The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-08 00:00:00

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-MONDAY.

For the City and Suburban Handicap, early in the day,
Vest colt and Ducat were decidedly out of favour; 20 to 1
was offered against the former, and 100 to 6 was laid against
the latter. Later on, offers were not so free; 100 to 8 was
taken about Ducat, but we saw nothing booked about the
Vest colt. Vancouver and Phantom were very firm, but
Palestro was sent to the right about. The prices quoted
against the others were obtained with difficulty, and most
of them will see a shorter price, Closing prices :

CITY AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP.
6to 1 agst Vancouver (taken and cffered)
Bto 1 agst Phantom (taken)
10 to 1 agst Suburban (taken)
12 to 1 agst Ducat (taken)
20 to 1 agst Olive Branch (taken)
20 to 1 agst Vest colt (offered)
25 to 1 agst Sawcutter (taken)
25 to 1 agst Limosina (taken)
25 to ,1 agst Babette filly (taken)
40 to 1 agst- Compiegne (taken)
40 to 1 agst Palestro (offered)
GREAT METROPOLITAN STAKES.
100 to 8 agst Finlande (taken)
20 to 1 agst Babette filly (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
9to 2 agst Old Calabar (offered)
11 to 1 agst Caterer (taken)
100 to 8 agst Nottingham (offered)
CHESTER CUP.
100 to 8 agst Hadji Stavros (offered)
16 to 1 agst Agag (offered)
33 to 1 apt Victrix (taken)

WRIGHT'S RACING RECORD.—The Spring edition of
this work is now published. It contains the results of all
the.races that have been run this year up to the middle of
March, besides a complete list of all the nominations-for
the principal races, including the entries for the Derby, the
Two Thousand, the One Thousand, the Oaks, the New
Stakes at Ascot, and St. Leger. In fact everything of
interest to betting-men is to be found in the present num.
bar. The price is only Is., and no sportsman should be
without it.

AQUATICS.

UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE.

A large number of people assembled at Putney last even-
ing to witness the customary breathings of the crews over
the course. Both had previously been out for a paddle in
the morning, and after coming in the Cantabs thought it
advisable, in order to be nearer their work, to have their
outriggers lowered a trifle, and good judges think this was
a change for the better. The Oxonians went out first in
the evening from their temporary boat-house-7the London
Rowing Club having kindly placed theirs at their disposal ;
and after paddling down to the bridge, started up and
rowed over the whole course. They have undoubtedly con-
siderably improved, and nothing now can be said against
their time; but the Cambridge men are still very lively,
and their pace for the first mile is quicker than that of their
opponents. The Oxonians were timed at starting to take
37 strokes to the minute, which they afterwards increased
to 40; while the Contabs took 37, increasing it to 39. The
Cambridge men took a longer sweep than their rivals round
the Point; but their time 01 they were lost to the view
from Putney was about the same in both boats, and they
were within a few seconds of the same time at Mortlake.
On the return the Cantabs practised several starts with an
eight of the London Rowing Club, and it is said that they
started indifferently, but ley down to their work in beauti-
ful time immediately afterwards. Both crews stand their
work well, and every one seems to be agreed that they are
very evenly matched, although the Cantabs have slightly
the call in betting circles.

body of James Hullyear, aged
THE LAST FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE EXHIBITION.
—On Saturday Mr. Bedford, coroner, held as inquest at
at the International Exhibition
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afternoon of Tuesday last. It appeared from the evidence
of Wm. Boyce, a labourer, of King-street, Battersea, that
the deceased was employed.
and chains off the
on Tuesday
ribs of the eastern dome.
.11e was hauled up from the
ground by means of a gantling in. a chair, which he then
produced. (This was merely a slip of board with holes in
it for the rope to pass through at each end.) He was
t which, having re-
moved,last in removing the blocks
He then was about removing the
rope which held him to the ribs of. the dome, but it got
secured
hoby let down.
rope to the block
entangled, and to free himself from it he leaned forward to
cut it with a knife. As soon as the rope was cut the
" chair" went from under him ; be Was jerked out, and, to
endeavour to save himself, he caught hold of a rope which
was merely passed over ono of the ribs of the dome, and not
fastened at the end. weight soon caused the rope to
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injuries, but quite
dead. George Fordham, foreman, Said the plan adopted
was considered to be quite safe, and, if the deceased had not
used the knife, this would not have happened. This man
was well up to his work. He had been in the " chair"
many times. He was a very steady man, having been at the
works since the commencement of the building, and he had
never seen him the worse for liquor.
It had been suggested
altogether objected to it. The jury returned
a verdict of
that the men should be lashed in the
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MILITARY DRILL IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Lord CAMPBELL said no topic, however inconsider-
able it may seem at first sight, if it bears at all on the in-
terests of the Volunteer movement, ought in the House of
Lords to meet with inattention. It is in that house, if no
where else, that the movement may rely on cordiality and
sympathy, inasmuch:as most of those who habitually attend
it either as officers or as lord-lieutenants, or as members of
the late Government, or as members of the present Go-
vernment, have had an active share in its formation and
encouragement. And if, as we hear whispered,
.the move,
meat is now exposed to some rising hazards and some
temporary clouds which did not formerly present
themselves, the notice of to-day has greater prac-
tical importance than would otherwise belong to it.
It is not, however, requisite to discuss at length the argu.
ments in favour of military drill in public schools at present.
So long ago as December, 1859, a few months after the
volunteer movement had commenced, deeming the time
favourable, I ventured to address the editor of a great and
well-known journal on the subject. Soon after, in February,
1860, at a meeting at the Thatched House Tavern, the
same cause had far more powerful supporters in Lord
Elcho, in the late Provost of Eton, in Lord Enfield, in
Lord West, in Sir De Lacy Evans, and many other
gentlemen who assembled at that place and at that tme
with the view to promote the change I have refcrred to,
A few days afterwards a yet more influential advocate ap-
peared in the editor of the Times himself, who by a leading
article lent his power and authority to bring about the ob-
ject of the meeting. My view rather is to counteract, so
far as I am able, two impressions, either of which would be
mistaken; first, the impression that nothing has been done
since the agitation and discussion in February, 186 1, on the
question ; and secondly, the impression that what has been
done requires no further efforts to secure and to establish it.
So far from nothing having been done, before the meeting
happened, and quite at the beginning of the year, some
military instruction was introduced at Eton. Soon after
Easter, Rugby, Harrow, Winchester, and Westminster,
adopted the example. At a later period something of the
same kind began at Charterhouse. At Wimbledon the public
schools have competed for shooting-prizes. Not very long
ago the Eton companies were reviewed by the Queen her-
self ; and the occasion was the last at which the
lamented Prince was seen by the public. The
discussions, therefore, in 1859 and in 1860 were far from
being attended with no consequences. On the other hand,
and this is most important to consider all that has been done
iS voluntary and precarious. At any moment it may perish
altogether. It depends on novelty, which must pass away,
on youthful zeal, which cannot always be relied upon on
fashion, which is apt to change in public schools as it does
elsewhere. Above all, it depends very much on the exist-
ence and the force of the volunteer movement in the country
of which, in point of fact, it is a reflex. Already
some decline has been exhibited. At Westminster,
in spite of the zeal of the head master and the judi-
cious aid which he received from Captain Arbuckle
the gallant and accomplished adjutant of the London Scot-
tish Rifles, it has altogether passed away. At Eton four
hundred was the number who enrolled in 1860 ; two hun-
dred is about the number of the corps at present. At Har-
row at one time it ranged above two hundred, and has
fallen to one hundred. At Winchester my information is
less accurate, but it is not thought there to be established
very firmly. At Charter-house the decline has only been
from eighty to fifty. At Rugby there has been no sensible
decline ; but there, too, the basis is entirely precarious.
Something exists, therefore, to which permanence is wanting,
and the question occurs at once as to how far the commis-
sion on public schools is able to impart it by the sound and
practical suggestions which daily offer on the subject. As
it has not been included in the queries they have sent out
although the instructions they have had would seem to be
so wide as to admit it, the question is in some degree a
doubtful one. A declaration from the Government would
very easily resolve it. No doubt, however, the Commission
of which Lord Clarendon is the head, are bound to approach
the subject as unprejudiced inquirers, and not to assume
the merits of the change on which public schools have thus
provisionally entered. Its merit rests, however on a few con-
siderations which are very easy to refer to. Military drill
at public schools, so carried on as to embrace the greater
portion of the higher classes, must tend to make the volun-
teer officers effective. It is not in later life that they can
gain with fulness and effect the aptitudes and information
which their duties call for. It is not the want of energy or
spirit, but of time, which is the obstacle. Professional pur-
suits are always in the way of military exercises. And a
great advantage will occur if public schools sent out year by
year a supply of young men already fit to take commis-
Mon& But even-if the force were ever so effective, what
would tend more strongly to perpetuate it than the existence
of a higher class imbued with military knowledge, and un-
willing to see the field of its activity withdrawn. But sup-
posing it should pass away withe fears and dangers
which excited it, what can be more im tant to the country
than to have its educated classes trained to arms, so that
the militia would always be supplied with valuable officers,
and so that any sudden levy of the people on a particular
emergency should have the necessary leaders to direct and
to inspirit it. As regards the moral, the intellectual,
and physical effects of military , drill on those who
come under its influence, much has been and
much may be said ; but it is all subsidiary to
the Egreat arguments which show, however rapidly we
look at them, that such a system at public schools is a
means of national defence and national security. It is far
more easy to secure for it that permanence now wanting
than at first sight it might appear to us. If it is secured at
Eton it is secured at all the other public schools according
to the detail which may be most suitable to each. The
commission need, therefore, only bring to bear their in-
fluence and operation upon Eton, where it is well known
that the authorities would not be wanting in their part.
Tho noble lord, and the authorities of Eton, will not be
found unequal to the task which, if the instructions of the
commissioners are wide enough, would naturally seem to
fall upon them. The noble lord concluded with the ques-
tion of which he had give notice.

The Earl of CLARENDON, as president of the public
schools commission, said the instructions that had been
issued had been so formed to embrace the subject of mili-
tary drill. They not only proposed to inquire into the time
devoted to study, but also into the manner in Ntl;ch the
boys employed their leisure time. He agreed that it
was of the highest imr ortAnce that the Volunteer
movement should become permanent, and also that it was
impossible to speak too highly of that splendid demonstra-
tion. The subject, he assured the noble lord, would be
most carefully considered.