The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-29 00:00:00

MATcH: £lOO. Three miles.

Mr. Westley's Hungerford, lOst
Mr. Daily's Antelope, aged, 13st (Barry) 2

Betting-3 to lon Hungerford, who made the whole of
the running, and won by 200 yards.
The Metropolitan Handicap Steeplechase of 3 sovs each,
with 20 added ; the winner to be sold for 30 soya. About

two miles and a half.
Mr. Merton's Ace of Trumps, 6 yrs, 12st 21b (Owner)
Mr. Gooch's Half Skin (late Ploughboy), aged, list
(Mr. ilarford)
Mr. Naylor's Conjuror, 3 yrs, 10st 121 b (Pickett)
Captain Shaw's Bravo, aged, 12st 71b (Mr. Mumford)
Mr. Riley's White Stockings, aged, list 101 b ...(J. Page)
Mr. J. Daily's Molrose, aged, list 71b (Mr. Barry)
Good for Nothing, Pansy, and Oxygen also rau.

Betting-2 to 1 agst White Stockings, 3to 1 agst Mel-
rose, sto 1 agst Bravo, 6to 1 agst Ace of Trumps. After
going a short distance Bravo took up the running, and
passed the stand clear of Half Skin, next to whom came
White Stockings, Good for Nothing, and Melrose, in a
cluster, Ace of Trumps pulling double in their wake. On
the far side, opposite the stand, Bravo was a length in front
of Melrose and White Stockings, but Melrose fell heavily,
and White Stockings rushed up to Bravo and took a clear
lead, followed by Half Skin and Ace of Trumps, the latter
going to the front about a quarter of a mile from home, and
increasing the lead at every stride won in a canter by ten
lengths; the same distance between second and third ;
White Stockings was fourth, Bravo next. The winner was
bought by Mr. T. Golby for 80 guineas.
The Ealing Grand Open Steeplechase of 10 sovs, 3 ft, with
100 added; winners extra. About three miles and a half.
Mr. Halford's Hornet, 5 yrs, list 51b (Griffiths) 1
Mr. Summer's Arlescott, 6 yrs, list (Rickaby 2
Mr. Daily's Portland, aged, list 41b (Barry 3

The following also rau :—Astrolabe, Ironsides, Doubloon,
The Rogue (late Orphan), Rochester (late Ottoman), In-
nellan, Salamander, and Cantab.

Betting 5 to 2 agst Hornet, 4 to 1 agst Astrolabe, 5 to
1 agst Ironsides, 8 to 1 agst Rochester, 10 to 1 each agst
Innellan, Doubloon, The Rogue, and Arlescott, 100 to 7
agst Cantab, and 100 to 3 agst Portland (offered). The
favourite jumped off in front immediately the lot were
despatched, Doubloon, Innellan, and The Rogue following,
the extreme rear being brought up by Portland and
Cantab. On, jumping into the winning field the first time
Doubloon took a slight lead of Hornet, but the latter, in
passing the stand was again in front, Tho Rogue being
third, Rochester and Innellan, side by side, close up, next
Salamander heading the others, the last of whom were
`Portland and Cantab. On the far side The Hornet and
Doubloon alternately led, and little variation took place till

reaching the stand the second time, when Rochester had
run into third place, followed by Salamander, The Rogue,
Astrolabe, Arlescott, and Portland, who were well up.
Rochester showed a deal of temper opposite the winning
post, and Castle could not prevail on him to continue the
race, Ironsides and Innollan also pulling up and returning
to the enclosure. Three quarters of a mile from home
Hornet held a clear load of Doubloon, Salamander next,
but the last mentioned soon dropped away and was not
persevered with, Arlescott, who ran through his horses,
taking third place'. Approaching the brook he got up to
the girths of the favourite, but Griffiths setting him going
again drew away, and increasing his lead upto the straight
won easily by eight lengths from Arlescott, who defeated
Portland by six lengths for second place. Doubloon was
next, pulling up, and Astrolabe walked in with the crowd.
None of the others passed the post.
The Open Hunters' Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added ;
13st ; professionals 71b, and jockeys having won a

steeplechase 51b extra; selling allowances. About three

miles.
Mr. Oldreeve's Beverley, 13st (inc 71b ex) (£5O) (R. Land) 1
Mr. Gooch's Half Skin, 12st (Mr. Hall) 2
Mr. Merton's No Name, 12st 51b (£,30) (Owner) 3
The following also ran :—Forester, Woodpigeon, Black
Prince, and Nitrogen.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Beverley, 3to 1 each agst Forester
and No Name, 6to 1 agst any other. Beverley was first
off, No Name, Woodpigeon, and Half Skin heading Nitro-
gen and Forester, side by side, Black Prince bringing up
the rear. On the far side Woodpigeon took up the running,
but gave way to Forester after crossing the brook, Beverley
going on third. Three quarters of a mile from home Bever-
ley again assumed the lead, No Name being second, Fores-
ter and Half Skin next. On landing into the winning field
Beverley was clear of Half Skin, and although the
latter made a desperate effort he was easily defeated by
four lengths ; No Name a bad third ; but nothing else
passed the post. The winner wasbought in for 83 guineas.
The Volunteer Cup, added to a Sweepstakes of 3 sous
each, 13st 71b each ; winners and winning jockeys 71b

each. About two miles and a half.
Mr. F. Allen's Banker, aged, 13st (Barry) 1
Mr. Coleman's Doctor, 6 yrs, 13st (Mr. Coleman) 2

Oldminster, White Stockings, and Saucebox also ran.
Betting.-5 to 4 agst Banker, 2to 1 agst Doctor, 4to 1
agst Saucebox. The latter made play for a short distance,
when the favourite took up the running, which he carried
on till within three-quarters of a mile from home, where
Doctor joined him, but Banker quitted him easily in the
straight and won by four lengths. Saucebox and White
Stockings cantered in a long way in the rear of the
second.

RACING FIXT
JAN.

Manchester..

FEBR

Lincoln

MA:

Derby Spring 1
Liverpool Spring
Warwick Spring
Doncaster
Lewes Spring

Newmarket Craven 2
Durham 2
Catterick Bridge
Abergavenny 5
Chelmsford Spring

Ascot Spring 1
Salisbury
Bath 8
Harpondon lO
York Spring

Windsor Summer 5
Newton
Hampton 7
Odiham
Bibury l3
Stockbridgo
Chelmsford l9

TRES FOR 1866.
GARY.

rARY.

Carlisle
Newmarket July
Pontefract
Abingdon
Reading

Nottingham Spring 27
CII.

Croxton Park l6
Northampton 2O
Windsor Spring
Newcastle Spring 2B

Liverpool
Beverley 2O
Ipswich
Hungerford
Newcastle on-Tyne 26
Curragh 26
Worcester
.LY.

T hirsk lO
Epsom Spring
Newmarket Ist Spring l6
Chester
urragh 24
Y.
Epsom Summer l5
Uxbridge ...
Manchester
Ascot Summer

AUG

Brighton • • 7
Brighton Club
Lewes lO
Eghtun l4
Wolverhampton l4
Stockton l5
Oxford l6
Hastings 2l

SEPT

Down Royal Corp lB
Stamford l9
Winchester 24
I Southampton 25
Huntingdon
UST.

Warwick September 4
Curragh
Leicester 6
Doncaster
Canterbury lB

OCTO

York August 2l
Plymouth
Lichfield
Devon and Exeter . ......
Tunbridge 2B
Derby Summer 2B.
Weymouth 3O

Northampton 2
Newmarket 2d October 8
Curragh

IMBER.
Richmond
Monmouth
Manchester Autumn 24
Newmarket Ist October 26
Walsall
,BER.

Newmarket Houghton 22
Worcester

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—The figures given yesterday by our Paris
Correspondent show not only that the Extradition
Treaty has had some effect, but, still more, that the
allegation of the Moniteur to the contrary applies
more, on the face of the return, to France than to
England. If England in the course of twelve years
has given up twenty-four fugitives, and France
only fourteen, it is for the latter to explain why
the Treaty has been inoperative. It is true, as our
Correspondent observes, that the document only
gives the actual extraditions, not the demands (if
any) that proved without effect ; but if there have
been any considerable number of the latter, or any
at all, it is a matter on which the British public
is without information. In this country there does
not exist the least desire to shelter from justice a
single individual in the great British Alsatia which
has established itself in the heart of this metropolis.
We are all ready enough to suspect' foreigners, and
to wish their absence, when we cannot quite under-
stand their physiognomy, or doubt their means of
honest existence, or suspect their social relations.
If the document before us had stated that we
annually exchanged several hundred criminal run-
aways, we should feel all the safer from our own
bad subjects as well as our neighbour's. We are,
therefore quite ready to hear why the treaty has
not worked, and how it could be made to work better
so far as regards its legitimate application. Any
remonstrance with this object would have found
great favour here. But the naked announcement can
only give pain. We are sorry there should be the
smallest hitch in our relations with our great neigh-
bour. We are sorry not to be in all respects on as
good terms with her as her other neighbours. We
resent the apparent suspicion of our amity and sin-
cerity. As regards the matter itself, we feel
threatened with the loss of a mutual benefit in the
furtherance of justice. But what will annoy most
and excite most suspicion is the rumour that the
present treaty has been denounced only to make way
for another, if it can be obtained, more in accordance
with the genius of the French law and the exigencies
of the French Empire. Something is wanted, it is
said, that shall abate the practical difficulties and
delays now encountered by those who attempt to
avail themselves of the treaty. The routine of Eng-
lish law is admitted to be answerable for some of
this obstruction, but when reference is made to the
countries with which the treaty works more effec-
tually, we are led to apprehend a fundamental dif-
ference between ourselves and France as to its pro-
vince and objects of extradition. If there be such
difference, and if England and France are quite
agreed as to what are political offences and what are
not; if, further, there is no fear of political objects
being pursued by charges of an ordinary criminal
character, then we should hail any inquiry into the
tardiness and uncertainty of our criminal processes.
It could only end in away as much to our advantage
as to that of France. It is, however, quite out of
the question to expect that justice shall be sought
and obtained, or any parallel procedures carried on
in the same way inboth countries, or without differ-
ences unintelligible and indefensible in the eyes of
the foreigner. England claims to be an asylum, not
only in the absolute protection it affords to poli-
tical offenders and religious refugees, but also in
the security it must give everybody, whatever his
offence, against acts of mere violence, against mere
suspicion, against the sudden and resistless grip
which in some countries lights on its victim like the
hand of Death, and hurries him from the face of day
and the society of men to a prison which is only ano-
ther name for a grave. Whatever processes are done
under this treaty at the demand of France must be
in this country, and, as far as they go, must par-
take of the spirit which animates our whole legal
and political system. Every Englishman called on
to authorise an extradition will, for the sake of his
own peace of mind and self-respect, insist that he
knows something about the case, and that he has
had good reason to believe the charge is of a bona
fide character. Of course there are difficulties that
require a delicate treatment. A political refugee may
easily be a man fairly amenable to charges of a very
ordinary character, and be really lax in his morals,
as well as revolutionary, or republican, or absolutist
in his politics. On the other hand, every man
charged with homicide or forgery may try to claim
political protection. On these points, we presume,
some discretion must still be left the British func-
tionary charged with hearing the demand and de-
ciding upon it. We should all be shocked to think
that anybody could be suddenly seized in our tho-
roughfares, and carried off we know not where, or
to what sort of trial, upon the production of a docu-
ment signed by a foreign official, of whose charac-
ter and position we can know nothing. If, as
hinted, the operation of the treaty has been ob-
structed by such feelings and scruples, then the
remedy is to be found in the removal of just cause
for suspicion, and in giving such security that the
English magistrate may feel sure he is not a blind
instrument of persecution and oppression. But

some amount of difference there will be and must
ever remain between any two countries. Their in-
tercourse can never be an interchange of benefits
and services exactly the same in kind and
form. The completest reciprocity is that be-
tween those who interchange, not in the
same thing, or in a common medium, but in
different things, each side according to its nature
and power. The Englishman who goes to France
does so for what his own country wants and France
can give. The Frenchman comes to England for
what he seeks in vain at home, and hopes to find
here. , It must be so, also, in the operations of law
and in the workings of political systems. N o
doubt the securities for freedom in this country
entail great inconvenience and give room for
licence. They must thereby affect our character as
the immediate neighbour of a country which delibe-
rately prefers an Imperial to a Constitutional Go-
vernment. But it must not be said that we have
no reason to complain in return. The state of
things in France fills our metropolis with classes of
persons whom we should wish to be far away. We
see here, in the very centre of a commercial and
industrious metropolis, a great number of French
refugees whom France herself evidently has no wish
to demand from us. As far as they are concerned,
France regards England as we lately regarded our
own penal colonies, till they would no longer be so
regarded. These persons exist here in a state of
banishment, with no other resources than wits that
have acquired no useful industry, and living really,
if not upon vices, upon the pleasures of the hour.
They are a not inconsiderable part of our so-called
dangerous classes. There is no such English class
in France. We send her commercial people, re-
spectable residents, and wealthy tourists ; she sends
us a few straggling artisans, and a great number of
adventurers, ne'er-do-wells, and downright swind-
lers. This disagreeable class of imports is the natural
result of her social system. When this is the per-
sonal interchange, France has no right to complain
that even in the most preliminary stages the admi-
nistration of our law is somewhat more tedious
and uncertain than hers. But even if a few con-
cessions be necessary, we trust that the Treaty will
not be permitted to expire without a good substi-
tute—better, if France can make it. No one can
wish that these two countries should be asylums for
one another's murderers and robbers. Neither
country could gain by a jealousy of that sort. As
we have not ourselves heard loud complaints of the
ineffective operation of the Treaty, we conclude
that it must have worked, as many treaties and
other arrangements can only work, by an entire
prevention of the evils to be removed. The offen-
ders in both countries have anticipated the demands
that might be made under the Treaty by not cross-
ing the Channel. Thus it may be apparently in-
operative and yield no statistical returns, and yet do
much silent good. It may or may not be so. The
case for the determination of the Treaty—and no
doubt the French Government think they have such
a case—requires that just and properly authorised
demands have been made, and then frustrated by
the delays, the needless jealousies, and the intrica-
cies of English law. If it be so, and if such a case
has been made out, then we shall gain by the dis-
closure even more than France, for we are vastly
more interested than she can be in the simplifying
of our legal processes, in the removal of uncer-
tainty, and in expediting the course of detection,
inquiry, and conviction.
POST.—Agriculturists, especially such as breed or
fatten cattle, or keep dairy cows, have had a very
anxious time of it during the last few months, and
we are sorry to add that at present we do not per-
ceive any clear indications of their troubles soon
coming to an end. The present joyous season has
been rather dull for many of them. Their situa-
tion is not unlike that of Job when the messengers
rushed into his tent and announced the abstraction
of a portion of his flocks and herds by his enemies,
and the destruction of the remainder by lightning.
Scores of farmers in almost every county in Great
Britain have lost great numbers of beasts of every
age and condition. Those of them who have not
yet been visited by the scourge cannot tell the day
when it may approach. Such as have already suf-
fered from the pestilence, in many cases to the
amount of hundreds of pounds, live in continual
fear lest it may return and almost ruin them. And
in many cases it does return and make a clean
sweep of every horned beast on the premises. The
result is, that a careful inspection is made several
times a day of all animals in pastures and in straw
yards. The symptoms of seizure by the plague arc
now so familiar to farmers that they can detect its
presence among their cattle, though they may hap-
pen to be several hundred yards distant. If an animal
is seen standing by itself in the corner of a field, or
under a hedge, with lowered head and drooping ears,
it is inferred at once that it is sickening with the
complaint; and should a nearer' inspection prove
that the eye is dim and dull, and the hair along
the back bone dry and staring, then there is no
mistake about the matter. Members of the bovine
tribe, like striken deer, and indeed most of the in-
ferior animals, invariably seek solitude when labour-
ing under disease or wounds. Sometimes beasts
suffering from the plague will continue to eat hay
for a time while at others they refuse all food. 'The
infected are mostly separated from the herd and
placed in sheds. Gruel and other things are given
them, which cause them to cough violently, and
evidently increase their sufferings. There is a con-
sf ant discharge of water and humour from the eyes.
The animal prefers lying down to standing up. If
roused, it staggers about like a drunken man. The
breath of the beast is almost unbearable by those
who are obliged to drench and look after the plague-
stricken creatures. Without waiting for the more
violent symptoms which precede death, and which
we need not describe, it is now usual to shoot the
animal when it is deemed to be past recovery, and
afterwards bury it deep in the earth, covering the
body with quicklime. Cats, dogs, hares, and rabbits,
and every animal that passes from fields where dis-
eased cattle may be found to those containing sound
ones, are believed, whether rightly or wrongly, to
be capable of communicating the terrible contagion;
and we must state that facts and probabilities seem
to favour this theory. The malady has been terribly
destructive among young cattle and stores, and
the only beasts that appear to have had some
exemption from the prevailing epidemic are those
that arc being stall fed—a circumstance which
seems to indicate the importance of giving plenty
of good nourishing food to such animals as we ex-
pect to preserve. In the meantime the action of
the Government manifested through the Orders in
Council still continues to be, as it has all along been,
extremely cautious and somewhat slow ; and it has
not yet succeeded in overtaking the scourge in its
devastating career. Magistrates at petty sessions
and mayors of towns still continue to issue orders
about fairs and markets, and about the movements
of cattle within their districts, which are not iden-
tical in spirit or uniform in their operation. Not
only so, but markets for cattle continue to be held
in various parts of the country. Such, we are given
to understand, was the case so recently as last week
in Devonshire, as well as in some towns near the
centre of England, and close to districts where the
disorder is now raging fearfully. Hence dealers,
whose stores are virtually impounded within certain
localities where strict regulations are enforced, com-
plain loudly of the want of uniformity of action
that characterises the measures hitherto adopted,
and assert that if they could but remove their ani-
mals to counties specified by them they could soon
sell them. The Orders in Council, published in a
second supplement to the London Gazette of Friday
last, have greatly disappointed the agricultural
community, inasmuch as they do not announce the
prohibition of all fairs and markets for a time
throughout Great Britain, as well as the adoption of
decisive measures by the Government itself for the
thorough isolation of all neat cattle except those
meant for the butcher. The chief responsibility still
continues to fall on the local authorities, but the ut-
most power of the Executive is required in a crisis
like the present, in order to devise and effectually
carry out the plans for the thorough isolation of black
cattle which the existing arrangements have failed
to accomplish, and the adoption of which is regarded
as the only human means of stopping the plague.
The new Orders in Council vest the power of issuing
notices respecting the movements of beasts in
the Justices of the Quarter Sessions, and not in
those of the Petty Sessions, as hitherto was the case.
This regulation will have the effect of enlarging
the area of proclaimed districts, and may lead to
more uniformity of action in certain counties than
has yet obtained. The county magistrates and
mayors of towns have it now in their power to issue
and enforce very stringent orders with respect to
the movements of cattle within their jurisdiction,
always excepting such as may pass by railroad to a
fixed destination ; and these, we presume, will be
fat beasts, whether imported or home fed, and meant
for immediate slaughter. It will now be competent
for local authorities, after the 3d day of January
next, to alter, vary, renew, or revoke any order
previously issued, should circumstances require it;
and the regulations of the Privy Council, just pub-
lished, are to be in force not longer than the Ist of
March, unless continued in some further order.
The present lamentable disorder among the beasts
of the field will be attended with serious conse-
quences not only to the immediate sufferers, but
also to the public at large ; and we fear that we
have not yet seen the end of it, for when it once
gets a hold in a locality it lurks there, and not un-
frequently reappears as virulently as before, when
the principal parties concerned thought it had
certainly departed. The native tribes in Southern
'Africa, whose chief wealth consists of flocks and
herds, have long resorted to precautionary mea-
sures in order to prevent the contagion of the lung
disease infecting sound beasts. They resolutely

refuse to allow traders and others who have
diseased oxen to water them at their wells, and
in many cases try to compel them to march past
their territorities. The inoculation of sound beasts
by means of a strong thread drawn through the
lung of a diseased dead animal, and afterwards
inserted in the fleshy part of the tip of the tail
without touching the bone, is frequently practised
by them, and in many cases with good results. The
absence of ozone during the last two dry summers,
especially as is alleged in districts where the plague
has been very prevalent, is pronounced by some
persons as having been a predisposing cause of the
szourge which is now destroying British herds. .1/s
.
no specific cure has yet been discovered, we Ines'
persevere in the system of isolating beasts whether
sound or not, and try to prevent, as much as pow
ble, all contact with them. Had the country been
in the possession of statistics giving the number of
black cattle to be found in the kingdom up to a cer-
tain date, it would have been possible to get I.IP
certain data, on the basis of which calculations
might have been made for giving moderate com-
pensation to those who have been losers by this
disease. Local mutual associations now fight shy
of all persons wishing to enter who have disease
either on or near their premises. We apprehend
that a rate of a shilling or two a head on WI
horned and polled animal in England and Scotland,
a premium which would have been willingly paid
by the owners, would have been found sufficient to
cover all losses, and we are very much mistaken if
some of our great insurance companies would not
have thought it worth their while to work such a
scheme.

An Australian's Impressions of England•

The first thing that strikes him forcibly is the
magnitude of the towns and cities, especially the
enormous extent and population of London—not
the first day or the second, but after living in it
for a week or two, and seeing the miles of streets
closely built and crowded with people in every di-
rection. He, accustomed -to think a great deal
about the carriage of goods, and about road difficul-
ties, can scarcely conceive how such masses of
people can possibly obtain their daily supplies of
food and fuel, even by the bewildering number
of railways that radiate from the great metropolis.
He sees little signs of manufactures, and he won-
ders how these millions can get a living. Do
they live off each other, or off the country in
general? Do foreigners, colonists, and provincials
all flock to London to be fleeced, that the city popu-
lation may be supported ? He feels as if England
must be small indeed to necessitate men to leave the
healthful, breezy country, to crowd into the streets
and courts and alleys of London, Manchester, Bir-
mingham, and Glasgow. The contrast between the
wealth and the poverty of England strikes him with
a strange feeling of awe when he compares the
hideous slums of London with the miles of streets
in which no one can live on an income of less than
£l,OOO, £2,000, or £5,000 a year ; or when, " in the
season," he contrasts the splendid equipages, the
beautiful horses, the livened servants, the per-
fectly appointed equestrians, the idle gentle-
men, and the handsome and elegantly-
dressed ladies in Hyde-park, with the ragged
beggars' whom he meets at every street corner.
And yet, painful as this is, how pleasant to an Aus-
tralian home on a visit to London and London
society. For the first time in his life he is at leisure
to see everything and to enjoy everything; and for
the first time in his life he finds other people who
are as idle as himself, and with whom he can visit
or travel, or merely saunter about London. It is
only in London that one can find company in idle-
ness or pleasure seeking. In all great manufactur-
ing towns life is as busy and rather more anxious
than it is in Australia or the United States ; and in
small provincial towns there is too much exclusive-
ness for Australians to penetrate into society when
on a short visit. The great beauty of the English
landscape, its undulations, its softness, its wonderful
variety of mountain, wood, and shore, impresses
most favourably a visitor from our far south land.
Is perpetual verdure contrasts with our pastures
scorched up for many summer months. The exqui-
site changes in the tints of the foliage of your forest
trees—from those of spring, when the young leaves
are " some very red, and some a glad light green,"
as your oldest descriptive poet expresses it, to the
luxuriant greenery of summer, and then to the
mellow and russet tints of autumn—are always full
of interest to eyes long accustomed to evergreen
trees, almost all of one genius, with long, narrow,
pointed leaves.—Cornhill Magazine for January.