The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-30 00:00:00

ENGLISH RACING.

The Telegraph, remarks that throughout this week horse-
Lae, ing will be the thought most prominent in the nation's
and desires to place before those of our countrymen
Who think more about horse-racing than about the whims
es!
,the Jocke Club that thereunmistakaner
tile sport y which they love so swell shouldeable degenderatge,
111,i1, to our grandsons or great-grandsons, the Derby may
become nothing better than a name. " All vices," says a
g,reat philosopher, " carry with them the seeds of their own
!.testruction." It is clear to observant men, that the stout
loursyear-old horses and upwards with which, some thirty
°r forty years ago every racecourse was alive, have dis
PPeared from the 'Racing Calendar. The three-year-olds
be it observed, are already following the example of four-Year-olds, and are becoming fewer and fewer, and less
1/I,4i,formly good. We write.it with shame, but—to employ
2avourite phrase of Mr. Gladstone's—e " want to
IFrench-bredwould horse, Trocadero, not to-day give a
tone and a beating over the Beacon Course. Is there
aLlY,English horse of the same age who can hold his own
• ta another French horse, Mortemer, over three
of ground? Can we pretend to find English
which
to run fonr-mile heats against a dozen animals
elett have gained their fame for stoutness upon the
English
and fashion courses of the New World ? Are
`.lglish sporting men blind to the fact, that our Aus-
tralian kinsmen claim credit for one of their horses—The
h Barb —as s having been at least the equal in speed and stout-
gVs of any horse that the mother country ever produced?
ameery races in which the historical steeds of the past
,d their renown no longer exist, or awaken such
-e°le interest and languid competition that, in Tenny-
solve
, words, they seem to say, " Were it not better not
▪ De

THE KIRWEE PRIZE MONET.
'9'7
-. Lit WaS course natural, says the Post, that the force
Ich captured Kirwee should desire to obtain the extra
rerter Of a million sterling represented by debts clue to
ttchiefs they had captured. But the Treasury-
-B„'°_, proper and only advisers of the Crown on
subjects—seeing that the troops were in no
entitled to the money, and that they had been
Entlout it exceptionally fortunate, were completely justi-
fied refusin„c, peremptorily to entertain the claim. It
0 be hoped. that the decisive majority of 10S against 67
rize!iave laid this troublesome question of the Kirlvva
Money at rest for ever.

THE HALFPENNY POSTAGE.
?Ile Daily News thinks that the extension of the half-
-13-nllY postage will be an important improvement. The
Postage cards will involve nothing but writing the message
°lfifione side and the address on the other, and if the Post-
paid is quick and punctual in their collection
us delivery, they are sure to come into very extensive
corsage The only inconvenience about them *will be, that the
esBage must necessarily be an open one • but of the
scores
of messages a head of a family has to send
evoery
few need an envelope, and when they do
fed
sheet of paper end a penny stamp will be
as at present We are glad to record this promise of
~ther
accommodation as a proof of the desire of the de-
t."4-ument to consult and serve the convenience of the

in Na fire has taken place in the Etwaree Bazaar,
'"oore,
'wlndia when a large number of houses were
"wn property to the amount of about £20,000
as destroyed.!'d
The visit of Prince Alfred to Uawnpore is to be
illloZonsorated by an annual distribution of medals and
rzes to the scholars of the Zillah and Social Improve-
43‘at Society's Female Schools, and it has further been
'ennined to found, from the interest of the sums
tru,l'euat Subsenled, a scholarship of forty-eight rupees per
000ns, - Land and IV er is glad to hear thatthe
pecte
f
good sport on the coming 12th of August
thre more
Promising at present than for the last
Years. In Eastern and Western Morayshire and
liil,l'oghout the North the breeding birds are reported
disease—erlls, strong, and extremely healthy ; no sign of
h having shewn itself as yet. There were no very
tielaa4fallti of snow on the moors during the
good
riro
birdsof fooa birds had everya chance of procuring
he mildness of the spring inducedearly pairing,
the fine weather in April caused the nesting to be
thtisuallY successful. In Banff, Aberdeen and Inverness
e
results are not so good, but still not di4couraging.
,SAVING
BANKS' INTEREST.—A. Parliamentary
'Pura shevirs that in the' 52 years-1817-1860—the divi-
'ftends received by the National Debt Commissioners 9n
ariac°llnt of the inveStments made for savings banks
„:une dto £39,567,129 ; but the interest pad or ore-
the to the trustees of the savings banks in that period
I)"nalliriated to £43,736,557 ; so that there was a loss to the
PurB d
e of X
5t4,169,428. In the year 1869 alonet the
sof of
paid or credited to the trustees N.-33
.310
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