The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-13 00:00:00

Five ran.

LONDON BET PlNG—Tills DAY.
DERBY.
2to 1 agst Pretender (offered)
4to 1 apt Pero Gomez (offered—take 9to 2)
9 to 2 agst Belladrum (taken)
1000 to 70 agst Lades (offered)
1000 to 45 egst Ryshworth (offered-25 to 1 taken)
25 to 1 agst Ethus (taken)
25 to 1 agst Thorwaldsen (taken and offered)
33 to 1 agst Rupert (offered)
40 to 1 agst Drummer (offered—take 50 to 1)
40 to 1 agst Perry Down (offered)
1000 to 20 agst Hermoine 003 ((ffired)
50 to 1 agst Duke of Beaufort (offered)
1000 to 51 agat Brennus (offered)
THE OAKS.
4 to 1 agst Morna (offered)
sto 1 agst Scottish Queen (taken)
8 to 1 agst Martinique (taken)

HORSES sTnuca OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE-
MENTS.
May 6, at 1.45 p.m., Cicely, out of all engagements.
May 7, at 1.30 p.m., Eudora, Huntsman, and Conrad,
out of all engagements, at York Spring n etlng.
May 8, lifter 2 p.m., Punchinella and High Church, out
of the Fifth B.ounial Stakes, Winchester.

May 8, after 2 p.m., Monk's Hood, out of tLe Epsom
Derby and the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ascot.
May 10, at 9 a.tu., Belfast, out of the Great Northern
Handicap at York.
May 10, at 1► a.m., Winifred, out of the Crawley Plate,
Winehest4r.

May 19, at 9 a ru., Veda, out of West Drayton engage-

Alts,

May 10, at 9 u.m., Curio, out of the Do Trafford Cup,
M:tnehester.
May to, at 9 a.m., c. ley Ilaude,,moJa.,:k, cut of Geology
out- of the Epsom Dtu by.
May 10, at 3.20 p.m., Fugitive and Mids!lipatan, out of
the Iloatliz:ote Plate at Epsom.
Mty 10, at 3.10 p.m., Jeattio Deana, out of Winchester
and West Drayton eogagenteuta.
May 10, at 3.10 p.m., Mara, out of West Drtyton engage-
ments.

May 10, after 6 p.m., Laneret out of Epsom engage -
ments.

May 11, at 9 a.m., Molly Dawn, out of Wineheaer Nur-
sery Stakes.
May 11, at 9 a.m., Red White, and Blue, cut of Citizen's
nue, WiocLestur. •
May 11, at 9 eau., Phantom, out of the Great Norther
Handley, York.
May 11, at 9 a.m., Brasonose, out of West Drayton en-
gagements.
May 11, at 2.25 p.m., Alicia, out of Manchester engage-

ments.
May 11, at 3.40 p.m., Honesty, out of the Great Northern
Handicap, York.
May 12, at 7.5 p.m., f by Skirmisher, out of Mary, out
of Doncaster Spring engagements.
May 12, at 7.5 p.m., April Morn, out of Salisbury en-
gagements.
Nay 12, at 11.20 a.m., George 01.baldeston, out of Th
Flying Dutchman's Handicap, York.

RACING FIXTURES.
MAY.

Doncaster 13, 14 i Manchester l9, 20, 21
Salisbury 16 I Croydon 19 20
Wsst Drayton—. ...... 15, 13 Wye :.. l 9
St. Albans 17 18 Harpenden •,l
Bath 18, 19 Epsom Summer .....25, /cc
JUNE.
Croydon 2,3, 4 Newcastle 22, 23, 24
Newton 2, :3, 4 I Wiliam 22
Newark 3 liibury Club 28
Ascot ....8, 9, 10, 1.1 i Stockbridge 21, 25, 26
Windsor 15, 16 Chelmsford
Hampton l7, 18 I Liverpool Sumner ...29, 30
Curragli 22, 23, 24 Sutton Park .....29, 30

Jl. LY
Worcester l, 2 , Southampton - 13,13
Newruarket July 6, &c. I Reading 13, 16
Carlisle 6, 7 I Huntingdon 2O, 21
Pontefract 9, 10 1 Stamford ... `2' 23
lloncion .... 12, 13 I Goodwood 27, 28,29, 30
Nottingham Pl, 14

AUGUST.

Brighton 3, 4
Brighton Club 5
Lewes 6 7

0 :ford
York 24, 25, 26
Plymouth

,
. .
Egoam lO, 11 1 Scarborough_ 3O 31
Wotrerhatr pton lO, 11 I Derby Summer ...31, Sep 1
Wiudsor 12, 13 IVeymoutb 31, Sep 1
St. Alb:4,us l7, 13 I Canterbury .........31, Sep. 1
Stockton ...t..13, 19, 2U I

SEPTEMBER.
Warwick... 7, 8 Hampton .....21, 2
Curragh (Royal) 7,8, 9 Western (Ay r).......,22, 23
Abingdon 9, 111 Hendon 23, 24
Doncaster 14, 15, 16, 17 Monmouth— • 23, 24
Richmond 21, 22 Newmarket +st ect....28, etc.
Lichfield

OCTOBER.
Bedford 5, 6 i Cheltenham 1Q• 24
Edinburgh
Leicester 7, 8 1 West Drayton .........21, 22
Bromley 7 8 1 Hereford 2l, 22
Newmarket 2d Uct...11, &c. 1 Monmouth 23, 24
Chelmsford l9 20 I Newmark...4 Wton ...25, &o.
Kelso 19 20 1
NOVEMBER.
Harrow...... ~.—. ...2, 3 I
Eglinton Hunt 6,
Worcester ...... ...... 3, 4 Liverpool 9, 10, 11
15, le
St. Albans 6, 6 I Shrewsbury. ..

STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES.

JULY.

9

Kingsbury
OCTOBEtt.
Bromley 7 1 West Drayton2l, 22
NOVEMBat.
Worcester.. ............. 2,3, 4 i S:irow.ibury
1.3,
Harrow ............... . ..... 2, 31 Lo.tmingtor. Fivat ~23 A,
Lverpool ......... 0,10, 11, 121
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COURSING FIXTURES.

AUG UST.

St. Albans
OCTOBER.
ADCASter and Willoughby, Lincoluabira , G.
Orifte&by ......... . l,O
Huntingdon Club.. 26,

Race Glasses, by Volgthind, are now 110 longer the ex-
clusive luxury of the rich. Since the great demand for
photographic lenses has diminished, au opportunity has
been afforded for applying mechanical power with the
greatest success, whereby the cost of these beautiful and
most perfect instruments is reduced in price in some
instances to as much ate 20 per cent. In fact they are now
no dearer than those of the best French or English makers.
At the depot Aidlaghan; 23,k, New Bori&street, cbrapr"of
t)onduit-street, the patrons of the Derby may indtilge
their taste in the possession of a veritable VoigtlaudiF ut
oziiii_trativelY trifling cost. Ulu eivertkotos to eirtho
quality ie oA oTor =Whim

.T OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

payers in any borough, parish, or township, to pass a pro-
hibitive bye-law, the effect of which will be to prevent the
rest of the inhabitants from having a public-house
within their boundaries. The bill does not go so far
as to make the mere drinking of beer by thirsty souls
a statutable offence, but only to shut up the places
where it is usually bought and sold. It would draw
a cordon round every Permissive Bill adopting parish, and
would make the entire boundary between the adopting,
parish and its non-adopting neighbour a trysting-ground
for everyone who wanted "to liquor up,' if only to spew
his attachment to constitutional freedom and his aversion

to statutory strait-jackets. We have no wish to see
English independence cut down to the Saltaire pattern,

and, therefore, while we acknowledge that our laws for
regulating the liquor traffic urgently require amendment,
we are pleased to observe that the second reading of the
Permissive Bill was lost by a majority of more than

two to one.
The Post declares that the Home. Secretary hit the nail

on the head when he pointed out that if crime and

drunkenness and immorality are to be checked, it can
be done solely by improving the condition of the lower
classes by educational means, and by affording to them
inducements to spend their leisure hours and their spare
cash elsewhere than in public-houses. Mr. Bruce, how-
ever, admitted that special legislation with reference to
the number of public-houses in particular districts, and to
the hours during which they remain open, might become
necessary, and he pledged the Government to bring in
next session a measure framed in that spirit.
The Daily News remarks that the friends of the Per-
missive Prohibitory Bill—in phraseology so paradoxical
does the policy of its authors involve them—did not carry
the second reading of that measure on Wednesday,
neither could they have expected to do so. The English
character must undergo a radical change before a bill
which interferes so extensively with individual freedom
can pass. But they obtained from the Home Secretary a
declaration that the Govern ment were ready to deal with
the general question of the licensing system and the regu-
lation of public-houses, by a bill in which the interests of
those who require the use of public-houses will be con-
sidered, together with those of order, peace, and quiet-
ness. This assurance satisfied the House, and for the
present, we believe, will satisfy the country.
The Telegraph says that to the Permissive Bill there
remains the fatal objection that it would mete out one
law to the rich and another to the poor. For many
reasons, the bill must be condemned as an unwarrantable
attempt to interfere with private liberty, and as pregnant
with the very spirit of legislative unfairness. At the same
time, it is impossible to defend the present system of
licensing the liquor trade. Not a speaker in Wednes-
day's debate denied that the licensing system was a
scandal to the country. Both by Mr. Forster and Mr.
Bruce that fact was stated with refreshing emphasis ; and
the Home Secretary made the important announcement
that next session the Government would introduce a
sweeping measure for the reform of the liquor traffic. A
Liquor Traffic Reform Bill is imperatively required. It
must be sweeping, and it must not embody the principles
which were on Wednesday condemned by the Rouse of
Commons. By these two facts the legislation on the
subject must be guided.

The Star• reminds us that a great evil may require a
radical remedy, bnt it is necessary that it should be a real
one, and that it should not be made intolerable by imposing
intolerable restrictions on the liberty of the subject. This
line of argument is entitled to a respectful consideration

ou the part of those who suppokt.the proposed prohibitory
legislation, and it likewise appears to us to justify the

compromises which have been suggested. Mr. W. E.
Forster struck• the key-note of practical legislation when
he raised his voice for " restriction, not prohibition." The

whole subject is beset with difficulties to the statesman,
because it is cue which he must consider in all its aspects,
_ _

and not merely from one point of view.

It is, however,

a matter with which Mr. Bruce is perfectly competent to
deal, and we cannot doubt that his measure will consti-

tute such a settlement of the controversy as will satisfy
the friends of tetoperance that they have not laboured in

vain.

The Times thinks it is gratifying to receive so emphatic
a disclaimer of Mr. Sumner's extravagant propositions as
was contained in the recently-published letters of "An
American Citizen" and Mr. de Tracey Gould. Both
assure us that Mr. Sumner only spoke for himself ; that
the printing of his speech by order of the Senate by no
means commits that body to his reasoning ; that the
almost unanimous vote which followed it implies no
more than a disapproval of one particular settlement ; and
that we have no ground for .doubting the pacific inten-
tions of the President or the nation. We entirely agree
with Mr. Gould that war between this country and the
United States is a contingency not, indeed, physically
impossible, but as morally impossible as the strongest
motives of national policy and sentiment can make it.
Let Mr. Sumner disguise it as he may, the Americans
know that our Government acted with good faith through-
but, and erred, if at all, from a misconception of neutral
duties. Above all, they know that, in submitting to arbi-
tration on the Alabama claims, we concede everything
that Mr. Seward originally demanded, everything that
Was expected of us by any reasonable man in the United
States before Mr. Sumner's mischievous speech, and every-
thing that it is possible to concede without lowering our-
selves equally in their eyes and our own.

The Herald observes that the profession of the Liberal
leaders was, that they, and only they, could heal the dis-
orders of Ireland. They alleged that a crisis in her condi-
tion had occurred ; a crisis demanding prompt remedies
a crisis to which Mr. Disraeli was unequal ; remedies the
opposite of those suggested by Lord Kaye. They insisted
on the instant demolition of the Church as a pledge of
satisfaction to Ireland. They demanded access to office in
order that they might conciliate the Roman Catholic
population, or, as Mr. Bright calls them, the people of
Ireland. They were taken at their word. They were
put in possession of power to fulfil their engagements.
The constituencies returned a vast majority pledged to
Mr. Gladstone's service ; bound to do his bidding un-
falteringly and unhesitatingly in all that concerned Ire-
land. Never had a Minister so clear a field. Never was
a proffer of conciliation so complete and unconditional.
If, then, the Jiuister has failed be stands condemned as
a quack and his policy as a blunder. -If Ireland is not
conciliated it is because there was no chance of conciliating
her by the proposed method. No one will, we think,
deny that Mr. Gladstone has failed in this respect. It is
perfectly plain that Ireland is not one whit more loyal
because she believes that the Church is about to be sacri-
ficed ; and no reasonable man can suppose that the con-
summation of the sacrifice will make any difference in her
feelings. 'Those that are traitors will be traitors still •
those that are restrained from treason by fear will be
a'.
little less fearful ; we wish it were as certain that those
who have been loyal will remain so.

The Daily Nre.-,. considers that so far ns parliamentary
eminence is concerned, the choice of the electors of
keard is not rpen (!enstire. Mr. Iforsinan is a notable
ail lititin to the debating power and the intellectual emin-
ence of Parliament. His past career suggests, however,
viiics as to his future course. There were
r,formers lleforc the Rtformation, and Mr. Horsman was
Adittlamite years before the Cave of NA; was formed.
a during the whole of Lord Palmerston's
oil, in which he was licit :liked to
resutne the 4,1:c of el d,•(- tary for frel.:ml. Mr.
llursinan has more tl:an oiwe proi)onwicti a theory of
political Cave,, and a defence of their inhabitants,
Which he is well qualified to undertake, for he has
lived more in them than out of them. His vindica-
tion need not lie scanned too closely, if it is intended
aa an- 'apology for the past ; but the same in-
dulgence cannot be extended to it if it be designed-
:tr.: a declaration of intentions as to 'the future:'
It will be for Mr. Horsnaan to shew that he has len:riled
~,isdom from lils own
mistakes. er Oth wis-e-iliz'''electors of
14'4kt:qr.:I are not 111-..-ely to be blinder to his errors than
they pw-ei thenpelus few- y 0640 tQ Akagarf U 1

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The Times, in referring to the debate on the Permissive
Bill, says let us assume, by a slight stretch of imagination,
the Permissive Liquor Bill carried, and two-thirds of a
population of, say, 100,000 men inclined to apply it
against the remaining one-third. Imagine 33,000 English-
men, in the present state of public opinion on the ques-
tion, suddenly deprived of their usual means for getting
their spirits or beer. Serious riots. would, we think, be a
far more probable result than the promised decrease of
intoxication, and, the riots over, their legacy would be an
organised' system of illicit drinking at private in lieu of
publiC-houses. Happily, however, this objection does
not apply to more gradual measures for the suppression
of intoxication—sueb, for instance, as that sketched
on Wednesday by the Home Secretary—for the simple,
yet all-important, reason that gradual measures will not
excite the same opposition. There is all the difference in
the world between telling a sober, hard-working man that
he shall have no public-house whatever to get his daily
beer at, and telling him that he shall no longer have his
choice of half-a-dozen, or use even one, except under cer-
tain restrictions. We doubt, for instance, whether the
partial closing of the public-houses on Sunday creates any
discontent amone- respectable people, but we are quite
sure that to close them altogether would create widespread
and deep dissatisfaction. If gradual measures pave the
way for a change in public opinion, Sir Wilfrid Lawson,
nr his grandson, may some day have the pleasure of carry-
ing through in peaceful triumph a Permissive Prohibitory
Liquor Bill.
The Standard thinks that the plan of Sir Wilfrid Law-
son is certainly simple enough ; so simple, that, as he
rather naively confessed, he had a difficulty in explaining
it—perhaps because no explanation was required. He
proposes to put it into the power of two-thirds of the rate-

an th' part of Mr; Bernal Osborne. The new
member cannot feel himself perfectly secure in
his seat. He has some ground for anxiety.
Post equitent sedet atra cura. Black care sits
behind the horseman. As formerly, so now on the
great questions which occupy, or are likely to engage,
the nation, Liberal principles are less revolutionary than
Conservative expedients. Mr. Gladstone is a more con-
stitutional statesman than Lord Derby ; and Mr. Bright
is less dangerous than Mr. Disraeli. If Mr. Horseman
has taken this lesson home to himself, his abilities may
enable him to render good service in Parliament. If he
has not, he cannot be acquitted of a. more than Bourbon
perversity and unteachableness, and will not escape
the inevitable fate which these qualities entail on their
pOssessor.

REPORT ON THE SALMON FISHERIES.

The reports of Mr. Frank .Buckland and Mr. Walpole
pn the improvement and extension of salmon cultivation
in this country contain some interesting information. The
salmon Acts of 1801 and 1855 have given an impetus to
this branch of pisciculture. The number of boxes of
English and Welsh salmon sold at 'Billingsgate has
increased from 868 in 1865 to 2,405 in 1867. Last year, it
is true, the number declined to 1,725, but that was attri-
butable to the unfavourable weather in the fishing season.
London is not the only market for English and Welsh
salmon, but the variations in the general supply
may be inferred from these figures. The supply
from Scotland has also largely increased. Mr.
Buckland is sanguine as to the ultimate development
A the fisheries, and anticipates that salmon will become
"` a nutritious article of food at a cheap rate" for the
people. Returns have been sent in from thirty-two dis-
tricts, in which there are 3,728 fishermen employed in
salmon net fishing, besides the licensed anglers, of whom
there are 1,805. Mr. Walpole, however, tells us that,
judging by the standard of the Tyne, the Humber ought
to occupy 10,000 fishermen, and its tributaries 1,000 rods,
while.so,ooo net fishermen ought to find profitable employ.
ment in the English rivers. The Tyne is the most pro-
luctive river in all England,but illegal fishing is carried on
there to a great extent. The Eden, in Cumberland,
's a fine river, 70 miles in length, and yields 15,000 salmot
A year. In some of the rivers there are obstructions tt,
the passage of the fish, in others the waters are polluted
by mills-or poisoned by mines, and in all these cases the
fish suffer. The river Exe, in Devon, was once celebrated
for its sahnon, and is naturally a salmon and sea trout
river. The fishing has been injured by the obstructions,
but it is now being preserved and improved. The Camel,
running through Cornwall, is pronounced
.by Mr. Buck-
land to be a most promising river, but the Exe suffers
!run the numerous weirs. The Exeter Town Council
lre exerting themselves to render it passable. The York-
'hire rivers, Kidd and Ouse, are expected to have a good
supply of fish next year. The mischief done by mining
Ind mill poisoning is shown by the Tavy, in Devon,
which used to be a famous salmon river. Its fish have
aow been poisoned by the " drowning out" of a mine, and
't will need great care to restore its former value. Mr.
Walpole, in his report, insists upon the necessity of prohibit-
ng, the opening of amine until precaution has been taken to
prevent the flow of all poison from it into the river. Mr.
Buckland insists with equal energy upon the opening of
the weirs, and trusts that Parliament will soon provide
`that every weir in every salmon river shall be made pas-
sable to fish at all times." The other points on which the
commissioners recommend legislation are the formation
A local byelaws, the regulation of hatches and gratings to-
mills, the increase of power to water bailiffs, and the regu-
lation of sea fisheries in the estuaries, of licenses for nets,
sel traps, &c. The reports are, on the'whole, encouraging
is to the prospect of our salmon fisheries, while those who
ive near the salmon rivers will certainly profit if the
7ecommendations of the commissioners are put in practice,
since the water which poisons salmon cannot be very well
tdapted for the use of human beings.