lord Elcho, Lord Radatock, and Lieut.. Col.
Brewster.
posted in the hollow g
the round at
The
western attacking
extremity of vas
the common towards Comb();
the defenders
took up a position near the furthest firing
.t
butts. Having been attacked in front by the brigades under
Brigadier-General Bates, the force under Lord Frederick
Paulet retired behind the ravine, taking up a fresh position.
Sir J. Scarlett then brought forward his right wing under
11 ajor- deneral Taylor, throwing forward two brigades as a
fume movement. Upon this, Lord F. Paulet's three
brigades changed front, throwing back their left, and posted
themselves across the Common with their backs to the
grand stand ; Sir J Scarlett moved his three brigades to
the right, forming with them a second or supporting line to
the two brigades which had made the flank movement from
the right. At the end of the field-day the whole of the
troops marched vast in quarter distance columns before
returning to their quarters.
I was much satisfied with the excellent fire maintained
by the battalions in line, and I thought that the men
showed great aptitude in skirmishing. The artillery was
efficiently handled, and the heavy batteries seemed to move
with considerable facility. I was also much satisfied with
the efficiency of the two horse-artillery guns, and the field
battery belonging to the Honourable Artillery Company.
I think it would be desirable on future occasions to im-
press upon the several corps the necessity for greater punc-
tuality in the time of reaching the drill-ground. The hour
specified for the commencement of the evolutiens was 5.30,
but it was 6.45 before it was possible to commence opera-
tions, very few of the corps having reached their destination
before that hour. The delay and inconvenience caused by
this want of punctuality was very great.
In conclusion, I can only express my satisfaction at the
zeal with which all the ground carried out the instructions
they received ; and I have a firm conviction that the volun-
teer force is becoming a very efficient body of men, and
valuable as a great auxiliary to the regular army of the
country. —I am, my Lord, yours,
(Signed)
The Right Hon. Earl de Grey and Ripon,

GEORGE.

War Office, 28th July, 1863.

Stu,—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your Royal Highness's letter of the 24th instant, and to
express, in reply, the pleasure which I have experienced in
learning that your Royal Highness was well satisfied with
the general efficiency of the volunteer corps assembled on
the occasion of the review at Wimbledon on the 18th inst.
—I have the honour to be, Sir, your Royal Highness's
obedient servant,
(Signed) DE GREY and Rlr ox.
His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal
C ommand im g-in- C hief.

On Monday last a general holiday at:Woburn, in
Bedfordshire, was celebrated by a grand fete, which
was attended by seven thousand persons from the cur.
rounding towns and villages. The entire management
was admirable, being under the able direction of Mr. Nel-
son Lee, caterer for the Crystal Palace. The principal
performers were Mr. W, Randall, from the Oxford; Mr.
Si Irani, from the Crystal Palace ; the Elliott Brothers, from
the Canterbury Hall ; Messrs. West and Taylor, the great
negro raelodists ; Mr. Ozmond, the celebrated antipodian ;
Mons. hapino's ballet troupe ; and Mr. R. Phillips. The
whole concluded with a grand display of fireworks, and
passed off most triumphantly, Mr. Nelson Lee recei\rinp.,
a vote of thanks from the committee.