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which he has done, and yet exculpate himself in the t from the Minister ofJustice that they were to proceed no
eyes of liberal and impartial men. He might, in quash- further in the business, The resistance, therefore, of the
ing the plots and the power of Bourbon parties, and an- , eoestitutional authorities to the usurpation of Louis Na-
pouncing his determination to crush anti-social move- I poleon may be said to ho at an end; and, after the tran-
meats, still have preserved the great republican liberties ' quility of Tuesday night, and tho favourable accounts
.of the country, or he might even, in aspiring to be Em- Scorn the departments, it is possible that the danger of a
peror in his own right, have secured, or at least pro- popular outbreak is for the moment obviated. The firm-
mised, a full measure of constitutional freedom to the ness or the French Funds—which at no period were so
French. He has done neither of these things. But in much affected as our own, and which closed yesterday
one of the most audacious and foolish of proclamations within ti per cent. of their quotations before the coup
he promulgates his intention of restoring the old im- d'etet—is a remarkable proot of public confidence in the
perial constitution, consisting of a senate, of course to stability of the President. And if the last news which
be selected by, and to be tho instrument of, the execu- has reached us should be well founded—viz, that MM.
tive, which was to be completely independent of it; Montalembert, Baroche, and Drouyn de l'Huys, have
which senate was endowed with the power of consented to take seats in the new Council of State—the
completing or suspending the Constitution itself, prospects of Louis Napoleon being able to maintain his
or even of reversing the decisions of the judica- position and to carry on the Government are materially
ture! As to a chamber or assembly of representatives improved. What may be the ultimate success of an
elected by universal, or indeed by any, suffrage, sitting, attempt the audacious lawlessness of which cannot be
discussing, and voting under the brows of an all-power- defended, however it may bo palliated by the factious
ful senate, and amidst the acts of an administration to- violence of the Parliamentary majority, it is impos-
tally independent of it, anything so impracticable and Bible at the present moment to predict; and it will bo
absurd never issued from the brain of even the most time enough to discuss the policy of the President's pro-
crazy politician that France has yet produced. Louis gramme, when we shall have ascertained how much of it
Nap Aeon, when he uttered such nonsense, or sanctioned he intends to carry into effect. Meanwhile, we need
its appearauce in a proclamation, must have done so in lack no further for the source of its inspiration than the
utter contempt of the public, whom he addressed, and in speech of Napoleon to the Council of the. Ancients:—
sweeping disregard of principle, honesty, or common " The Constitution, say you--it is no more. It is your-
sense. To have conceived and considered as practicable selves who have destroyed it, by attacking, on the 18th
such a mode of government as this, was puerile and Fructidor, the national representation—by annulling, on
fatuitous. To declare it at once, in the first hour of re- the 22d Floreel, the popular election—and by assaulting,
volution, was perfectly insane, There is no party, no On the 13th Prairial, the independence of the Govern-
class, no number of Frenchmen, beyond a few aide-de- ment." Whatever be his future intentions, the President
camps, who could in the present day put trust in such a does not propose to protract the possession of his pres.lst
system of government as this. The bold attitude of the tomorreal power, but desires, as soon as possible, to for-
President, with the intrigues and treacheries of tify his position by the direct mandate of the country.
the monarchical leaders in the Assembly, which And should ho succeed in being re-elected by a large
provoked it, may for a moment incline the majority of tho people his authority wilt be, for a time
people to applaud Louis Napoleon; but a few at least, impregnable. The election will commence on
hours' consideration, the spectacle of the Con- the 14th of the month, and the event will be known in
stitution abrogated, the Assembly dissolved, and even the course of three weeks.
its best and most moderate members consigned with HERALD.—By the latest intelligence from France,
their colleagues en masse to prisons, and this done avow- Paris was tranquil yesterday; and from one-fifth of the de-
edly for the establishment of an imperial senate and partments accounts had been received which are deemed
regime—must produce a terrible revulsion of sentiment; satisfactory by the supreme power. The more we re-
and that every intellect and every party in the country fleet on the occurrences which we have recorded within
will be forthwith leagued against the usurper, is as in- forty-eight hours, the more striking appears to us the
evitable as it is fearful. That the clear perspicuity and coincidence of past and present events. Names, as well
cool judgment of Napoleon, with the powerful influence as dates, it cannot be forgotten, have great influence
that he had the gift of exercising'over the minds both with so ardent, impulsive, and imaginative a people as
of individuals and of the masses, might triumph in such the French; and, having said so much, we may call to
a forlorn hope, we admit; but that Louis Napoleon, or the recollection of the reader that on the 2d of Decem-
that those around him, are equal to the task of reducing bar, 1804, the coronation of the Emperor Napoleon and
the thirty and odd millions of Frenchmen, with the con- of the Empress Josephine took place in Paris—a coro-
gregated intellect and numbers of their great towns,to the nation which eclipsed in splendour even that of Louis
state of inanimate and disgraceful pupillage which pre- XIV. The Pontiff, who in December, 1797, exhorted
vailed under the Empire, that is not within the limits of the French people to walk in the paths of democratic
human probability. There is indeed one kindof policyand liberty, was the very same Pius VII. who seven years
one series of events which might uphold such a system for later sanctified and blessed—to use his own words—the
a time. And that is, successful, triumphant, glorious, and elect of Heaven. The obsequiousness of the Pope and
profitable war. The large French army can, we are clergy now to the President of 1851 is greater than it
afraid, become attached to no new leader or new regime was seven-and-forty years ago to the Emperor, and can
that does not give it promotion, honour, profit, and .as- only be compared to that of Pope Zachary, who, being
cendancy. But this can only be done at the risk of war, *Liked by Pepin who should govern, responded "
Celui-
while this against two millions of bristling ba- la est Roi qui en ala puissance." If we are to believe
yonets would require a degree of military talent and the accounts received up to last night, this seems the
fortune, of which France gives no promise, and to which opinion of most classes, with the exception of the leaders
the cause of the Napoleon dynasty gives no claim. The of the Assembly, most of whom have been arrested,
great military ascendancy of the French at the close of and some of whom have, after resisting vigorously, been
the last century was due to the principle which animated sent to Vincennes. Had these gentlemen now in duress
them, and the enthusiasm to which that principle ori- patriotically and sincerely fulfilled the great mission en-
ginally gave birth. It was in the campaigns of the trusted to them by their constituents, instead of plot-
Republic that the superiority of the French army tin, intriguing, and caballing, there can be no doubt
was established, and the Emperor Napoleon merely that the people would have stood firmly and bravely by
reaped the crop of military power which the them; but as it is, not a voice has been raised in their
Jeurdaina, the Hoches, and the Moreaus had sown, favour, nor a hand outstretched to vindicate and protect
We doubt, therefore, that the campaigns of Napoleon them. The 2d of December is memorable in more re-
can be re-enacted, and without them the empire can spects than one in Napoleonic reminiscences. On that
never be resuscitated. Amidst the fear and anxiety very day in December, 1805, a marvellous campaign of
which these events have created amongst us, we are glad seven or eight weeks was brought to a close by the me-
to hear it whispered that such a serious explosion so near morable battle of Austerlitz—one of the most resplendent '
has had the good effect of silencing the petty differences victories recorded in French annals, prolific as such
amongst our own statesmen, who have now graver mat- annals have ever been of victory. The sun of Auster-
ters to occupy them than examining the expediency or Litz shone out as warmly on the nephew on the 2d De-
decorum of a particular Minister receiving this or that cember, 1851, as on the uncle on the 2d December, 1805,
deputation. It is quite clear that we are bound to re- nor was there a need of nine hours' struggle, sustained
cognise whatever chief magistrate the French nation may by the cuirrassiers and Soult, to gain the day, as nearly
elect or accept to govern them. However we may disap- half a century previously. In fact, whether from the
prove of his rashness and dread his unconstitutionalism, measures adroitly and energetically taken by the Exe-
it is clear that in these things the people of France are cutive, or from the apathy, indifference, and weariness
the best judges. And provided that judgment be fully of the public, the first victory was an easy one; and in
consulted and fairly pronounced, we in our diplomatic France, above most countries, the individual who has
courtesies and relations have but to abide by it. struck a first successful blow has the prestige
CHRONICLE.—It is just fifty-one years since Na- in his favour. It should be remembered that
poleon dissolved the quasi Republican Government of sixty years of revolutions and struggles and abrupt
the Directory, and, with the connivance of the Council changes have, among our neighbours, obscured and
of Ancients, inaugurated the Consulate—so soon to be loosened, if not entirely blotted out all notions of
merged in the Empire—by the expulsion of the Five hierarchy and succession in regular order, and there
Hundred. Wielding, perhaps, less power than the Con- is in the genius and disposition of the people, irreepec-
queror of Italy, and aided by fewer men of talent, the five of these things, something that induces them to give
measures of Louis Napoleon have been no less skilfully a clear stage and every favour to a character daring and
prepared and boldly executed than those of his uncle; enterprising, yet calm, taciturn, and self-possessed.
whilst he has attained a not very dissimilar and without Such a character they have found in the President, and
either the personal danger, or the public scandal, of an if the majority of the people approve of his ',course of
armed invasion of a legislative body in full deliberation, action, the cause lies as much in the factious caballings
Each phase of revolution, however eccentric may be its of his enemies in the Assembly as in his own peculiar
orbit, is subject to periodical recurrences. There is a name, attributes, temperament, and endowments. So
sort of method in the instability of the French people, tortuously, treacherously, and factiously, indeed, has the
and their political vicissitudes revolve in definite cycles. Chamber acted, that for the last month its dissolution
Indeed, so numerous have been the experiments which was as ardently desired by the bodyhtf electors whom it
they have made, during the last sixty years, in the pos- spoliated and stripped of their franchises as was its first
Bible combinations of governmental systems, that it birth, vitality, and commencement by its early ad-
would be hard to conceive a situation which should not wirers. In the same degree as the early days and pro-
present a striking analogy to some former precedent. ceedings of the Assembly were popular, in the
Louis Napoleon places a confidence in his destiny, same degree were its later days and proceedings the
which, with many other men who have played a conspi- object of contempt, of aversion, and of hatred; so that
cuous part upon the stage of the world, has supplied the in shutting up the doors and closing the debates many
place of principle and of policy; and we can readily consider the act of the Executive at least as much a work
believe that he had destined the month of December—so of prime necessity as a stroke of legitimate ambition ;
momentous in the annals of the house of Bonaparte—to and it may well be urged that Liberty has loss to dread
decide the issue of his own fortunes. was the month from the proceedings of one man who tells his purposes
of December that saw the elevation of Napoleon to tho openly, than from the maecouvres of two scores of Bur-
Consulate—and Tuesday last was the anniversary of the grey( s, who were over dissembling, and always equally
foundation of the empire, which made him the Autcarat uesincere, indirect, and dishonest. The conduct of the
of France, and of the victory of Austerlitz, which lift President is, at least, open and above board. In exceed-
him the master of Europe, Whether the historical ing the boundaries of the Constitution, ho tells the noun-
"sun of Austerlitz" shone in Paris on the 2d instant, try his ultimate meaning and purposes. A temporary
we are not informed; but it is certain that the array of dictature we know saved the Republic of Rome, and
Louis Napoleon's Parliamentary adversaries was when the French President strains the power he undoubt-
struck down by a disaster as complete and as unex- edly possesses against halfta-dozen to increase the fran-
pected as that which befel their prototypes, the Conti- chises of as many millions, the people appreciate the
rental allies. History records few spectacles more act as a national acquisition. No doubt the act of
extraordinary and dramatic than the awakening of the President is a coup d'etat. But such coups
the city of Paris to the consciousness that a revolution are the incidents and accompaniments in such a country
wes not only commenced, but, as it were, accom- as Franco of factions, insurrections, and revolutions.
plished. We can fancy an honest bourgeois turning out We must, however, say that this coup of the Execu-
at his accustomed hour to take down his shutters, and live appears to have arisen neither from a lust of tyranny,
finding the handwriting of the President of the Re- nor from inordinate ambition. In going a step beyond
public upon his wall. We picture tee aurselvos his the law, Louis Napoleon has obeyed but the natural in-
amazement at finding his newsman transformed into a stinct of self-preservation. If he had remained within
dragoon, and his feuilleton replaced by
a proclamation. the limits of strict legality, he would have given his op-
But there were others on whom the blow fell somewhat ponents and his enemies the mastery, and that they
which wad tehaer er
last and
meshes far
ofmore
the
web heavily,
aTs to entrapleiersw the man against his liberty, mayhap against his life, there can beas netting would have need it speedily, mercilessly, and remorsely,
whom he had intended to govern, and whose greatest no doubt whatever. In going a step beyond the law and
crime, in his eyes, is that he has chosen to act for him- the Constitution, then, he has preserved his own life and
self. The political Frankenstein was discussing with his liberty, and possibly prolonged his power; but in so
chosen friends, in the dead of the night, the means of acting he has only yielded to a natural instinct common
extinguishing the vitality of the monster whom he to all men; and we sincerely trust that the ultimate re-
tied helped to create—when the gees crannes cults will give to France that internal peace which
marched him off to the confinement which he should flow from a healthy constitution.
had destined for his antagonist on the morrow. ADVERTISER.—The more ample details which
In conspiracy, as in military mining, sue- have reached us respecting the revolution in Paris, and
teas is ever a question of time; and the best-laid train which we were only enabled to publish in a part of yes-
m3y always be prematuttely exploded by a counter-blast. terday's impression, are strikingly confirmatory of the
It seems sufficiently clear that, on Monday night, the opinion we then expressed regarding the causes which
question lay between a Convention- meet& Dictatorship— had induced Louis Napoleon to dissolve the Assembly,
the beds at Vincennes a ere aired, but it was as yet un- and resort to those other energetic measures by which
certain who were to be their occupants. If Mt Thiers that event was preceded and accompanied. It is now
had gained the initiative, the ultimate issue might not an ascertained fact, that had the President hesitated a
perhaps have been very different, but bloodshed would few hours longer to have recourse to the coup d'etat
have been inevitable in the first instance. Though, so which our columns yesterday recorded, a coup d'etat
far as is yet known, there is every reason to believe would have been resorted to against him. Had he not
that the greater part of the population of Paris look, on ordered the chiefs pf the hostile factions in the Assem•
the whole, with more of favour than of hostility on bly, who were leagued against him, to be consigned to
the measures of the President, yet the profound and prison, he himself would, before the middle of' Tuesday,
remarkable tranquillity by which up to the present me- have been a prisoner in the dungeons of Vincennes. He
ment, so violent a change has been accompanied and fol- but anticipated by an hour or two, with regard to them,
lowed, must be in great part ascribed to the decision and what they had fully intended with respect to
vigour with which (very individual, round whom resist- him. Instead of being prisoners at his instance, he
ante might have rallied, was removed from the scene of would have been a prisoner at the instance of Gene-
action before even a suspicion of the intended proceeding rats Cavaignac, Chargarnier, Lamoricidre, and Me:Atm
had transpired. There can be no better proof of the Toiers, Baze, Berryer, &c. And so with respect to the
profound secresy in which the preparations had been other extreme measure to which the President of the
made than the fact that even M. Thiers had not time to Republic has resorted, namely, tho dissolution of the
run away. So strict was the reserve which Louis Na- National Assembly. It appears that that step, as well
poleon had maintained, that the Ministers themselves as the arrest and imprisonment of Louis Napoleon, had
were not acquainted with his plans till they bad been been fully resolved on, on the previous night, at the
already executed—and the Constitutionnei, the organ of house of General Changarnier—a meeting which was
the EVES), appeared on the same morning, after the attended by M. Thiers, M. Berryer, M. Baze, and the
decrees bad been issued, with an article ridiculing the other chiefs of the hostile parties in the Assembly. But
notion of any coup dad on the part of the President. if the information which has reached us be correct—and
A portion of the Assembly attempted to act with as we have no reason to doubt its accuracy—these persons
much vigour as could be expected under such hopeless had not only entered into a carefully organized con-
circumstances. After a meeting at the house of M. Daru, spiracy against the person and powers of the President,
a body of representatives proceeded to the Legislative but against the Republic itself. Not only was ho dee-
Palace and made a formal claim of admission; and when tined to incarceration in the dungeons of Vincennes,
onnof their number had so far asserted their right as to and the Assembly to immediate dissolution, but the
receive a puncture with a bayonet, they retired, under Republic was to be annihilated. If the proofs of this
the protection of a colonel of the National Guard, to the audacious conspiracy—a conspiracy against the Consti-
Mairie of the 10th Arrondissement. The Constitution, tution, as well as against tho person and position of the
with singular simplicity, provides that, in the event of President—can be satisfactorily established, the men
the Assembly being forcibly dissolved, all the executive who are now in custody may find matters go much
powers shall im
• mediately revert to it; and, in con- harder with them than they or their friends at first anti-
formity with this very practical provision, the Members cipated. We are sorry to think that Cavaignac should
assembled at the Mairie—about 200 in number--de- be mixed up with the Thierses, the C g
han antlers,
glared the dichiance of the President, and convoked the and the Berryers, in this ugly business. Though not
High
Court of Justice for the trial of him and his Mi- concurring in all his political views, we always regarded
niiters, on a charge of treason against the Constitution. him as a high-minded, straightforward man,—one who
M. Berryer, from a window, attempted to address the was incapable of associating himself with a junta of
to enlist their sympathies in the cause of plotters and schemers for their own selfish purposes.
populace, and
to obtain a hearing, 'that
the Assembly; but he was unable
hat
favourable opinion we can entertain no longer.
and
his failure was the less surprising, inasmuch as the Amidst the numerous representatives in prison—
only 1 lure which he bad to offer in opposition to the bait amounting, it is stated, to upwards of 110—there is not
of universal suffrage was the dictatorship of the invader one amongst them who has sunk so low in public esti-
of Rome. At this point the chasseurs of Vincennes mation as General Cavaignac—just as there was none
forced their way into the apartment, ordered its evacu- of their number that stood so high. He was one, re-
ation, and arrested M. Darn, who, with MM. de garding whom no person could have anticipated what
B Mole, and Odilon Barron insisted on remaining. has happened. A, respects Thiers, every one will re-
Therog le,
the proceeding, and " de- •cece that one so hollow and so insincere
latter protested against g, _ as he has
fate of his colleague; but always shown himself to be, should at last have been
mended" to share the
notwithstanding ent entreaties, no further fairly caught in a trap of his own setting,
his urgg. He is the
h made. Fresh instructions must, very incarnation of mischief. It is an essential part
issued subsequently, as it is of his nature to he enengcd in
however, have been itsuunprincipled plots—
so ot the day almostplots which invariably have in reported that in the course
view the promotion
at the M• • t' his own selfish
the meeting
all the members who attendplaced
his stars
unintentional satire, that he has escaped so lent, were, by a stroke of perhaps • Never did
man more
lid o So ended the efforts richly deserve sin • unishi under confinement in the Inva
thise. moment
P.l.Thiers would deprive ) Pof cent short of that which
of the Legisletive body; and athim existence—a kind of punish-
h h b • • cunt e as given in ment to which, as cur readers know, we
is perhaps recalling the account which
e have always
his history of the fall of Barran, who perceived that been opposed. At the latest trout down to which our
ho was lost, and that his game was played out. It was intelligence from Frepee has reached us Paris was per-
timed of d bl
that he should receive the rewar
.18 Otl 0. lectly trenquil. This is of good augury for the cause of
desertions. He was order. It is only,-
faced intrigues, and his cowardly . • however, what we had prepared our
alike distrusted by patriots and republicans; the re- readers to expect. The people aro with Louis Napoleon.
formers and politicians looked on him as a man of ruined So are the arm,Y. The disaffected nasjenity have no a d
-
credit, and applied to him the nem° of pourri, which herents. There is not a man in Paris or out of it who
Bonaparte had fixed upon him." In accordance with the would may a word in their favour far less take up a
resolution of the extemporised Assembly, the Court of musket in their behalf. Never did any body of men
Cessation met to pronounce the deposition of the Presi- sink so low in public esteem. They seemed actuated by
dent, but broke up in confusion on receiving a message no other motive than that of destroying Louis Napoleon;
•

DECEMBER 4, 18b1.

and in their endeavours to accomplish that object they
did not scruple as to the means to he employed. They
were prepared to say or do anything, however unprin-
cipled, which they deemed calculated to carry out their
Plans. Be their doom, as prisoners, what it may, their
career as legislators, or as statesmen, has, in all proba-
bility, closed for ever. There is ono thing which will
weigh much in favour of Louis Napoleon. Nut only did
ho resort to no unconstitutional expedient until it be-
came a question with him of personal liberty, as well as
of official power, but even then he did not push
matters to a greater extremity than he thought the
circumstances of the case imperatively called for. He
has
not shed a drop of blood, He bas not even put
Paris in a state of siege.
The announcement to that
effect by telegraph, which appeared in yesterday's
papers, was incorrect. The people have had no re-
etricion put upon their liberty
where they choose—to meet as the yare free to go
cress their opinions with all thee ful Theylplease—andnte ah
nd f r
et
eo d
oex-
withm which they were accustomed to rhcasanthgeerethfoerier
sentiments. The coup d'elat of Tuesday little of the character which usually belongs t „Ins
dients of that kind. A great misconception too, te
xistel as to what Louis Napoleon was bent's doing,
reached was supposed, from the scanty information dweeitiCh.
reached us by electric telegreph on Tuesday, that h
resolved on bcirg, at all nazsrds, re-elected Preside:s
Ile has given no grounds whatever for the assumption.
Ile ha-, on the contrary, shown that he neve r entertaineci
any such fees. Ile has put an end to the state of things
which previously existed, because it was as much
at variance with the best interests of France,
as it was personally annoying and insulting
to himself : but he does not seek to fetter
the people's choice as to the elecion of a succes-
sor. Bo leaves them, on that score, entirely free agents.
It the popular choice be adverse to him, he will at once
acquiesce in the decision, and retire into the seclusion of
private life. On this point he speaks in terms the most
explicit in his address to the people, which is a manly
and generous document. After adverting to the hostile
conduct of the Assembly, Louis Napoleon says—"l,
then, make a loyal appeal to the entire nation; and I
say to you, if you wish to continue this state of dis-
quietude and malaisse that degrades you and endangers
the future, choose another person in my place, for I no
longer wish for a place which is powerless for good, but
which makes me responsible for acts that I cannot
hindei, and chains me to the helm when I see the
vessel rushing into the abyss. If, on the contrary,
you have still confidence in me, give me the means of
accomplishing the grand mission I hold from you.
That mission consists in closing the era of re-
volution, in satisfying the legimate wants of the
people, and in protecting them against subversive pas-
sions. It consists especially to create institutions which
survive men, and which are the foundation on which
something durable is based. Persuaded that the insta-
bility of power, that the preponderance of a single As-
sembly, are the permanent causes of trouble and dis-
cord, I submit to your suffrages the fundamental bases
of a constitution which the Assemblies will develope
hereafter." In his address to the army Louis Napo-
leon expresses himself to the same effect. " I make,"
he says, 6' an honest appeal to the people and the
army, and I say to them, either give me the means of
assuring your prosperity, or choose another in my
place." Nor is this all. In the same appeal to the
army, while calling on them in their capacity of
soldiers to obey their commanders, he enjoins there,
as citizens, to exercise their free unfettered choice of
candidates at the coming elections. This assuredly is
not the language of a despot. These are not the actions
of one who aspires at a dictatorship. Nothing could be
more compatible with all our notions of liberty than the
words and deeds of Louis Napoleon, with the solitary
exception of th© coup d'etat of Tuesday. And that
bold, uunconstitutional step was, it must always be re-
membered, forced upon him, as the only means of pre-
venting a similar and still more extreme coup d'etat, on
the part of the hostile chiefs of the Assembly—a coup
d'dtat, as we have before stated, which contemplated
the annihilation of the Republic itself. The choice on
Tuesday lay between the re-election of Louis Na-
poleon, or a military despotism under the direction of
General Changarnier. France has already, from one
end of the country to the other, declared which of the
alternatives she would prefer. She makes her election
in favour of Louis Napoleon.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
WOLVERHAMPTON STEEPLECHASES.
Acceptances for the Handicap (Steeplechase) of 20 soya.
each, 10 ft, &c. Four miles.
Peter Simple, aged, list 31b—Lucy Neal, aged, lOst
121b—Vain Hope, 6 yrs, lOst 101b—Columbus, aged,
lOst 71b—Half-and-Half, aged, lOst 41b—Thurgarton,
aged, lOst 21b—Victress, aged, 9st 101b—The Young'un,
aged, 9st 101 b—De Ginkle, aged, 9st 81b—M'Ion, aged,
9st 61b—Carrig, aged, 9st 61b—Hardwick, 6 yrs, 9st 51b
—Tallyho, aged, 9st 31b—Chatterbox, aged, 9st 21b—
The Screw, aged, Bst 101b—The Cripple, aged, Bst 71b.
The above are subject to any declarations of forfeit
received at Wolverhampton since post time on Tuesday
night.

Fiee Handicap Hurdle Stakes of 5 sous. each. &c. De-
clarations of forfeit up to pest_ time on Tuesday
evening.
Bacchanalian, Fugitive, Ballet Girl, Maria Monk,
Maurice Daley, Hurricane, Bullfinch, Defaulter, Widow
Machree, Flirt, Combatant, Tom Bowling, New Forest
Dc.,e, Barrister, Loddington.
The line of country will be the same as last year.
The Selling (Steepltchase) Stakes closes the evening
before running.

COURSING.
NEWMARKET CHAMPION MEETING.
TUESDAY.
The Puppy Stakes.
Mr. Richardson's Vidonia bt Mr. King's Redwing.
Mr. Riehardsou's Vulcan bt Lord S:railbroke's Moses.
Mr. Holmes as Bedlam Lass bt Mr. Etwall's World's
Fair.
Mr. Watson's Miller of Mansfield bt Mr. Miller's Wsxy.
Mr. R. Bagge's Tendress bt Mr. Singleton's Rover Jess.
Mr. Inskip's Isis beat Mr. Holmes tia tk b B. Lass.
Lord Stradbroke's Merry bt Mr. Blenkirou's Sportsman.
Mr. Hill's Highland Lass bt Mr. Singleton's Drunken
Jack.
Mr. Inskip's Jewel bt Mr. Gillett's Golden Farmer (late
Farmer).
Mr. Minton's Windsor Lass bt Mr. Buckworth's Bayard.
Mr. Brooke's Young King Cobb bt Mr. Minton's Run-on.
Mr. Gurney's Abel bt Mr. East's Atalanta.
Mr. Holyoake bt Mr. Edwards's Anchises.
Cspt. Wyndham's Woralia bt Mr. Dobede's Delight.
Mr. Round's Locksley bt Mr. Morent's Magic.
Mr. Holmes na Ansrum bt Mr. Singleton's Voltigeur.

WEDNESDAY.
The All-Aged Stakes.
Mr. Blenkiron's Melton bt Mr. Round's Leader.
Mr. Reed's Rushlight bt Mr. Miller's Cobra.
Mr. Dobede's Dot bt Mr. Morant's Merryman.
Mr. Holmes's Miss Kitty Brown bt Mr. Singleton's
Welcome.
Mr. Inskip's Jester bt Mr. Holmes's Medora.
Mr. Etwall's Exhibitor bt Mr. Hill's Hester.
Mr, Djbede's Damson bt Mr. Watson's Resignation
Mr. Holmes's Movement bt Mr. Blenkiron's Saddle.
Mr. Gilett's Florette bt Captain Wyndham's Banshee.
Mr. Dobede's Dunkeld bt Mr. lothip's Jeannette.
Mr. Singleton's The Nutman bt Mr. Hill's Henrietta.
Mr. Singleton's Bonny Scotland bt Mr. Moody's Regard.
Mr. Singleton's Heather Jack bt Mr.Fyson's Forerunner.

- The .Puppy Stakes.
FIRST TrEs.—Highland Lass bt Isis, Woralia bt Hol-
lyoake, Abel bt Jewel, Miller of Mansfield bt Merry,
Locksley bt Vidonia, Ancrum bt Vulcan, Tendresse bt
-Windsor Lass, Bedlam Lass bt Young Kiug Cob.