The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-19 00:00:00

FOR THE TWO YEARS OLD AND OTHER RACES.

Sister to Clothworker, Alicia, Lady Isabel, Tested,
Eva, Narcissus, Clothworker, Dorothea, Escape. Hand-
some Doe, The Swede, Sir Charles. Zadoc, Souffle, Agis,
Salute, Estafette, Lady in Waiting, Buckthorn,
Forlorn Hope, Cyprus, Monsieur Houdin, Clara,
Alboni, Nutcracker, Fernande, Pulcherrima, Cora,
Elcot (doubtful), Haitoe colt, Little John,
Simplicity, Kakistos, Pitsford, Garforth, Dulcet,
Sauter-la-Coupe, f out of Sorella's dam, Emily,
Duster, Royal Hart, Subterfuge, Firebolt, Ley-
bourne, Exotic filly, Gladiole, a by Melbourne, Lady
Blanche, c by Sir Hercules, out of Empress (3 yrs),
Sweetheart, Ingratitude, Thornhill, Flare-up, Reversion,
Beebee Bunnoo, Hot-cross-bun, Sabra, Kissawsy, Wind-
hound, Charley, Uriel; besides a great many others for
plates, &c.

EARTH'S SOCIAL TRYSTING TREE.
(From the Weekly Dispatch.)
In no particular has the growing power of public opi-
nion and the prevailing mastery of the third estate in-
dicated the progress of the age so emphatically as in the
article of kings. With a few exceptions, they are pat-
tern examples of the private and domestic virtues. Even
the Emperor of Russia cannot afford to be a brute, a
sensualist, or a knave; and it may be recollected that he
is not the lineal successor to the throne of Muscovy, but
that the political exigencies of the State required that,
even in a nation of serfs, the true heir should abandon
his claims to_ the purple, in consideration of the odious-
ness of a life, against which even the feeble popular voice
of the country of the Czars was too powerful to be de-
fi-d. The King of the Belgians, the late King of the
French, the King of Prussia, the Emperor of Austria,
were not slow to discover that the divine right of kings
was not strong enough to maintain a Monarch on his
throne, odious to the people from the practical outrage
of his career upon the recognized virtues of society;
and the terrible lesson which this nation taught to George
the Fourth in their support of Queen Caroline, proved
even to his unscrupulous Ministers that the very exist-
ence of the monarchy might be perilled by the selfishness
and immorality of the Sovereign. The circumspection of
William IV. formed a strange contrast to the irregulari-
ties of the Duke of Clarence; and even our Prime
Ministers are now chosen with a very significant refer-
ence to the purity and blamelessness of their private cha-
racters. Lord Liverpool, Mr. Canning, Sießobert Peel,
Lord John Russell, could never have attained to their
present positions had not their domestic conduct been
enable of sustaining the strictest scrutinp• and it is
scarcely too much to say that the stability of the Throne
is, and will continue to be, materially attributable to the
unexceptionable behaviour of the chief magistrate. But
undoubtedly it would be ungrateful in us to omit to ob-
serve that the singularly happy choice of a Prince Con-
sort is a subject of just congratulation to every good
citizen. It has been more epigrammatically than gal-
, lantly, or perhaps even truly, observed, that all good
Queens have been ruled by men, and all bad kings have
been governed by women. It cannot be doubted that
the husband even of a Queen, if possessed of force of
character and power of intellect, must exercise an essen-
tial influence upon the actions of hie wife; and to the
sound judgment, propriety, good taste, and high principle
which have uniformly surrounded the whole conduct of
our Sovereign, a wise, prudent, and right-minded consort
is entitled to his fair share of the credit. We have watched
the career of this young prince amongst us with much
anxiety, and latterly with great and growing interest. He
is much more than merely a slip of blood royal. He is
evidently something else than the masculine gender of
the noun Queen. He neither needs his rank nor his
position to make him distinguished. His own natural
gifts are such as " to give the world assurance of a
Man." He has proved his wisdom as much by what he
has not done as by what he has performed. Prudently
he has abstained from alarming our national jealousy of
the interference of a foreigner in the political concerns
of our domestic factions. With the most watchful care
he has avoided permitting his proximity to the Throne
from adumbrating the Sovereign. The husband has
never usurped the office of the subject. He has every-
where been useful, without ever having been meddle-
some. He knows and keeps his place, distinguishing
carefully the official from the officious. Even this is
high praise—but it is not all. He is not contented to
be one of your " Good Duke" gentry. He never mis-
takes the mere " guinea stamp" for the " guinea."
He has too much self-respect, too great an appreciation
of the true dignity, the proper function and indivi-
duality of humanity, to submit to the degradation
of wrapping up his personality in his rank and fortuitous
accessories. The Abbe Sieyes made his Chief Consul
what Napoleon called a mere pig." He was to be the _
first person in the State—the centre and fountain of
honour; to have palaces, courtiers, and vast revenues;
to be everything, and to do nothing. Prince Albert will
not consent to be the Court " pig." He enters into com-
petition with his fellow-citizens as a man, and he takes a
high rank in that class. He is an early riser, a diligent
and ripe student, a laborious, careful, and astute man of
business. He is liberal, but throws no money away.
He is munificent according to his means, but he is also
economical without parsimony. He examines the ac-
counts and expenditure of every charity before he sub-
scribes to it—his patronage is extensive, but it is strictly
discriminating. He is not a mere social mute. He is not
afraid to soil the enamel of his position by placing his
intellect side by side with those who have nothing bu t
their mind in which they can be on a level with him .I
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We have been careful readers of his every speech. We
do not hesitate to say that they are uniformly the best
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het n inphilosophye,
given utterance to his own sentiments. We regard his in-
tellect
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otherone amfeornige ourthe orators.
shade,
and
speech at the Royal Academy was such a
the doubt whether there was another man ins 1()1 induce
ki
dom who could have " capped" it. Nor te king-
dom
he, of all men, has the
hatimYsot
most
difficult must we forget
cute in "thinking aloud." He speaks
the
to exe-
ters of his position. He must clip
eloquence, so that it may not fly thb wings of his
over the hedge of his
neutral policy. He must leave unuttered a thousand
thoughts, which it is not permitted to the consort of the
sovereign to proclaim. He must sequester his mind
from the discursiveness of topic which is open to every
body else, and speak rather with the guarded language
of a Minister, whose words are acts, than with the free
enunciation of other men, who are only eloquent be-
cause it is given to their obscurity of position to 28Y
exactly what, and all that, they think. His thir!kinGgeris.
transcendental without being nebulous; and it
Froism this
Ger-
man without being obscure and unpractical.
and fellow-
man, whom we welcome as a fellow-subjectw...
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citizen, and whom we predict the country
i ate a day
desire to, claim as a part of itself, we an p great
We rejoice that our
and eminently useful future.
a father, and we solemnly
coming Sovereign has such
attention to what
His
will
adjure him to devote his chief recentradrae
s make
be his greatest work, that of framing the mind and
character of his son, and making
him the great king
of a great nation. Let not his young soul be poisoned
I with the canting trash of an old woman, although she
be an Archbishop of Canterbury, nor the sanctimonious
pride of a Puseyite Churchman, albeit men profanely
call him " Soapy Sam." The founder, projector, an
I thor, almost finisher of the World's Exposition, needs
no help In the teaching of hia children. We think

Prizuse 4tl e I connexion with the practical details of
this wiset;Pohle achievement is in danger of being
forgotten in merely regarding his patronage to it. Be-
cause he was the friend, disciple, and admirer of Peel,
has, from the first, betn de. eneeitvour of the Pro-
‘ionists to depreciate it. From Sibihorp upwards
they, eve prophesied its failure, and maue the wish the
fatheeto the thought. They eodeavcured to starve the,
subsefirtion-list—'they absented themselves from co-
operating committees—they declined to attend pnblio
meetings to further its progress. The Prince found
himself deserted by the nobility, and he threw himself
upon the commonalty. He met the mayors of our
cities and towns; he called around him mainly the prac-
tical working and mercantile intellect of the kingdom.
Prejudice, faction, ignorance, and envy, kept up the cry
of "stinking fish." The sordid, the selfish, the weak-
minded and illiberal cuckooed the call, "It is
naught ! It is naught!" John Bull was cheated
into hostility on his blind side of terror
of Germanism and quackery. The Herald prophesied
ruin to our nianufacturiug reputation from the exposure
of foreign superiority, and injury to our powers of
competion from betrayal of the secrets of our manipu-
lative processes. The Post confidently predicted cholera,
itch, and the plague, from the rites of hospitality, and
the numbers of our guests. When the sanitary panic grew
stale, we were threatened with provincial barricades and
metropolitan revolution. The minds of the London
tradesmen were poisoned with imaginary fears of the
foreign exhibitors cert.y jug off their customers and orders;
while the solemn class of sagacious grumblers protested
against a project which was to stop the usefel industry
of the nation, and to tempt it to endless holiday-making
and the universal
into Spending of money. Even the Iron
Duke was
the adoption of quite unnecessary
precautions;
and it is understood that ho advised the
Queen to keep her present Ministers in their places,
solely
from his dread
i of political confusion during
the currency of the influx of foreign visitors. The
Prince has answered nothing to all this. He has
" let his works praise him"—works which the
history of the world can scarcely parallel. He
has had, indeed, the ablest assistants; but it is in the
choice of these that the power of an able mind is always
most conspicuously shown, and to him the credit of this
discrimination is eminently due. A work which may
fairly be said to be destined for, and worthy of, the
human race, has been begun and finished in as many
days as achievements, which hitherto have been re-
garded as famous, have taken years to accomplish. It
is the one vast project of which the execution is acknow-
ledged by the testimony of all nations to have far tran-
scended the expectation and conception. It has been
completed and opened on the very hour fixed for its
accomplishment. Not one mistake, mishap, blunder, or
fault in judgment can be, or is, laid at its door. Every .)
contingency has been anticipated—every difficulty has
been provided for. There has been no need to correct
any detail. It has been amply considered before it has
been executed. Even experience of the actual working of
the leviathan undertaking has not been requisite to sug-
gest the necessary anticipation of difficulties and ob-
structions. Like Minerva, it has sprung perfect and in-
vulnerably armed from the heads which planned it.
The Crystal Palace has included all the tongues of
Babel, without any of its confusion. A mixture of every
human element has been there—but no chaos. There have
assembled unequalled multitudes, but not any crowd—all
peoples, but no mob. There has
in
s been a place for every-
thing, and every thing has been its place. It is scarcely
possible to conceive of an improvement in any of the
actual arrangements. Every nation had ample space and
a well-considered position. The catalogues are a perfect
census of the earth's deeds and capabilities. No people
is dissatisfied, jealous, or envious. This is not a concen-
tration of the world's mind alone, but a gathering of the
harmonies of its hearts. The vigilance and foresight of
the Police arrangements have superseded the necessity
for their interference even in the shape of more order.
Cabs, omnibuses, lodging-houses, taverns, all have been
so supervised, as to prevent imposition upon provincial
inexperience or foreign ignorance. The very charges of
the refreshment-rooms have been taxed and fixed. The
correspondence with every tribe, climate, and kingdom,
has been so complete as to leave no mistakes, and to lead
to no disappointments. Above all, the largest and
most beautiful building in the world, fitted with all the
world's wonders, and attended by representatives of
the whole human race, has been erected within little more
than seven months, not only with no loss to the public
exchequer, but with a positive profit to the community.
The building is now the property of the nation, and it
has cost the nation nothing. Money has been made of
everything, without, meanness, extortion, or shabbiness.
Anybody for a shilling may see what all the shows,
theatres, exhibitions, museums, and galleries in the
world put together could not equal in variety, interest,
instruction, and wonder; for the very catalogue of the
world's fair, containing matter equal to half a dozen
novels, is sold for the price of that of an ordinary pic-
ture gallery. The stupendous work itself is scarcely
less wonderful than the system, arrangement, foresight,
and sagacity which have accompanied all its accessory
arrangements—and all the sneers, cavils, carpings, sa-
pient prognostications, and meanly envious detractions
of which it has been the subject, appear now no more
than the snarls of a village cur at the heels of an im-
perturbable war-horse. This is Prince Albert's silent,
yet eloquent answer to all these suggestions of
" damned good-natured friends," and this it is to choose
real men laf business for real work. When we contrast
this achievement with the doings of the Woods and
Forests, the Commission for erecting the New Houses
of Parliament, in fact, with everything undertaken
by Government with the nation's money for the
public, it is impossible to deny that the success of
the one is attributable to brains, and the uniform
failure of the other to the want of them. The Na-
tional Exposition proves what can be done ; the public,
Government works show what is done by hereditary
futility and titled ignoramuses and imbeciles. It would
be unjuet to close our observations without singling out
Mr. Paxton to especial notice. Without his genius and
energy this wonderful undertaking could not have been
executed with the success which has crowned it. We
could only have wished that injudicious friends had not
prevailed upon him to stick his free and manly person
in all the print shops, like the smirking lay figures in
a wigmaker's window. Do not let him be so benighted
as to consent to be knighted, but raise his soul to the
height of the significancy of this grand conception, and
draw inspiration from the motto chosen by Prince Al-
bert to describe its object, and which, of itself, could have
been selected by no common mind :

The progress of the human race,
Resulting from the common labour of all men,
Ought to be the final object of the exertion of each individual.
In promoting this end,
We are carrying out the will of the Great and Blessed God."

HACKNEY-CARRIAGE FARES.
The system of extortion almost universally practised
by cab-drivers, except from railway stations, has long
been a grievous evil. Although the punishment for ex-
cess of fare and insolence invariably follows complaint.
yet the ignorance of the vast majority of cab passen-
gers with respect to the distances travelled by them
in
the vehicles they hire, and the loss of time they must
suffer in prosecuting drivers for overcharge or insolence
—difficulties upon which the latter calculate e
Peortateont:
such a degree that, we venture to state, that not
case of overcharge in five hundred
subject of magisterial inquiry.
likely
are is
tehreerre f madeoremuch! the
pleased to find that the Commissioners
taken the matter in hand,and in nw,
iyofthPaotliicse
to give a very strong check to a system of extortion
which is an absolute disgrace to the metropolis.
We are induced W make these observations in conse-
quence of having received a publication of a list of fares
carriages, computed from the standings at
Whitehall and t
of hackney carrih'cre Exhibition standing, Princes-gate,
Hyde-park, to the places of public notoriety in the me.
tropolis—
work which has been prepared under the
a
dirootion of the Chief Commissioner of Police, Mr.
Mayne, and will be issued to the police at these stand-
ings. It is intended to publish similar lists for other
principal standings, with as little delay as possible, to
dri facilitate the police in checking
any imposition by the vers.
The fares and measured distances, in miles and yards,
are noted from each place; and all places of public in-
terest, as docks, theatres, Government offices, charitable
institutions, noblemen's mansions, &c.,:are classed under
their respective heads.
There will also be notices at the Great Exhibition to
the following effect, which will be copied in German and
French, and placarded on boards at each standing for
hackney carriages:—
" NOTICE.—FARES OF HACKNEY CARRIAGES, 44,1419
OFFENCES BY TUE DRIVERS.
" The police at the standings will give information ea
to the proper fares.
" The driver of a hackney carriage refusing go
any person desiring to hire his carriage for the
proper
to properwith
fare, or exacting or demanding more than th
fare, is liable to a penalty of 40s.
" A hackney carriage standing in the street, unless
actually hired, is deemed plying ford
biro;
is obliged to go with any person desirous and the driver
rous of hiring such
carriage; and on hearing complaintc for refusing to go,
e having been actually
the driver must produce evidence e d
hired at the time. Penalty if such
evidence be not pro-
duced, 40s.
"In order to prevent
distenskhaesyteOhtrhrei4misbeenr
tio.f
persons which the hirer o any
fled to require the driver
the to
hcaeonvekuye,y carriagethenuinb iers painted
fpterd
thereon, and
sons to be carried by _
if the driver refuse to carry such number he
is liable to a penalty of 40s.
"The driver may fuse re to admit more than the num-
ber painted on his carriage, but if he do admit them he
is not entitled to demand more than the regular fare.
61 /try driver who shall during his employment be
uilt usive or insulting language.
drunk or make use of any a lu,1u,
or shall bogy of any insulting gesture, or any mis-
behaviour, for every such offence is liable to a penalty °`
31_, or may be committed to prison for two months with
bard labour.
4, The licence of the driver may be revoked or sus-
pended on conviction of any offence.
" RICHARD MAYNE.
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.
"Whitehall-place, May 15, Bei."
Why should nOt the cab-driver be obliged to furnish a
ticket, bearing the number of his badge, and at the same
time mark on such ticket the amount of his fare?
would Effectually operate against overcharge, and This
facili-
tate conviction.

RECOVERY OF THE .BODY OF MR. TODD, THE
BARRISTER.—On Friday last an inquest was held at the Red
Dog, High Haiston, before bir. Hills, deputy coroner for
West litht, on view of the body of a person unknown to
the jurors, but which proved to be that of Mr. Todd, a bar-
rister, who was accidentally
drowned on Easter Sunday,
whilst cruising with some friends in the Thames, below
Gravesend. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased
was accidentally drowned.
We have rnuch pleasure in announcing that his
Royal highness Prince Albert has contributed the sum of
251. in aid of the subscription intended as a provision for the
decijaills year 4 of Alm Ward, daughter ut Lerd Zsielaeu.