The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-14 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER l4 1849,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
DONCASTER RACES.
DONCASTER, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.—The rain fell so
heavily during the whole of the races, that in order to
save the last train we were under the necessity of dis
patching our parcel without the betting and the remarks
on the St. Leger, and trust to the electric telegraph to
supply a return of the last two races. We now give
such particulars as are requisite to complete our account
of the day's racing, &c.
THE ST. LEGER.
BETTING AT STARTING.-9 to 4on Flying Dutchman
(taken freely)-15 to 1 agst Vatican-15 to 1
.sgst
Nunnykirk-100 to 6 agst Old D.lll Tucker-20 to 1
apt Thringarth-35 to 1 agst Herbert—and 40 to 1
ag,t any other.
After a delay of three or four minutes, arising from
Honeycomb and Elthiron having broken away, a good
start was effected, Saucy Dick taking the lead, followed
by Herbert and Vatican, Old Dan Tucker and Thrin-
garth next, and in the rear Nunnykirk, Honeycomb, the
Flying Dutchman, and Elthiron. The latter got into
the ruck before they were over the gravel road, at the
hill was fifth, and at the mile-post was in advance of Old
Dan Tucker. Saucy Dick and Herbert maintained their
positions to the Red-house turn, where they were
beaten, the running being taken up by Vatican, the
Dutchman waiting on him. At the distance the latter
deprived Vatican of his lead, was clear of him at the
Stand, and won in a canter by two lengths, amidst
cheering loud and prolonged, from all parts of the
course. Nunny kirk drew towards the leading horses at
the turn, caught Vatican at the distance, and beat him
for the second place by two lengths; Honeycomb, who
came at the last, finishing a bad fourth. Elthiron was
fifth, and Old Dan Tucker sixth. Run in 3 min. 20 secs.
This is the third St. Leger Lord Eglinton has carried
off, his previous successes having been with Blue Bon-
net in 1842, and with Van Tromp, half-brother of the
Flying Dutchman, in 1847. This stake and the Derby
has been won three times by the same horse, Surplice
having won both last year, and Champion in 1800;
Marlow alone has had the good fortune to ride the win-
ner in both races. The issue of the races is all against
the fielders, for which reason there is not much to fear
for the settling. Lord Eglinton's friends are " good
winners," but the Noble Lord himself had only one bet
on the race, having taken 60 to 5 that his horses were
first and second.
BETTING ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES.

7to 2 agst Mrs. Taft I
9 to 2 agst Fernhill
10 to 1 apt
CIESAIIE
12 to 1 agst Essedarius
16 to 1 agst St. Rosalia
18 to 1 agst Vatican

5 to 1 apt Thringarth
5 to 1 agst Psalmsinger
t any other.
:WITCII.
30 to 1 agst Glen Saddel
33 to 1 agst Fire •eater
40 to 1 agst Volcano (t)

25 to 1 skst Bon-mot

14 to 1 sgst Pitsford (t)

20 to 1 agst Cyprus (t)
40 to 1 agst Voltigeur

16 to 1 aist Italian (t)
17 to 1 apt Bro to Epirote _
TIIURSDAY.

The settling took place this morning, and, as we anti-
cipated. went off satisfactorily. A meeting of the Town
Council was held before the races, to take into consi-
deration a proposition from the Stewards that the suns
voted by the Corporation, viz., 1,0001., should in future
be free from all deductions; it was unanimously acceded
to. Several alterations in the stakes and Cup are under
consideration.
The weather to-day has been favourable, the attend-
ance small, and the racing moderate, both in quantity
and interest.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, h ft, with 50
added. Mile and a quarter. (13 Subs.)
Lord Zetland's Castanette, ist 51b (G. Oates) 1
Mr. Lillie's Iron Duke, Bst 71b
Mr. Baker na Pheasant, 7st 91b (Charlton) 3
7t04 on Iron Duke. Castanette made all the run-
ning, and won by four lengths. Run in 2 min. 22 sec.
The Fitzwilliam Handicap Stakes of 5 soya. each, with
50 added. Red House in. (3 Subs.)
Mr. B. Green's Westow,l3 yrs, Bst 41b ( Wintringham) 1
Mr. Verner's the Recluse, 2 yrs, Est 41b (W. Sharp) 2
Colonel Anson's Oddity, 3 yrs, 6st 21b... (Charlton) 3
5 to 4 agst the Recleuse-7 to 4 agst Oddity—and 2
to 1 agst Westow. Won by four lengths. Run in 1
min. 18 sec.
Scarborough Stakes, of 30 soya. each, 20 ft; one mile;
(3 Subs.) Mr. Bowes's Thringarth received.
The Great Yorkshire Handicap, of 25 Boys. each, 15 ft,
and only 5, &c., with 200 added; the second to receive
100 boys. out of the stakes, the third to save his stake,
and the winner to pay 30 soya. towards the expenses,
and 5 soya. to the starter. St. Leger Course. (66
Subs., 42 of whom declared.)
Mr. Meiklam's Snowstorm, 3 yrs, Ist 71b-51b extra 1
Sir J. Hawley's Fernhill, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b (Flatman) 2
Mr. Nevill's Letitia, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b
The following also started, but were not placed:—
Mr. S. L. Fox's Psalmsinger, aged, 7st 81b (Fenn) 0
Mr. Lawson's Keleshea, 5 yrs, 6st 101 b (W. Sharp) 0
Lord Chesterfield's Mrs. Taft, 4 yrs, Est Blb
Lord Glasgow's Impertinence, c 4 yrs, 6st 41b 0
Mr. S. Hawkes's Miss Harrison, 4 yrs, 6st (Baaham) 0
Mr. Walter's Maid of Team Valley, 3 yrs, sst 121 b 0
Mr. Bowes's Thringarth, 3 yrs, sst 121 b (Charlton) 0
Lord Zetland's Castanette, 3 yrs, sst, carried sst 2lb 0
Betting-4 to 1 agst Fernhill, 9to 2 agst Mrs. Taft,
5 to 1 agst Snowstorm, 6 to 1 agst Psalmsinger, 7 to 1
agst Thringarth, 14 to 1 apt Castanette, 20 to 1 agst
Letitia.

Letitia made the running, followed by Mrs. Taft
and Keleshea, Miss Harrison and Snowstorm lying up,
This order continued to the lied House, where Fernhill
and Snowstorm joined the leading horses, with whom
they laid to the distance. Fernhill and Snowstorm then
singled themselves out, and ran a fine race home, Snow-
storm winning by a head; Letitia a good third, _ and
Castanette a bad fourth. Run in 3 min. 22 secs.
Handicap Stakes of 10 sons. each, h ft, and .50 added;
for two-yrs old. Red House in. (10 Subs.)
Mr. B. Green's Witchcraft, 7st 41b (Fenn) 1
Mr. Scott's Lady Speedy, 6st 121 b (W. Sharp.) 2
Mr. Meik lam's French Susy, Tat 31b (Arnold) 3
Mr. Smyth's Goldfinch, Bst 71b (Butler) 4
Betting 10 to 6 agat French Susy-2 to 1 agat Witch-
craft-3 to 1 agst Goldfinch. Won by a neck. French
Susy a bad third. Run in 1 min. 16 secs.
The Foal Stakes of 100 soya. each, h It; for three yrs
old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Sat 31b, winner of the

St. Leger 51b extra. One mile and a half. (9 Subs.)
Lord Eglinton'e The Flying Dutchman walked over.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
DONCASTER, FRIDAY MORNING.
THE PARK• HILL STAKES.
7 to 4 on Lady Evelyn
3 to 1 agst Baroness
THE CUP.

Any odds on Canezou.

CRICKET.

MA.RYLEBONE CLUB AND GROUND v. NINE GENTLEMEN

OF NORFVLIC WITH DAY AND GRUNDY.

A greet treat was given to the admirers of the noble
game of cricket, and others, on the princely domain of
the Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, Norfolk. On
Monday last a first-rate match commenced, finishing on
Tuesday evening, between the above- named two parties.
The weather being most lovely, a select and numerous
party assembled each day, to witness the progress of the
play. At the commencement great odds were in favour
of the Marylebone, from their having won the match so
easily at Swaff ham last week, yet the result of the first
innings proved how soon judges may be deceived about
this uncertain game. The Marylebone went in first, all
being out for the very moderate score of 63; but no doubt
the absence of the Hon. F. Ponsonby was felt, and was one
cause of the falling off in the number, and probably
through that the Norfolk Gentlemen gained more to theirs,
those Gentlemen making 142, giving them a majority
on the first innings of 79. This finished the first day's
play. The gentlemen and players were then hospitably
entertained at the Hall by Lord Leicester. On Tuesday
morning the wickets were again pitched, the game re-
commencing at half-past eleven by the Marylebone going
in for their second innings, the Hon. F. Ponsonby
having joined them, who went in first with H. Vigne,
Esq.; but they were soon parted, Grundy bowling out
the latter-named gentleman without a run; the Hon. F.
Ponsonby being run out for 6 runs; Colonel Liddell
adding mono to the score; Dean but 2, when Chester
went in and played in first-rate style, being joined by
W. Kynaston, Esq. They soon made the score look
more respectable; Harare, Esq., also getting a fair
innings. But the three last were put out for three
round o's, the number gained in their second innings
being but 65,censequently the county of Norfolk won in
one innings and 14 runs to. spare.
MARYLIDOVE.

First Innings. Second Innings.
Lillywhite, b Grundy 0 not out
Hartopp, Esq., c Morse, b Day 15 c Morse, b Day ... 0
Dean, c and b Grundy ... 18 run out .. 2
Harenc, Esq., b Grundy 0 c Morse, b Grundy ... 10
Chester, c Dolignon, b Grundy 1 c Grundy, b Day ... 15
Kynaston, Esq., c Knatchbull,
b Day ...8 cKnatchbull,bGrundy2o
lion. Cain Lydda% c• Anson,
b Day ... •.•• 0 b Grundy ..„ .. 0
Mayne, Esq., b Grundy ... 6 c Lord Leicester, b Day 0
Keate, Esq., run out ... 12 at Anson 2
Vigne, Eaq., not out ... 0 b Grundy ... 0
lion. F. Ponsonby absent run out ... ... 6
Byes, 3 ; wide balls, 0 ... 3 Byes, 9, wide ball, 1... 10

COUNTY OF NOZFOLN.
let innings.
Lord Leicester, c Lillywhite, b Dean
Morse, Esq., b Lillywhite •••
Grundy, b Dean ... ••• •••
Day, b Chester ... "'
- French, Esq., 1 b w, b Dean
Knatchbull, Esq., b Lillywhite
Dolignon, Esq., c Lillywhite, b Chester
Anson, Esq., b Chester •••
Alickelthwaite, Esq., not cut ...
T. Townley, Esq., b Chester •••
Alarcon, Esq., b ilarenc •••
Byes 1, wide balls 2

65

.. 16

. 32
. 32

...39

142

THE SAILORS' HOME.—Yesterday a meeting of the
Board of Directors of this excellent Institution was held
at the house in Wells-street, London-docks, to transact
general business ; Admiral Bowles, C. 8., M.P., in the
chair. The report stated that the eighth and last dor-
mitory of the " Home " has been completed, at an ex-
pense of 4201. ss. 9d., the whole amount of which was
most generously defrayed by her Majesty the Queen
Dowager. During the past year 112 ships have been
manned from the " Home, and 4,633 boarders have
been received, making a total since its institution of
41,992 seamen.
The Earl of Carlisle has arrived in town from his
seat, Nawortb Castle, Northumberland.
The Earl of Minto is staying on a visit with Lord and
tscly John Renal st roaknote Lodge, Richumairsrk.
• -

CHOLERA AN:1) DIARRHOEA.
RETURN OF CASES. SErr. 13.
THE METROPOLIS.
BITPERINTRNDING REGMTRA.R'S DISTRICT.
Deaths.
Attacks. Cholera. Diarrb.
WEST DISTRICTS.

Kensington ...
Chelsea...
St. George, Hanover-square ...
Westminster ...
St. Martin-in-the-Fields
St. James, Westminster --
NORTH DISTRICTS.

••• - 3 1
2 0
S 0

••• - 5 0

0 0

3
•• ••• 0
•• ••• 2 1
••• ••• 5 1

Marylebone
Hampstead ...
St. Pancras ...
Islington
Hackney

••• 2 2
CENTRAL DISTRICTS.

St. Giles ...
Strand ...
11 ol born Union
Clerkenwell
St. Luke
East London ...
West London
City of London

EAST DISTRICTS.

ihoreditch
Bethnal-green
Whitechapel ... ...
St. George-in- the- East
Stepney ... •• •
Poplar ... ... ...

... ... -- 15 3
... •.• - 8 4
- 5 1
- 2 0
- 6 1
5 4

BOUT7I DISTRICTS.

St. Saviour, Southwark
St. Olave
Bermondsey „• •••
St. George, Southwark
Newington, Surrey
Lambeth ...
Wandsworth ...
Camberwell
Rotherhithe
Greenwich
Lewisham

•••
... • •-r
' •••• •••
••• •••

Total ... ... •••

THE COUNTRY.

Attach.

Liverpool ...
Merthyr Tydvil
Clifton •••
Carmarthen •••
Swansea
Portsea
Salisbury
Warrington ...
Tynemouth
Brighton •••
Neath ..• •••
West Ham ...
Bradford and North Bierley
Sculcoates
Bristol .•• ••• •••
Gravesend and Milton
St. Germans
Rochford
Prescot
Dover
Leeds ... •••
Hunslet .•• •••
Hastings
Nantwich ••• •••
Wolverhampton and Siesdon
Bridgwater ...
Barnstaple •••
South Shields ...
Halifax ••• •••
Shepton Mallet ..•
Hull
Salford...
Nottingham ...
Bolton •11F. •••
Burnley ••• •••
Worcester
Preston ••• •••
Wellington, Shropshire
Madelcy
Manchester ...
Gainsborough
Ashton-under-Lyne
Abingdon ~,
Aiderbury „ „,
Great Broughton (Chester) ...
Birmingham ... „,
Bedminster ... „,
Barnard Castle ••• •••
Barnet ... ..• ••• •..
Basingstoke ...
Bedford •••. • •••'
Biggleswade ...
Blackburn ... „,
Coventry ••• ••41 •••
Chorlton
Croydon and Mitcham •-•••
Cockermouth, Workington

(Aug. 10 to Sept. 11)
Chester-le-Street
Chesterfield ...
Chesterton ...
Chelmsford ...
Chertsey ...
Cookham
Chorley
Dudley ...
Dartford ...
Doncaster ...
Edmonton ...
Eceleshall Bierlow
Ellesmere
Eton ...

••• ...•

•1D • .....

Ill• ..'...

••• ..-.

••• .....

• • • .-••

•••

Exeter
Faversham
Goole ...
Gateshead ...
Hexham ...
Havant ...
Hertford (op to Sept. 12)
Horsham ... ...
Ipswich ... ...
Margate
Kingston (Surrey)
Liskeard
Lampeter ... ...
Llanelly ... ...
Leicester
Milton ... ...
Mutford ... • 441

•••
•••
•••
•••

••• .....

213 32

Deaths.

Cholera. Dlarrh.
13 0
1 0

Total ... ... ... .. 579

SCOTLAND.

Dundee ••• •••
St. Andrew's ...
Arbroath ...
Kinnoull, Perth ••• •••
Cups!. Angus (from Sept. 4)...
Hawick ••• ••• •••
Beith „, ,„
Stirling ••• ••• •••
Dunfermline ... •••
Perth ...
Haddington (Aug. 18 to Sept. 4)
„ (Sept. 4to Sept. 12)

••• ......

Total •• • •• • •• • - 60 0
General total:—
Metropolis ... 213 32
Country ... ... 579 108
Scotland ... ... 60 0

General total ...

Note.—The number of attaeks reported by the
union officers are—for the metropolis 417, and for
the country 769; but their returns do mot, in general,
comprehend the cases that are treated by medical men
i❑ private practice.

We are happy to find that the epidemic, which has
been making such fearful ravages in the metropolis, ap-
pears to have passed its climax, and to be now on the
decline, the returns for the last three days exhibiting a
progressive decline. The deaths on Monday were 454,
on Tuesday 314, and on Wednesday 213 only, being less
than one-half of the mortality of Monday. This cheer-
ing result is doubtless attributable to the recent change
of the weather from dry oppressive heat to wet and
cold, as also in part to the better-advised sanitary mea-
sures lately adopted. The following are the Regis-
trar-General's returns of deaths from cholera and
diarrhoea:—

CHOLERA.
Tues. Wed.
Sept. Sept.
11th. 12th.
37 19
22 12
40 22
55 41
160 119

DlARlHaill.
Tues. Wed.
Sept. Sept.
11th. 12th.
7 2
5 4
2 5
13 13
19 8

West Districts
North Districts
Central Districts ...
East Districts
South Districts ...

Total ... 314 213 46 32

HOSPITAL.—On Friday next, being St.
Matthew's Day, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and
Sheriffs, with the governors of the several royal hos-
pitals, will attend divine service at Christ Church, New-
gate-street, where a sermon will be preached by the
Rev. William Romanis, M.A., one of the masters of
Cheltenham College; after which they will repair to the
Great Hall, in Christ's Hospital, where orations, on the
benefits of the royal hospitals, will be delivered, accord-
ing to annual custom, by the four senior scholars, who
are about to proceed to the University of Cambridge, in
Latin, by Lawrence Craven; in English, by Hermann
C. Heilbronn; in French, by G. H. Croad; in Greek,
by Thomas Holbrow. Eight poems will also be recited
by the other senior scholars, via , an Alcaie Ode, on
Nineveh, by A Sweeting; a Greek lambic Translation,
from Milton's "Samson Agonistes," by C. S. Townsend;
Latin llexameters, on the Death of Julius Csesar, by U.
W. Brown; Latin Elegiacs, on Jephtha's Vow, by 11.
D. Sweeting; Greek Sapphics, on the Spanish Armada,
by H. C. P. Jones; Latin Hexameters, a Translation
from Goldsmith's " Travellsr," by L. IL Lidbetter; Latin
Sapphics, on the "Emigrant," by G. Bc11; an English
poem, on the Shores of the Mediterranean, by J. Gill.
A TRAIN STOPPED BY A BULLOCS.-011 Tuesday-
last a passenger train running on the Maryport and Car-
lisle Railway, while on its way towards Whitebaven,
came in contact with a bullock belonging to Mr. Robin-
son, of Moorthwaite, farmer, which had got over the
fence and gone upon the line. The shock of the collision
caused greal alarm among the passengers, many of whom
leaped out of the carriages and were more or less bruised,
though none were seriously injured. Two or three of
the carriages were throwa off the rails. The bullock
was killed on the spot.—Cursierlang Pa quit.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THY MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TlMES—There is a very old and very general
opinion that a holyday ought to be a holyday. A task
spoils a vacation almost as much as a dead fly does the
apothecary's ointment. There is a time for all things—
a time for business and a time for recreation; and though
we have lately been remarking upon the general deser-
tion of posts under the present calamity, that was be-
cause the present calamity would not wait for the meet-
ing of Parliament, or the re-assemblage of her Majesty's
Ministers. Mr. Disraeli, however, happily for his com-
{fort and health, is not a Minister, and may take a holyday
without harm to a metropolis or a nation. Possessed of
this blessed immunity, we think he has done wrong in
rushing into politics so soon as the 12th of September.
There has only just been a fortnight's partridge
shooting, and it wants another fortnight for
pheasants. Everybody who can is availing him-
self of the advice tendered to nervous people
by a kind hearted contemporary, and enjoy-
ing the sea-shore or the down. Such is the stagnation
of affairs that but for Mrs. Manning, the cholera, or
Lola Monies, and Captain Pitman, we should almost
despair of filling our columns with readable matter. All
at once silence is broken by a long Parliamentary speech
from Mr. Disraeli to a table of Buckinghamshire agri-
culturists. Parliamentary we call it because it is nothing
else, and because it gives the history of a debate, pro-
misee a seven years' agitaion, and is all about rates and
statistics. Otherwise it is neither one thing nor another;
a task done in a holiday, and rather a dull performance;
for all work and no play makes even Ben a dull boy.
The truth is that the Hon. Member for Buckingham-
shire was evidently labouring under a difficulty, and
could not hit the right tone. That meruing he had been
assisting at a ploughing match, at the distribution of
prizes, and at what is called the ordinary business of the
' society. Then there came an excellent 2 o'clock dinner pro-
Tided by Mrs. Bennett, to which SO gentlemen sat down in
a room at the George. The " dinner" was followed by the
usual loyal and routine toasts, and by the time the author
O " Coningsby" had stood enough, eaten enough, seen
enough, and heard enough to give him a premonitory
sensation of the prevailing epidemic, he found himself
suddenly called on to speak. The result is natural
enough. Ho was never less equal to himself. The
whole speech exhibits prostration and collapse. It is
slipshod, incoherent, fallacious, and even dull. Ono
perceives that Mr. Disraeli, like everybody else, wants a
distinguished audience, an accomplished reader, and a
vigilant antagonist to keep him up to his mark.
O'Connell had two languages—one fur the mob, and
another for the House ; so has Cobden; so has Mr.
Disraeli, and almost everybody else. The eighty gen-
tlemen at the George were prepared to take for gospel
everything their Member chose to say; and, under the
circumstances, it was but natural he should address
himself to their docile capacity. Mr. Disraeli attempts
to ring a new change on the old watchword of his party,
which he now explains to mean everything or nothing. I
" I remember that this society was originally formed, in '
the first place, for the protection of agriculture ; and,
although politics are very properly excluded from
our meetings, I hope I am not departing from the
rules when I say that it was for the protection of
agriculture, whether from extreme and unlimited
competion or from legislative restrictions ; for I
take it for granted that every gentleman here
whatever his political feelings may be, is of opinion that
agriculture should be protected," In this brief sentence
four different meanings are assigned to the word pro-
tection-1, that which it might happen to bear in the
original documents of the Royal Bucks Agricultural
Association; 2. security from unlimited competition; 3,
fair play, or freedom from special burdens; 4, the sense
in which all the members of the above association, of
whatever political opinion or party they may be, now ask
for protection. Stich ambiguity will not do in politics.
We aro ready to use the word'' protection " in its gene-
ral dictionary sense, just as we might recommend trades-
men to combine for their common protection from
swindlers, or all people to protect themselves from cold
or from rain. If any class finds itself actually robbed
and oppressed, whether by the nation or by any private
enemy, by all means let it unite for its protection. The
word, however, has always been used in a very different
sense in the political world, and when Mr. Disraeli
claims the liberty of using it so as to embrace the
old political sense and a new unpolitical sense, he is
entrapping himself and his followers in a knot of
equivocations. The history of the last few years is
enough to show the necessity of a clear understanding
in these matters. The Buckinghamshire yeomen have
only one idea of protection, and if Mr. Disraeli permits
them to think that he holds it too, he will some day find
it hard work to undeceive them. But what we chiefly
regret in this speech is the wholesale in•
accuracy Mr. Disraeli commits in the reference
to his motion for the reduction of the burdens
on agriculture. To that motion we gave a cor-
dial though qualified support, and we are still of opinion
that Mr. Disraeli succeeded in proving that agriculture
does not now receive altogether fair usage in this coun-
try. We cannot, however, pass without protest such
sweeping statements as the following, for they can only
damage the cause they are intended to serve:—" While
the agricultural population of England contributed
their fair quota to the 50,000,0001. general taxation,
they also paid a second revenue equal to 12,000,0001.,
from which other classes were exempt." Now, Mr.
Disraeli himself, in the debate he refers to, sufficiently
explained that the second revenue was paid, nut by the
agriculturists alone, but by all the owners of real
property. The hardship was, that whereas this second
taxation was for objects of general necessity, it was
paid only on real property, which is not more than a
third or a fourth of the whole property of the country;
and further, that although land does nut constitute more
than halt the real property of the country, yet it pays
much more than half the rates and other burdens on real
property, inasmuch as agricultural districts are much
more heavily rated than others. Mr. Disraeli could do
no more than state the outlines of the case, and give
some illustrations; as, for example, that 100,000/. in-
vested in the soil of Buckinghamshire paid more poor-
rate, church-rate, land-tax, and other public charges,
than the same sum invested in Manchester. The demon-
stration, and, still more, the exact apportionment of the 1
greater burden borne by agriculture, aas a matter of
detail, into which he invited inquiry. All this was just
and true; and we have since repeatedly defended Mr.
Disraeli from the charge of forgetting there were other
kinds of real property besides land. We cannot defend
him now. Be has, unfortunately, justified the accuse
tion we speak of. Throughout the whole of his speech
he gives his constituents to understand that agriculture
pays the whole of this second revenue. Such is the
inaccuracy, or the unscrupulousness, which naturally
arises when a man discusses a grave and difficult
question under circumstances which do not compel
care. How, otherwise, aro we to account for the
reiterated statement, that this second revenue of
12,000,000 L "is raised by the farmers of England?"
But the practical suggestion which winds up the speech,
and to which Mr. Disraeli seems to attach considerable
importance, is even more reprehensible than his inac-
curate calculation. He proposes to equalize the land-
tax all over the country by levying Is. 6d. in the pound
on the letting value of the whole surface. The product
be estimates at 5,000,000/. " Well, then," he prooeeds,
"what shall we do with it? What I propose as a remedy
is this, that the 5,000,000/. should form a sinking fund,
not a borrowed, but a real sinking fund, which, safely in
hand, would, in less than ten months, raise Console
above par, and thus enable landlords to borrow money
to apply to their land at 3 per cent., instead of paying,
as they now do, 4 and 4i per cent. Then the farmer
would go to his banker or :neighbour and obtain from
him, at a reasonable rate, the capital he required for
the improvement of the soil. There, gentlemen, is
your remedy—equal taxation, and cheap capital." To
the readers of the Times it must be quite unnecessary to
make any comments on this scheme. Indeed, it would
be an insult to Mr. Disraeli's intelligence to suppose
that he had given it a ten minute's consideration before
he propounded it the gentlemen at the George. Should
he now give it that consideration, he will speedily dis-
cover that the philosophy of the money-market, vulgar
as it may be, is not exactly a subject for political im-
promptu.
CHRONICLE.—The sentence of the court-martial
upon Commander Pitman, of her Majesty's ship Childers,
may be consistent with poetical justice, as it doubtless is
with the rules and practice of naval jurisprudence; but,
taken in connexion with the circumstances that preceded
the trial, it will probably excite, in the minds of those
who have not perused the evidence, some feelings of
surprise, if not of dissatisfaction. The proceedings
emanated, as our readers will remember, from two indi-
duals who had deserted from the ship about six weeks
before, and who were proved, by an inquiry which took
place on that occasion, to have borne a very indifferent
character in the service. Both were shown, we were
told, upon the concurrent evidence of the first-lieutenant,
the purser, and the acting surgeon, to have been ad-
dicted to habits of drunkenness ; and one of the two,
Lieutenant Graham, is stated, upon the same testimony,
to have been repeatedly guilty of falsehood. The prose •
cution, except so far as it might tend to whitewash the
deserters in the public estimation, was, of course, of a
purely vindictive character. Graham and Elliott, by
their own fault—extenuated, it might be, by the faults
of their commanding officer had bid farewell to
their professional prospects, and they were determined
to have their revenge by ruining Captain Pitman
in return. The -motives of the accusers, however,
be they what they may,do not, it is true, disqualify them
from bringing their case before a court of justice, and
they raise no presumption, or a very slight one, in fa-
vour of the accused. Yet we must own that we should
have been better satisfied had the episode been ofess
uniformly tragic character—had Graham and ElliottEfriom
not been expelled the service for running
Captain Pitman, or had Captain Pitmananot suffered a
similar penalty for misconduct which
cmc nbe thought to
offer some palliation for the delinquency
tisle)o'
commander Graham
and
f
Elliott. The charges brought a
the Childers was threefold. First, he was accused of
general cruelty and oppression towards the men under
Alof making false entries in the
his command ; second f,
log-book ; and thirdly, of a false expenditure of the
ship's stores. The two last charges were fully made
out—and very grave charges they undoubtedly are.
Captain Pitman, it seems, navigated his own ship for
two days in the Chinese seas, at the end of which
time she ran aground upon a shoal. lie appears to
have completely mistaken his whereabouts, and under
that false impression to have made entries in pencil
in the log, which he afterwards altered in ink so as
to correspond more nearly (though, as ' Mr. Elliott
maintains, still far from accurately) with the ship's real
course. With respect to the third head, we find that a
main-topsail and a hammock-cloth washed overboard
were respectively entered in the expense• book as ex-
pended, though both were afterwards recovered. The
sail, which was damaged, but not destroyed, by its sub-
mersion, was cut up by the captain's orders, and applied
to the various purposes for which spare canvass is wanted
on board ship; the hammock-cloth did duty in its pris-
tine capacity for two years afterwards, though somewhat
the worse for 'NIL The balk of tits evidence, lowsv•r,