The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-23 00:00:00

THE DERBY 17NLUCKI NAN

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(From the Times.)

It is now a good many years ago since Lord
Coleraine, -popularly known as " Blue Haneer,"
from the colour of the clothes be used to wear, had
an altercation with a strange-at Drury-lane Theatre,
at the conclusion of which the stranger threatened
to pull his nose. The noble lord applied to his
brother, Colonel Hanger, to know what he ought
to do under the circumstances. " Soap your nose
well," was the fraternal reply, " and it will easily
slip through his fingers." In other words, take the
little disagreeables of life as easily as may be, and,
if they must be fairly encountered, call in the help
of soap and goad humour, and bear what must be
borne with as much placidity as you can summon
to your aid. Now, there was that terrible division
of Monday night, and the authors arid abettors of
it threaten to do worse. Let us venture to recom-
mend our Paper Duty Abolition friends to soap t heir
noses well and lay in a stock of good humour and
good spirits on Epsom Downs to-day, and they will
be in a better condition to meet the next tweak.
Why should their hearts be heavy when so many
hearts are rejoicing ? If they have made a mistake
for once let them do as all about them are doing—
forget all mistakes and disagreeables for one day,
and start for Epsom Downs and the struggle for
the blue riband of the turf. How dare those impu-
dent foreigners say that we English are a melan-
choly people ? There will be more good fun and
merriment at Epsom to-day, and eundo et redeundo,
than France and Germany—ay, and Italy to boot,
could show in five years. We don't often take a
holyday, but when we do we carry our purpose to
its legitimate conclusion with all the energy of the
national character. For once all business entangle-
ments are forgotten. The Premier and the coster-
monger, the merchant whose balance is all right
and the merchant whose balance is all wrong, the
lawyer and his client, the detective and the swell-
mobsman, the ins and the outs, are all intent
upon a common object, and that is the. Derby.
Independently of the natural and annual occasion
for jubilee, this year it bursts upon us after an
eight months' winter. Last week we were
shivering, and 'certainly not blessing the East
wind, and to-day, with light garments and lighter
hearts, we are on our way to Epsom ; and the
lilacs are in blossom, and whatever is is right, ex-
cept perhaps the jam at the turnpike. This great
English festival is one to which every one comes
attired in his holiday feelings and his pleasantest
looks. A man must be of sour, austere character in-
deed, no ray of sunshine can ever have lost its way
into his churlish heart, if he refuses to bear his part
in the general mirth to-day. How admirably, and
by what harmonious clockwork, do the humours and
eccentricities of each member of that enormous,
never-ending procession strike at their appointed
season, the end attained being that more thousands
of persons than we dare to name have spent a happy
holiday for at least one day in the year; and if it
is so, *here is the great harm ?
Now, to-morrow we trust to lay before our readers
a full, true, and particular account of the running
horses," with the names, weights, and colours of the
riders," as the boys say who supply us with the
racing cards. Even then our leading columns can
scarcely be devoted to the discussion of Derby mat-
ters unless they are connected with the graver
events of the day. But why should not our states-
men condescend to take a lesson from the teaching
of the course ? One of the maxims which would
most undoubtedly be acted upon either at Tatter-
sall's or in the Ring at Epsom would be to avoid an
unlucky man. The maxim may be heartless, but it
is sound. Let us transfer our observations from the
Derby at Epsom to the successive Derby days at
St. Stephen's. There is Mr. Bright, a keen and a
knowing man, as one would suppose, but he is born
under an unlucky star. As soon as he backs a horse,
the chances of the animal dwindle down to zero.
To be sure, when he first came into the Ring he had
a small burst of luck, which seems to have turned
his head ever since. That was the famous year of
the great race between the noted mare Protection
and the celebrated horse Free Trade. " Free
Trade," as we all know, won in a canter. But who
trained the horse ?—not Mr. Bright. :We can
well remember how a sharp young Corinthian—
Charles Villiers—took the horse in hand as
a colt, and brought him into form, although
everybody was sneering at him for his pains,
and foretelling failure and defeat. Then the
famous Sussex :trainer, Richard Cobden, took the
horse up, and worked him into a long stride with
such infinite pains and perseverance that his ulti-
mate tuccess was a certainty. Mr. Bright no doubt
fell upon his feet that time ; but what has been the
story since he took to training on his own account ?
There was another mare, " Economy," got by Hume
out of Budget, which was very fairly placed indeed
till Mr. Bright backed her, and then straightway
she was beaten by " Extravagance"—a horse which
had quite fallen into the rear of public opinion.
Well, then, " Peace" was John Bright's next ee n-
tnre, hut, as we all unfortunately remember but
too well, that fiery horse " Crimea" mulled that
little calculation into pieces. All this was bad
enough, and the members of the Ring were begin-
ning to lose faith in Mr. Bright's judgment, but he
is such a bold, outspoken man that it requires some
nerve to count up his mistakes to him, even when
the mistakes are as palpable as so many broken
bottles. His friends insisted that he should have
another trial, and that it should be a solemn one.
There was a colt left of the old " Reform" stock—
the great mare of Earl Grey's lot in 1831—and once
more the human race would pin their faith on John
Bright. lie might take up the Reform colt, train
her as he pleased, select his own jockey and time
of running—in fact, do what he pleased so that he
won. We ask all bystanders and spectators to de-
termine in what condition this mare has been
brought out of the stable. We have seen the trial
gallops, and now at the critical moment 23 to 3
against Mr. Bright's two-year-old is freely taken.
Well, some people may say here is an undecided
event, and miracles are never out of date; but what
will any one say to the race of Monday last? John
Bright would ride the well-known horse " Paper
Duty" himself, although warned that he had no
qualification, save wind, to fit him for the discharge
of so delicate a duty. He was far above weight,
he was known to be short in his temper, but no-
thing would serve him but to put on a brown
jacket and gray sleeves, and ride the horse
himself. There had been so much dust raised
about the matter, and so much brag about
Paper Duty's stride, that the ruck were disheart-
ened. Paper Duty was carrying Bright for vie-
tor y, when he could no longer keep his temper
under control, although Paper Duty was well past
the distance-post. One dig with his spur, one cut
with his whip, and the horse was thrown out of
his stride, and the " Old Earl" beat him hollow.
Now, is this proper riding ? Is this the jockey, the
backer, the trainer in whom we are to repose fur-
ther confidence ? Granting that in each of these
instances something like a case can be made out for
John Bright, still he is Mourad the Unlucky.
Many other scraps of sound scholarship might
be picked up on the Epsom Course to-day. Why
will Air. Gladstone play at Aunt Sally on the na-
tional account ? Each of the sticks which he casts
in so janty a manner at the venerable face of that
lady costs money. The game of throwing good
money after bad is a losing one, and there must be
a grievous to-morrow behind the merriment of to-
day, unless merriment be tittctured with discretion.
No doubt, great license is allowed on the Derby-
day, but it does not look well, to say the least of it,
when we see a man so keen after his sport that he
not only exhausts all his own cash but anticipates
his next quarter's income, and all because he will
have that short pipe out of Aunt Sally's dusky lips
at all hazards, Many other analogies between the
political and sporting circumstances of the times
present themselves readily enough to the imagina-
tion ; but considerations of space forbid us to pro-
ceed further with them here. Let us augur cloud-
lesst skies and a happy day for the thousands o
whom this great national gathering is a festivityt
indeed. At least we are happy in this respect,—
that,
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domestic strife.
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are but skin deep, rather resembling the rivalry
of the course than the deadly hatreds which we
see existing between members of the same com-
munity in foreign lands. The Derby-day is a kind
of marking period in our annual history. We, take
it as an epoch, and ask ourselves what has occurred
to disquiet us or afflict us as a nation between this
day and the corresponding day of last year. The
period has, indeed, been singularly free from cala-
mity, either of pestilence, war, or famine, or any of
the great scourges which afflict humanity. May
we be able to give as good an account of ourselves
on the next Derby-day !

The Stock Exchange Committee yesterday unani-
mously confirmed the suspension of the four members em-
ployed by Pullinger in his speculations. By a misprint
yesterday it was made to appear that their case had been
rendered less serious in the eyes of the committee by soma
exceptional circumstances, but it is only one of the parties„
Mr. Braddock, who stands in this position. His suspension
consequently is limited to three months, while that of
Messrs. R. Johnston, T. Uzielli, and Sheldon will ton-
tinue to the 25th of March, when the powers of the present
committee expire.
M. Mires, the Paris millionare, it is said, %assures
to his daughter and son-in-law, Prince de Poli.gnac, by
marriage contract, 120,000 f. a-year, two carriages, with
horses and servants, and an apartment in his .otel in the
Rue Neuve des Mathurins.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

.
HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took kis seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

Domvile's Estate, London and Blackwall Railway, Os-
westry and Newtown Railway (Amendments), and Dublin
and Neath Railway Bills were read a second time.
Ths London and North Western (No. 1), the Oxford, Wor-
cester, and Wolverhampton, and Severn Valley Railway,
and East Somerset Railway bills were road a third time
and passed.

CHURCH RATES.
A great many petitions were presented for and against

the ab•lition of church rates.

SALE OF GAS.
On the motion of Lord REDESDALE this bill was read

a first time.
PETITION OF RIGHTS BILL.
This bill passed through committee, and was reported

with amendments.
SELLING AND HAWKING GOODS ON SUNDAY.
The report of the committee on this bill was received,
after Lord CHELMSFORD had moved an additional clause.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Lord TEYN HAM moved the see-nd reading of this bill,
which was to compel tradesmen to sell articles by imperial

weights and measures.
Lord REDESDALE said it would be very inconvenient
to publicans, especially if their customers preferred to pur-

chase their articles otherwise.
The bill was read a second time.
ADULTERATION OF FOOD BILL.
Lord REDESDALE moved the second reading of this
bill, which was to prevent the sale of a vast deal of rubbish
which was now being sold in the form of meat and drink
in the metropolis. He said the idea that gave rise to the
bill was the manufacture of isinglass from very deleterious
articles ; and although the manufacturer thought by con-
verting these materials into gelatine they would lose the
injurious properties, such was not the case, as the gelatine
starchretained the dangerous properties. Unless some pro-
per person was appointed to examine certain articles of
food and drink, adulteration would go on to a much larger
*Went than it was carried on at the present time.
Lord PORTM AN thought there would be great diffi-
culty in working this bill. The in pectors to be appointed
would be the first difficulty, because he thought such per-
eons as the bill set forth should be appointed, could not very
readily be found. Then it was proposed that any person
selling adulterated articles, and being convicted,
was liable to have his name and address published
in one or more newspapers, which he thought was alto•
gether a new principle in legislation.
The Earl of HARDIVICKE thought the machinery of
the bill was too complicated, but he fully admitted that as
far as regarded the public the question was a very important
one.

The Earl of WESTMEATH supported the bill. Some
time ago an inquiry into the genuineness of certain articles
took place in Ireland, when it was discovered that a great
part of the bread consumed ha one of the towns in the
county of Cork was composed of nothing but ground bones.
After a few words from Lord TEYNII.OI and Lord
WENSLEYDALE,
Lord REDESDALE said, as there was some difference
of opinion with respect to the bill, he should propose to take
the second reading that evening, and he would then fix
the committee for a certain day after the holidays, when all
parties could then be ready with the amendments they
wished to be made in the measure.
This suggestion was adopted, and the bill was read a
second time.
BANKRUPT LAW (SCOTLAND) ACT AMEND-
MENT BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
CONSOLIDATED FUND (L 9,500,000) BILL.
This bill was read a second time.
THE DISTURBANCES IN THE PARISH C EIURCH
OF ST. GEORGE'S-IN-THE-EAST.

Lord DUNGANNON rose pursuant to notice to call
attention to the continued disturbancesin the parish church
of St. George's-in-the-East. He said he thought he should
have the concurrence of every one of their lordships when
he asserted that the proceedings that took place Sunday
after Sunday in this church were not only an abomination
of themselves, but were both a scandal to religion and a
disgrace to a civilised country. They saw in the newspa-
pers accounts of disturbances every succeeding Sunday
morning worse than any that had preceded them. He did
not stand there as the advocate in any shape of the Rev.
Bryan King or any of his associates. He could not but
look on his conduct as being, to use the mildest term, cul-
pably injudicious. It might be true that the ceremonies he
had introduced were in conformity with the rubrics, but
there were many things sanctioned by them which were
obsolete, to which the public were unaccustomed, and
the public feeling was opposed to. He thought it a matter
of great regret that the Ordinary had not sufficient power
to lay down a rule with regard to these matters which must
be abided by. But be Mr. King's conduct ever so censur-
able, it was incumbent on the Government at once to put I
down these riots. He was given to understand that most
of Mr. King's original congregation had left the church,
and that these riots were entirely got up by disorderly,
reckless persons, who came from other parts. He could
not for a moment believe that the Secretary of State,
when he gave direr ions to the chief of the metropolitan
police to have po icemen placed in the church, did not
give instructions to put down the riots, but they had
acted as if such instructions had not been given. He
thought that if proper energy had been used by the
police these riots would have been put down long ago. If
they had occurred in any church at tho west end of London
—at St. George's, Hanover-square, or St. James's, Piece-
dilly—or in any Dissenting place of worship they would have
been put down at once. He was told the policemen had an
idea that they might take any person into custody who
created a disturbance outside the church, but that they
would not be justified in interfering inside; but he had
always thought that any person, be he a constable or not,
was justified in interfering to prevent a disturbance in a
place of worship. If the Ordinary had not sufficient power
to act in the matter some measure ought to be introduced to
give him the power. It was true that one or two perscns
had been brought before the magistrates, and one person,
who was said to move in a respectable sphere, was fined ;
the magistrate, from humane motives, inflicting a fine in-
stead of sending him to prison, which he might have done,
for 14 days. He thought that if that person had been sent
to prison the example would have gone far towards quelling
hese disturbances. He moved a resolution to the effect
that sufficient energy has not been displayed in putting
down these disturbances and bringing their perpetrators to
punishment.
Earl GRANVILLE said it was not so easy to put down
these disturbances as the noble lord seemed to imagine. Tho
strong charge which the noble lord had brought against
the police was entirely unwarranted. The noble lord said
these rioters were entirely unconnected with the parish ; but
he (Earl Granville) was informed that a great portion of the
congregation did belong to the parish. The policewere ready,
on their own authority, to take into custody any person
whom they could swear to as having created or assisted in
creating a disturbance ; and they had orders if a person
were charged with participating in the riots to take him
into custody. But no person would give another in charge ;
and what were the police to do ? The other day a person
went up to a policeman, and pointed out a person who he
said had taken part in the disturbance, but on being asked
if he would give the person into custody he refused. Seve-
ral persons had been taken before the magistrates, but in
every case except one they had teen let off. He assured
the noble lord that the Secretary for the Home Department
had a very strong desire t, put down these disturbances.
The noble lord, he thought, had shown no ground for the
vote of censure that he proposed.
Lord WENSLEYDALE said there was a statute, the 2d
of Mary (as we understood), which provided that if any
person in any way disturbed a congregation he might be
taken, not only by a police officer or a churchwarden, but
by any person, before a magistrate, who might commit him
for three months. He thought if that act were put in force
it would soon put a stop to these disturbances.
The Earl of WICKLOW said it was alleged that proper
steps had not been taken to put down these disturbances.
He thought there could not be the slightest doubt that the
outrages were of such a gross and infamous nature that it
was utterly impossible for them to take place in any civilised
country on earth if the authorities had done their duty
in putting them down ; and that they had not done their
duty was perfectly clear. He had been told by persons
who were there that while these outrages were going on
in the most violent manner, the police, like so many auto-
mata, were standing by as mere spectators, and without
taking the slightest notice. It also appeared from the pro-
ceedings in the cow is of justice, that in every case where
an offender had been brought before the magistrate he had
been let off without any fine, or with a merely nominal
punishment; whereas those gentlemen who, though not at
the solicitation or desire of Mr. Bryan King, had attempted
to interfere for his protection, and to put out of the church
the persona whom they saw transgressing, were heavily
fined. It was evident that a feeling of prejudice existed
against that unfortunate gentleman. He (the Earl of
Wicklow) did not approve of the course taken by Mr.
Bryan King, which he thought was injudicious, though
it was not a transgression of the law. But he had read a
letter addressed by Mr. King to the bishop of his diocese,
which had been circulated among their lordships and
the members of the other house. He stated that he
got his living from the late Bishop of London, at a tithe
when that bishop had published a letter to his clergy
requiring theirs-to introduce an uniformity of ritual in their
churches , that in compliance with that letter he introduced
those practices, and did not feel justified in withdrawing
them because of the disapprobation which they had met
with. Mr. Bryan King also stated that all these distur-
bances arose in consequence of the appointment of a person
as lecturer, licensed by the present bishop of the diocese.
This was the Rev. Hugh Allen, who was an intimate friend
of Mr. Spurgeon, and who had assisted Mr. Spurgeon in
the establishment of his tabernacle. With regard to this
Mr. Allen, there were alleged to be some other circum-
stances, which might have exposed Mr. King to an action
for libel if they had been stated in his printed letter, but