The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-17 00:00:00

Won by three lengths ; same between second and third.

The Weston Stakes of 10 sous each, with 50 added, for two-
yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b ; f and g, 83t 71b ; certain penal-
ties and allowances. T.Y.C., straight half mile. 37 subi.
Mr. Saxon's Big Ben, Bst 121 b (L. Snowden) 1
Mr.-Cartwright's Fairwater, Bst 41b (Charlton) 2
Lord Chesterfield's Saqueline filly, Bst 41b (G Fordham) 3
The following also ran:—Vancouver, Mellona, Arabia,
Shillelagh, and Whitelegs.
Betting—Even on Big Ben, 5 to 1 agst Shillelagh, 6 to 1
(at first 100 to 30) agst Vancouver.

Won by half a length; a bad third. Arabia did not pass
the post, and Whitelegs was pulled up at the distance.

The Shorts of 25 sovs, for all ages. Optional selling
weights; &c. Straight half mile.

Mr. E. Brayley's Pescatore, 3 yrs (£3O), Est 31b (J. Adams) 1
Mr. J. H. C. Wyndham's Flame, 4 yrs (X3O), Est 81b
(W. Bottom)' 2
Mr. Stevens' Boundaway, 5 yrs (no), Est 131 b
(H. G,:mshaw) 3
The following also ran :—Arcanum, John o' Gaunt,
Portia, Rosedale, and Robin Hcod.
Betting-5 to 2 agst Flame, 3to 1 each agst Pescatore
and Boundaway, 5 to 1 agst Roskale.

Won easily by three-quarters of a length ; three lengths
between the second and third.

The winner was bought in for 36 guineas, and Flame was
claimed by Mr. Gulliver.
The Dyrham Park Handicap of 100 save. To start at the
distance post and go once round.
Mr. Keen's Fitz Avon, 3 yrs, Get 31b (inc 51b extra)

(\V. Bottom) 1
Mr. Saxon's Informer, 3 yrs, 6st 51b (inc 51b extra)
(H. Gri msb aw) 2
Mr. Peacock's Rajah Brooke, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (J. Adams) 3
The following also ran : —Physician, Diamant, Ancient
Briton, Kinnersley, Arcanum, The Poet, Predict r, Albert
Smith, Maid of Orleans, Gwellyan, and Clara Seyton.
Betting-3 to 1 agst Rajah Brooke, 4to 1 agst Fitz
Avon, 6 to 1 agst Informer, 8 to 1 each agst Albert Smith
and Ancient Briton, 9 to 1 agst Piedictor.
Won by three lengths;. four lengths between the second
and third. Arcanum went the wrong side of several posts
at the bottom turn.

LATEST DERBY BETTING.
10 to 3 agst The Wizard (taken)
7to 2 agst Umpire (taken)
7to 1 agst Thormanby (taken and offered)
12 to 1 agst St. Albans
20 to 1 agst Buccaneer
60 to 1 agst Tom Bowline (take 66 to 1).
1000 to 15 agst Sir William (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Lanchester (taken)
100 to 1 agst Traducer

SALE OF MR W. DAY'S HORSES.
These horses were put up to public auction yesterday on
Bath Race Course, but only two yearlings were sold.
2,600 guineas were bid for The Promised Land, whose re-
served price was 3,000 guineas.

TIDE VOI,UNTEERS.

(From the Leader and Saturday Analyist, of 111ayl2th.)
The Volunteers are " a great fact." Looking
at the twelve hundred young men who were in-
spected in Hyde Park by the Duke of Cambridge
last Saturday, one could scarcely think that they
were merely clerks and warehousemen, whose
training had all been done in the hours they could
steal from business. Their efficiency proved the
natural adaptability of the men, and the zeal with
which they had devoted themselves to the work. It
is the same in other parts of the metropolis,
and all over the eountry. With all the foppery
and folly which attach themselves as excre-
scences to the movement, it has given England
an army of volunteers, upon which she may
safely rely in the hour of danger. A year ago we
were comparatively defenceless; an enemy who
should have succeeded in landing on our shores
would have met for some time with little resistance
worth mentioning; now, more than a hundred
thousand trained and disciplined men are ready to
ea-operate with the regular army in its resistance
to any foe who may be mad enough to assail us.
Has it ever occurred to any one to ask to what
man or body of men—to whatjournal or number of
journals—we are indebted for this great result? We
fear not. The man who originates a movement of
this kind has to fight, in the commencement, against
obstacles which seem almost insuperable. He is
derided or refused a hearing; pooh-poohed
,as an
impracticable dreamer, until something occurs
which makes everybody a convert to his views, and
then he is deliberately ignored. Everybody pro-
fesses to be struck by the same idea at the same
time, and takes credit for his own genius or
patriotism in putting it zealously forward. How-
ever usual this neglect may be, it is not the less
discreditable, and we are not willing to see the man
to whom England is mainly indebted for this re-
vival of a martial spirit and provision of a sure and
cheap defence deprived of the credit to which he is
entitled.

Eight or nine years ago Mr. Alfred B. Richards,
a gentleinan well known as an earnest and able
advocate of popular rights, urged upon the Govern-
ment of the day, in different organs of public
opinion, the importance of encouraging thdpeople to
take up arms in their own defence. The time was
not propitious. The world was then wrapped in
a dream of universal peace ; and when, two or
three years afterwards, that dream was rudely
dispelled by the Russian war, our alliance with
France indisposed people to a measure which
as a precautions against
yof that country. When,
"principally
and n ehcae
hatred
rs
ea
dr
however, the addresses of the French colonels, at
wasthe ambition
the time of the Conspiracy Bill had warned Eng-
lishmen of the danger to which they were ex-
posed, Mr. Richards, who took a prominent part
in the public agitation which led to the defeat of
that measure, renewed his efforts to awaken the
people to the importance of taking up arms, and the
Government to the duty of encouraging them by
facilitating the establishment of rifle clubs. Mr.
Richards's eloquent . appeals, in the columns of
the Morning Advertiser—a journal which has been
the consistent and zealous supporter of the move-
ment all along, and which gave the cause all the
benefit of its influence, whilst it was peered at in other
quarters must be familiar tomany °four readers. But
Mr. Richards did not content himself with urging

,his views through the press. He called a
.mecting_
;at St. Martin's Hall, .in March of last . year, over
;which Sir Charles Napier presided, and when the
necessity of the measures he had so long adocated
was strongly affirmed. That meeting launched the,
movement the great results of which we now witness.
The subject was at once taken up in the'columns of
the Times and other-leading journals, and the penby
ministry issued the famous Circular to Lords
Licutenant, inviting the formation of rifle eltibs:
The invitation was at once iesponded to, rnd the•
movement, which was stimulated gre'atly by the
differences • which appeared to exit between the
policy of England and France during the autumn;
has gone cn increasing throughout the country.
So far as we are aware, the great services of Mr.
it:chards have never been recognised. iJc origi..
natcd the movement, and the mcn.the movement
caught up seem to look with complacency upon
themselves as its founders.

We think the enthusiastic advocates of rifle corps
might find some way to show their recognition of
these merits ; for ourselves, although no indiscri-
minate admirers of the movemext„we feel bound
to give our testimony to the claims of Mr. Richards
to be regarded as its originator,.anxious all the
more to do so because that gentleman has, with
rare modesty, refrained from pressing them him-
self upon public attention.