The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING-, MAY 25, 1869

‘‘YIIE-I.3:IPERIALIST."

THE DERBY OF 1869.

(Fr= the Anglo-Attrican Times-)
The fifth number of .that portentous organ The
Imperialist lies before us. It consists of eight pages
about the same size as oars. Under the title is a
large crown, with the words, "The Empire is Peace"
on the one and " Let us have Peace" on the

The reaction which we reported in favour of Pero Gomez
did not continuo later on Saturday. The odds of sto 1
were at first eagerly accepted, and speedily reduced to
9 to 2 ; but later in the day the hostility again
set in and • 5' to 1 was freely offered. The
price is one which ought never to he offered
against such a -horse immediately before the race,
unless he had met with some serious accident. The
opponents of Pero Gomez seem to be actuated in their
hostility by two considerations ; first, that such a
moderate horse as the Duke of Beaufort got very
near him in the Newmarket Biennial, and secondly.
that when tried on Thursday or Friday his performance
was not satisfactory. " Meteor," in the Daily News,
endeavours to explain the former unfavourable sign on
the ground that Pero Gomez was not fit when he
stripped for the Newmarket Biennial six weeks ago. "No
race could have been won easier, however, and if it is
borne in mind how bard a matter it seemed to squeeze
Beadsman home level with Eclipse only a mouth before
he beat the latter out of sight in the Derby, there should
be nothing alarming in the fact that Mr. Brayley's appa-
rently moderate animal got to the neck of Pero Gonez.
The symptoms of Friday last—raising nasty reminiscences
of the Rake and the Duke, who were so fatally attacked
five days before the Derby—are what we must fear, and it
is not so very much in his favour that he has partially
recovered from the hard knocks administered at Harpen-
den. Yet it may be that the retreat was sounded for
market purposes only by those people who seem to know
so much about Sir Joseph Hawley's horses, though 1
believe it to be really a fact that he failed to do all
that was asked of him when tried with Blue Gown."
" Asmodeus " believes that Pero Gomez had so slight an
advantage over the Duke of Beaufort in the Biennial, that
he can hardly hope to overcome his two formidable
adversaries—Pretender and Belladrum.
The " prophets" of the daily papers have bad their
turn at vaticination. Most of them pronounce in favour
of Pretender. " Hotspur," of the Telegraph, in a long article,
gives the preference to the three favourites. The report that
Pero Gomez has gone lame " Hotspur" knows to be un-
true. He was said to have fallen lame on Friday, whereas
it is a positive fact that he did two miles of exercise on Sun-
day. " But upon the merit of public running, Pretender
and Belladrum's performance in the Two Thousand is so
much better than Pero Gomez's in the Biennial, that I
am afraid Sir Joseph will be beaten this year." Hence
this writer gives in favour of Belladrum and
Pretender, but prefers the former on the ground
that the Two Thousand running was vitiated by
Kenyon's ridin " Nine out of every ten racing men
with whom the Two Thousand Guineas is discussed will
argue that, with judicious handling, and had he not over-
powered Kenyon, Belladrum ought to have won. As it
was, the brilliant speed which he possesses was all wasted,
and when he came to-the hill there was not a shot in the
locker. Provided he could have been held nicely together
by such horsemen as Wells, Fordham, or Daley, and have
gone up the hill with one run, he would assuredly have
beaten Pretender, who had to be well dug with John
Osborne's spurs to get home. Widely different tactics
will be pursued with him in the Derby, as Daley will have
express orders to lay right off avith him."
e Asmodens." of the Standard, on the other hand, will
have none of Belladrumn. If Pretender could beat Mr.
Merry's horse by halt a length in a mile, "Asmodeus "
does.not see how the running can be reversed in a mile
and a half rac3. He therefore pronounces for Pretender.
" Meteor," of the Daily News, gives precisely the same
verdict. Pero Gomez is hardly to be trusted. Bella-
drum cannot be expected to stay the mile and a half, and
Pretender must therefore be looked to as the absolute
winner.
" Argus," of time Post, is in favour of Pretender. He
urges that Pretender kept up with Belladrum when the
latter ran off with Kenyon, and he sees no rea-
son why the Derby should reverse the decision
of the Two Thousand.
" Nemo," of the Advertiser, pronounces for Belladrum
or the Drummer.
The principal feature of the Derby yesterday was the
increased firmness of Pretender, who was backed heavily
at 2to 1, and finally at 7to 4. A deal of money was laid
against Pero Gomez at 5 to 1, which was freely offered to
the close, and Belladrum was also slightly.under a cloud, as
several large speculators operated against him to a
considerable amount at 9to 2 amid sto 1. But just
before the room broke up at the Victoria Club, we heard
an offer to take 1,000 to 200 in one bet. Perry Down and
Drummer were in great force down to 16 to 1, both being also
supported heavily for a place at 4 to 1 each. Thorwaldsan
was befriended, by Northern speculators, to win a large
stake, his closing price being 20 to 1, while a shade over 3
to 1 was booked to money for a place. Martyrdom and
Border Knight were nominally at 30 to 1 each, bat
5 to 1 was taken about the former being placed.
There was a rush on De Vere ; but he left off
at 50 to 1 after 40 to 1 had been taken kindly. For the
Oaks Scottish Queen and Brigantine were in request at
3 to 1 and 7 to 2 respectively. Morns, however, was
favourite at 3 to 1, and Pryad was harked down to S to 1,
while Martinique retired to 10 to 1 offered without a
response.

other. The imperialist professes to be the organ of the
secret association known by the mysterious title of
the T.C.1.0., which it represents as a masonic jour-

nal does Masonry. That political and social order
aims to secure and maintain a strong central go-
vernment in the United States ; peace and pros-

perry; the right 3 of the national creditors; as well as
to reorganise society on a basis ad►uitting of no

equality except that of responsibility to, and protec-
_ _ _

tion by, the law. The country is divided by it into
civil and military colonies, with pro consuls and
consuls, tribunes and ceuturi ms, and its edicts are

published from head-quarters in The Imperialist,

The paper itself asserts the corruption of the com-
munity, and proclaims Imperialism to be the only

remedy. Its premise is admitted, even by those

who scout as little less than idiotic its conclusion.

But The Imperialist is well able to argue the ques-

tion out for itself, being evidently in skilful hands.

The Spectator attributes the appearance of this
journal to a form of the expression whereby Anglo-
Saxons vent in sarcasm their indignation and pro-
test against a general and growing corruption. The
Round Table, in an article written about the same
time, seems to arrive at much the same conclusion,
though more deeply penetrated with the danger
ahead. Indeed the arguments it uses are precisely
those by which the Imperialist reaches the crown.

A Republic, to be a successful form of Govern-
.

ment, must be composed of a virtuous community ;
such a community founded and upheld for years
the great Republic, but it was deluged by Enro-
pean ignorance, and barbarized by the reaction
from colonizing the wild West. The ballot has
produced its natural fruit in the hands of those un-
fitted to use it, placing worthless men in power,
and creating a corruption which has tainted the
whole machinery of Government. To return to
the Constitution the Imperialist declares to be hn-
.

plssible, for revolutions never go backwards, and
to save the country from an impending anarchy,
to end, probably, in Cresaristn, it is necessary, with
due checks and reservations, to place kingly power
in the hands of one ..man. Republicanism has, it
says, been fairly tried in the States and failed. To go
back, even if possible, would be only again to make
a false start, which must proceed to the same re-
sult ; ignorant masses are not fit to wield political
power, and in the establishment of a monarchy
instead of Americans losing their liberty, they
would regain at least a portion of what has been
already lost, the Republic being the veriest sham,
and their masters not only numerous, but the scum
of the nation. It is a strange fact that this is the
burden of ANDREW JOHNSON'S song. Great as is
the editorial exaggeration, the correspondents of
the piper go beyond it; and as their Lute! s COlm
from all par:s of the country, if they are to be
cred:ted, the movetnnt has extensive ramifications
over the contia.?nt. The opiuiiu is generally held
that the nation has outgrown the system of quad-
rennial Presidential elections, and co,tseltlent
change of office. What answered for aco npara-
tively small community, simple in t iste and reli-
gious in feeling, as well as poor in this world's
goods, may be unsuited to a great population, spread
over a vast extent, wealthy, luxurious., making an
idol of money, while careless how it is obtained. A
Republic without a uteional debt, with a few regi-
ments for an army and a few ships for a navy, with a
President living unostentatiously in a two-storeyed
mansion, having few gifts in his patronage, differs
widely from one the interest on whose National
Debt is £30,000,000 annually, whose revenue is
the largest in the world, whose officers are counted
by tens of thOusands, and whose army and navy
the victors in a great war hold a high place in the
national estimation. To elect a President to head
such a people is itself a mighty business, but when
that election involves a change in a hundred thou-
sand posts there is danger of a convulsion, and
the certainty of a great disturbance. Yet this
111113 t occur every fuur years unless the present
syste n be reformed. It need not then surprise

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

,ON. -

THE 111,1811 CIIIJECII

The rublin Evening Mail, the organ of
Orangeism, very earnestly deprecates Lord Derby's
moving the rejection of the Irish Church Bill. It
objects not to the motion, but t ) the man. If Lord
Derby moves the rejection it will be an undoubted
party divish ‘n. lle should leave it for Lord
Westbury or the Marquis of Salisbury. The danger,
says the Mail, to which the cause of the Church is now
exposed is that it will be dealt with by the Conservative
" leaders " as a party, and not as a public, question.

if many thoughtful men in the Unital States eon-

consider that the Republic ha 3 outgrown the C_,n
stitution framed by the fathers of tit country. In
the move►vent of which the imperiati.4 is bur: a sign
we find a striking Instance of the truth that txtretnes

meet. Tue advoc ites of universal suffratze have
gained nearly all they had to ask ; —even negresscs
have been sharply attacking the electoral recorders
at Wasnington for refusing to place their names on
the voting list ; but no sooner have the upho!ders
of these rights of man attained their end than an
organization is found to have widely ramified, whose
avowed object is to deprive the multitude of the
political privilege they have • misu >ed. To the
question of grades and castes, the Imperialist re.:
plies that the Republic is already saturated with
such distinctions, and that nowhere else are they
so powerful or grounded on a base more poor and
mean. As to Orders and Decorations it maintains
the desire for them to be common to all men, and
marked even to an absurd extent in the Republic
where titles are bestowed by good-natured neigh-
bours, and assumed with the utmost complacency
by the extreme Ra licals without a shadow of right.
Generals who have never .et a squadron in the
field, Doctors without diplomas, Admirals, whose
experience ►float is in a ferry boat, Judges who
have only ruled on the prices of their dry goods,

pun= estimation which is born of Wealth worship, but the souls have been reserved at a highet price, and
The Londcm. Scotsman points out bow will, we suppose, shortly be put up again. Which is the
"We can trace the spirit of ival ry very rife in the Am eri- worst blot on our civilisation, the Kendal body-market, or
can returns. The Washington Dote!-keepers and contrac-
tors compete freely for the credit a returning the largest this every-day soul-market? When will England learn
income. We have Jay Gould, Henry Keep, and a good that souls have indeed been reserved at a price far higher
many more of the railway financing interest trying to than £lO a piece ?—TaUft.
stump each other, and all returning close upon $150,000.
The house of Colt and Co., the revolver makers, with a
return of $1,692,900, haughtily look down upon all
the smaller manufacturers of firearms. The Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, with his $21,175, is as well off as
any bishop ; and Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southwood, a
novelist, will sell her next book all the better because she
takes ca-e to let it be known that hrr income is $4,500.
General Grant seems to be the only man who thinks there
is virtue in a small income. He returns his at $5OO, and
we might ask where is the man at home with £lOO a year
who could aspire to a raroclnal guardianship, let alone
any higher position ? f Mr. Lowe would only try the
American system lie would never repent it. Samuel
Nephews dare not shew a smaller income than Moses,
Aaron, and Co. ; the owner of Cockle's Life Pills nouid
not for his life let Professor Holloway trump his income-
tax return. The great teamen would compete furiously,
and the tribe of guinea-pig directors would find it policy
to own to thumping incomes, even if they flew kites to
pay the tux."

FOREIGN NOTES.

THE MILITARY REFORMS.

The Government would be economical but cannot.
It would discharge various do-nothing clerks, but
dare not. It would reduce the number of officers in
the army, but here also the reformers are met by
insurmotintable difficulties. Of all alterations the
rearrangement of the cavalry regiments has been
most imperatively demanded. The Government
took the matter in hand, gave orders, for certain
reduction, but is now, according to the Post, met by
the invariable non pOSSU,I2US.
" The reductions ordered in our cavalry regiments, which
consisted in the gradual absorption of four cornetcies and
the a,4option of the squadron, instead of the troop intcger,
are, it is said, found to be impracticable. It was proposed
to organise eaclr sitiadron with its own staff, so as to be
able to take the field at the shortest notice and to sot
independently: The squadrons were to be formed of two
troops, which were to be called divisions, and to be com-
manded by one of the four senior captains, who was to be
responsible to his commanding officer for its interior
economy, discipline, and drill. The four junior captains
were to be division leaders, and as the control and respon-
sibility of their troops would be shifted from them to their
four seniors, they would practically be reduced to the
level of subalterns. It is now understood that the old
system of troops will be reverted to in consequence of the
authorities having discovered that the care of the arms
and the management of his troop is vested in the junior
captain by the terms of her Majesty's commission."

RESIGNATION OF TIM LIVERPOOL LOCAL MARINE

TO HOLDERS OF AMERICAN BONDS.

BOARD.

Some of the papers are infjcing a fuss about
the, resignation of the Local Marine Board of Liver-
pool, the result (they say) of petty interference on
the part of the President of the Board of Trade.
Mr. Bright 's assailed for what he has done; and the
Star thinks th) matter serious enough to require a
long defence. The, facts are these : The Local
Marine Board, which is partly elected by
shipowners, partly by the Board of Trade,
has two distinct kinds of duties to perform.
It has to act as a kind of agent to the Board of
Trade in the management of the shipping officers,
in the appointment of officers, &c., in connection
with the management of the port ; but the respec-
tive duties of the Local Board and of the Board of
Trade are rather complicate. In addition to this,
however, it has the management of the compulsory
examinations of masters and mates. It is with
regard to these latter duties that the dispute has
arisen. Government examiners conduct the exami-
nations, but the certificate has to be signed by the
members of the Local Marine Board. They have
been accustomed for the last eighteen years to sign
these without attending the examinations, striking
out the words in the certificate " in our
presence." For this signature a fee has
been given till now, no money being allowed
for ordinary duty, and the Board has regarded
this rather as their salary than as a special
fee for doing a special thing. The Board of Trade
refuses to look upon the matter in this light any
longer, and insists in the attendance of a member at

A decision of great importance to holders of American
Bonds has been given by Chief Justice Chase. He rules
that income tax cannot be levied by the Government upon
foreigners who hold United States securities, and more
than this, that the sums already collected must
be restored. The revenue department is accordingly
about to refund several hundred thousand dollars, collected
in this way. The Executive, Legislature, and judicial
authorities of the United States are apparently working
hand-in-hand to promote the credit of the nation by the
strictest financial honesty. American credit did in fact
rise considerably a short time back ; but, thanks to Mr.
Sumner, it has fallen again.

the examinations. The Board refuses to attend,
urging that it is ncedless,and hence the resignation.

TRADES UNION MEETING.

The trades unions wish to give all the support they
possibly can to Mr. Hughes's bill. Throughout
the country the unions approve of it ; and it is now
announced that the societies have determined to hold
an aggregate•meeting in Exeter Hall, on the 23d of
June next. Mr. Samuel Morley, M.P.. has con-
sented to preside on the occasion ; and Mr. Mun-
della, M.P., Mr. llarrison, and others will be present.