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

POLICE INTELLIGBNCE.-April 17.

Mr. Knox said he had to consider the poor horses as well
as the persons they belonged to, and if he had any feeling
in the matter it was towards the poor animals. Mr. Cherry
had stated that the horse was an old overworked horse, and
that there were marks of severe flogging, and he relied on
what he stated, having also seen the horse himself.
The defendant was then fined 10s. and costs, altogether
235.

Mr. Love asked for the officer's costs, but Mr. Knox re.
fused the application.

SPORTING IN7ELLIG.ENCE.

TATTERSALLS'—YESTBRDA.T.
The extreme fineness of the weather had an effect upon
the attendance this afternoon, which for an off-day was the
largest we have witnessed this season. Business was, how-
ever, entered into with little spirit, the transactions upon
each of the events enumerated below just affording us an
opportunity of compiling a list.

The only noticeable feature of the afternoon was the
strong disposition to back Old Calabar for the rwo Thousand
Guineas and the Derby, 3 to 1 being repeatedly accepted
about the former, and 10 to 1 to some money for the latter.
The following will fully represent the business done :
NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
sto 1 agst Yarra (taken)
sto 1 agst Finlande (taken)
7to 1 agst Carbineer (taken)
7to 1 agst Gabrielle d'Estrees (taken)
10 to 1 agst Stanton (taken)
10 to 1 agst Ducat (taken)
20 to 1 agst Magnum Bonum (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
3to 1 agst Old Calabar (taken)
Bto 1 agst Alvodiston (offered, take 9to 1)
Bto 1 agst Caterer (offered, take 9to 1)
11 to 1 agst Wingrave (taken)
100 to 8 agst Nottingham (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
10 to 1 agst Zodiac (taken)
12 to 1 agst Hadji Stavros (taken)
13 to 1 agst Caractacus (taken)
15 to 1 agst Fairwater (taken)
20 to 1 agst Agag (taken)
• 25 to 1 agst Jung Frau (taken)
25 to 1 agst Stamped() (taken)
25 to 1 agst Wild Rose (offered, take 30 to 1)
33 to 1 Rubicon (taken)
33 to 1 agst Simla (taken and offered)
THE DERBY.
sto 1 agst Buckstone (offered)
10 to 1 agst Old Calabar (taken)
20 to 1 agst Marquis (taken)
26 to 1 agst Caractacus (taken)

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAUE-

MENTS.
Athlete was struck out of the Two Thousand Guineas
and the Derby at Newmarket, at 12 50 p.m., on the 16th
inst., and not 1 53, as reported.

An Lord Fitzwilliam's horses, except Vanguard, out of
their engagements in the Craven and First• Spring Meet-
ings, at 3 30 p.m., on the 17th.

Knight of St. Patrick and the Knight of the Thistle ou'
of all their engagements in the Craven Meeting, at 3 30 p.m,
on the 17th.

Merry Dancer out of the Two Thousand Guineas and
Derby, and his engagements in the Craven Meeting, at
3 30 p.m., on the 17th.

We are requested to state that the sth Lancers Steeple-
chases will come off, on the 22d inst., close to Sunningdale
Station, instead of at Chertsey, as previously advertised.

SALE OF MR. DRAKE'S HOUNDS.

The sale of this celebrated pack took place yesterday, at
the Kennels, Stratton Audley, three miles from the railway
station at Bicester, Oxfordshire, and nearly 2,000 persons
had assembled in the paddock adjoining the stables before
Mr. Tattersall began selling. The weather was most sus-
picious, a large number of masters of foxhounds were on
the spot, and huntsmen followed in abundance. Al er par-
taking of a cold collation the gentlemen gathered round the
railed arena, and business commenced. In less than two
hours 54 couples of working hounds and 20 couples of
puppies had realised 2,781 guineas; three brood bitches
fetched 87 guineas, and 23 horses 1,494 guineas.
Much regret was expressed at the retirement of Mr.
Drake ; but the sorrow of the country gentlemen was alle-
viate by the announcement that Captain Peyton, eldest
son of Sir Henry Peyton, had taken the country.

A DRMOCRATIC 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 of men of intelligence
and men of capital, men who had a stake in the community,
and would do nothiftg 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 consequence of the
public taste having become vitiated and depraved. The re-
sult is that England is going rapidly down the hill, and
will soon be at the bottem. In France, the cheap press at
the time of the Revolution, wielded by desperate demagogues
like Marat, caused those frightful ex6esses 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
ti uth 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 than life, has just been
placed on a pedestal temporarily in front of the Palais de
.._ _

P Industrie, in the Champs Elyseas. 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 his 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.

PROSPECTIVE REVENUE OF THE UNITED STATES.

—The following arc the particulars of the estimated revenue
to be derived from the United States Tax Bill, viz.:—From
the tax on malt liquors, £200,000; spirits, £3,000,000;
licences, £600,000 ; linseed, lard, &c., X 120,000; candles
and soap, £300,000 ; petroleum and coal oil, £500,000 ; leaf
tobacco, £1,000,000 ; snuff and cigars. £600,000 ; boots and
shoes, £500,000; from hats, caps, bonnets, cloaks, shirts,
&c., £400,000 ; paper, £200,000 ; from leather,
2mo &c., £200,000 ; from coffee and spices,
Luloloor,oelooolaB 00 ; ,
paints, ink, ;
starch, t 100,000 ; salt, £45,000 ; sugar, £100,000;
gas £200,000 ; rectified and adulterated spirits. wines, vine-
gar, &c., £200,000 ; from slaughtered cattle, £,100,000 ;
railroads, ferries, steamboats, and omnibuses, £1,200,000;
watches, plate, carriages, pianofortes, and billiard-tables,
£400,000; railroad bonds, £200,000; banks, £160,000; ad-
vertisements, £lOO,OOO ; income duty, £1,000,00) ; stamp
duty, £1,200,000; patent medicines, £500,000; legacies,
&c.; £200,000; salaries, £240,000 ; manufactures, £3,000,000,
Total from internal revenue, £20,000,000. From direct
taxes, £2,400,000; and from imports,_£lo,ooo,ooo. Ag-
gregate total, £32,925,000.

CRUELTY TO A HORSE.-Mr. Mansell, of the White
Horse, Friday-street, Cheapside, was summoned before
Mr. Knox, by Mr. Wm. Love, superintendent of the
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
for using a horse in an unfit state for work.
On a previous day a carman in the employ of Mr. Man-
sell, was charged before Mr. Knox, by one of the officers
of the Royal Society, with cruelly using the horse, but on
that occasion Mr. Knox ordered a summons to be taken
out against the owner of the horse.
Mr. Cherry, the veterinary surgeon to the Metropolitan
Police, said he had examined the horse and found it to be
very old, lame, diseased, and totally unfit for use. It was
hardly able to move itself, and he considered it an act of
cruelty to send it out. There were traces of the horse
'having been severely flogged also, and it was a very bad
case.

Mr. Knox said he should insist on the poor animal, after
what was said by Mr. Cherry, being put out of its misery,
and he would adjourn the case for that purpose.
On the case again coming before Mr. Knox, Mr. Love
said the beast had been de-troyed.
A person attended for Mr. Mansell, and, in mitigation,
said that Mr. Mansell was not aware that the horse had
been flogged as stated, and that he was not an unkind man
to his horses,