The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-08 00:00:00

Mr. H. Melville's Mary Ann, aged, lOst 31b (Monahan) 1
Mr. W. R. H. Powell's Carew, aged, lOst 111 b
(Mr. J. James) 2

Haphazard and Buckjumper also ran.
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Won on the post, after a slashing race, by a short head.
The Volunteer Plate (handicap) of 5 soya each, 1 ft, with
30 added ; second to save his stake. Steeplechase Course.
Mr. W. R. H. Powell's Confederate, aged list 71b
(Mr. J. R. James) 1
Capt. Bayley's Kathleen,6 yrs, lOst, car lOst 101b(Owner) 2
Lord Adair and Merry Lass also ran.

* Having been requested to decide this point, we have
to state that after a dead heat for a plate or sweepstakes, if
the prize be divided by mutual azreement, it is imperative
that one of the horses should walk over the course, carry-
ing his proper weight, on the same day, in default of which
the race becomes void. This formula having been deferred
in the case of the Carmarthenshire Open Steeplechase until
the day after the two dead heats occurred, the race
in question, and all bets thereupon, are null and void. This
opinion is based upon racing law, and confirmed by the
Hon. Admiral nous, to whom we submitted the case.-
-ED. Bell's _Lffe.

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE-

MENTS.
On the 21st ult, Ellen (sent abroad) out of all her en-
gagements.
(.n the 30th ult, Jerusalem and Freshman out of the
Liverpool S eeplechase.
On the 31st ult, at 9 a.m., Joskin out of all his engage-
ments.
On the 3d inst, at 9 a.m., Parmesan, Conundrum, Cron-
stadt, and Furious out of the Lincolnshire Handicap.
On the 3d inst, at 3.35 p.m., Incitatus out of the Lincoln-
shire
Handicap.

On the 3d inst, at 3.43 p.m., Master Fenton out of the
Chester Cup (left in by mistake).
On the 4th inst, at 9 a.m., Newstead and Nightingale
out of the Lincolnshire Handicap.
On the 4th inst, at 4 p.m., Margery Daw out of all her
engagements.

LINCOLN MEETING.
Acceptances for the Grand National Steeplechase Handicap.
About four miles.
Age st lb
Jerusalem .. .. a 11 8
Freshman .. .. a 11 3
Heads or Tails .. all 0
Bridegroom .. a 10 13
The Emperor .. alO 9
Willoughby .. a 10 7
Johnny .. .. alO 5
Longford .. a 10 0
Catspaw .. 6 10 0
Duhallow .. a 10 0
Friar of Apshall .. a 9 13
General Bosquet .. a 9 13
Red Robin a 9 12
Pine Apple .. a 9 12

Age ,st lb
Corkscrew .. .. a 9 10
Linkboy a 9 7
Corona .. 5 9 6
Cairo .. , . 5 9 5
Alectryon .. a 9 4
Sweet William .. 5 9 4
Blicd Hookey .. a 9 4
Canteen .. 6 9 3
Cannibal .. 9 3
Birdbolt .. 6 9 0
Fireaway (h b) .. a 9 0
Cheery Chap .. a 9 0
Nelly .. 6 8 12
Rebellion .. a 8 10

READING STE
Weights for the Berkshire
three I

:EPLECHASES.
Open tAeeplechase. About
miles.

st lb
Jerusalem .. 11 12
Freshman .. 11 10
Bantam .. 11 9
Heads or Tails 11 4
Northern Light .. 11 0
Willoughby .. 11 0
Johnny c. . 11 0
Piff Faff 10 12
Escape .. 10 10
Comet 10 7
Corkscrew .. 10 4
Glautias 10 4
Broomstick .. .. 10 4
Forfeits to be declared on o

st lb
Linkboy 10 0
Sunflower .. 10 0
Playraan 10 0
Indecision .. .. 912
Longrage 9 12
BD
ae
iczeaprtiinoen
99
1100
Levity 9 10
St. James .. .. 910
Luff .. • • •• 9 7
Joey Grimaldi .. 9 7
Broad brim .. .. 9 4
The Dove .. 9 0
)1. before Tuesday, Feb, 11.

DR GUTHRIE ON TOBJCCO AND

STRIKF S.

(From the ,` eotsman.)
Thursday, being "Biggar Fair Day," the movement
commenced last year for removing the abuses generally
connected with such gatherings, by providing counter-
attractions to the public-houses in the shape of temperance
refreshments and public meetings, was renewed, under
the patronage of the clergymen and leading county gen-
tlemen, and was attended with even still greater success
than last year. Arrangements had been made by the
prDmoters of the movement to provide, at a cheap
rate, liberal supplies of tea, coffee, and other tem-
perance refreshments.—The Rev. Dr. Guthrie, of Edin-
burgh, addressed the assembly, and in the course of his
remarks, the rev. gentleman dwelt upon the advantages
offered to the working classes by the Post-office Savings'
Banks. lie said :—You have no idea how money grows ;
You think corn and trees grow ; but the fact is, that
money grows better than corn or trees ; and if you just
save a pound a year " How can I do that ?" you say.
Oh, you can save it out of tobacco reek. (Laughter and
cheers.) I asked a farmer how much the great mass of
the people connected with farms spent on tobacco. He
counted up; and I found that a great many of the work-
ing people spent large sums on tobacco. Not that I have
very much fault to find with tobacco, as some of our
teetotal friends seem to have, who denounce snuff- and
tobacco as much as whisky. My answer to that is, "Do
you ever hear of a man cutting his v,ife's throat because
he snuffs ?" (Much laughter.) Never in this world.
But what I want is this. Working men should have
every possible enjoyment; but I don't want a working
man to indulge in enjoyments to such an extent that
when he is an old man he will not have two farthings to
rap on each other. (Applause.) I want the workingman
to say, " I stand on my own feet ; and give me this arm,
and this head, and this heart, and I will thank no man or
mother's son to support me and my family as long as I can
do it by noble self-denial and providence, and care, and
temperance." (Loud cheers.) I snuff—l confess it.
(Laughter. I si.uff, and it is a nasty practice, a most
abominable practice, and I advise you never to learn it.
(Laughter.) I acknowledge that, but I say if you could
get tobacco cheap, that working men might use it in mode-
ration. But it is not cheap. I think it is most iniquitous
for the Government to put a tax of 200 per cent. upon an
article within reach of the working man. Why should
they lay taxes to that extent on the luxury of the working
man, while they lay only a tax of 5 or 10 per cent. on the
luxury of wealthy men ? I think that is disgraceful. But
what I object to is, a working man wasting so much of his
means on smoking; I object to his smoking away the
bread and the education of his children, because the Go-
vernment puts that tax on. I would starve out the Go-
vernment, instead of smoking for its sole benefit.—
(Cheers.) Time enough for a working man to begin to
smoke when he is sixty. Tobacco reek 1 Do you resolve
" I will have nothing to do with it till I have made a pro-
vision for old age, and till I have got my family educated ;
I will give th€m a good education ; and after I have seen
my boys standing on their own feet, and my girls well mar-
ried, then perhaps I may take a pipe, but not till then."
(Laughter and cheers.) I don't smoke; and I must say it
is a most offensive thing to see boys in Edinburgh, no bigger
than my ragged school boys here, going about with pipes in
their mouths, and their mothers perhaps starving. "Oh,
the shame of a man that can drink, or smoke, or indulge in
these things, and have his mother on the "Board I" God
forbid that that should ever become the character of our
country I I asked two farmers, who knew ploughmen well,
as to the use of tobacco among farm -servants; and they told
me that upon the average tobacco cost them 30s. a-year.
Now, if a man does not smoke between the ago of 18 and
58, what does the SOs. a year amount to in forty years?
£l5O, at an accumulation of interest. (Applause.) I know
there are plenty of men in Edinburgh, hundreds of them,
who spend not 305., but twice and three times 30s. a year
in indulgences which I do not indulge in, and which they
are no better but much the worse of. And then
when
abn* old
age comes, what comes to them ? They sink,
bank,rn asjelc
poverty. If they would lay by in the saving
wish you to do, when old age came,
about with their hands in their pocketsthaneydswdoisucludsawtahlke
weather and enjoy themselves. (Laughter and cheers.)
People talk about being ill-used by their masters, and
about having strikes, The best way that servants can
rnana
if Im a
manage thesea matters
servant, and m
is through
maghtshteer don'tsav giveingsba menk ; be-
cause,good
pay for my service,
and says to me, " I will bring you to
ter ms ; I will give
you 12s. a week instead of 15s. ;" I
say
to him, "My friend, you may,,slhuhtauvp--ug
e £(slaoinhttehr)e—bafonrky;e:
will never bring me to terms." " Oh, hew are you to live ?"
(Laughter and cheers.) I
their own interest. (Hear.)
wonder
oielni sdaseytia, snw.
do
ro'k'uiLtn,igvaenmdl I" I;
es
don't
otynyl;O:u see
lam not for strikes ; far from it. They produce an enor-
mous amount of evil ; but it may happen, and it has hap.
pened, that the only way working men could get justice was
by
refusing to work for the low wages offered them.

THE VAGARIES OF FASHION.—There is great talk
of an electric parure now in course of manufacture for the
Empress of the French, whose brilliancy will outvie every
article of jewellery ever beheld before. It is a coronet com-
posed of glass globules, illuminated by an electric light ruled
by a conductor encircling the head,—Court Journal.

attempt to run the deciding heat, the owners agreed to
divide; and on Thursday The Rug walked over.
The Ladies' Plate, a handicap of 5 soya, with 40 added ;

selling allowances.
Mr. J. R. Howell's little Monkey, lOst 111 b (£4O)
G. Ste
Mr. Hopkin's Lord Adair, 5 yrs, lOst 111(b (£4O) ens) 1
(Mr. Blake) 2
The following also ran :—Confederate, Kathleen, and
Brown Holland.

At the first fence Kathleen fell, and threw her rider, who
was no sooner down than up again. Confederate shortly
took the lead. Brown Holland refused to take the first
fence on second round, and retired. The race was between
Confederate and Little Monkey, who kept close together
in the second round, Confederate leading; Lord Adair
third. In the last round, when a few fences from home,
Confederate fell, and threw his rider, Mr. James, who re-
ceived rather severe injury, by Little Monkey falling upon
him, and was, of course, out of the race. Little Monkey
winning easily ; Lord Adair second ; Kathleen third. The
winner was sold for .C. 55 to Mr. Pryse Loveden.

THURSDAY.
The Carniarthenshire Handicap of 8 soya each, h ft, 2 sous
only if declared, with 50 soya added ; second to save his
stake ; Steeplechase course.