The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-12 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TuEspex.

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Settling on the Epsom events was resumed to-day, and
went off in a very satisfactory manner. At intervals
there was some very spirited betting, the Chester Cup
receiving the greatest share of attention, Marc Antony,
Baalbec, and Star of Surrey being in great force at im-
proved prices. There was no change worthy of notice
in either 2,000 Guineas or Derby.

LATEST BETTING.
GREAT NORTHERN.
4to 1 agst Virago (taken).
10 to 1 agst Defiance (taken).
20 to 1 agst Heapy (taken).
25 to 1 agst Kingston (taken).
PLYING DUTCHMAN'S HANDICAP.
to 1 agst Alonzo (taken).
CHESTER CUP.
10 to 1 agst Marc Antony (taken).
12 to 1 agst Baalbec (taken).
13 to 1 agst Star of Surrey (taken).
25 to 1 agst Muscovite (taken).
25 to 1 agst Torn (taken).
25 to 1 agst Duchess of Loraine colt (taken).
40 to 1 agst Nabob (taken).
50 to 1 agst St. Spiro (taken).
50 to 1 agst Mortimer (takenl.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
3to 1 agst Boiardo (taken and offered).
4to 1 agst Ruby (offered).
7to 1 agst Champagne (taken).
THE DERBY.
sto 1 agst Autocrat (taken and offered). •
oto 1 agst King Torn (taken).
GI to 1 agst Dervish (taken).
40 to 1 agst Knight of St. George (taken).
40 to 1 agst Bessus (taken).
40 to 1 agst Scythian (taken).

HARROW SECOND SPRING MEETING.
TUESDAY.
TRIAL STAKES of 10 sous. each, with 30 added. Three
yr olds and upwards. Mares and geldings allowed
41b. About one mile.
Mr. Lester's Criterion, 4 yrs, Bst 41b (Kendal) 1
Mr. Barnes's Edward of York, 6 yrs, 9st 71b(Haeket) .2
Mr. Thompson's Sophistry, 5 yrs, Bst 81b (W. Abdale) 3
Betting-2 to 1 and 5t02 on Criterion, who won in
a canter.

METROPOLITAN HANDICAP STEELECHASE of 100 soya.
added to a sweepstakes of 5 sous. each. About four
miles.
Mr. Allen's Nom de Guerre, lOst 51b.... ..... ..(Green) 1
Mr. Davey's Gaylad, 10st 121 b (G. Walker) 2
Capt. Lindow's Macomo, Ost 121 b (W. Archer) 3
The following also ran :—Ploughboy, Rejected, Far-
mer Columbine, Brown Bess, Huntsman, and Welcome.
Betting-5 to 2 each against Nona de Guerre and
Ploughboy, 4 to 1 agst Macomo, 6 to 1 agst Farmer.
Won by a length—about 4 lengths between second and
third. Farmer and Huntsman fell. Columbine over-
reached herself, hurt her foot, and was pulled up. Brown
Bess did not pass the post.
The STswanns' PLATE of 50 sous. One mile and a half.
Mr. Harris's Cotton Lady, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b ....11acket)
Mr. _Midland's Prevarication, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (Kendal) 2
q
'r.' Wain's Hotchpot, 3 yrs, sstlolb (Watson) 3
Mr. Barne's Nerva, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b (J. Searle) 4
Betting-6 to lon Prevarication. Won by ten
lengths, about the same distance between second and
third. Nerva bolted at the lower turn, ran against the
cords and fell. Prevarication and Hotchpot bolted
early in the race.
SELLING STEEPLECRASE of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added.
Optional sellinc, weight, allowances, &c. About three
miles.
Mr. Mill's Janus (201.), 10st (Weaver) 1
Mr. Sait's Widow Machree (201.), lOst...(gr Stevens) 2
Mr, Williams's Unknown (501.), 11st (Lovsey) 3
Mr. Parsons's lodine (201.), lOst (W. Archer) 0
Betting-6 to 4 agst lodine, 2to 1 agst Widow
Machree, 5 to 1 agst Janus. Won in a canter by a
dozen lengths. Abi,ut the same distance separated The
Widow Machree from Unknown. lodine fell.
SELLING HURDLE RACE of 5 soys, each, with 25 added,
Optional selling weight, allowances, &c. About two
miles.
Mr. Barling's Union Jack (201.), lOst 31b...(Eatwell) • 1
Mr. Harris's Sweetheart (201.), lOst 61b (Green) 2
Mr. White's Monk (201.), lOst 61b (H. Sherwood)
Mr. Mill's Janus (201.), lOst 131 b, including 71b extra
(Weaver) 4
Betting-2 to 1 each agst Union Jack and Janus, sto
1 agst Monk. Won by two lengths. - .• " •

PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SITITTMECIL—Yester-
day the annual meeting of the Royal National Institu-
tion for the Preservation of Lives from Shipwreck, was
held its offices in the Adelphi ; Capt. Shepherd, H.C.S.,
deputy master of the Trinity House, in the chair.
There were also present. amongst others, Admiral
Bowles, C. 8., Mr. Thomas Chapman, F.11,.5., Captain
Beecbey, R.N., Mr. Samuel Greg-son, M.P., Captaiu
Perrott, Mr. M. Gore, Mr. J. D. Powles, Captain Ward,
11. N. , Mr. Robert Grant, Mr. Fowler Newsam, Major
Palmer, Mr. George Palmer, Captain Redman, &e. The
chairman opened the proceedings by dilating on the
national importance of the objects of the institution,
particularly at this period, when so many ships were
being employed in conveying our troops to the East.
He referred to the loss the institution had sustained by
the death of Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P. and Mr.
George Palmer, the chairman and deputy-chairman of
the society ; but their offices, be was happy to state,
bad been filled up by Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., and
Mr. Thomas Chapman, F.R.s. (Hear, hear.) He re-
gretted to find that the income of the institution was
considerably below its expenditure. He hoped, how-
ever, that at the forthcoming festival of the institution
a large number of its friends would attend and gave it
their pecuniary support. Mr. Lewis, the secretary,
then read the report, which was agreeeto.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAT —Morning 25 min.after 1 I Evening 43 min.aft. 1
To-Moszow—Morning 0 min.after 2 I Evening 17 min.aft. 2

The explicit and reiterated engagements of the
Cabinet—the repeated assurance of some forth-
coming " large measure of reform"—the most
dearly-cherished hopes of the Noble Lord the mem-
ber for the City of London—all have been sacri-
flood. And they have been so sacrificed, we
believe in our conscience—we speak, remem-
ber, not by any means as Ministerialists, we speak
as publicists diametrically antagonistic to what is
popularly understood by the phrase Aberdeenism
—all these things have, we believe in our con-
science, been so sacrificed from considerations of
loyalty to the Crown, and from a supreme and all-
absorbing regard to the welfare of the Empire.
Honour then, say we as Reformers, and as oppo-
nents of the weakness, and the moral obliquity
and the deplorable vacillation of Aberdeenism—
honour to the manly courage, and to the patriotic
resolution, and to the self-forgetting magnanimity
which last evening enabled Lord JOHN RUSSELL
to sacrifice his own ambition to the require-
ments of the State, and to throw aside his pro-
jected scheme of Parliamentary improvement in
the presence of that dread peril which threatens
not only the might of England, but the peace of
Europe, and the liberties of Christendom, and the
-vitality of Civilisation.

Last night the Chancellor of the Exchequer
brought forward his promised statement respecting,
the revenue of the financial year, which termi-
nated on the sth April instant, and also as to
the condition of the public balances, and of the
unfunded debt at the same time. Very undue
importance had previously been attached to the
revelations expected from the Right Honourable
Gentleman, which many persons seemed to sup-
pose would have been " Budget No. 2," in which
the sanction of Parliament would be required to
a new loan, or the issue of an additional amount
of Exchequer-bills---a further increase to the
Income Tax, or the restoration of some of the re-
ti
abolished indirect sources of revenue.
eTehnereY were a variety of rumours abroad, some
insisting on one point, while others, with equal
energy and determination, maintained a conflict-
ing view. All agreed that something of unusual
interest would transpire in the course of the
evening ; but what that " something" might be
puzzled the SoLoNs of the Stock Exchange, and
led to very violent fluctuations in the prices of
Consols and other Securities. Indeed, a fall of
nearly 2 per cent. was at one time established ;
and although subsequently there was a partial
rally, prices were more than 1 per cent. lower
than on the preceding day.
The anxious anticipations on the subject
were, however, by no means realised. The
Right Honourable Gentleman had not been
many minutes on his legs, when it was apparent
that there was nothing to excite the serious ap-
prehensions or glowing expectations that had been
indulged in. The ursine fraternity were griev•
ously disappointed at the failure of their sanguine
hopes that something exceedingly injurious to the
public credit would be officially announced, while
their adversaries were equally amazed at not hear-
ing something decisive on the other side that
would act with extraordinary power on the Capel
Court barometer. Since the epoch of the " par-
turient mountains," however, nothing more com-
mon-place or indecisive has taken place. The
Right Hon. Gentleman might have exclaimed
with the needy knife-grinder....—
" Story, Goo bless you, I have none to tell."

No new loans or taxes were " dimly sha-
dowed forth." No intimation of arrange-
ments with the Bank, or contemplated re-
laxation of the stringent provisions of the Bank
Charter Ac.t, which an adequate supply of
" the life blood of industry" would be insured
during the struggle. There was nothing either
to magnify the difficulties of the present moment,
and to enhance the difficulties of the impending
commercial crisis, or, on the other hand, to show
that the efflux of thskpreeious metals from our shores
would be arrested, or an adequate substitute pro-
vided—nothing to indicate that a judicious and
well-devised small currency would be made avail-
able for general use. It was, after all, merely an
explanatory statement ; a necessary supplement
to that of the 6th of March—showing how
the actual facts would tally with the estimates
for the month which was just commencing,
when Mr. GLADSTONE detailed his fiscal and
financial views for the year. There was no in-
timation of altered intentions—nothing to show
that any important change was in contemplation.
It was merely a correction of the data on which
these opinions had been framed, and the first plan
for the Session decided on.

The Right Honourable Gentleman proved that
our comments on the revenue returns for the last
quarter, were but too well founded. He declared
that " the improvement on the 6th of April, as
compared with his estimate of the 6th March,
was no less than 749,0001." (rather a consider-
able error, by the way, for a single month !)
" but that it was not to be supposed that so coo,-
siderabte a difference was to be accounted for by
any substantial change of circumstances I" This was
precisely what we stated on the 6th inst., and the
accuracy of our opinion has thus received the
strongest corroboration. "If there is any differ-
ence as regards the ultimate receipt, it is merely a
difference as to the time of the money arriving at
the Exchequer. But the difference between the
estimate he submitted on the 6th of March, with
reference to the Income Tax and the amount re-
ceived, is 417,0001." We need say nothing fur-
ther in support of our view after this conclusive
testimony in its favour.
Again, on the " Customs" we find that " parties
being anxious to deliver tea at a very early hour
on the morning of the 6th of April, a large sum
of money came into charge on the sth of April,
which, properly speaking, belonged to the next
quarter r We were, therefore, again unfortu-
nately more than justified in our statement, to
the effect that we could not altogether coincide
with the Times, in thinking the returns " very
favourable."

Bat, notwithstanding the disappointment expe-
rienced, the proceedings of last night are not with-
out a certain degree of value. Mr. GLADSTONE
revealed the secrets of some of the financial jug-
gles habitually resorted to by the department
over which he presides. He clearly showed that
the figures furnished by the accounts are by no
means such infallible guides as had erroneously
been conceived—that, although 5, 852, 000/. ap-
peared to be the amount of " deficiency-bills" for
the quarter, the real amount was some three mil-
lions less, or only 2,808,0001. We have neither
time however, to discuss at present this
piece n
of Exchequer space,xehequer "thimblerigging." We shall, like
Mr. DISRAELI, "take time to examine the figures."
At present it seems that the matter is not of very
great importance--that the point is one of form,
and not of substance ; but that in either case,
whether the deficiency bills be issued or not, our
resources are consumed in anticipation, and that
the vulgar but expressive phrase, " the calf is still
eaten in the cow's belly," is verified. This it is
that has been so strongly objected to, and we fear
that the elaborate explanations of the Financial
Minister do not in any degree remove the real
difficulty.

We do not wish to be captious about trifles,
especially when our own recommendation is so
promptly attended to ; but we could wish that
Government had appointed a Sunday and not a
Wednesday (the 26th) as a day for national prayer
for the success of our arms. Indeed, were it not,
as we are afraid it is, too late to alter, we should
strongly urge the cancelling of that appointment
in regard to the day, and its postponement till the
following Sunday. Whatever sacrifice is made,
or rather felt, by fixing a working-clay for such
purposes, is chiefly by the class which can least
afford it, and which therefore is but too apt to
indemnify itself by a holiday. On the other
hand, Sunday is the universal day of worship,
the exceptions being altogether unimportant. To
Jews, indeed, who lose now one clay in a week
more than their Christian neighbours, the appoint-
ment of a Wednesday is somewhat of a double
hardship. We trust that we shall not be accused
of an irreverent spirit, as if we grudged sparing
an extra day for Divine worship on a highly
solemn occasion. We must think, on the con-
trary, that weless mrificeB, Win also not

heavily on the poor, are but too kindred to super- 1
stition. We have a day on which our thoughts
naturally turn to our relations with our MAKER—
a day on which the nation is, by centuries of
usage, at full leisure to meet for a high
and sacred purpose, and we must think
that it is only assigning everything to its
season, to call upon the nation universally to
employ that particular day as a day of national
prayer for a national object. We may remark,
too, with truth, that our religious services on the
Loan's Day need more variety, and that probably
many of the millions who, according to the much-
talked-of Census Report, never attend worship at
all, would be attracted on such occasions as these
by the idea of something novel and special, and
might thus commence a most important habit.
_ _ _

It did not occur to us before, but we could wish
it had been thought of, to consecrate the day in
the way most acceptable of any to the LORD QF
ALL, by showing mercy to the poor. How appro-
priate, how pleasing in His sight, we fully believe,
would a universal collection have been ; the money
to have been employed by a commission composed
of persons of all denominations, and in whom the
nation would have confidence, for the relief of any
widows and orphans, and other cases of deep dis-
tress caused directly by the war. National prayer,
accompanied by such charity, would be at once
pleasing to the MOST HIGH, and would fulfil a
duty to those who risk the comfort of their loved
ones, as well as their own lives, for their country's
sake. Our men abroad would feel that they were
"insured for their lives," not in the nation's
taxes only, but in its piety and generosity.