The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-17 00:00:00

Six ran.
WAKEFIELD LAWN STAKES.

Tit-Bit
Pate
Hyacinth

2
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Five ran.
EARL SPENCER'S PLATE.
Dryad scratched at 12.50.

RACING kFIXTURES.
MARCH.
Durham "9, 30 I Epsom
APRIL.

81

Abergavenny l, 2 I Newmarket Craven...l2, &c.
Bromley 1, 2 Knighton... l3, 14
Aldershot l, 2 Ludlow 15, 16
Catterick Bridge._ ...... 1, 2 I Eastbourne l9
Thirsk ... 6, 7 Lewes 20 21
lluegerford G, 7 I Curragh ...20, 21, 22
Lichfield
Cambridge
7
I Newmarket Ist Spring
Croston Park 8 26, &c.
Streatham 8, 9 I

MAY.
Chester .l, 5, G, 7 I Doncaster 13, 14
Egliutou iiuut ' 6 7 ! West Drayton l7, 18
Winchester ll, 12 Bath 18, 19
I
York - 11, 12 Manchester l9, 2O 21

Balduyle 2u(l Spriug 11, 12
St. Aibaus 1,, 14
Salisbury '3, 14

Croydon 9,3, 4
Newton 2,3, 4
Ascot ..8, 9, 10, 11
Liverpool Summer _l5, 16
Windsor 15, 16
Hampton l7, 18
Currali 22, 23, 21

Croydon 19 21
EarpouCn ,
Epsom Summur .....25, &c.

Newcastle 22, 23, 24
1 Oldham 22
liibury Club 23
Stockbridge 24, 25, 26
Chelmsford,
Sutton Park .....29, 30

Worcester l, 2 Southampton 13, 1.4
Newmarket July 6, &c. I Reading 10, 16
Carlisle
Pontefract 9, 10 i Stamford "4 23
]tendon ... l2, 13 Goodwood 27, 28, 29, 30
Nottingham l3, 14

AUGUST.
Brighton 3, 4 1 Oxford
Brighton Club 5 York 24, 25, 26
Lewes 6, 7 Plymouth 46, 27
Egtiatn lO, 11. Scarborough .so, 31
I
Wolverhan'pton
10, 11 Derby Summer ...31, Sep. 1
Windsor 12, 13 I Weymouth 31, Sep. 1
St. Albans l7, 18 i Canterbury ..... ~.,31, Sep. 1
Stockton l3, 111,20 1
SEPTEMBER.

Warwick...
Curragh (Royal) 7, 8, 9 1 Western (Ayr)........22, 23
Abiug,don 0, 10 I Hendon 9 43, 9
Doucaster l4, 15, 16, 17 Monmouth... • 23, 21
Richmond 'll, 22 Newmarket st 0ct....28, &c.Lichfield 9 I 1,22 Lanark._
29, 3U

OCTOBER.
Bedford 5, GI Cheltenham l9, 20
Edinburgh 6, 7, 8 j Curragh l9, 2U, 21
Leicester 7, 8 j West Drayton 2l, 22
Bromley • 78 1 Hereford 2l, 22
Newmarket 2d 0a...11, &c. j Monmouth 23, 24
Chelmsford l9 20 I Newmark.t Irtou ...25,&c.
lielso 19 20 1

NOVEMBER.
Harrow . ..2, 3 I Eglinton Hunt 6, 7
Worcester 3, 4 Liverpool
St. Albans 5, 6 1 Shrewsbury ..... l5, 16

STEEPLECHASE FUTURES.
APRIL.

Aldershot 1, 2 1
Bromley 1, 2
A bergavenny l, 2
Lichfield ..6, 7
Southdown Hunt 7
Cambridge 7, 8
Cheltenham 7, 8

Streatham B, 9
Royal Artily., Woolwich...B
Knighton
Ludlow l5, 16
Tonbury... 2l
Croydon 22, 23
Co. Louth & Ardeen 27, 28

MAY.
Limerick Hunt 4 St. Albans •• 13
I Eglintou Hunt 6, 7 West Drayton....._ 17

Pan OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

The Times is dissatisfied with the debate on the Ballot,
and, as usual, strenuously opposes its introduction. It
complains that with bribery diminishing, with the means
of repressing it further brousdit to light, with undue
influence renounced, we are asked to make a change now
which was not before thought necessary. If we free our-
selves from the disturbing influences of accidents, the
conclusion should apparently be to persevere, in the con-
fident hope of continued improvement, rather than to fall
back upon a system confessedly founded upon a lower
-view of public life. The time has doubtless come whet
all attempts to play fast and loose with the exercise of
the franchise should be frankly abandoned. If we
maintain open voting as the proper form of dis-
charging a public function, we must be thorough in
our resolution to purge its exerelse of all the blots
which can be removed from it by legislation. The
Election Petitions Act was an honest attempt last session;
and if the timidity of some judges has in any degree
diminished its efficiency, it • has served to bring to light
many faults capable of amendment. Mr. Leathern dwel,
on Tuesday night upon the hi:Asp Letween three and
four o'clock remarked upon by the judge at Norwich, and
both he and Mr. Hardcastle urged that the Ballot would
put a stop to this form of corruption. But it is as easy
to provide that the state of the poll should be kept secret
until its close without the Ballot as with it, if members
are really self-denying enough to acquiesce in ignorance of
the course of the election until all is over. The inquiries
again have proved how possible it is to corrupt a con-
stituency by the lavish waste of money on services all
but nominal ; but they have shewn, also, how easy it is to
cut off one by one these methods of indirect bribery. Once
more it has been demonstrated that nothing is more
powerful in stimulating passion and riot than the practice
of nomination ; but it has also been demonstrated that
nothing is more unnecessary than this umneaning form.
If the House of Commons be sincerely resolved to purge
elections they can do so, and they will find that the
judges who have already threatened to be more strict
next time will be encouraged by their approval ; but the
danger is—and it- is well it should be stated and faced—
that a short-sighted Opposition will refuse to approve any
of these obvious amendments in our election procedure,
and thus compel the adoption of that mode of secret
voting which we should view as a lapse and a declension.
The Daily Nelos holds that there is no doubt of the
success of the Ballot in the present Parliament. The
country will never go through another political Saturnalia
like that which disgraced the summer of last year. The
committee appointed on Tuesday night must, of course,
sit, inquire, and report ; but the Government will do well
to condone their mistake in referring the question, by
expediting its business, and seeing that no more delays
are interposed between the policy on which the country
has resolved, and its embodiment in legislation.
The argument on Tuesday night was all on one side.
If the House wanted " confirmation strong as Holy
Writ," both of the evil to be remedied and of
the certainty of the cure, both were before it. Mr. Tor-
rens's remarkable account of his personal experience in
two successive elections at Adelaide—the one before the
Ballot a scene of violence and bloodshed, the one after it
as quiet and orderly as a vote of the House itself—was a
real contribution to the discussion. It was impossible to
listen to that debate without feeling the certainty that the
battle of freedom and purity of election is virtually won.
Mr. Leathern said, amid loud manifestations of approval
from the Liberal benches, that the time had come e hen
no Liberal Government could keep their seats on the
Treasury bench for two consecutive sessions which did not
make the Ballot a Government question. Tile statement I
is entirely true, whether the present Government receive
it as inrormation or hear it as a warning.

The Telegraph dec'ares that Mr. Leatharn took up too
much time in replying to the objections that have been
• urged against the Ballot. State the facts brought out by
recent election inquiries, and all merely theoretical objec-
tions will seem trivial. In particular, Mr. Leatham erred
by giving a long awl elaborate reply to the arguments of
Mr. Mill—who, on this point, as the public well knows,
differs from the advanced Liberals whom be leads. We
have the authority of the Liturgy for saying that "we are
miserable sinners ;" yet the philosopher insists that we
must give our votes at the dictate of the purest, the
loftiest, motives by which men were ever swayed. Voting
should be a religious ceremony. A man should " plump
for Smith " DA solemnly as he should take deacon's
orders. He should disdain the power, the threats,
the bribes, the evictions of the rich ; he should bear
as meekly as a martyr the fisticuffs of the poor: That is
Mr. Mill's teaching ; and when the Millennium shall
come no doubt the great thinker's teaching will be realised.
But, alas ! we are meanwhile poor " miserable sinners."
We must cell our tea and our joints ; we must earn our
weekly wage ; we cannot afford to pay more rent ; we are
loth to lose our farms ; we shrink from the displeasure of
our fellow-workers in the mill ; and to exercise the electoral
privilege of a Briton amid a shower of atones, is repugnant
to our feelings. Yes, being " miserable sinners," we must
have the Ballot; and, despite tiie fact that sir. 1_4,11a ham's
speech and motion were superfluous, we can p Lrth n 13. m .0
considei a:,:on of the point and force with which be stz.te 1 a
great

The Herald, in discussing the pawnbrok7eg . a a
that lending money on such moveables as tied their we v
to the pawn-shop is not an cccup.,tion everybociy
would like, but still most peuple cut of the Cabinet u
draw a broad distinction between it and " crib cn;eking,'
pocket.picking, and other pursuits of the sem,: order. W.
are quite sure that any other set of shopkeepers would
resent ouch an indignity, and thatthe whole tribe of retail
tradesmen would be up in arms, if they found the re.
Reformed Parliament speaking of them in the same breatl-
with the worst of City Arabs. But if Lord Eimberley'r
bill had passed without amendment, every pawnbrole,
would have been a marked man. The abodes of receiver•
of stolen goods are, or ought to be, as well known to the
police as any place devoted to more reputable purposes.
But these adepts in crime do not take things in pledge,
retaining them as pawnbrokers are hound to do, fox
twelve months at least. Neither do they give duplicates,
keep books, and make entries of names, dates, and °the-
particulars, only to be obtained by direct inquiry of the
customer. Both thief and receiver know their business a
great deal too well for this. Their maxim is, no entry
made, no receipt given, no questions asked, and no goods
returned. The produce of each day's crime is sold out
and out, for anything between one-fourth and one-tenth
of its value, and then the rogues part, the one to renew
his depredations, and the other to get rid of his pur•
chase in some speedy and secret fashion. These pests
of society the bill does not touch, unless, indeed, they
have been previously convicted and imprisoned
Careful calculations, based upon accurate returns.
she w that no fewer than 28,334,880 pledges ar
annually deposited with pawnbrokers in the metro
politan area, giving an annual average of 67,464 fox
every one of the 420 pawnbroking establishments, am)
nearly nine per head for every man, Woman, and child i•
a population of over three millions. To justify the pro
vieious of Lord Kimberley's bill there should have bee•
some large and manifest proportion between the above
enormous total of transactions, and crimes connected with
them. But such a justification is altogether wanting. Out
of the 28,334,000 pledges there were given up under orders
from judges or rnag'strates an average of 1 in 12,000
the whole of London, while one pawnbroker, with thre.,
large shops, reports that in seven years he took 1,3::4,01'
pledges, only 53 of which, va ue £;.818 ~ he had to give
up, thus hewing an average of lin 23,170 in number, and
something under 15s. in value. Returns obtained from thl
large towns aria from the country g !ncrally do not greatly
cl:ff.lr from those relating to London.

The ,'tar thinks that the return obtained by Mr.
Torrens, and issued on Saturday, shews that there is still
time to cheek the operation of Mr. Hardy's bill if the
House of Commons are inclined to do so, and the questior
ought not to bi hung up a day longer than can be helped.
It appears, however, that Cie first Thursday after the
recess is the earliest ► pportuni y Mr. Goschen can have of
unfolding his policy to the House. In the meantime the
bill will be printed and circulated, and as it totally extie-
guishes some nine boards of guardians, it is just possible
that it may meet with considerable opposition. Under the
present arrangement* of London for the purposes of the
Act, the smaller parishes are as fully represented in the
Central' Asylums Board as the larger, and the larger
have no 'more representation than the smaller. This
is one anomaly which will be corrected by the bill which
Mr. Goschen will introduce. He adds another measure
of relief which will apply to the whole area of London.
He fixes a certain sum in the pound, calculated on the
assessment of each parish, above which all expenses
.incurred for buildings shall be borne Ly the common fund
levied on the whole metropolitan area. Those parishes
Iv hich have already spent a capital sum of 2s. Gd. in the
pound on the a.ssessinent will at once come upon the com-
mon fund, wink. others will do so_ as soon as their expen-
diture has re::cheil that limit. Such 'are we believe, the
main items of a scheme which I I
be warimy eauva4set.,
but whieli commends itself at the first blush as reason•
ably abetted ‘.ll
to sort ,lout reversing Mr. ILativ'e

The ilcrabi dec7iires that the p!!licy- of the pr-sent
Government prcs,..l.:+ a forcible ii,utration of Tir. I..aeh's warniug confiscation is ci.iitiigions." It if!
.nupossible, ou r. tieet.on, not to discern a moral relatior
between severed ii,nres,sonie introduced by inernifers of
M the uustry, other.. by the ith!re emineuf :tinting its .
stip-
o
porters, all of which tend to an Invas'on f the rights
of Toperty, are characterised by a danger'ons
]arty of princip.:.: regard to corporate and
indi v iolual interests hitherto held sacred even
by Liberal legislat-r.4. No one can fail to discern
a close con twetion between the measure intr!!!inced l,j the
Soiicitor-Genera art! the Church Spoliation Bill of the
Prime Minister; and a still more intimate connection
between the arguinent,s by
which they are defended. Take
the two measures to!,;ether—supply the omissions of the
one by the provisim,s of the other—combine the principles
of both, and the result is a clear and complete precedent
for the total confiscation of all property bemoging to the
Established Church, whether intended for the maintenance
of her worship or the education of her clerzy.

IMPERIAL PARLIAHENT

110 USE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

Their lordships sat for a short time this eve Ling. The
Common Law Courts Bill passed through committee
after an amendment bad been inserted, on the
motion of Lord Wesbury, to the effect that the patronage
should b,3 left in the hands of the Judges of the Court, and
not in those of the Lords-Lieutenant.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Last EVENING.
The SPEAKER. took the chair at 4 o clock.
NEW MEMBERS.

Sir Harcourt Johnstone took the oath and his seat for
Scarborough, and Mr. Devereaux for Wexford.

PETITION FROM DUBLIN.

The Lord Mayor of DUBLIN presented a petition from
the Corporation of Dublin, praying for perfect religious
equality with all her Majesty's subjects in Ireland, for an
alauest;, to political offenders in prison for political offences,
now suffering punishment for the consclidation of the
Irish railways and for a reduction of the tariff for goods
and passengers.