The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-29 00:00:00

THE PADDOCK.

Those who braved the Paddock must, despite the dis-
comfort under which the visit was made, have been well
repaid for their trouble, as the Oaks fillies were in looks
altogether above the average of late years. About the
first to show was the favourite Morna, and her appear-
%nce quite justified her position in the market, for she
was, either ,for symmetry or condition, unquestionably
the best-looking of the lot. She is a very hardy, racing-
like mare, full of muscle throughout, and wonderfully
quick and clever on her legs. She has a Beadsman
head, with a straight, strong neck, well-laid shoulders,
though a trifle heavy at the points. She has good depth
of girth, back, and loins, with slashing powerful quarters
%nd big thighs; but her hocks are rather small, yet still
nicely inclined, and near the ground. The winner,
Brigantine, is also a nice mare, beginning with a very neat
bloodlike head and fine muscular neck. She is well made
throughout, and especially remarkable for her powerful
quarters, running somewhat straight from the whirl-bone
down to the ground. Martinique has also plenty of good
looks to recommend her, and, more fit, might have been
still more forward. Another Buccaneer filly, Tolson
d'Or, has a capital deep top, short limbs, much
power, and no lumber ; while Miss Foote, on the contrary,
was a wretched weed, with no middle, back, or loins. A
very racing sort of filly, as she marched past, was Crocus,
deservedly fancied in the Paddock, although, if anything,
her hocks were a little too far away from her; but Minaret
is a strong, cobby little animal, with a useful set of limbs,
a shoulder inherited unmistakably from her sire, and
giving one a vast deal more the notion of carrying a farm
bailiff than a famous jockey. Aubade is a more racing-
like daughter of Rataplan ; Teeswater, with very hand-
fuls of muscle on her arms, has the further recom-
dation of length ; and Dryad, quite set up for wet weather
in her boots and winkers, has a middle and back which
should be serviceable in deep ground. The Thousand
Guineas winner, Scottish Queen, leased of Mr. Jackson's
executors, is a long, low, handsome filly, with good arms
and thighs, though somewhat shelly in her frame. Hymen
was not wanting in nice character, but Clemency was
nothing " very particular." Many, of course, were never
stripped until the very last moment.

THE FIELD AND THE BETTING.
There was a larger field than was expected, there being
only two absentees from the seventeen on the card. Morna,
said to be better than Pcro Gomez at even weights, was,
of course, the favourite, and Porter never was so sanguine.
He emphatically said that if the mare ran up to her trial
she could not be beaten, but then there was the heavy
ground, which upsets so many calculations, and which
probably told on Morna's chance on Friday. Minaretwas
the first to appear from the Paddock, followed by Polis-
sonne, Crocus, Tolson d'Or, Curieuse, and Morna, and
then followed, at a short interval, Brigantine, Hymen,
Martinique, and Scottish Queen. They were not a gaudy
tot, it must be confessed, taken as a whole, and this
,ear the mares are probably a stone behind the colts.
rho two handsomest mares there, and the best
goers, were Morna and Martinique, and though Brigan-
tine was an equally good mover, and seemed to gallop
aver the dirt, she was mean-looking compared with the
beautiful daughters of Beadsman and Macaroni. Tbc
betting was 6 to 4 against Myrna; 7 to 2 against Brigau-
6nes 7 to 1 against Scottish Queen, 8 to 1 agalrst Mar-
tinique, 100 tv 7 against Dryad, 20 to 1 against Minaret,
2540 1 against Nisi Foote, and 50 to 1 against Crocus.

Til E STALL

Everybody seemed impatient for the event of the day.
One could not do anything but crouch under shelter, or
get soaked even through a mackintosh. But just as the
course was again cleared the rain from a pour became a
drizzle, and then stopped in a considerate fashion for a
quarter of an hour ; so that after all the Oaks Was run in
comparative comfort. Lot at the best it was a bad
business. The state in which the jockeys who rode in the •
GlasgOw Plate weighed in, shewed what the jockeys
riding in the Oaks had to expect, and the canter past gave
them enough proof that they were not to escape without
a storm of dirt flung up by the heels of the horses.
In the canter nothing seemed to go better than
Morna ; but it was very difficult to judge fairly as
the fillies plunged through the sea of mud. As they
went to the post a nice, but not very powerful-looking
filly, named Miss Foote, broke her surcingle, and was led
back to the enclosure until Custance could procure another.
From this cause, and one false start, it was twelve minutes
after the hour before the flag fell, and then the start was
not the best that the world has seen. But it was some-
thing to get a start for the Oaks with so little difficulty;
the badness of it did not much matter, for as the mares
disappeared behind the hill they were in a compact body.

POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT IN NEW

ZEALAND.

Two or three despatches relating to a proposed guaran-
teed loan of £1,500,000 for New Zealand have been pub-
lished. The New Zealand Government urged that,
" when the French and English were competing for the
possession of New Zealand some years ago, the
English Government acquired the islands, subject to certain
onerous obligations towards the natives ; that the islands
being, in consequence, occupied with English emigrants,
. were, by the Imperial Government, plunged into a war
with the natives ; that during that war the Imperial
Government forced on the colony the adoption of all
Imperial obligations towards the native race ; that the
obligations so imposed are greater than can be discharged '
without Imperial assistance, and that this ael is.ance
may be most conveniently given in the form of a loan.
The Lords Commissioners of the Revenue, however,
declined to recommend this law to Parliament, and the
reasons are very clearly set forth in a despatch by Earl
Granville, dated 'March 21, which says that New Zealand
was colonised by settlers without encouragement from
the English Government, which only considered
itself responsible for placing the relations between
the settlers and the natives on a satisfactory
footing. It, therefore, acquired the islands by
treaty from the natives, and established a regular
government in the settlements. The treaty did not render
the English Government liable to the payment of a subsidy,
or any other onerous condition, but merely gave the natives
the rights of British subjects, and bound the Queen to
respect their territorial rights ; rights, it may be observed,
the existence of which were perfectly recognised among
the tribes, and which they were always ready to support
by force of arms if necessary. The Government was
amenable at first to the Home Government,
afterwards almost wholly to the settlers. But it
was never at any time attempted to make New Zealand
tributary to Great Britain, or to direct local affairs in such
a way as to produce any political or pecuniary advantage
to this country. Tho colony was governed with
a view to the real or supposed advantage of
the inhabitants. It follows, therefore, says Lord
Granville, " that the Imperial Government have not
transferred to that of the colony any obligation whatever,
except that imposed on all of us by natural justice, not to
appropriate the property of others ; that all the Imperial
expenditure on the colony has been for the benefit of the
colonists, and a great part of it may be viewed as the
price paid by this country for the territories which have
been recently, and 1 think unwisely, appropriated by
them ; and, lastly, that no part of the colonial expendi-
ture has been in any degree for the benefit of the mother
country."