The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-15 00:00:00

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Times observes that no European question, not even
the future destination of the Byzantine dominions, pre-
sents so oonfused an aspect to an English statesman, or
will require greater foresight and wisdom for its ultimate'
settlement. There are, however, certain principles result
ing from a calm review of the case which may servo as
landmarks for our present guidance. That we are not jus-
tified by facts in concluding, or by policy in presuming,
that Russia harbours any hostile design against British
India is the first of these principles. The facts do not
warrant such a conclusion, for the subjugation or even the
annexation of Turkestan cannot, in itself, affect our pros-
pects injuriously. The wildest dreams of Anglo-Indian
ambition never extended so far as the absorption of that
district, separated as it is from our North-Western Pro-
vinces by the strongest mountain barriers in the world.
If Russia be content, as she well may, with the pos-
session of Turkestan, Central Asia will gain much
in peace and prosperity, and England will lose nothing.
There are some who dread the closing of a profitable
market for our commerce ; but experience shows that
civilisation increases the general demand for commodities
in a degree far outweighing the proceeds of an accidental
and precarious monopoly. Some Russian products may
compete successfully at Bokhara with those of Manchester
or India, but, with Turkestan under a strong and settled
Government, our trade in tea with the interior of Asia, if
not with the eastern districts of Russia herself, might be
prodigiously developed. The only circumstance at all cal-
culated to excite suspicion is the gratuitous disclaimer
of a very innocent purpose on the part of the
Russian Government. In short, without affirming
that Russia has already arrived at the extreme limit of her
legitimate expansion in Asia, we are prepared to maintain
that her progress ought henceforward to be vigilantly
watched. But the real enemy of British rule in the East
is also the enemy of Russian rule, as it is the implacable
foe of Christianity and civilisation—the spirit of
Mahomedan intolerance which has so long rendered
Central Asia almost inaccessible to European mer-
chants and travellers. Let us once convince the
Russian Government that we have no desire to
extend our frontier one inch beyond the mountains which
now bound it, and no claims whatever upon Affgbanistan,
and a common understanding becomes possible. Let them
once convince us that we have nothing to apprehend from
their neighbourhood, and some definite agreement might
be framed, at least for the regulation of commerce, if not
for the neutralisation of the independent countries which
divide the rival empires. The Times, therefore, arrives at
the conclusion that a policy of amity with Russia offers
the best solution of the Central Asian question.
The Standard, in referring to the numerous resignations
which occur about this time in the militia, remarks that a
very frequent reason alleged in cases of supercession is the
non-compliance of the candidate for promotion with the
property qualification. The property qualification, in
fact, appears to be the cause of a great deal of discontent
and not a little practical injustice. It is, we believe, never
dispensed with : and the rule makes it absolute,
unless the subaltern has served for six years, during a cer-
tain portion of which period the regiment must have been
embodied for service apart from the annual training. Now
we know that the property qualification does harm by
making officers discontented and causing them to resign; the
question remains, what good does it do of a countervailing
character, and is there any reason why it should be retained?
The amount is not much. It has been lowered in the course of
the last few years from £2OO to £lOO a year, at which
latter sum it now stands, with the provision that it must
consist of either landed or funded property. The original
reason for the property qualification was, doubtless, to
secure the officering of the militia from the local gentry,
but of late years it cannot be said that such an object has
been successful. It may be said that captains are
entrusted with large sums of money for the payment
of their companies. If this be the only reason
for the rule, the sooner the rule is abandoned the better.
In the first place, the intention to make such a distinc-
tion between captains and subalterns would be opposed to
the spirit of military discipline, which places every officer,
of whatever rank, upon an equality of honour. In the
second place, it could not have practical effect: for sub-
alterns, in the militia as in the line, continually command
companies, and have the pay-money in their charge upon
a precisely similar footing.
The Telegraph remarks upon the Speech that will be
delivered to Parliament on Tuesday. The Lords and
Commons will be invited, in general but emphatic,terms,
to take into consideration the momentous topic submitted
to the verdict of the country at the last election, though
probably the Speech will not give any outline of the mode
in which the Government proposes to deal with the
matter. Constitutional usage requires that the sovereign,
addressing the estates of the realm, should not employ the
language of mandate or direction, and even the mere sem-
blance of interference with the discretion of the Legislature
has to be scrupulously avoided. For this reason, if there
were no other, it would be inevitable that the Irish
policy of Mr. Gladstone should not now be
described in detail. Nevertheless, the broad prin-
ciples on which he relies have been so fully
discussed that the public curiosity is principally directed
to inquire by what machinery those principles are to
be carried into execution. Mr. Gladstone has defined
some interests for which the State would have to make
an equitable provision ; the general principle obviously
being to respect what may be fairly considered individual
or proprietary rights, as distinguished from public or
national endowments. To effectuate the distinction legis-
latively is a work of some delicacy; but it is in the hands
of a statesman who has brought a rare combination of
ability and industry to the completion of his task; and
the plain duty of Liberal members at the present juncture
is to emulate their own leader in his liberality and candour.
The chief dangers may arise from over-confidence in their
mere numbers, and perhaps from their setting undue
store by independence of action at times when any disre-
gard of party discipline would defeat the very object
which they have in view. United, they will not merely
carry the measure, but, what is even more important,
they will obtain the sober, deliberate sanction of the whole
country.

The Star considers that the public is well satisfied with
the decision of the judges in the trials of the election peti-
tions. As a general rule the decisions of Mr. Baron
Martin, Mr. Justice Blackburn, and Mr. Justice Wiles
have been received by the bulk of the community not only
with tacit acquiescence, but with outspoken and warm
approval. Right and left, among Liberal as among Tory
delinquents, the new law has dealt unsparing blows. Inti-
midation has been cowed at least into decent secrecy ; and
corruption has been taught to hide itself in congenial
darkness, and to betake itself to the by-paths of
bribery. Until the present plan of investigation was
tried no effective attempt had been made to control th•

abuses of treating, no consistent policy for the suppression
of bribery had been pursued, and intimidation, except on
the largest scale and of the most violent character, had
been allowed a practical impunity. The decisions of the
election judges in England and Ireland have satisfactorily
proved that the law will for the future regard treating and
bribery, however disguised, and intimidation, on whatever
side employed, as offences fatal to the validity of parlia•

mentary elections. We do not speak merely of cases in
which scandalous and gigantic corruption, such as was

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proved to have disgraced Dublin and Norwich, was
justly punished, though the moral worth of the deci-
sions in these cases can scarcely be over-estimated.
But it is not less a matter of congratulation that the
judges have taken so much pains to weigh the
worth of the evidence offered to them, and to dismiss
groundless charges with the contempt they merited. It
was predicted, bef,ire the Parliamentary. Elections Act
came into operation, that false and malicious charges of
bribery and corrupt practices would be very common and
very dangerous under the provisions of the new law, and
that in fact no man, however high his character and how.
ever eminent his rank as a politician, could regard his seat
as secure, or could protect himself from the effect of an
accusation which might exclude him for seven years from
public life. The event has proved, however, that the
judges, while they skew themselves rigid in their punish-
ment of what is proved on good evidence, are not prone to
receive blindly all evidence as of the same worth.

The Daily News speculates upon the course to be pur-
sued by the rival factions, and says that the conversation
at the gatherings of "Ins" and `'Outs" is as obvious as a
Queen's Speech. Each party will be concerned with the
other. Among Ministers and their friends, the great
questions of course will be, "What will `Dizzy' do?"
and " How is he to be prevented from doing it?"
Accurate information, all wrong, as to the "moves" that
he has in contemplation, and suggestions as to the best
means of counteracting them ; rumours of ducal disaffec-
tion and of the intervention of Lord Derby to check the
mutiny ; speculations as to Lord Cairns's leadership, and
the line which Lord Salisbury may take ; apocryphal
stories or hints, so dark as to be unintelligible,
dropped by Colonel Taylor or Dlr. Noel —these things, or
things like them, will flit to and fro. At Grosvenor.g,ate
there will be the same theme with variations. The
epistolary escapade of Lord Russell, and the oral indiscre-
tions of Mr. Lowe and Mr. Bright, will be subjects of
rejoicing. The moral certainty of a split in the Cabinet,
stories of high words between the Finance Minister and
the President of the Board of Trade, who were prevented
only by Mr. Gladstone's intervention from coining to
blows ; rumours that since Mr. Bright has not been
silenced by a seat in the Cabinet, the experiment is to
be tried of giving him the next vacant bishopric,
for which he is known to be anions ; " reasons to
believe " that the Premier's overtures for the
conciliation of the right reverend bench have been dashed

by his colleague's speech at the Fishmongers', and other
topics of consolation will abound. At Stratford-place the
proceedings will have a sadder character. Lord Alalmes-
bury, borrowing another custom from Japanese politics,
has summoned his political friends to meet him, in order
that they may witness his performance of harri-kari, or
happy despatch. The moralists and patriots of later
Roman history, who, receiving an intimation that the
world was not large enough for themselves and the

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Emperor, entertained their friends with costly fare and
philosophical discourse before opening their veins to let
life easily ant did not exhibit a more lofty stoicism than
Lord Mal nesbury is about to display, He presides at hi
Dim funeral banquet. Lord Malmesbury is (politically)
dead : long live Lord Cairns.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day

BENTINcii CLUB.—Turs DAY.
LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP.
Bto 1 agst Monarch of the Glen
10 to 1 agst Silent's
14 to 1 agst Formosa
15 to 1 agst -Warrington
100 to 0 agst Vacuum
20 to 1 agst Uncas
25 to 1 agst Anluco
25 to 1 oast Islam
25 to 1 agst Conjuror
LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL.
16 to 1 agst Tathwcll
33 to 1 agst Pearl Diver

VICTORIA CLUl3.—Tuts DAY.
LINCOLN HANDICA P.
8 t,) 1 agst Sycee (taken and offered)
9to 1 agst Drummer (taken)
10 to 1 agst George Osbaldeston (taken)
12 to 1 agst Monarch of the Glen (taken)
100 to 8 agst Silenus (taken and offered)
100 to 6 agst Warrington (taken and offered)
100 to 6 agst Vacuum (taken)
20 to 1 agst Islam (taken)
25 to 1 agst Anlace (taken)
25 to 1 agst Provider (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Mr. Pitt (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Van Amburgh (offered)
25 to 1 agst Veda (offered)
2c to •1 agst Formosa (offered)
33 to 1 agst Friday (taken)
33 to 1 agst Typhceus (taken)
40 to 1 agst St Agnes g (taken)
1000 to 5 agst Choral (offered)
GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE.
1000 to 70 agst Alciblade (taken)
30 to 1 agst Nun (taken)
30 to 1 agst Harcourt (offered)
40 to 1 agst Bristles (taken)
40 to 1 agst I'he Lamb (taken)
40 to 1 agst Juryman (offered)
1000 to 15 agst Plum Cake (offered)
1000 to 15 agst Count Horn (offered)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
sto 2 agst Wild Oats (taken)
3to 1 agst Belladrum (taken and offered)
DERBY.
40 to 1 agst Bolougne (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Drummer (taken)

SPORTING NOTES.

Owing to the open weather there is no doubt that at
the Lincoln Spring Meeting, to be held on Tuesday
(to-morrow) and Wednesday, there will be large fields.
The Lincolnshire Handicap, which will be decided on the
mile course, may bring together about 20 runners. For-
mosa will be ridden by Fordham, but Mr. Graham will
also run The Drummer, who is a handsome and speedy
colt, by Eataplan out of My Niece. In the home trial it
is stated that The Drummer beat the St. Leger winner,
and if ho is the horse I take him to be, the son of Rata-
plan should finish in front. of Formosa, who is not so good
a miler as Saccharomoter, and he failed to win at 9st.
Silenus will be the only representative of Mat. Dawson,
and, although he is not so good a favourite as Sycee, I
expect to see him beat Mr. Boynton's filly, who would,
in my opinion, prefer six furlongs to the mile course.
Bel Giorno, Historian, Eastley, Sister to Vedette,
Our Mary Ann, and Anlaco will probably give way in
favour of Vacuum, who has been successfully tried in
private, though his two public essays do not speak highly
in his favour. Typhoeus, who has been overweighted,
has been defeated in his trial, and I do not apprehend
there is another Suburban or Vandervelde c)up in store
for Count Batthyany's popular colours. Uncas, if in his
Lest fume, must be dangerous, but 1 fear he is an infirm
horse. Honesty, although well in, is not thoroughly fit;
still, he may run forward, as the soft ground will be much
in his favour. Van Atnburgh is the best handicapped
horse in the race, and will, notwithstanding a stoppage
in his work a fornight since, as nearly win as pos-
sible. Shepherd's lot consists of Lady Zetland, Queen
of York, and George Oabaldostou. The latter is re-
ported to be a good horse, but the market operations
respecting him have been of a most peculiar cha-
racter. Of this trio, therefore, I prefer Lady Zet-
land, who is a very speedy filly, and has pre-
viously run well over the Lincoln course, having
been second last year in the City and Lincolnshire Handi-
caps. Friday may prove bettor than Mr. Pryor's second
string, Conjuror, but the first-named has been too long on
the reserved list to secure my recommendation. Monarch
of the Glen (albeit Mr. Naylor is reported not to have
backed him) occupies the position of second favourite ; and
that he will finish in the first rank,under the comparatively
light impost of 7st 91b, there can be li.tle doubt. Never-
theless, I question the staying qualities of the Monarch,
as he tired over the six furlongs at Warwick, where he
only beat Clemence a neck, at a difference of 81b in
weight, for the Douington Handicap. The Sawyer is a
quick colt, and may perform well, though he is not favour-
ably weighted. Mr. Pitt is, if I mistake not, a "piper ;"
and, though he is fancied by a clever division, I am flat
among his admirers. John Leech, Make Haste, and ,
Harvester are all well suited to the course, but
at the weights I think they will have to succumb to
Jenny, who is nicely in, when her Continental
performances are remembered. Ben Nevis will be de-
feated by Choral, who must be classed dangerous. In the
Chaplin-Machell lot are Fairfax, Acaster, Islam, Border
Knight, Ceres, and Brother to Chattanooga. The elected
of this division will be Islam—a good-looking colt, by
Musjid out of Village Lass—who has satisfactorily an_
swered the question put to him privately, and must be
troublesome, win or not, in the contest, as the " trying
tackle" connected with Gloss's stable is of a reliable elm
racter. Warrington, if thoroughly trained, which I
doubt, would be quite at home over the Lincoln course, as
he is bred for speed rather than staying. Brunohaut, a
daughter of the Flying Dutchman and Bataglia, has ac-
quitted herself creditably in France, and may do so
in this handicap, as she evidently belongs to the fast
school. Lady Rosehill appears to have lost her form ;
and Hatchment will not, I think, stay the course suffi-
ciently well to beat several of the old horses that are likely
to oppose her. The gelding by Romulus out of Attack
was a good three-yr-old, but as he grow older his temper
became very uncertain, and he rarely showed his real
merits in public. Since he has been castrated, however,
the Stanton horse is said to have been cured of his vile
temper; and, if so, he should be found in the van at Lin-
coln, as his weight, 6st 81b, will be easy to bear. The
-Returned, Veda, and Bessie Dixon .have been leniently
handicapped, and if the last named has retained any of
her early speed she must have a great chance for this han-
dicap. The remaining horses, in addition to those al-
ready noticed,
engaged are three-year olds; but as Wal-
mer may not be wanted at this early date, I perceive no
dangerous name in the lower part of the list, though King
Richard, Slowman, and the gelding by Weatherbit out of
St. Agnes are not destitute of racing qualities. Of the
,butrghell' Attack Lady
horses likely to run we take Silenus, Vansetme
Zetland, Monarch of the Glen, Choral, y
gelding, The Drummer, Islam, and Vacuum to be the
best. The three-year-olds, owing to the remarkably open
winter, will be more formidable than usual. Experience,
however, tells me that it is safer to rely on the old horses ;
and I fully expect to find Van Amburgh, Sycee, or
Silenus registered the winner of the first important Spring
Handicap. In the Brocklesby Stakes (about 4 furlongs)
fifty-four two-year-olds have been nominated, and the
majority of them are well and fashionably bred. Not one
of the lot has yet appeared in public ; but I hear favour-
able accounts of Stephanotis, by Macaroni out of Aran-
caria, and the French division, the best of whom may
turn up in Phantom Lass. There are forty-two subscrip-
tions to the Brocklesby Trial Handicap (about 4 furlongs),
and the most noteworthy names therein are Pericles, Bst
121 b; Salliet, Bst 101 b ; Mistletoe, 7st 111 b ; Laird of Scot-
land, 7st 31b; Tripthong, Est 131 b; April Morn, bet 21b;
and Glen Stuart, sst 101 b. Laird of Scotland is a very
epoody colt, but hw may fail to heat the brace of heavy
weights, Pericles and Salliet. In the Handicap Hurdle
Race (two miles) Guy of Warwick may probably run,
ut I most esteem the chances of Ada Penelope
and Aurifera. The Full-Cry Steeplechase (about four
miles) may be assigned to the Corner Stone Gelding or
Cotswold, who appear the best of an indifferent lot. On
Wednesday the opening race will be the Blankney Stakes
(about 4 furlongs), in which seven three-year-olds have
been entered against twenty-five two's. All the juveniles
belong to the " dark" division, and the running in the
Brocklesby, on Tuesday, may point out the winner of the
Blankney more clearly than anything I can write at pre-
sent. It will, however, take a tolerably smart two-year-
old to beat Bonnie Katie and Scout, who are fast and quite
capable of acting well under racing weights. In the Lin-
cola Club Cup (about 4 furlongs) the names of Stephanotis,
Religieuse, Florian, Roquefort, and Countryman
stand out conspicuously, but with the Brocklesby
and Blankney Stakes undecided, I am not in a
position to make a definite selection. The City

Handicap (6 furlongs) has fifty entries, and the
horses most favourably treated are Lady Zetland,
Bst llb ; Mr Pitt, 7st 121 b Historian, 7st 81b ; Choral, 7st
21b; Islam, Est thh ; Veda, Est 61b; Bessie Dixon, Gat 51b;
Aulace, sst 121 b; and Vacuum. sst 111 b. The last-nalied,
if he has any pretensions to win the Linco:n Handicap,
must he to the fore over the six furlongs course ; but I

shall, nevertheless, take my chance with Historian and
Lady Zetland. There are 15 acceptances for the Grand
Steeplechase (about 4 miles), and the top weight, 1 2st 71b,
has been awarded to The Lamb. The horses that appear
best in are Ace of Trumps, list 31b (inc 81b extra); Tenny-
son, lOst 91b; Bannockburn, lOst 81b; and natcatcher,
lOst 71b. if none the worse for his two races at Nice:
Flatcatcher must be dangerous ; but Le may not be good
enough to beat Tennyson and Bannockburn, the latter of
whom was third beat at Birmingham to Meanwood and
Greenland.

A FRESH MAN.

As we anticipated last week a verdict of wilful
murder has been returned iu the case of the Blackwall
tragedy.

TililtD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

TAT TE RSALL'S.— rhfs Evening.

LINCO LNS 111 RE HANDICAP.
100 to 12 agst Syeee (taken and offered)
100 to 12 agst Drummer (taken and offered)
100 to 12 egst Monarch of the Glen (taken and off)
100 to 9 agst George Osbaldiston (taken)
100 to 7 agst Vacuum (taken)
100 to 6 agst Islam (taken and offered)
100 to 6 agst Warrington (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Uncas (taken)
20 to 1 agst Anlace (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Formosa (taken)
25 to 1 agst Provider (taken)

CIIESTER CUP.
100 to 7 ag,t Romping Girl (taken)
20 to 1 agst Algeau (taken)
20 to 1 agst St. Mango (taken)
25 to 1 agst Knight of the Gart..?r
GRAND NATIONAL.
15 to 1 agst Alciliado (taken)
2000 to 40 agst Billy Gladstone (taken)
50 to 1 agst Surnoy (Liken)
1000 to 15 agst Jurpuan (offered)

THE DERBY.
1000 to 80 agst Pretender (taken)
1000 to 40 agst Ladas (taken)
40 to 1 agst General Peel (taken)
40 to 1 agst Strathnairn (taken)

ARRIVALS AT LINCOLN,

Scrambler, Formosa, Drummer, Reindeer, trot her to
Chattanooga, Buckingham's dam filly, Neuchatel, Ohio,.
Spider, Typhwus, Islam, Acaster, Fairfax, Ellermirc f,
Nelly Hill c, Van Amburgh, Agnes g, Guy of Warwick,'
Roland, Jenny, Floria, Roquefort Shunanito, Pompeii
Phantom. Las 3, Sycee, Stephautis, Sitenus, Ken,ing-
ton, Friday, Conjuror, Sphyox, Harebell, Sister to
Vedette 2 yrs, Citadel f, Mrs. O'Rourke c, Rosary c,
Bouquet c, Patrick, Lady Zetland, Queen of York,
George Osbaldestone, Solferino, Harvester, Mr. Pitt,
Sedition, Pericles, Turmoil, Historian, Bel Giorno, Carita,
Sister to Marksman, Anlace, Silkstone f, Craters, Vacuum,
Man-at-Arms colt, Retty, Figleaf, Lady Louisa colt, John
Leech, Mistletoe, and Master Bagot.

7HE OFFICI A L ASSIGNEE ON HISS
DEFENCE.

COURT OP BANKRUPTCY.---(TITIS DAY.)
MR. EDWARDS'S SFATEMENT.
This was the day appointed for Mr. Edwards, the official
assignee, to render his answers to the questions put to
him in court by the Commissioner by direction of tne
Lord Chancellor, on Thursday, the 4th ult.
3.1 r. Edwards denied that the report in the newspapers
of the proceedings at the Mansion-house was such a one
as hs ought to be judged by. As to the receipt of
£lO,OOO, he denied that he had received it as
commission from the Millwall Iron Shipbuilding
Company. The commission which he received from Mr.
Scott Russell was arranged by Overeud, Gurney, and
Co., not by himself . There was nothing improper or ir-
regular iu his receiving those comruissions. But ho denied
that he had received any from the Millwall Iron Company.
His connection with Overeud, Gurney, and Co. was well
known in the city, and was indeed matter of public noto
riety.

The Commissioner said the next step would be to trans-
mit the explanations and answers which Mr.Elwards had
given to th ) Lord Chancellor, and the matter would then
abide his order.

POLICE .1 A' TELL IGENCE— This Day.

MARLBOROUGH S
DISMIDERLY CONDUCT. —John Henry J ames, a carpenter
was cliargd before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being drunk and
disorderly at the Portland road Station of the Metropoli-
tan Railway.

Mr. Flanders, a ticket collector at the Portland-road
station, of the Metropolitan Railway, said that between
9 and 10 on Saturday emning the prisoner presented him-
self at the station with a return ticket from Latimer-road.
Ile was too drunk to be allowed to go by the train, and
being told so he set to abusing him and the passengers,
and prevented the passengers going down stairs, and
others getting their tickets, and for two hours was in and
out of the station, and at last they had to remove him.
Shortly after the prisoner came back again and abused
Mr. Fenton, the General Manager, who ordered him to
be removed, and a constable to be sent for. While the
messenger was gone for the constable the prisoner used
the vilest language, and obstructed him in the performance
of his duty.

Police-constable Barber, 43 E, said that he was called
to take the prisoner into custody, and found him on the
platform wry drunk-, and he had a great deal of trouble
to get him to the station, and had to hold him to prevent
him fading on the rails.

The prisoner said he tendered his ticket and was told
that he could nut go, but as ho had had it supplied he
thought he had a right to go by it, and was afterwards
locked up. Ho had had a little too much to drink.
Mr. Tyrwhit said the prisoner's conduct was that of a
drunken, pig-headed fellow, doing great mischief at the
station, and having his life saved against his own stupid
will. The prisoner would have to pay 20s. or seven days.