The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1865.

CRYSTAL PALACE.-GREAT TRIENNIAL
HAN DE.L FESTIVAL.
MESSIAH, Monday, June 26, 1865.
SELECTION, Wednesday, June 23, 1865.
ISRAEL, Friday, June 30, 1865.
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Crystal Palace and Exeter Hall, March 18th, 1865.

MR. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr.
JO tiN PAI RY. will appear in their new entertain-
ment, entitled A PSCULTAR FAMILY, by Mr. William
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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CHERTSEY STEEPLECHASES.-FRIDAY.

Tho second day of this little gathering, the card of which
only embraced four races, was again fortunately attended
with fine weather. The company were numerous and
fashionable, doubtless many being attracted in consequence
of its being reported that the Prince of Wales would again
honour the course with his presence; but in this respect
they were disappointed. There was good sport, however,
two of the finishes being particularly exciting, more espe-
cially the set-to between Half Caste and Buffalo Girl,
which ended in a dead heat. The principal event of the
two days, the South-Western Railway Handicap, jwas car-
ried off by the favourite, Morocco. The results of the other
races aro fully detailed below:—

A Maiden Steeplechase of 3 sovs each, with 25 added ;
four-yr:olds,llst ; five, 11st 71b; six and aged, 12st

with selling allowances. About three miles.
Mr. Burlington's Old Windsor, 5 yrs, list 71b (£200)
(Mr. Ifarford) 1
Mr. Shelton's Amelia Ann, 4 yrs, 9st (car. lOst 51b)(.450)
(Brazier) 2
The following also ran :—lrish Boy, Lifebuoy, and
Flying Spur.

Betting-7 to 4 each agst Old Windsor and Flying Spur,
7 to 2 agst Lifebuoy.

They ran in close company to the first fence, at which
Lifebuoy refused, and Irish Boy doing the like half a mile
further on, Flying Spur wont on with the running, and
maintained the lead till within half a mile from home,
when he refused, and Old Windsor then took up the run-
ning, and soon had a long lead of Amelia Ann, which he
increased, and came in alone. Amelia Ann being pulled
up at the last fence, walked in and passed the post with the
crowd. There was no advance in the selling price for the
winner.

The Hunters' Stakes of 3 sous each, with 20 added, for
horses tho property of gentlemen ,or farmers, with
certain conditions ; 12st 71b each, with selling allow-
ances; professional riders, 71b extra, About three

miles.
Mr. Peyton's Almeric, lOst (£4O) (Mr. Ellison) 1
Mr. Bayer's Betsy Baker, lOst 71b (.£4O) (Pickett) 2
Lord C. Ker's Johnnie, 12st 71b (not to bo sold)
(Owner) 3
The following also ran :—Scots Grey, Knowles, Concave,
Rambler, and Irish Lass.

Betting-2 to 1 agst Concave, 4to 1 agst Johnnie, sto 1
each agst Scots Grey, Almeric, and Betsy Baker.
Scots Grey took up the running and led past the Stand,
his immediate followers being Knowles, Betsy Baker, and
Concave in a cluster, followed byJohnnie, who took second
place before reaching the enclosure the second time ;
Knowles came to grief after going a mile, and the Grey
compounding a mile from home, Betsy Baker, Johnnie, Al-
meric, and the favourite took close order, but the latter gave
way two fences from the winning-post. After landing in
the winning field a good race ensued between Almeric and
Betsy Baker, which ended in favour of the former by a
length ; Johnnie was beaten two lengths for second place.
The winner was bought in for 91 guineas.

The 2d Life Guards Challenge Cup, to be won three years;
12st 71b each. Three miles.

Captain Ewart's (2d L. G.) Half Caste, 12st 71b(Owner)f 1
Capt. Rowley's (2d L. G.) Buffalo Girl, 12st 71b(Owner)t 2
Mr. Ray's Beau, 12st 71b ........................(Mr Young)) 3
Crinoline and Jock Hinton also ran.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Jack Hinton, sto 2 agst Half Caste,
4 to 1 agst Buffalo Girl, 6 to 1 agst any other.
Beau, Jack Hinton, and Half Caste were in close attend-
ance upon Buffalo Girl, who led past the Stand. Rounding
the bend Jack Hinton ran into second place, and before
reaching the Stand the second time took up the running,
and with Buffalo Girl at his side came over the fence pre-
ceding the Stand, Half Caste going on third, and Beau
fourth. Three-quarters of a mile from home the favou-
rite, going well, came down, and Buffalo Girl went on with
a long lead of Half Caste, who, gradually catching the
leader, challenged her after clearing the last fence, and
getting up in the last few strides made a dead of it. Beau
trotted in a bad third, and Crinoline walked in.

Deciding Heat-5 to 4on Half Caste, who made nearly
all the running, and won by two lengths.
The South-Western Railway Open Handicap of 100 sovs,
added to a Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft ; winners
after the publication of the weights extra. About three

miles and a half.
Mr. W. W. Baker's Morocco, 6 yrs, lOst 111 b
(J. Nightingall 1
Mr. Elphick's Goshawk, lOst 121 b (Pickett 2
Mr. J. Road's Ballycasey, lOst 81b (T. Barton 3

Confidence also ran.

Betting-2 to lon Morocco, sto 2 aget Ballycasey, 3to
1 ngst Goshawk.
Morocco made play to the brook, Confidence lying se-
cond and Ballycasey third; after reaching the fifth fence
Confidence ran the wrong side of the flag, and was subse-
quently stopped. Goshawk now took up the running, and
carried it on for the next mile ; the favourite, lying seve-
ral lengths in the rear of Ballycasey, waited till reaching
the brook, half a mile from home, when the lot closed, and
took the last fence but ono in close company, after which
a good race ensued, which ended in favour of Morocco by
a length. :Ballycasey was beaten the same distance for
second place.

A Sweepstakes of 5 sous each, with 40 added, and the
Farmers' Steeplechase of 1 soy each and a cup added, did
not fill.

SCARBOROITGH STEEPLECHASES.—FRIDAY.
The Londesborough Plato of 2 sous each, with 25 added,
for hunters; 12st each; winners extra; second to save
his stake. About three miles and a half.
Mr. Dunhill's Endor Witch, 12st r Christian 1
Mr. Brooks ns Caution, 12st 51b (_(M
Mr. G. Harland 2
3
Burlington and Maria also ran.
Mr. Burkill's Holderskye, aged, 12st 51b (Owner
Betting-7 to 4 agst Caution, and 2to 1 each agst Endor
Witch and Maria.

Won by two lengths ; four lengths between second and
third.

The Scarborough Grand Annual Open Steeplechase (Han-
dicap) of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, with 70 added; second to
save his stake; winners extra. Three miles and a
half. 14 subs, —of whom pay 3 sovs each to the fund.
Mr. G. Simpson's Chance, 6 yrs, lOst 51b (W. Simpson) 1
Mr. T. J. Smith's Skirlaugh Squire, aged, lust 111 b
(Nicholson) 2
Mr. C. H. d'Avignor's Alice, aged, lOst 81b (Voss ) 3
Mr. Kirk's Westwick (late 'Useless Brute), 11 st (Montague) 0
Betting—Even on Skirlaugh Squire, 6 to 4 agst Chance,
3 to 1 agst Westwick.

Won by four lengths ; very bad third.
The Ladies' Plate of 1 sov each, with 15 added ; 12st 71b
each ; selling allowances, &c. ; second to save his stake.
Two miles and a half.
Mr. Richard Barker's Whalebone, lOst 71b (£1 5) (P. Smith) 1
Hon. Chas. Lane Fox's Cheap Article, list (X2O) (Owner) 2
Mr. William Gardner's Royal Princess, lOst 71b (.£l5)
(Mr. Crawshaw) 3
Mr. Wellburn's Fugleman's Daughter, 5 yrs, list (.£l5)
(Christian 4
Mr. Waters's Genuine Garton, 6 yrs, 10st 71b (.£l5
(Summers 5
The following horses also ran :—Free Gift, Esca, ol-
dersyke, Crookshanks, Early-day Boy.
Betting—Even on Royal Princess, 3 to 1 agst Genuine
Garton, 4 to 1 agst Cheap Article, 6 to 1 agst Whalebone.
Won by four lengths ; same between second and third ;
a bad fourth.

The winner was sold to Mr. Megginson for 50 guineas.

BIRMINGHAM STEEPLECHASES-FRIDAY.

The LICENSED VICTUALLERS' PLATE of 5 soya. each, with
30 added; for all
Sages ; winners extra. Two miles and
a half.

Mr. Oakden's Kings of Hearts, 6 yrs, 11st 31b ... (Bond) 1
Mr. F. Jacob's Wee Nell, aged, list 81b (Mr. Lawrence) 2
Mr. Brown's Shamrock so Green c01t,4 yrs,lost (J. Knott) 3
Betting-6 to 5 agst King of Hearts, 2to 1 agst Wee
Nell, 5 to 2 agst Shamrock-so-Green colt.
Won by two lengths ; the Shamrock-so-Green horse did
not pass the post.

The Craven Cup, value £lOO, by subscriptions of 10 sovs
each, sft.; the surplus to be paid to the winner ; for
12st 71b (inc. 51b. ex.
four-yr-olds and upwards ; weight for age, penalties, and
allowances. • About three miles and a-half. 22 subs.
(E. Jones 1
(Owner 2
21Mr
r.
. D88.17111ines:: Express,Crusade a6ged,7l.Bl2st '7lb.
Mr. Reeves's Supple, 4 yrs, llst ...............(G. Stevens 3
Soothsayer, Charity
BoTy,hße
Betting-5 to 2 agst Charity Boy ;4to 1 each against
ofoslls,o3weisnugisatals.o ran :—Glasgow,
Express and Ross; 6 to 1 each agst Supple and Crusade;
7 to 1 agst Soothsayer.
Won by four lengths; Supple was third, three lengths
from the second ; Glasgow was a bad fourth. Soothsayer
was the only other that passed the post. Charity Boy was
pumped out after going two miles and a half, and pulled
up. Ross, soon after Charity Boy had pulled up, fell
heavily, but did not injure his rider.
The Hunters' Plate of 25 sovs, for 4-yr-olds and upwards ;
weight for ago ; conditional penalties. About three

miles.
Mr.Mr F.
Walter's yrs, 12st 31b...(Owner) 1
...(Mr. C. Riddell) 2
Mr. J. Millward, jun. s In the Summer, aged, 12st 71b
eDr
bo Doctor
o6r t
y Pr us
12st6 31b
ierei vEa sd
(Mr. C. Peers) 3
Mr. Longman's Darlington, 6 yrs, 12st 31b
(Mr. Lawrence) 4
Mr. Daniel's George, 5 yrs, list 121 b (Mr. Ilipviell) 5
The fallowing also ran :—Glencairn, Bunbut7, Iron-
mould, Rocket,Startler, Never too Late to Mend, Denmark,
and Nettle.

Betting-5 to 2 agst Enderby, 6to 1 agst Darlington, 100
to 14 agst Doctor Pusey, 10 to 1 each agst In tho Summer,
Ironmould, and George.
Won by three lengths. In the Summer was a bad third,
Darlington and George being the only others that passed
the post.

The Grand Annual Steeplechase of 15 sous each, 5 ft, with
100 added ; winners extra. About three miles and a
half. 52 subs, 19 of whom paid 2 sous each to the fund.
Mr. Bilham's Sly Fox, aged, list 121 b (Monahan) 1
Mr. C. Smith's The Roue, aged, list 31b (D. White) 2
Mr. T. Golby's Church Militant, 6 yrs, lOst 121 b
(Mr. Edwards) 3
Mr. Hervey's Meanwood, 6 yrs, 12st— (J. Page) 4
Mr. B. Land's Ironsides, aged, 12st llb (ff. Hales) 5
The following also ran :—lvanhoff, Bell's Life, Creole,
and Vivandiere.

Betting-3 to 1 agst Church Militant, sto 1 agst Sly Fox,
6 to 1 agst Ivanhoff, 7 to 1 agst Meanwood, 8 to 1 each agst
Ironsides and Creole, 100 to 8 each agst Bell's Life and The
Rogue.

Creole made play, with Ironsides and Church Militant in
close attendance, Bell's Life heading the remainder,whipped
in by Vivandiere. Going up the hill Church Militant
headed Creole, and led into the park, coming out of which
Ironsides took up the running, and passed the Stand
clear of Creole, second, the favourite third, The Rogue
and Sly Fox side by side, Vivandiere tailed off. They
ran thus round the top turn, where both Creole
and The Rogue headed Ironsides, who immediately
afterwards hung:out signals of distress. Church Militant
still went on third, Sly Fox and Meanwood drawing up,
and on entering the Park the second time the five took
close order and went out of sight. On reappearing Sly
Fox, The Rogue, and Church Militant looked as if they had
the race in hand, and so it was, after the second fence from
home was cleared, Church Militant gave way, and the issue
was left with the other two, but The Rogue failed to over-
haul the Irish horse, who won after a close and exciting
finish by a neck ; Church Militant was third, beaten three
lengths ; and Meanwood a bad fourth. Ironsides and Ivan-
hoff cantered in fifth and sixth, and Bell's Life walked up
the course next; but neither the latter, Creole, nor Vivan-
diere passed the post.

The Scurry Handicap of 25 sovs. ; winners after the weights

were published 71b. extra.

Lord Powlett's Wheldrake, 4 yrs, 9st 21b. J. Page 1
Mr. E. Green's Soothsayer, aged, lOst 51b (Mr. Edwards 2
Mr. H. Wyatt's Jesuista, 5 yrs, list 71b (Mr. Stevens 3
The following also ran :---Jerusalem, Pot Pourri, and
Borhoime.

Betting opened at 2 to 1 agst Jesuista, and closed at 2 to 1
agst Wheldrake, 3 to 1 agst Soothsayer, 4 to 1 agst Jesuista.
Won easily by a length ; a bad third.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-FRIDAY.

There was a good attendance at the Subscription Rooms
this day, but the business transacted on future events was
rather limited in character. Breadalbane continued in
groat request for both the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes
and Derby, and Peon was in some demand for the City and
Suburban. Closing prices :

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
Bto 1 agst Skeffington (taken)
14 to 1 agst Beaver (taken)
100 to 7 agst Huntsman's Daughter (offered)
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
100 to 8 agst Peon (taken)
TWO THOUSAND.
sto 2 agst Liddington (taken)
7to 1 agst Breadalbane (taken freely)
CHESTER CUP.
25 to 1 agst Highflyer's dam colt (taken)
DERBY.
11 to 2 agst Liddington (offered)
100 to 15 agst Breadalbane (taken)
100 to 3 agst Chattanooga (offered)
40 to 1 agst Arid (taken)
40 to 1 agst Christmas Carol (taken)

JEMMY GRIMSHAW.—Lord Stamford has put an and to
the competition for little Jemmy Grimshaw by giving him
a thousand per annum for the first call of his services.
Enormous as this salary must seem, it is in reality not too
much in the present day, when such sums aro betted on
races of all sorts and descriptions ; for the recipient of it
has such indisputable talent and integrity that by one single
race he will enable Lord Stamford to get him for nothing
for the remainder of the season. Therefore, with such a
stud as Lord Stamford possesses, the engagement is in
every respect a most judicious ono, and certain to boar fruit
in good time. The Marquis of Hastings, it is understood,
offered him five hundred per annum for the first call, but
Grimshaw would not listen to the proposal for an instant;
and even a bid of £l,OOO to ride for him in the Chester
Cup was rejected, the reply being that he would not bind
himself to anybody, and that no ono would know until the
day before what he would ride.

RACING PIXY

Warwick Spring
Vincennes
Chelmsford Spring

Ar:
Vincennes
Northampton 4
Croxt on Park
Newmarket Craven l7
Durham

Newmarket Ist Spring... 1

Chester v 9
York Spring
Salisbury lB

Vincennes
Chelmsford 7
Manchester Summer
Ascot l3
Beverley l4
Liverpool
Alexandra Park 2O

'RES FOR 1865.

Newmarket July
Carlisle
Worcester
Abingdon
Stamford l3
Winchester lB

AUG'
Brighton 1
Brighton Club
Lewes 4
Huntingdon
Wolverhampton
Reading
Egham l5
Royal Windsor l7

Grand National Hunt 29
Barham 3O
Lewes Spring 3O

Leicester 7
Doncaster
Brecon lB
Richmond

Canterbury Spring
Abergavenny 2O
Thirsk 2l
Cardiff 25
Epsom Spring

Bath 23
Harpenden 26
Epsom 3O

Hampton 2l
Newton
Newcastle
Odiham
Bidbury
Stockbridge

Nottingham
Southampton l9
Chesterfield
Goodwood
Down Royal Corp —

MST.
York
Plymouth
Lichfield 2B
Devon and Exeter 29
Derby Summer 30
Weymouth 3l
Baden 3l
Stockton

OCTO'
Northallerton
Newmarket 2d Oct 95
Vincennes

Monmouth 2l
Manchester Autumn
Newmarket Ist Oct 2G
Walsall

Newmarket Ho. M
Vincennes

NOTE
Liverpool Autumn

DER.
Shrewsbury

AQUATICS.

ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.

On the occasion of our communicating the brilliant pro-
grame of tho above club for the approaching season, we
announced the fact that in addition to the valuable prizes
presented by the club to be contended for, three members
contributed handsome prizes, which would afford additional
sport. At that time it was not determined when they should
bo sailed for, and the committee were left in their discretion
to make the necessary arrangements. They have met and
have fixed the extra prize contests as follows, and it will bo
seen that an addition has been made of a valuable character
to the previous liberal lists :
The .150-Guinea Cup, presented by George Salt, Esq. :
from Gravesend to Rydo Pier ; Wednesday, 21st Juno ;
entries close June 8.
The 50-Guinea Prize, presented by Sir Gilbert East,
Bart., for cutters of any tonnage under R.T.Y.C. rules;
open to all Royal Yacht Clubs; Monday, 19th June
(schooner day); course, Gravesend round the Mouse and
return ; entries close Thursday, June 8.
The 25-Guinea Cup, presented by Captain P. C. Lovett,
Second Prize in Sir Gilbert East's match; same course,
date, &c., and same night of entry.
The 50-Guinea Corinthian Cup, for cutters between 10
and 35 tons, manned by amateur crows ; presented by
Messrs. IL C. Maudslay and H. F. Smith ; Gravesend
round the lower light and return ; Wednesday, sth July ;
entries close June 22.

The club prizes amounted to £695, and it will be seen,with
the above added, that £983155. is the aggregate value of the
It.T.Y.C. prizes for the season of 1865.

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE,

Tho Oxford crow have been very regular in their train-
ing since our last notice, their style being much improved,
and more satisfactory to their friends and admirers. Some
parties assert that they are not so well up in form as they
ought to be, and doubt the lasting qualities of some of the
crew, but still the odds are freely laid on them. Mr. Hen-
ley, who was compelled to leave Oxford in consequence of
the serious illness of a near relation (who is now much better)
has resumed his seat as No. 3 in the boat, which is propelled
at the rate of 34 strokes per minute. The crew this after-
noon manned their now boat, rowing as far as Harvey's
Barge and back, and were much pleased with it. The craft
is a splendid specimen of Salter's style of boat-building
with cedar ; the length is 56 feet 2 inches. Mr. Brickwood,
of the London Rowing Club, has paid Oxford a visit, and
seems pleased with their sweeping style, which he, with
many other good judges, thinks is far preferable to the short,
quick stroke of the Cantabs, especially on the Thames
water. We understand Harvey, the Oxford waterman, and
others, have engaged steamers, as usual, to accompany the
race.

PRICE 4d.
STAMPED 5d..,

The Failure of Attwoods, Spooner, and Co.'s

Bank,

BIRMINGHAM, Friday Night.
The committee appointed at the meeting of cre-
ditors yesterday met to-day ; the Rev. Dr. Miller
presided.

It was determined to notify publicly that the
committee is prepared to negotiate for the sale of
the property and assets, and that tenders will be
received from any persons who may be desirous of
purchasing. It is rumoured that more than one of
the Banks of the town is prepared to tender.

The matter is by no means free from difficulty,
because a certain amount of litigation is inevitable.

An Austrian Opinion of Free Trade.

Under the heading " English Free Trade, the
Neu Freie Presse publishes the following opinions :
—" An International Anglo-Austrian commission
of inquiry is to meet shortly in this capital to study
the ground for a commercial treaty between Austria
and England. This will certainly be a very useful
task, and if it does not occasion too much expense
need give rise to no objection even should it remain
utterly without result, which we do not yet know
may be the case. We must await further details
before we are able to judge of the plan upon which
the scheme is based. But if our manufacturers
already look forward to this commission with un-
easiness, they are very wrong. There is not much
cause for alarm, for it is to be hoped the English
will not expect us to become more zealous free
traders than they are themselves. It is, namely,
one of the irremovable false impressions to believe
that England's free trade system is so dangerous.
The real truth is, on the contrary, that England
still clings to the system of protective duties as the
most serviceable to her ; it has not been abolished,
only moderated, yet in such a manner that Eng-
lish labour is still protected. Three species of
imports are noticeable in the English tariff with
regard to protective duties—First, raw goods only
produced abroad, such as coffee, tea, tobacco,
silk, &c. ; secondly, raw goods of kinds native to
England, and produced there more cheaply than
any-where abroad, such as coals, iron, &c. ; thirdly,
raw goods and manufactures produced in England
as well as abroad. Protective duties are inapplic-
able to the first category, for there are no native
products to protect. The Customs' duties are
purely taxes upon consumption, and belong to the
excise, so that every increase or decrease constitutes
in the main a home question. In the conclusion of
commercial treaties they serve as well as protective
duties for the reduction of foreign tariff dues. But
it cannot be said that high duties upon coffee and
tea have protected British agriculture and manufac-
tures. The second category comes still less into
consideration, for the freedom from duty of coals,
iron, &c., is neither free trade nor generosity. No-
body upon the Continent will send coals to New-
castle, or pig iron to Scotland. High duties will
therefore not prevent imports, and their removal
will not bring about imports. Protective duties first
come under consideration in the third category; and
here it cannot be denied that, although much has
been done to reduce them, their abolition is still
distant. Our cousins across the water have only
thoroughly removed protective duties from raw
goods and their initiatory stages, but not from the
more advanced conditions in which most work is
contained ; these are still burdened with duties high
enough to prevent import, or to reduce it to a mini-
mum. 50 to 80 per cent. is not requisite to consti-
tute a protective duty, but 10, and even 5, per cent.
fully suffice for articles of daily sale in England,
and especially in London, so that a small profit may
be rendered a great one by frequent repetition. Thus,
for instance, the commonest, therefore most used,
kinds of leather goods, shoes, gloves, &c., are burdened
with about 10 per cent., while skins and leather, even
if rolled and varnished, enter free, so that the
tariff is really a protective duty for the shoe-
maker. The same obtains with cotton and me-
tallic goods, arms, silk goods, laces, woollens, &c.,
in which England shuts herself up against foreign
labour, allows the raw material to enter free, while
it burdens ready-made goods, so that their tariff
rates cannot be taken as equivalents for duties upon
the raw material. They exclusively affect labour,
and are protective duties in favour of native manu-
facture retained and regulated at the time the pro-
tective duties upon corn, wool, flax, &c., favouring
the landowner were abolished. It may be objected
that the reduction of the protective duties upon
ready-made goods from 50 and 80 per cent. to 5 and
10 per cent. has been an enormous step in advance,
as imports have become possible which the Custom-
house lists prove did not formerly take place. But
therein are two self delusions. First, the reduction
which looks so large upon paper is, in reality, with-
out effect if 5 to 10 per cent. suffices to keep out
imports ; the abolition of the intervening 45 to 70
per cent. in that case becomes an empty form.
Many kinds of goods are certainly imported, not-
withstanding the 10 per cent., but mostly of the
better sorts; the great mass of ordinary kinds which
mainly come into consumption, and the cheapness
of which would be useful to the great mass of the
people, remains excluded by many duties imposed
according to weight and measure, without regard to
value and equality. The second delusion lies in the
fact that only the official figures of the imports
prior and subsequently to Customs' reform can be
compared, as no data exist of the former large
amount of smuggling. When articles were entirely
prohibited or burdened with 50 to 80 per cent. duties
these fetched a high price in England ; smuggling
was highly remunerative, and flourished in all
quarters, the more so the higher cunning and
force were rewarded. Whoever entered the
country smuggled, every man on board a vessel
down to the cabin boy or ship's dog, every pilot or
fisherman, every traveller, and notably the fair
sex, with their numerous opportunities and pretexts
for so doing—all combined to carry on a roving free
trade, the figures of which never come into the im-
port lists. When high prices in England disappeared
with high duties the premium no longer paid for the
danger; the imports appeared in the lists, and their
sum large, although they in reality may be much
smaller than before. It is, of course, impossible to
prove this by figures; all that is intended is to show
that the import lists do not prove as much in favour
of Customs' reform as is commonly ascribed to them
in reference to the protective duties. Yet in England,
the great cotton factory, it is even now attempted to',
prevent the import of cotton gloves, stockings, and
night-caps; in England, which supplies the whole
world with machinery, the imports of foreign ma-
chinery is guarded against. Foreign boots and
foreign crockery, continental glass bottles, and
foreign linen, foreign candles, foreign carpets,
foreign musical instruments, foreign lace, and even
perfumed soap, John Bull declines to receive from
abroad. Free traders to that extent we can be, too."

THE REPRESENTATION OF NORTII DEVON.—The
lamented death of Mr. Buller, M.P. for the northern
division of Devonshire, has caused some excitement in poli-
tical circles. Tho heads of the Conservative party immedi-
ately met, and it is authoritatively announced that they
have resolved to bring forward Sir G. Stucley Stucley, of
Hartland Abbey, who once made an ineffectual attempt to
represent Exeter in the Conservative interest, and who was
member of Parliament for Barnstaple in 1855. Tho Liberals
have not yet determined upon a candidate, and it is not
probable that they will do so until after the funeral of Mr.
Buller, which will take place next Tuesday. The names of
Col. Acland and the Hon. Dudley Fortescue have been men-
tioned as probable candidates in the Liberal interest, but wo
give this as mere rumour. It may be well to state that at
the last contested election for North Devon the Liberal
candidate, the late Mr. Buller, had a majority over Sir S.
Northcote of 1;547 votes, and over the Hon. C. R. Trefusis
(the present Conservative member for North Devon) of
1,330 votes. It will thus be seen that there is not much
chance of the return of a Conservative if the Liberal party
select the right man.