The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-19 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MARKET HARBOROUGII RACES—WEDNESDAY.
The Grand National Hunt Steeplechase, a sweepstakes of
10 sous each, 5 ft, with £5OO added ; the second horse to
receive £5O out of the stakes ; for horses that have never
won before the day of starting, 12st each. Four miles.
Mr. T. B. Angell's Bridegroom, aged (Mr. Barton) 1
Mr. C. Scymour's The Freshman (Mr. Linton) 2
Mr. Garden's Liberator, aged (Mr. Goodman) 3
The following also ran :—The Nigger, Golden Branch,
Ringleader, Jack Tar, llarborough, Rebellion, Jim, Um-
pire, Erin-go-Bragh, Quickstep, Charley, The Milkman,
Southwold, Knight Templar, The Tailor, Fleur-de-lis,
Bannockburn, Gay Lass, Forester, The Deacon, Selby,
Brulow, Chatterbox, Medora, Tho Monmouthshire Volun-
teer, Punch, and Brington.
Betting-5 to 1 agst Bridegroom, 6to 1 agst The Nigger,
10 to 1 each agst The Freshman and The Monmouthshire,
12 to 1 agst Medora, 14 to 1 agst The Milkman, 25 to 1
agst Brington, Won by 20 lengths.
The Farmers' Steeplechase, a sweepstakes of 2 sows each,
with 100 added; the second horse to receive £lO out of
the stakes. About 4 miles.
Mr. J. Stokes' Bro. to Lad Sos Maid, 4 yrs, lOst 71b(llarris) 1
Mr. J. Bennett's Limner, 6 yrs, 12st .... (Mr. Wright) 2
Mr. J. T. Smith's Peru, 6 yrs, 12st (Dickens) 4
The following also ran :—Whaley, Nimrod, Tom Clink,
Selim, Blemish, Volunteer, Prizefighter, Dragoon, and
Black Tommy.

Butting-4 to 1 agst Blemish, sto 1 agst Sethi), 6to 1
agst Black Tommy, 8 to 1 agst any other offered. Won by
a head, bad third.

The Market Harborough Open Steeplecase (Handicap) of
10 sous each, 2 ft, with 75 added. About 4 miles.
Mr. C. Lewis's The Tartar, 9st 61b .... (T. Oliver, jun.) 1
Mr. M. Adams's Joe Maley, aged, list 31b(Waddington) 2
Mr. Iladley's llarry, 9st 71b
The following also ran :—Huntsman, Omar Pacha, Lob-
ster, Marmion, Wee Willie, The Unknown, Tainworth.
Betting-5 to 2 agst Joe Maley, 4to 1 agat Huntsman, 6
to 1 agat Harry, 8 to 1 agst The Tartar, 10 to 1 each agst
Wee Willie and Tainworth. Won by four lengths, a very
bad third, and the others beaten off.

The Scurry Steeplechase, a sweepstakes of 2 sous each,
with 50 added. Two miles; catch weights.
Mr. A. N'innie's Chieftain (Mr. Goodman) 1
Mr. Angell's Borderer, aged (Mr. Baccus) 2
Captain llunt's The Zouave, aged (Mr. Loton) 3
The following also ran :—Whaley, Cheshunt, Chance,
Gipsy King.

Betting-3 to 1 each agst Young Ragman and Chief-
tain, sto 1 agst any other. Won by two lengths ; a bad
third. Mr. Blake weighed for Young Ragman, but did
not got to the post in time to stmt.

LATEST CITY BETTING-LAST NIGHT.

CITY AND SUBURBAN.
4 to 1 agst Confectioner
sto 1 agst Chere Amie
12 to 1 agst Yoicks
100 to 8 agst Danae
100 to 6 agst Homeward Bound
20 to 1 agst Hetman
25 to 1 agst Theodora
25 to 1 agst Odo
25 to 1 agst Remunerator
30 to 1 agst Apollyon
33 to 1 agst The Andover colt
40 to 1 agst The Nun
50 to 1 agst llarraton

METROPOLITAN.
6to 1 agst Danae
7to 1 agst I►louravieff
9to 1 agst Bribery colt
9to 1 agst Simple Simon
TWO TIIOI.7SA.ND.
sto 1 agst Lupulus (take 6to 1)
7to 1 agst Traducer
7to 1 agst Brother to Rainbow
10 to 1 agst Tom Bowline
20 to 1 agst The Wizard (offered)
25 to 1 apt Aurora (taken)

2 IIE GAOIEKEEPER.

However, game or vermin as they may be classi-
fied, the rabbits naturally bring me on to their
sworn friend and protector, the Game-keeper. One
loathes the very name of such an office. You must
all know the authority he exercises—a power so
much above his proper position in life ; and
that, as a rule, he proportionately abuses. To him
the commonest aet of husbandry is one of suspicion
and distrust. He unites the invincible curiosity of
our English Paul Pry with the malicious intent of
a spy for the Inquisition. The farmer and his men
are continually under his supervision. There is
nothing they can do, but it is his "duty" to over-
look them. He stands by the mowers to see they
do no harm to his nests. He struts into the reap-
ing field to make sure they don't hurt his birds.
The boy with his scare-crow, the shepherd with his
dog, and the little lass with her kitten, are all alike
the objects of his hatred and his tyranny. He has
been known to wrench a gun frotn the hand of a far-
mer's MI for shooting at a rat ! He has told the
farmer himself he should prefer his not firing at the
birds on the Corn, as it was "such a trouble to be
always corning to tee *hat he *as after." He has
informed against a tenant, whom of emirse he was
watchipm when his victim got off and picked up a
hare wnich his horse killed in her form ; and a bench
of Magistrates at Newark positively followed this
up with a eonVictiot. To the disgust, however, of
these Solons, the Commissioners of Taxes promptly
reversed the decision. He lay traps for the
labourers, as
,has been proved over and over
again : and rejoices like another Jonathan Wild, or
some other scoundrel, only in the downfall of his
fellow-men. He is the very essence of etil-doing.
He whispers characters away in the ear of his etti-
ployer. lie swears them away more openly in
court. He is incessantly making ill-blood between
iiiail mud than, and he is the one great blot on our
Air English landscape. I have the experience of
an old keeper himself to say that such men are
rarely to be believed or trusted ; and they are the
greatest enemies to true .I!nort that I know of. The
rabbits are the keeper's perquisites. That is to say,
the vermin which do the farmer the greatest i;jury
are the animals above all others that the keeper I
has a direct interest in maintaining a stock of. The
vermin which the law declares the tenant has a
right to destroy as vermin, the landlord transfers as
a right to his servant. There is, lam happy to
say, a growing feeling against the fashion of
perquisites, or of paying a servant by any
other means than by that of his fair wages. If a
gentleman pays his servant fair wages the man has
no claim to perquisites ;
and if the employer does
not give him his due hire; he'can certainly with but
little justice look to the farmer to make it up to him.
But we hear still of head keepers clearing their two
or three hundreds a year by the rabbits ; so much
gain to them being as a rule, so much loss to the
tenants.-04r .Preservation of Game. -BY IL
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