The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-18 00:00:00

RACING FIXTL
AP:

Newmarket C 2l
Bishop Auckland
Catterick Bridge

Newmarket F S
Chester Spring
York Spring

Epsom Summer 3
Chelmsford .. 11
Manchester ll
Ascot

Odiham
Bibury Club
Newton
Stockbridge 3
Winohester ..
Newmarket
Worcester
Liverpool

Radcliffe
Brighton 5
Brighton Club
Lewes .. 8
Wolverhampton
Reading
Wenlock l5

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Derby ... .
Great Yarmouth
Plymouth .. 4
Oxford 4
Warwick
Leicester

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Richmond
Walsall
Monmouth 25
Manchester 26
Newmarket 1' 0

Bedford
Newmarket S 0 l3

Gloucester
Newmarket H

A DEMOCRATIC VIEW OF A CHEAP PRESS...—.
In England for the' last 30 years there has been more of
constitutional liberty than there ever was before, and the
reason is that the press, in consequence of the high tax
upon newspapers, fell into the hands If men of intelligence
and men of capital, men who had a stake in the community,
and would do nothing to endanger the general welfare or
kindle the fires of revolution. Of late the high tax has been
removed, and cheap papers of a revolutionary character have
sprung up like mushrooms, and the once respectable press
contaminated now imitates them, in c ,nsequence of the
public taste having become vitiated and depraved. The re-
suit is that England is going rapidly down the hilt, and
will soon be at the bottom. In France, the cheap press at
the time of the Revolution, wielded by desperate demagogues
like Marat, caused those frightful excesses which made the
angels weep. In the last days of the reign of Louis Philippe
it was the cheap press that revolutionised Paris and de-
throned that monarch. Louis Napoleon, fearing the same
result in regard to himself, put a bridle in the mouth of the
press and destroyed its freedom. It is a well ascertained
tiuth of h story that in France a free cheap press cannot
exist without producing revolution. Now, the true remedy
which Napoleon ought to have applied, was that which was
so long adopted in England, but is now unfortunately aban-
doned—taxation. And that is the remedy for the licenti-
ousness of the press in the United States. It ought to be
taxed like whisky or any other luxury, and such a price
put on newspapers as will cause them to be read chiefly
by intellectual men. The ( heap and nasty demagogic
papers which now exist have done much to bring the coun-
try into its present deplorable condition. The true remedy
for the evil, the true censorship, is a high tax upon public
journals. Nothing will so tend to the purification of public
morals.—New York Herald.
A bronze statue, larger tnan life, has just been
placed on a pedestal temporarily in front of the Palais de
l'lndustrie, in the Champs Elysees. It represents Boissy
d'Anglas, who occupied the President's chair in the Na-
tional Convention during the first revolution, when the
mob forced the doors of the Assembly and presented to the
President the bleeding head of the deputy Feraud, whom
they had just murdered. Boissy d'Anglas raised his hat
as a mark of respect to hie unfortunate colleague. He then
resumed his seat, and by his firmness induced the intruders
to withdraw. This terrible episode is represented in bronze
on the pedestal. The statue is intended for the town of St.
Jean-Chambre, in the Ardeche, where Boissy d'Anglas was
born of ancient Protestant family.