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

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

TIIE IMPERIALIST."

THE DERBY OF 1869.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

The reaction which we reported in favour of Pen) Gomez
did not continue 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 be offered
against such a horse immediately befort 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 hard a matter it seemed to squeeze
Beadsman home level with Eclipse only a month 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 be failed to do all
that was asked of him when tried with Blue Gown."
" Astnodeus " 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 had 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 threefavourites. 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 riding. " 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 homei Widely different tactics
will be pursued with him in the Derby, as Daley will have
express orders to lay right off with him."
Asmodeus," of the Standard, on the other hand, will
have none of Belladrum. 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 race. 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.

The fifth number of that portentous organ The
Imperialist lies before us. It consists of eight pages
about the same size as ours. Under the title is a
large crown, with the words, "The Empire is Peace"
on the one side,.and " Let us have Peace" on the
other. The lmperialistprofesses to be theorgan 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-
perity; the rights of the national creditors ; as well as
to reorganise society on a basis admitting of no
equality except that of responsibility to, and protec-
tion by, the law. The country is divi led by it into
civil and military colonies, with pro consuls and
consuls, tribunes and centuri ,ns, and its edicts are
published from head-quarters in The Imperialist.
The paper itself asserts the corruption of the com-
munity, and proclaims Imporialisn to be the only
remedy. Its premise is admitted, even by those
who scout as little less than idiotic i s 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 conclu-ion,
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 Euro-
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 im-
possible, for revolutions never go backwards, and
to save the country from au impending anarchy,
to end, probably, in Cresarism, 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 st trt, which must proceed to the same re-
sult ; ignorant masses arc 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 verie,t 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 paper go beyond it; and as their letters come
from all parts of the country, if they are to be
credited, the movement has ex tens ve ramifications
over the continent. The opinion is generally held
that the nation has outgrown the system of quad-
rennial Presidential elections, and conseluent
change of office. What answered for a compara-
tively small community, simple in tiste 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 national 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 pos's there is danger of a convulsion, and
the certainty of a great disturbance. Yet this
mutt occur every four years unless the present
syste n be reformed. It need not then surprise
if many ?houghtful men in the United Sta'e.s con -
consider that the Republic has outgrown the Can

" Argus," of the 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 kr Belladrum
or the Drummer.
The principal feature of the Derby yesterday was the
increased firmness of Pretender, who was backtd 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 and 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, but
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. Morna, however, was
favourite at 3 to 1, and Dryad was backed down to 8 to 1,
while Martinique retired to 10 to 1 offered without a
response.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

stitution framed by the fathers of (h.) coantry. In
the movement of which the Imperialist is. but a sign
we find a striking instance of the !rath that x•remes
meet. Toe a•lvec its of uttiversal ,u 1 axe have
gained wady all they hid to ask ; —even negressts
have been sltarply attacking the electoral rec Hers
at Washington to; refusing to place their names on
the voting list ; but no stmer have the upho7ders
of thes?, rights of ma❑ attained their cod than an
organization is found to have widely ramified, whose
avowed obj ct is to deprive the multitude of the
political privilege they have misused. To the
question of grades and castes, the haperia/i4 re-
plies that the Republic is already saturated with
such distinctions, and that nowhere else arc 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-haturod neigh-
bours, and assumed with the utmost complacency
by the extreme Radicals without a shadow of right.
Generals who have never Fet a Niro:lron in the
field, Doctors without diplomas, Admirals, whose
experienc3 afloat is in a ferry boat, Judges who
have only ruled on the prices of their dry goods,
and as in many other things good-naturedly done
by the citizens, harm accrues, for the end is to
destroy the value of the tith3, not to rai c the re-
cipient. The Empire, according to the Imperialist
would change nothing in thL respects,but purify and
reform institutions already in existence. Some sneer

at the ; the Democrats assert that its
design only carries to their legitimate conclusion
the acts of the Radicals ; the Republicans declare

that it is a Democratic squib to bring the party in
power into disrepute. One paper boldly states it to be

Secretary BgniE's bantling aided by President GRANT,
which, of cours2, no one believvs. The Imperialist,

however, says it was started to popularize the ideas

already extensively prornulgAted by the T. C. I. 0.,
and with no other object ; that it has received a

liberal support from the public; that uotwithstand-

ing the constant announcements of its death it has

come to stay ; that it has lighted its torch, and
until it has fired the popular heart or kindled the

funeral pyre of a dead Democracy, it will not be

extinguished. Nor is it to run alone, for another
organ called the Empire is about to be established

in Philadelphia ; and the fact appears to us little
less than marvellous that sum,
could exist in the two greatest cities of the Model

Republic. But that they can is a good sign, for

there is nothing like open discussion ; and it is as

well, however disagreeable, to have the truth plainly

told as seen on all sides. While the extreme views

of the T. C. I. 0. are little likely to find favour
with the nation they are not unlikely to do good. As
Senator SUMNER'S speech expounds the Alabama
claims in a highly exaggerated way, but at the same
time that it excites annoyance and opposition still it
has impressed on the British mind the AMerican view
of the Alabama affair, as nothing short of this could
have done. Such an organization growing into im-
portance will teach the masses, if anything can, that
duties always accompany rights; that the ballot is
not given to barter for private gain, and that its
general abuse will surely lead in the end to a na-
tional punishment, which may involve the indivi-
dual or his children in the general misfortune—
anarchy or Cle;ariBm. The _Nand Table, with
truth, says :—" Revolting as the proposition of
Impez ialism is to all who cherish an-I take pride in
the Republic, the thoughtful citizen will nei erthe-

less do well to ponder over that aspect of our
. . _ .

civilisation which only by its extreme gravity could
have engendered so revolutionary a conception.

That we are in the midst of breakers which may en-
danger the stability of the Republic few will deny,
except the demagogues and those who thrive by

deluding the people. By laying bare the causes
that produce these perils measures may be devised
to arrest their progress. At any rate let us npt imi-

tate the ostrich, which hides its head in order to

become invisible to the enemies who threaten its,
life."

pupae estimation which is born of wealth worship. but the soulS have been reserved at a higher price, and
The London Scotsman points out how will, we suppose, shortly he put up again. Which is the
" Wecantrace the spirit of rivalry very rife in the Ameri- worst blot on our civilisation, the Kendal body-market, or
can returns. The Washington hotel-keepers and contrac• this every-day soul-market? When will England learn
tors compete freely for the credit irf returning the largest
that souls have indeed been reserved at a price far higher income. We have Jay Gould, Henry Keep, and a good
Many more of the railway financing interest trying to than £lO a piece?—Tablet.
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 her 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 borne with £lOO a year
who could aspire to a parochial guardianship, let alone
any higher position ? if Mr. Lowe would only try the
American system he would never repent it. Samuel
Nephews dare not chew a smaller income than Moses,
Aaron, and Co. ; the owner of Cockle's Life Pills would
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 tind it policy
to own to thumping incomes, even if they flew kites to
pay the tax."

THE MILITARY REFORMS.

- The Government would be economi ml but canlot.
It would discharge various do-nothing clods, but
dare not. It Would reduce the number o! oiticerb iu
the army, but here also the reformers are met by
insurmel:ntable difficulties. Of all alterations the
rearrangement of the cavalry regiments his been
most imperatively demanded. The Government
took the matter in hand, gave orders for certain
reduction, but is now, according to the Past, met by
the invariable non possumus.

" The reductions ordered in our cavalry regiments, which
consisted in the gradual absorption of four cornet?ies and
the adoption of the squadron, instead of the troop integer,
are, it is said, found to be impracticable. It was proposed
to organise each gyladron with its own staff, so as to be
able to take the field at the shortest notice and to not
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."

FOREIGN NOTES.

TO HOLDERS OF AMERICAN BONDS.

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.

RESIGNATION OF THE LIVERPOOL LOCAL MARINE

BOARD.

Some of the papers are mf king 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 3 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
the examinations. The Board refuses to attend,
urging that it is needless,and hence the resignation.