The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-25 00:00:00

SUBURBAN RACKS.

At the Middlesex Sessions yesterday Mr. Sergeant
Cox, pursuant to notice, desired "To call the
attention of the Court to the rapid increase of
suburban races, and the great mischief caused by
them to the neighbourhoods in which they are held,
by bringing together in the rural districts large
assemblages of the criminal and disorderly classes
of the metropolis, to the insecurity and serious
inconvenience of the inhabitants, and to more
the appointment of a committee to consider and re-
port if any and what action should be taken by the
Court or by the divisional justices for the better
regulation or suppression of the nuisance." The
learned Sergeant said that very great complaints bad
been made of the great nuisance caused by suburban
races, which had increased to such an alarming ex-
tent year by year that now scarcely a fortnight
passed without the neighbourhood of the metropolis
being surrounded and flooded with the ruffianism
and the rascaldom of London. What the remedy
for all this should be he could not tell, but he
thought a good opportunity now offered of dealing
with the subject and bringing it under the notice
of Parliament, because Mr. Bruce, the Secretary
of State for the Home Department, had given
notice of a bill to effect a change in the licens-
ing system, and they might avail of that
opportunity to press upon the right honourable
gentleman .the necessity of making some provi-
sion for checking the overgrowing evil of which he
(Mr. Sergeant Cox) now complained. He was of
opinion that licences ought to be taken from those
who introduced races into suburban districts. He
begged to move 'that the question be referred to a
Parliamentary Committee. Mr. TURNER seconded
the motion. Mr. Stanford strongly objected to ques-
tions of this kind being brought forward in that
court, and he was surprised at the learned sergeant,
who as " Field" Sergeant Cox should be the last to
oppose field sports, coming forward to move in the
matter. lt should be borne in mind that the tendency
of the law was rather to encourage than to put
down racing. The remedy which the learned ser-
geant suggested was one which he was certain no
bench of magistrates would ever entertain. What
in the world was the connexion belween horse-
racing and steeplechasing and the legislation which
affected persons who came to that Court for licenses
for public-houses ? Mr. Sergeant Cox eventually
withdrew the motion, and the matter dropped.

Her Majescy the Queen held a Court to-day at
Buckicghain Palace, at which the presentations were
numerous.

ARTIFICIAL CULTIVATION OF SALMON.—The ope"
rations for the artificial propagation of salmon at the
Stormoutfield breeding ponds have this year been carried
on with great vigour. The ponds have been stocked With
about 465,000 salmon ova, which exceeds the number de"
posited in any former year by about 100,000. In con
quence of the long-continued frost the hatching process was
somewhat raarded. The operations at Mr. Buckland
Museum. of Economic Fish Culture, South Kensington,
have co far been successful. Although on a much smaller
scale than the Stormontfield ponds, thousands of fish are
annually hatched by Mr. Buckland in the Horticultural
Gardens. This year the eggs deposited were in healthy cony'
tion, and within the past fortnight several have been hatched
il
out. The varieties of ova which are deposited this
consist of salmon, trout, great lake trout from La's'
Neufchatel, American trout, and salmon from Nuninggez
Upwards of 80,000 eggs of the great lake trout from
zerland have been received during the past year by in
Buckland, and have been distributed by him to stoci
lakes and ornamental water liz_yarinns part 4.44