The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-31 00:00:00

" JEAN OP LEADEN"—BeII's L.

Dear Brethren I as the preachers say in sermons,
The great thing in a Derby is to back firm ones—
Marquis and Buckstone ; and (I feel perplexed
Which after these to take) Sir Joseph next !
But MARQUIS, so ends my vaticination,
Shall find me my " rewards of devination I "

" ORANGE BLosso3t"—Bell's Life.
As, ere reaching the distance, The Marquis compounds,
And a gallant bay steed threthe thick of -the brunt
Bears the golden-hued Russley flag up to the front;
And Zetland's brown vest, as The Marquis falls back,
Hugging closely the rails, follows hard in his track !
Side by side they come on, 'tis a match 'twixt the pair,
'Twist the grandchildren twain of the mighty Voltaire.
No—stop ! for the fielders there still may be luck,
For an orange belt comes with a rush from the ruck,
And Brighten is catching them- hand over hand,
'Midst a roar of surprise from the Ring and the Stand—
All fruitless his efforts! for clear of the fray
Unextended the son of Burlesque comes away.
No use ! Brighton flags, changes legs, he is beat;
The brave scion of Kingst, n must sound a retreat;
But gamely he still struggles on up the course,
Close to Zctland, for Osborne is " hard'? at his horse,
And Middleham sees all her hopes on the wane,
As behind his half brother he labours—in vain
In vain Johnny's steel gores the flanks of the brown,
And home in a canter comes BUCKSTONE—" hands
down!'

"P. W."—Bell's Life.
I'll not keep you longer in suspense,
" Don't make any mistake, sir,"
The shouting it will be immense—
The Epsom Downs will shake, sir.
Now who's to win the trick this year,
I'll tell you in a minute—
THE MARQUIS is the horse for me,
For I know full well he'll win it
Singing—Bow, wow, wow,
THE MARQUIS for the Derby;

Now, now, now.

" HOItATTO COCKBOAT."—BeII's Life.
They are off I—Don't you feel very funky ?
The Ring's noisy clamour is done,
Save a cry of " The field for a monkey I"
Or, " I'll lay agin any ' bar one !' "

" The Corner" is rounded, and two
Are so close no one knows which to back :
" I can't see their colours, can you?--
'Tis Neptunus and Stanhope Hawke's ' crack.' "

The jocks are beginning to ride,
Now Ashmall, now Bullock, is first ;
The pace mends at every stride,

And now 'tis a regular burst.

But The Marquis's backers look blue,
And hushed is all vapour and boast;
The running at Pomfret was true,
But—NEPTUNUS has won " on the post I"

" TOUCHSTONE."—Era.

THE MARQUIS
STOCK WELL COLT
NEPTUNUS

BUCKSTONE 4

the information received from Berkshire, and provided
always that he recovers his present unsteady position in
the betting, I shall go for

BUCK STONE,

expecting to see the winner of the Two Thousand Guineas
occupy the same place that his stable companion, The
'Wizard, did in 1860, when the boy in yellow won on
Thormanby.

" VATICINATOR"—Sunday Times.
Having thus descanted upon the merits and demerits of
every likely candidate, and endeavoured to lay before my
readers, to the best of my ability, the views I entertain of
each competitor, it only remains for me now to give my
final selection for the event, the issue of which is involved
in much difficulty, and, sink or swim, rise OT fall, I cannot
desert my "old love," but still ass art that my faith, although
partially shaken, remains firmly attached to the house of
" Merry," believing that
BUCKSTONE

on Wednesday next will be hailed the winner of England's
blue riband for 1862; whilst the three most worthy of being
supported for places are Caterer, Neptunus, and Carac-
tacus.

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CL OCK.

SPORTING---THIS ➢AY.

TATfERSALL'S, THIS EVENING.

THE DERBY.

3to 1 agst The Marquis (offered, take 100 to 3..)
6to 1 agst Buckstone (offered, take 100 to 15)
9to 1 agst Neptunus (offered, take 10 to 1)
12 to 1 agst Caterer (taken)
12 to 1 agst Ensign (taken)
13 to 1 agst Zetland (taken)
20 to 1 agst Argonaut (off., 22 to 1 taken)
40 to 1 agst Malek (taken)
40 to 1 agst Lord Burleigh (taken)
40 to 1 agst Clarissa colt (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Ace of Clubs (taken)
1000 to 10 agst The Knave (taken)
1000 to 5 agst Welcome (taken)
1000 to 5 agst Surrey (taken)
1000 to 5 agst Alvediston (taken)

A SAD STORY OF DEFECTION AND
SHAME.

(From the St. Louis Democrat.)
George Q. Phelps,
Esq., an elderly gentleman,
and an old resident of Union City, Illinois, arrived
here from that city last Thursday, in anxious search
of a missing and erring daughter. After some
inquiries, he called upon the Chief of Police, and
requested his aid in the pursuit. The daughter left
home about two months ago, in charge of two young
men, her cousins, in whom Mr. Phelps had complete
confidence. They were to escort her to St. Louis,
to the home of her brother, an engineer on a steamer

in the Government service. As weeks passed away,
and no letter or intelligence was received from her,
her father became exceedingly solicitous, yet enter-

tained not the slightest suspicion that she was not
at her brother's residonce in thin city. One day in
the streets of Quincy, he met a young man who
informed him that his daughter Maria was in
an assignation hou,,c3 in St. Louis. The incredulousfather indignantly demanded proof for so humiliat-
ing a statement,upon which the young man declared
that he had himself seen her at the place he had
stated. Mr. Phelps took the first train for this city
and on arriving proceeded immediately to the house
of his son. The latter was absent down the river.
Surprised and alarmed at the old man's tremulous
inquiries, his daughter-in-law could only say
that Maria came there about seven or eight weeks
ago, paid a transient visit, and left, as she supposed,
to return home.

Such substantially was the account given by the
father at the police-office. Upon learning the facts,
one of the detectives thought he knew the girl, and
could find her. He was dispatched for the purpose
Meanwhile a telegram was sent to Quincy, to the
young man who had communicated the information
in that city, requesting him to answer at once, and
to give the locality of the assignation house to which
he referred. Pending the reply, and at about 11
o'clock on Thursday night, the officer returned ham,
the house in Green-street, bringing a young anti
beautiful girl, but who proved not the erring one
especially sought for. She, however, evidently
believed that her own friends had sent for her, and
from her manner, betrayed that she had only quite
recently left her home and friends. She expressed
mortification and deep sorrow at the course she had

pursued, declared that her condition was most mise-
rable, and avowed a willingness to be sent anywhere
rather than go back to the place from which she
had just been taken. She was accordingly con-.
ducted to the " House of the Good Shepherd."
An answering telegraphic message from Quincy,
soon stated that the daughter was probably at No. 3,
Christy-avenue. Thither two officers at once pro-
ceeded, and quickly returned with her in custody.
She was a blue-eyed and fair-haired girl of about 17
years, elegantly and tastefully attired, yet in her
countenance exhibiting intense mental torture. Prior
to ber arrival the father was conducted to the Police
Chief's privateroom, of which the door was left ajar—
a room adjoining that in which she entered. To
the chief's inquiries she at first responded with re-

reserve and caution, but finding that he knew her
history, horst into tearo, and con eased Imsrself lost,
yet said she desired to be permanently removed
from the house she had just left. Learning that
her father knew all, she begged not to be taken
home, and to be spared an interview with him.
At last she was led to her aged father in the next
room, where a scene too heart-rending for dccrip-
tion followed. The sobs and agony of the old man
and his daughter can be imagined tnu,Sn better than
we can depict them. She gratefully accepted his
offer to take her back to her home. They went to
a hotel for the night, and yesterday afternoon left
the city.
It transpired that the perfidious young men took
her first to the St. Charles Hotel, and that subse
quently she was removed to the place from which
she was rescued.
Painful though it is to chronicle or peruse such a
story as the above, it yet affords to parents, guar-
dians, and youth, a much-needed lesson and warn-
ing.

7

CIIA_RG_ES ON FOREIGN TRADE.

The CommisitPla of the House of Commons ap-
pointed to it Auire into the operation of the petty
charges up' fa imports and_exports met yesterday

for the fir A time—Mr. Moffatt in the chair.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer was the first
witness. He stated that in the session of 1860 he

propo'.ied small taxes upon entries inwards and out-
war'as. The principal motive for those charges was
the necessity of obtaining the means of effecting a
great operation with regard to the tariff, and it was
also hoped that it would be possible to effect a re-
duction in the staff of the Customs department.
The obtaining an improvement in the system of col-
lecting statistics was also an important considera-
tion in regard to exports, but it was pot so material
with regard to entries inwards. The completeness
of the alteration of the tariff of 1860 enabled the
Board of Customs to carry out a large reduction of
the establishment, but in accordance with the bene-
volent usages of this country, that all abolition of
offices should be attended by large compensation,
the immediate saving to the country, although con-

siderable, by no means represented the ultimate
advantage that would be derived. To crder to effect
the reduction in the Customs establishment, toge-
ther with the alteration of the tariff, subsidiary
funds were required, and the two charges now in
question were proposed for that purpose, with the
idea that they could be levied without causing
trouble, delay, or vexation to eny portion of the

cam mun ity.
The Chairman asked why it was necessary to
create new charges when the Customs establishment

was reduced and its labours lightened.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied that the
charges were accompanied by a reduction of duties
to the extent of £2,800,000 in 1860, while the con-
templated reduction in the establishment was only
about £lOO,OOO.
The Chairman asked whether the penny tax on
entries inwards was not imposed with a view of

meeting the cost of statistics.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer said he could
not say how far the question of statistics was con-
sidered, as that was a matter for the Board of Trade
rather than the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The
plan, as originally protosed, was a simple one to
levy a charge of one penny upon goods generally,
taking a unit of package, or a unit of weight or
-
bulk ; but that plan broke down, because it was
found that there were many packages of small
value upon which a penny would be a sensible tax.
'The plan was modified, and became, no doubt, more
inconvenient for mercantile men, but more conve-
nient for statistical purposes. He believed that
every effort had been made by the Customs autho-
rities to prevent trouble to merchants beyond what
was necessarily incident to the levying of a tax. He
had expressed his views upon this subject as far
back as the 18th of April, 1861, in reply to a
memorial from some merchants. He had received
memorials from many large towns and ports, but he
did not remember any complaint of undue obstruc-
tion being offered by the Customs department.
'rho penny tax inwards, producing £138,000 a
year, he considered was bad in principle, but must
be maintained for a time as an element in the
balance-sheet. He took a different view of the
charge upon bills of lading outwards. It had been
originally intended to levy a penny tax upon
packages outwards, but that plan was found defec-
tive, and the present charge of is. 6d. upon each bill
of lading was substituted. That charge it was im-
portant to retain, in order to improve our statistics
of exports, which had been very imperfect. He
doubted whether mercantile men objected to the
charge itself, although upon shipments of very
small value it might be a sensible tax ; but those
cases would form no perceptible proportion to the
commerce of this country.
The Chairman asked whether the charge was
not imposed chiefly for statistical purposes.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the
charge was imposed partly to enable the Govern-
ment to carry out the alterations in the tariff, but
its value for statistical purposes was its principal
recommendation.
The Chairman—lf it should be proved that the
Government could obtain statistical information
without the aid of this ls. 6d. stamp, would you
place this charge in the same category as the penny
inwards, and remove it when the finances would
allow ?
The Chancellor of the Exchequer did not think
there were the same reasons for abolishing this
charge as for getting rid of the penny tax on en-
tries inwards. The latter charge caused delay and
trouble over and above the pecuniary burden, which
-was not the case with the former tax. The only
objection he could find to the stamp upon bills of
lading was in the case of small shipments of little
value, and he remembered that he had a complaint
from one gentleman who had to pay the ls. 6d.
stamp upon a shipment of soda water, value 3s. 4d.,
to the Channel islands, Such cases, however, were
comparatively rare, and he had received very few
complaints from any persons. With respect to the
value of the penny tax on entries inwards for sta-
tistical purposes, he was not prepared to give any
opinion, but, upon the financial aspect of the ques-
tion, he frankly admitted that he could not justify,
for the sake of the money it produced, the permanent
imposition of a charge involving so much labour and
delay and cost (in the shape of time) to the mercan-
tile community. With respect to the stamp upon
shipping bills, his impression was that it was finan-
cially unexceptionable, unless it might be in cases
which were too rare to be taken into acccunt, and
for statistical purposes it was of great advantage.
In reply to Mr. Hutt, Mr. Gladstone said he did
consider that the charges created in 1860 were a
return to the principle of nominal duties.
Sir T. Fremantle, chairman of the Board of Cus
tams, was the next witness. He said he could not
admit that the penny inwards was useless for the
collection of statistics. Before the imposition of that
tax the Customs had no means of verifying the mer-
chants' returns, but the unit of entry now adopted
affurded means of arriving at results approximating
to the truth. Unless a tax of some kind were
levied, the officers could not obtain correct re-
turns, and as to the tax itself, he thought that
its present shape was the best that could be de-
vised. All the payments In London were made by
stamps in preference to money, and therefore he
doubted whether a batter plan could be suggested.
inwards was a mode of adjustment The penny of
duties between the Crown and the inern,tars, and
if after goods had been removed from the wharf or
ship it was found that sufficient stamps had not
been affixed to the order application was made to
the importers for additional stamps, the requisite
information being obtained from the wharfingers or
dock companies. No delay was caused in the de-
livery of the goods, because the merchants were
allowed to remove them upon faith of their entries,
and if those entries were subsequently found to be
inaccurate application was made that the errors
might be corrected. In the case of over-payments,
when the fact was discovered notice was sent to
the importer, and the over-payment was returned
to him. Dutiable artieles are now reduced to 22
principal heads,
which comprised a considerable
variety of minor articles. Upon 149 articles the
penny unit had been adopted and made a unit of
entry. In order to obtain perfectly correct statistics
the unit of entry should be extended to all goods,
which would add about one-third to the present
number of articles so treated. The penny stamp
upon cases did not afford much statistical informa-
tion of the quantities or numbers of the goods they
contained, as when once the penny was paid, and
the Customs effieers were satisfied that the goods
were free goods, it would be vexatious to make a
thorough examination of the cases. In order to
obtain accurate statistics, he thought the Board of
Trade should simplify their requirements, and re-
duce the list of articles now comprised in 23 long
pages to a much smaller number of items. Statistics
relating to dutiable goods could be obtained with-
out the penny stamp, but upon free goods correct
information could not be obtained without the im-
position of some tax. The computed value of
importation of dutiable articles in
1861 was
£80,000,000, and of free goods £130,000,000. There
had been objections to the payment of the two
charges which were the subject of the inquiry, and
some few complaints bad been made, but upon the