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The speech of the b4icellor of the Ex4Wequeq-
in moving the vote of credit of 12,000,000 on ac-
count of the Abyssiniau expedition, was charac-
terised by great prudence and tactical skill in
eliminating as manrelements of controversy as pos-
sible. It was deliiered is the quiet, level, subdued
style which Mr. Disraeli has affected since he be-
came the leader of the house. Ilis oratory has gone
through three or four well-11-raked stages. First,
there was the outré and extravagant stage of his
youthful rhetoric, when the hone laughed at Whalley,
and when he told the house his time would come.

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things. The Steeplechase Meeting next week at St.
Albans will no doubt be well patronised by the Cockneys,
and the committee have provided two capital days' sport.
There are too many in the Ha-Tendon Plate fur me to at-
tempt to se!ect the winner, but King Alfred looks like
winnirg the Aristocratic Steeplechase. Pati_•uco will win
the Hunt Steeplechase if he runs, and should Lord
Coventry send Chimney Sweep for the Open Steeplechase
he will wi❑ ; if not, I have most fancy for King Alfred
and Sprite.

Then there was the stage of prepared speeches, of
epigrammatic sallies, of s-ivage attacks upon Peel
and Graham. This was the epaeh when Sir Janes
Graham named him the " Red Indian of deb xte."
There was next the stage of °glee and Ministerial
responsibility of 1832, when, as leader of the Go-
vernment, he hal to speak often and without pre-
medit rtion, and he had to confront every
word in the newspaper next morning. This was
the period of slowness, caution, and deliberation.
The Conservative leader of the Lower House,
now so fluent and so much at his case, then
contracted a habit of hesitancy so painful and
so persistent that it was anything but agree-
able to listen to him. It was &tid of Charles
James Fox that ho made himself a debater at the
expense of his audience ; and the same thing, with
infinitely more truth, may be asserted of Mr.
Disraeli. He gradually obtained a mastery over
words, and the a-a-a between the phrases, by which
he sought to gain time until the right word was
remembered or presented itself, gradually dropped
out of his speeches. His next phase was that of
the dexterous, watchful, implaeable le.ader of Oppo-
sition, full of resources and 'fie lf-reliances-with office
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once in _ hia.,po#6oon, _awl • makl,tunes almost
within his v411.101E8 oratOii, -bras now loud, - de-
fiant,- recriminattve, indignant, and resounding.
The last phase of Mr. Disraeli's oratory was . when
he found himself in bffiee for the third time, in a
minority of the House of Commons. It was his
task to persuade the House to accept a Reform Bill
at his hands, and his success has made him a power
in the House. It has been his recent policy to ex-
cite no emotion and raise no antagonism, and he
has simultaneously adopted an easy, level, quiet,
cela vans sins dire style of rhetoric, sometimes not
ill-suited to his purpos3. It stood him in good
stead more than once last session, and notably
when Mr. Osborne, in the tone of a man who
had . discovered a new Gunpowder Plot, asked
whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer had coin-
missioned Colonel Taylor to enter into negotia-
tions with Mr. Dillwyn ou the subject of the
acceptance by the Government of Mr. Hibbert's
amendment. Instead of firing up, making
the house resound with protestations or sar-
casms, Mr. Disraeli's words only just dropped from
his lips, and in tones of well-assumed indifference
be pooh-p Oohed the affair as a "mare's nest." The
same subdued tone has been employed since upon
occasions when it conveyed a sense of mastery and
power. The hearer infers that what the orator is
proposing is a matter of course, which cannot pro-
voke opposition from any quarter. The objection
to Mr. Disraeli's new style of speaking rapidly and,
as it were, under his breath, is that he is losing
that distinctness of elocution which was once the
characteristic of his oratory. Formerly he could
always be heard without difficulty—and that was
an advantage in au assembly containing a very con-
siderable proportion of elderly gentlemen—which
was worth the superfine faltering and low and rapid
delivery of the new style a hundred times over. It
is now necessary to pay a strained attention to the
leader of the House, and many words, which appear
from the context :to be important, are lost to the
more distant portion of his audience, and have to
be looked for next day in the papers. The change
does not seem to be caused by any diminution of
physical power. It/is simply a trick and artifice of
rhetoric. If not checked, it will become a vice and
mannerism, so unpleasant and so little to be tole-
rated in the House of Commons that we shall have
the leader of the Government interrupted by cries
of " speak op." From the affectation of being in-
distinct an 1 inandible Lord Palmerston was
eminently free ; and Mr. Disraeli, who imitates
his leadership in so may things, cannot too carefully
watch and amend his present habit of slurring over
his words and adopting a quiet, level, and un-
emphatic mode of Ministerial explanation.—London
Review.

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Backers are individuals who back their horses against
other men's horses; who having no horses of their own
back some men's horses against other men's horses ; who
hack their sharpness against other men's dullness, their
wisdom against other men's folly. They are a mixed lot ;
some thoroughbreds, some hacks, some cabbies, some
costers—somo worse than the Bombay mules will be
after the Abyssinian campaign. They are sheep and
goats, lambs, and wo'vos. They are Bass from Burton,
and Bass from the unknown breweries, which resort to
unwholesome drugs for stomachic flavour. And by rea-
son of their mixed character they are pushing turf trans-
actions to the Crossness Point level of limited liability
promotion, flotation, and liquidation. Of late the un-
mistakeable tendency of turf transactions has been in the
direction of rival twice a week auction sales; of gives and
takes that, at least, rogues may clear, not five bar, but five
hundred bar gates. What happens is the very thing the
Legislature recently attempted to prevent in net fishing ;
namely, the giving of no chance to the fishes, which is a
course that before long promised to bring to Billingsgate
the last cod fish and pair of soles which would be fur-
nished.

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tion. with Addends,containinz atiditional ?'rite and Cases
in it ustration of the nefarious pro.:eedinvs of the Adver-
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REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AN])
QUA, EERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted from
the "Medical Circular."
London : 11. B :Mere, 219, Regent-street.
The numerous reviews of his at irt ling work by the Satur-
day Review, Pun:h, Weekly Despatch, Public Opinion, and
other journals, recommending it universal perusal, are re-
printed with this edition.

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In its better, palmy days, what gave ebarecter to the'
turf was the practical absence of t,ll' fixed chaincter.
Backing, then, was fgr,opinion .;_forth4 ggrt pf seniiment
which animates Garibaldi, and leads to his giving what
cooler-blooded men regard a' mad-man's odds ; or, to put
a less lofty case, it is that sortof sentiment which inflames
Irishmen of disloyal sympathies, and involves such bets
as the aforesaid Bombay mule after the Abyssinian cam-
paign against the field of British nationality and prestige.
This sentiment has every-day exemplifications in the
various walks of life ; wherever, with doggedness of will,
there is a conviction of some intensity the good old spirit
may be said to flourish. In the better, palmy days of turf
transactions, it gave the owner of a horse, that was a horse,
such sure faith that he would almost have staked his life.
Then, also, the bets of such a man were a guide, not a
decoy, to others. In those days there were men who for
years followed in the wake of others; winning when they
won, losing when they lost, and laughing well at tho re-
sult whichever way it happened. There, too, were the
judgments of outsiders—of men who knew, or who be-
lieved they knew, what a horse is. Such men staked their
money on their judgments; seeing the horses in the stables,
in the paddock, or at the post, was all they needed, never
once dreaming of foul play on owner's or jockey's
part. Nor was there foul play, unless on rare
occasions, when some corrupt fellow elbowed him-
self to win, no matter how. But such an ono did
not leaven the whole lump; he had the cry of
shame raised at him, the finger of scorn pointed towards
him. He, however, proved the pioneer ; the first wash of
wave over the walls of honour, before the giving way of
dykes and the general overflow.

Where we now are let the giver of odds answer. Now-
adays to own a stud of race-horses, and to eat Oyster
suppers oftener than to attend at morning service, are the
handmaids to wealth. Now, to be well up in figures ; to
disregard stables, jockeys, pedigree, form, muscle, pace,
everything, unless the points for and against the horses
in the betting is to be a top sawyer, a s2londid fellow, a
man with bunches of bank notes, who is at once the envy
and the pride of the unhappy. The turf is as demoralised
as the Stcck Exchange ; the failings of which are
buying long and selling short. Or it resembles operations
in mines, which also, but in a greater degree, are heads I
win, tails you lose. Generally whoever fancies he puts
money into mines is mistaken, ho only puts it into some
schemer's pocket, and in the main it is equally true that he
who backs a horse is sure to be disappointed. Not that
default in payments is more frequent than before, not that
givers and takers are fewer than before, but because the
turf is not what it ought to be—not what it used to be
Theoellsof the day ought to be the index to a horse's chance,
the reflex of public opinion respecting such chance ; what
they represent is the state of the accounts of operators, the
stress of weather under whi.th great and small craft labour,
the unfavourable conlition of the exchanges, and of a
prospective consequent drain of specie. Old Admiral Fitz-
roy's functions have passed from the meteorological de-
pzirtni-ut of the Board of Trade to be 2 to 1 and to be 1000
to 1 signals in the conimisAnn rooms and elsoWlit?.

To rescue the turf from this state of things would be to
re-instate in purity a great national sport, to place judg-
ment at a premium, to win back t hose whom trickery has
estranged. Generally speaking tn3n are only once vic-
tims; they do not twice run the risk of being bitten.
Well, for years past the biting process has proceeded
until a host of men with money have made way for another
host without money. And obviously the biting process
has only to go on some time longer to thin out to extinction
such rod men as remain. This extremity should be
averted. During the dead season there should be an effort
to stay the downward progress of turf morality. At the foun-
tain head, whence the evil flows, abeginning should be made.
The owner of a horse, while permitted to win all he can
should not be allowed to inflict wrongful injury on others
From the owner of a horse to the bookmaker is not a step
but it may as well be considered one. The bookmaker,
while suffered to suck all the blood he can, should cease to
be held in high esteem. His recognised position should
be that of a parasite, as ivy is on the trunk of oak
or elm. He is not a sporting man ; he is a money win-
ning man. He is a grub ; no butterfly. As to the rest,
the broken, dishonoured ones, why they may be left to
pick what crumbs they can. They aro mere camp fol-
lowers; not combatants in common, or bearing shields.

They are to the turf what the costermongers are to the new

Street Act; persons who have a vested interest in their
peculiar calling, and may therefore be let alone.—Racing
Times.

The marriage of John Day, jun., eldest son of the
celebrated trainer, with Miss Sophia. Taylor, of the Royal
Hotel, Derby, was celebrated on Tuesday last with the
usual rejoicings.
Mr. E. Brayley bought La Pique, at Croydon, on Thurs-
day, after her winning a selling handicap steeplechase, for
103 guineas.

Carnbroe, who won the Selling Handicap Steeplechase
at Croydon, on Wednesday, .was bought by Mr. Church
for 61 guineas.
OBJECTION TO FLTFISIIEIG—This horse, Who CAM in
first for the Croydon Cup on Thursday, was objected to
by Mr. Thomas, the rider of Benazet, who ran second.
The case will be decided at Tattersall's this afternoon.

We regret to announce the sudden demise of Mr. Wear,
a well-known bookmaker, who was found dead in his bed
on Wednesday morning last.
ASTROLABE. —All bets on this mare, who W 9.9 disqualified
from running in the Croydon Cup in consequence of her
namo lacing in the forfeit list, are null and void.
THE LEAMINGTON AND WARWICKSHIRE HUNT
MEETING. —The throe principal cups at these races were
designed and nrtnufactured by Mr. Benson, of Old Bond-
street and Ludgate-hill. The Great Autumn Welter Cup,
value £2OO, consists of a Grecian vase and cover, with
handles in silver, the stem fluted and burnished, decorated
with open festoons of fluwars in dead silver, this is sur-
mounted by a wrsath of oak also in dead silver; the body
is richly chased with a bas-relief representing a race-course,
and the apix of the ewer formed by two models of race-
horses with their jockeys in dead silver. The Guy Cup,
value £l5O, is a richly chased vase, highly decorated with
Greek ornaments ; the body is enriched with a large bas-
relief of a racing subject, and the cover surmounted by a
model of a race-horse. The Hunt Cup, which is a large
ripoussi tankard and cover, value £lOO, is richly embossed
with the story of " Mazeppa ;" the top surmounted by the
model of a horse and foal.

ATHLETIC SPORTS.

LONDON ATHLETIC SPORTS.

The members of this club met on Saturday last at the
West London Cricket Ground, when, deSpite the un-
favourable state of the weather, a capital afternoon's sport
took place. The first event was the
Handicap of 150 Yards (for members only).—The 31
entries were divided into five heats, the first being won by
J. M. Burke, 9 yards start, by a couple of yards; C. G.
Emery, 3, second. Time, 15i seconds.
Second Beat.—J. W. Bennett, 16, led throughout; and
won by a yard and a half; A. K. Gregson, Bi, second.
Time, 154 seconds.
Third Heat.—H. A. Sarl, 9, won easily ; C. Scull, 10,
second.

Fourth Heat.—C. King, 10, got in front forty yards from
home, and won by a yard; J. Elphinstone, 9k, second.
Time, 151 seconds.
Fifth Heat.—G. H. Jupp, 6k, walked over.
Final Heat.—H. A. Sarl, 9, won by a splendid race by a
Foot ; G. H. Jupp, 6f, second ; and J. M. Burke, 9, third.
Time, 15i seconds.
OPEN Two MILES WALKING HANDICAP.—T. Griffiths
(C. A. A. C.), 25 seconds start, took the lead at the com-
mencement of the fifth 18p, and held it until entering the
straight of the seventh, when S. P. Smith (Blackheath), 25
seconds, and W. Rye (T. R. C.), scratch, third. The first
mile was accomplished in 7 minutes 10 seconds, and thr,
whole distance iu 14 minutes 50 seconds.

Mr. J. G. Chambers officiated as judge. The prizas will
be presented to the winners at-the annual dinner, which
will bo held at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's, on
Thursday next.