The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-03 00:00:00

Ab. M.

Mr. Hargreave's Cheerful, bat 101 b (J. Marson) 1
Mr. Bower's Gipsy Girl, Bst (Custance) 2
Mr. Yorke's Blanche of Lancaster, 6st (Carroll) 3
The following also ran :—Perseverance, Ernest, Merry
Hart, Dolphin, "Witch of Ender, Revolver, Prince Lee
800, Lucretia, Aggressor, Erythia, Leotard, Lady of the
Isles, Lord in Waiting, Black Deer, Sanita, and Water
Kelpie.
Bettinft-7 to 2 agst Cheerful, 4 to 1 agst Revolver, 8 to
1 agst Erythia, and 10 to 1 each agst Gipsy Girl, Blanche
of Lancaster, Water Kelpie, and Prince Leo 800, and 100
to 8 each agst Lord in Waiting and Dolphin.
Immediately the flag was lowered the running was taken
up by Blanche of Lancaster, waited upon by Gipsy Girl,
Prince Lee 800, Dolphin, and Aggressor, in which position
they ran to within a short distance of the chair, when the
favourite, in company with Gipsy Girl, came out and chal•
lengtd the leader, and, the pair getting up in the last stride
or two, the former won on the post by a head, Gipsy Girl
defeating Blanche of Lancaster by a like distance for se-
cond. Erythia, Lady of the Isles, and Aggressor were the
next three ; Ernest, Perseverance, and Leotard bringing up
the rear.

The Houghton Handicap of 15 sous each, 5 ft, to go to
the second, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. T.Y.C., 5 fur-
longs 140 yards. 29 subs, 15 of whom pay 5 soya for-

feit.
Mr. Alexander's Farfalla, 3 yrs, Est 81b (F. Clark) 1
Mr. Walter's Little Pippin, 3 yrs, 7st 91b
(H. Grimshaw) 2
Mr. Hughes's Miss Emma, 4 yrs, 7st 61b .. (T. French) 3
The following also ran :—Suburban, Gemma, Zelle,
Fig, Limosina, Conqueror, Benjamin, Belleisle, Lapidist,
and Bandage.
Betting-7 to 4 (at first 4to 1) agst Little Pippin, 4to 1
(at first 5 to 2) agst Farfalla, 5 to 1 agst Gemma, and 10 to
1 each agst, Lapidist, Conqueror, and Zeno.
Farfalla cut out the work at a great pace, followed by
Gemma and Little Pippin on the left, and Conqueror, Miss
Emma, and Suburban on the upper ground to the cords,
where the favourite took the second place, but failed to
reach the leader, who won very easily by a length ; Miss
Emma finished a bad third, Suburban was fourth, Fig
fifth, and Gemma sixth, the last two being Benjamin and
Belleisle.

A Sweepstakes of 10 soya each, for 2-yr -olds and up-
wards ; the winner to be sold for 200 soya, &c. ; if for
100 allowed 71b. T.Y.C. 5 furlongs 140 yards. 6
subs.
Mr. Thelluson's Hesper, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b (100 sous)
(G. Fordham) 1
Lord Stamford's Sea Nymph, 2 yrs, Est 31b (100) (Gray) 2
Lord Uxbridge's Mountain Buck, 2 yrs, 6st 31b 100
(S. Adams) 3
Count Batthyany's Lopcatcher, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b (100)
(Wells) 4
Mr. Beaumont's Devotee, 2 yrs, Est 31b (100)
(Whiteley) 5
Mr. Payne's Rifleman colt, 2 yrs, Est 101 b (200)
(J. Grimshaw)
Betting-6 to 4 agst Hesper, 2to 1 agst Sea Nymph, and
5 to 2 (at first 5 to 1) agst Mountain Buck.
Hesper jumped away immediately the flag was lowered,
made all the running, and won easily by a length and a
half, the third finishing three parts of a length from the
second ; Lopcatcher was a good fourth.
A Sweepstakes of 10 soya each, for 2.yr-olds; colts,
Bst 101 b ; fillies, Bst 71b ; the winner to be sold for 40
sous. First half of Ab. M. 3 furlongs 217 yards. 6

subs.
Mr. Jackson's Smoke, Bst 101 b (Bullock) 1
Admiral Rous's Nebula, Bst 71b (E. S harps) 2
Mr. Marshall's Presumption, Bst 71b ........Clement)( 3
Captain D. P. Beresford's Huguenot, Bst 10Ib
(G. Fordham) 4
Betting-6 to 4on Smoke, sto 2 agst Nebula, and 6to 1
agst Presumption.

The favourite made all the running, was never caught,
and won by a length; same between the second and third.
The winner was claimed.

A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, for 2-yr-olds and upwards.
The winner to be sold for 25 sovs. Last half of Ab. M.
(3 furlongs 217 yards). Nine subs.
Mr. Naylor's Neilgherry, 2 yrs, 7st 31b.... (T. French) 1
Lord Stamford's Lava, 4 yrs, Ost llb (A. Edwards) 2
Mr. Hughes's Baliverne, 3 yrs, Bst 101 b (Bullock) 3
The following also ran :---Lady Derby, Disdain, Grisette,
Miss Emma, and Tubal Cain.

Betting-2 to 1 agst Lava, 3to 1 agst Grisette, 7to 2
agst Neilgherry, sto 1 agst Baliverne (with whom Mr.
Hughes declared to win), and 10 to 1 agst Emma.
Neilgherry cut out the work, waited upon by Lava and
Lady Derby, for the first 100 yards, when the latter was
headed by Mr, Hughes's pair, who came on in attendance
upon the leader, but without having a chance of reaching
Neilgherry, who, having the first run, won very easily by
a neck. Baliverne was third, two lengths from the second ;
Miss Emma was fourth, close up, Tubal Cain fifth, and
Lady Derby last. The winner was claimed by Lord Stam-
ford, and Mr. Naylor claimed Lava.
A Sweepstakes of 10 sous each, for 3-yr-olds and upwards.
The winner to be sold for 120 sous. R. M. (1 mile 17

yards). 4 subs.
_ _r
. Crook's Henham Lass, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b
(G. Fordham) 1
Mr. Hughes's M. Philippe, aged, 9st 31b (D. Hughes) 2
Betting-5 to 2on M. Philippe, who cut out the work
to the cords, when the mare headed him and won by a
let gth.
4 Selling Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 goys each, 5 ft if de-

dared, &c., for 2-yr-olds and upwards. The winner to
be sold for 120 sovs, &c. A.E.C. (1 mile, 7 furlongs, 56
yards). 4 subs, one of whom pays 5 sovs,
Mr. Goddard's Peru, 3 yrs, Bst 21b.. (J. Daley) 1
Mr. Craven's Wild Duck, 3 yrs, Bst 71b.. (G Fordham) 2
Lord Exeter's Diligence, 2 yrs, 6st 21b.. (J. Grimshaw) 3
Betting-5 to 4 agst Wild Duck, 2to 1 agst Diligence,
and 3 to 1 agst Peru, who won by 10 lengths; Diligence
beaten off a long way.
Match, 200, h ft, Bst 91b. A.F.
Admiral Rous's Atlas received.
Mr. Payne's Red Malaga colt
Match, 100, 25ft. A.F.
Mr. Elphinstone's Lapidist, 3 yrs, Bst received.
Capt. Lane's Rough Diamond, 3 yrs, 7st 71b
Match, 100, h ft, Bst 101 b each. Three-quarters of a mile.
T .Y. C.

Mr. Elphinstone's Dunkeld
Mr. Beaumont's Belgravian Lament
Match, 150, 50 ft, Bst 71b each. Last half Ab M.
Mr. Ten Broeck's Batsman
Mr. Craven's Almack

Match, 200, 100 ft. D.M.
Mr. Hodgman's Libellous
Mr. J. Smith's Queen of Spain

THE TARRAGONA. AND MICHEL GROVE CASE:.

" Argus," the sporting correspondent of the Morning Post,
in reply to the Jockey Club, calling on him for an apology,
writes :—" Assuring the thousands who are so anxious to
know the steps I shall adopt in this matter that I fully
appreciate their kindness, I think they will be satisfied
when I tell them that ' Argus' will only make the apology
demanded of him when it is recommended to bim in the
great hall of William Rufus, to which ho invites John
Davis' and Co. to accompany him."

Bally's Magazine for November contains an exquisite
portrait of Mr. henry Villebois, so well known and appre-
ciated as a master of hounds. In both capacities every en-
deavour has been made to do justice to him, although his
life presents but few features for comment. The Gentleman
in Black has a paper entitled " Gentlemen Jockeys," which
is written with elegance and spirit. The other papers will
suit sportsmen of every class.

LANCASHIRE PAUPERISM ON THE
THR.EB.HOLD OF WINTER.

The monthly issue of the returns of pauperism from the
Central Office at Whitehall demands some notice at our
hands. Since we last took account of these tables a large
increase in the numbers they record has taken place, that
very little, if any, change has occurred in the relative pau-
perism of the unions of the cotton manufacturing districts
inter se.

Industrial England may, at the present time, be likened
to a strong man suffering from a grievous wound, deep set
and painful, the vital powers of his organism, otherwise
unimpaired, performing their apportioned functions with
due vigour, giving hope of some immediate alleviation, and
encouraging a reasonable expectancy of his ultimate resto-
ration to robust health at no distant period. Lancashire
distress is the sad wound in England's social and economic
frame. England's unslackened trade, apart from her cotton
mills, is typified by the healthy organs of the wounded man
resisting the destructive tendency of the injured part with
a fair promise of a full if not speedy reparative conquest.

We will first consider the pauperism of the whole coun-
try, so far as the published statements afford the data, that
is up to the end of August last. In the last week of that
month the Lumber of indoor and outdoor paupers in re-
ceipt of relief, and the difference when compared with the
corresponding period of 1861, will be seen in the following
tabulation :

Divisions. Paupers. Difference. Per cent
1. Metropolis 86,480 .... 1,873 inc. 2.2
2. South Eastern
3. South Midland 69,586 ~ .. 496 „ 01
4. Eastern
5. South Western 93,544 .... 1,845 inc. 1.9
6. West Midland
7. North Midland 54,316 .. • • 2,732 „ 5'3
8. North Western 175,687 .... 99,512 „ 130.6
9. York
10. Northern .. 43,488 2,973 ~ 7'3
11. Welsh . 78,587 .... 2,792 „ 3'7

Total 917,619

115,241 inc. 14.4 inc

With the exception of the Eastern division, which com-
prises the counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, all
parts of the kingdom showed an increase of pauperism,
though the augmented rate in the more purely agricul-
tural districts is very trifling. The North-Western, or
Lancashire and Cheshire, though the area distressed by
the stoppage of the cotton mills embraces but two thirds of
the population of the division exhibited at that date, an in-
crease of more than 130 per cent. But the relation of the
pressure in the great manufacturing division to the residue
of the kingdom, in Aug. last, is better shown when we eli-
minate the figures of the North-Western counties, thus :

Lancashire and Remainder of Eng.
Cheshire . land and Wales.
First week August
Second week August 163,075
Third week August .. 170,780
Fourth week August .... 175,687

During the fine harvest month of the South and Midland
counties, Lancashire and Cheshire added more than 20,000
paupers to their own lists ; at the same time, in the other
parts of the country, 3,000 were subtracted from the pauper
roll. Thus much as to the general pauperism of the king-
dom. Coming specifically to the cotton mnnufacturing
unions, we have a return which brings the history of the
distress, so far as it makes itself visible through the books
of the Poor-law Guardians, down to the end of last month.
The 21 unions of Mr. Villiers's special statement, com-
menced in Jan. last with 78,241 paupers on their books; by
the end of September this number had risen to 174,336.
The average increase in each week was nearly 6,000. The
numbers precisely are these, namely :

Paupers. Increase,
Fourth week of August
First week of September
Second week of September . 161,107 5,663
Third week of September 167,666 6,559
Fourth week of September .. 174,336 6,670

We can bring the numbers down to a more recent date,
by aid of the short table which is published weekly, under
the sanction of the Poor-law Board. From that source we
ascertain that, in the first week of the present month,
5,000 more paupers swelled the heavy numbers given
above ; in the second week, 7,100 ; and in the third week,
12,850. Therefore, the total number is expressed by the
following figures :
First week October 170,290
Second week October
Third week October
We are now at the close of the month, and there can
be little doubt that the number of paupers is now over
200,000 in these distressed unions. The population com-
prised in them is, in round numbers, 2,000,000. Hence,
one tenth of the population is on the poor rates. We need
hardly remind our readers that this ratio of one pauper to
every nine self-supporting inhabitants of this district is not
constant for the unions taken separately. Some have a far
higher ratio, and others a much lower one. Thus, in
Ashton-under-Lyne Union the proportion is one to five ;
but in the Bolton Union it is one to 22.

How far the present distress has outstripped that of
1857-8, as well as the prosperous year 18604, is but too
painfully testified to by the subjoined statement, where the
rate per cent. of absolute increase of pauperism is given for
the last week of September, in respect of the corresponding
week of both the former years :
Per cent. of increase compared
with September.

Unions.

1857-8. 1860-1
Aston -vnder-Lyne
Barton-on-Ir well 5O
Blackburn 353
Bolton
Burnley
Bury
Chorley
Chorlton
Clitheroe
Haslingden
Liverpoo'
Macclesfield
Manchester
Oldham
Preston
Prestwich
Rochdale .. 256
Salford 146 ..
Stockport
Warrington 32
Wigan
These figures reveal great inequalities of pressure. If our
sympathy for the poor operatives, and anxiety for the bur-
dened ratepayers are to be regulated arithmetically, our
emotions, in reading the portentous ratio of Ashton-under-
Lyne, should have 15 times the intensity we ought to ex-
perience when cognizant of the Bolton numerals.
We should like to have given some consideration to
the all-important question of " ways and means." Though
estimates for the past, and for the future, have been
attempted in some quarters, we cannot in the absence of
a sound basis of authenticated balance sheets, regard
such efforts with much favour, especially when they forsake
broad and general outlines, and ape the similitude of minute
precision. Conjectural statistics are the most impudent
of all shams, and, wherever met with should be inconti-
nently and ignominiously kicked into the " limbo of vanity.'
The pressure upon Lancashire ratepayers seems only in
one instance to have reached that point at which the
powers of the Union Relief Act can be brought in aid.
The Preston Union is known to have applied to the Poor-
law Board to sanction a loan of £4,000 odd, under the pro-
visions of that statute. We do not know, at present, the
exact particulars of the Preston application ; but it appears
that, if all the parishes in the union have expended during
the past quarter, as much as 9d. in the pound on their
aggregate rateable value, the union will be in a position to
mortage the rates, with the consent of the authorities at
raay Whitehall,
require.
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was not, during the Michaelmas ruarter, more than 9d.
in the pound, the Guardians would appear to censider
that something like a fund raised of ls. in the pound
will tide them over to Christmas. But, if the
actual expenditure should have been double that
assumed, or Is. 6d. in the pound, the estimate for the
current quarter will berat iso.B 90fd.vi,nIauthceaspirrodi,mia9nheiatui,
increase upon upon the ufa