The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, 11/ARCH 16, 1867.

of 10 sovs each, for all ages; 12st each ; those that
never started in any steeplechase allowed 71b; winners
of a steeplechase in 1866 or 1867 value 50 sovs 71b, twice
141 b, or of a steeplechase of the value of 150 at any time
281 b extra; gentlemen riders, professionals 61b extra;
about three miles.

A Handicap of 3 sous each, with 20 added, for three year
olds and upwards; the winner to be sold for 40 sous;
three furlongs.
The Guy Sweepstakes of 3 soya each, with 40 added; two
year olds 7st 81b, three 9st 41b, four lOst 71b, fire and
upwards lOst 121 b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b ;
maidens in the present year having started twice and
not won allowed 51b, thrice 71b; the winner to be sold
for 100 Fors; if entered for 50 soya allowed 71b, 50 141 b;
half a mile.

A Plate of 50 sous (Handicap); winners after March 13 (at
ten a.m.) Mb extra; three quarters of a mile.

Ago st lb
Volunteer ... a 9 0
Queen of Trumps a 812
Indian Star ... 4 7 9
Crown Prince ... 4 7 4
Goojerat ... 4 7 0
Quirina ... 4 6 12
Havannah 4 6 9
Her Ladyship 4 6 9
Under the Cloud... 6 6 9
Greenford ... 3 6 7
Efervescence ... 4 6 5
La Maudito 3 6 4
Lady Pam ... 3 6 4

Age st lb
Canard ... 3 6 3
Sy cee 3 6 3
Dragoon ... 3 6 0
Miller's Maid ... 3 6 0
Adamanthea. ... 3 5 12
Mayonaise b f 3 5 12
Anchorite 3 5 10
Amour Propre ... 3 5 10
Moucboir ... 3 5 9
Miss Elizabeth ... 3 5 7
Feodor ... 3 5 7
Peggy ... 3 5 7

Match, 100, h ft; two mil,
aged, 15st, agat Mr. P.
14st.

+b.—Duke of Hamilton's Vet,

Lowland's The Guide, 5 yrs,

PROGRAMME OF THE RUGBY HUNT STEEPLE-
CHASES MONDAY, March 18.
Tho National Hunters' Steeplechase Stakes of 6 cove each,
2 ft (to the fund), with 50 added; four year olds list,
five 12st 21b ; six and aged 12st 101 b ; gentlemen riders
or farmer riders ; any ono having ridden the winner of a
handicap steeplechase 51b extra ; the second to save his
stake ; about three miles.
Wild Irishman aged, Fleetwing, Black Drake aged, The
Circle (h b), Round Text 5 yrs, Vitulius bk g (11 b) aged,
Cock Robin aged, Vanity aged, Come Again (h b) aged,
Scrambler (h b) aged, and dam by Loup baron 5 yr..
The Farmers' Plate of 80 soya; gentlemen rider., &c.; any
one haying ridden the winner of a handicap steeplechase
valve 50 soya 51b extra ; four-yr-olds list 101 b, five 12st
71b, six and aged 13st ; winners of any steeplechase,
hurdle, or fiat race of the value of 50 soya before the time
of starting 71b, of 100 141 b extra ; horses never having
started allowed 51b; thorough breds 101 b extra. About
three miles.
Malvern Hill aged, Beverly aged, Leighton (h b) 6, The
Count aged, Jerry (late Jeremy Diddler), Snowdrop 5,
The Rover 5, Firefly aged.
The Rugby Open Steeplechase Handicap of 7 soya each,
2 ft (to the fund), with 60 added; winners of any steeple-
chase after the weights were published 71b, twice 101 b
extra. About four miles.
Ago st lb Age st lb
Tally Ho all 7 I Bird's Eye (h b) 10 6
Sir William ... a 11 4 Plinlimmon ... 6 10 4
Sportsman ... all 0 Master Oliver (h b) alO 3
Brandy Apple ... 10 9 The Flea ... alO 0
Sylph ... alO 9 Miss Dodson (h b) 610 0
The Selling Steeplechase Handicap of 3 soya each, 1 ft (to
the fund), with 25 added; the winner to be sold for 40
sous; winners of any steeplechase after March 12 (at
eleven a.m.) 71b, of two 101 b extra. About two miles
and a half.

Age st lb Ago st lb
all 7 I Betsy (h b) 10 5
Weddingßeverley Peal ... 511 3 Mary Ann (11 ... alO 5
Wild Irishman ... a 10 7 Brown Charley ... a 10 0
bkgbyVitellius(hb) a 10 6 I
A Scurry Steeplechase Stakes of 2 sore each, with 20
added, for hunters; 12st each; horses that have never
started allowed 51b; winners of any steeplechase, hurdle,
or flat race of the value of 50 sovs 71b, of more than 50
at any one time 141 b extra. About two miles and a half.

PROGRAMME OF MARGATE SPRING MEETING.
MONDAY, March 18.
The Hunters' Stakes of 2 sovs each, with 20 added ; three
year olds 9st 41b, four list, five list 71b, six and up-
wards list 121 b ; professionals 71b extra ; one mile and
a half on the flat.
The Stand Plate of 30 soya ; three year olds 7st 71b, four
Bst 121 b, five and upwards 94 71b; mares and geldings
allowed 31b; maidens allowed 41b; the winner to be sold
for 50 soya ; if entered for 30 sovs allowed 71b ; six

furlongs.
The Kent County Cup, value 25 nova, for hunters ; 118
71b end] ; the winner to be sold for 100 sous; if entered
for 50 sovs allowed 71b ; winners of a steeplechase value
30 sovs 71b extra; professionals 71b extra; three miles
over the Steeplechase Course.
The Hurdle Race Handicap of 3 soya each, 1 ft (to the
fund), with 25 added; winners after March 9 (at ten
a.m.) 71b extra ; two miles, over six hurdles.
Ago st lb
Cutler ... a 11 5
Slender 4 11 2
Medicis 5 11 2
Lydia ... 510 12
Orontes ... 510 12
Robin Adair a 10 10
Wedding Peal 5 10 7
Jessie 6 le 5
Chanty 5 10 0
Peewit 6 10 0
The Ramsgate Plate (Handicap) of 40 sous; winners after
March 9 (at ten a.m.) 71b extra; six furlongs.
Age st lb Age st lb
The Monk... a 812 Wheatley Rocks 3 7 2
Slender 4 8 7 Preferment 4 7 0
Medicis 5 8 4 Vicious 3 6 12
Venturer 4 8 4 Colenso 4 6 12
Lydia 5 7 12 Binnacle 3 6 0
Isabella 4 7 10 , Elburg 5 6 10
Queen Mary 4 7 7 Mont Blanc 2 5 12
The Margate Open Steeplechase Handicap of 5 nova each,
2 ft (to the fund), with 50 added; winners of any han-
dicap after March (at ten n.m.) 71b, any other winner 51b
extra. About three miles.
Age at lb Age st lb
Harold
Sportsman a 12 0 Cockfighter (h-b)... 5 11 0
The Rogue
The Nigger
Cutler
Holies
The Tradesmen's Steeplechase Plate (Handicap) of 40
sovs ; winners after March 9 (at ten a.m.) 71b extra.
About two miles.

Age st lb
Greybird ... 6 10 0
Isabella 4 9 12
Equinox a • 9 10
Knapsack 4 9 7
Vindicator... a 9 7
Triumph ... ... 4 9 5
Mrs. Naggleton ... a 9 4
Relic° ... 5 9 0
Prescription ... 4 9 0

Ago st lb
Sir Bobby a 12 10
Harold
Sportsman a 11 4
The Rogue
Cutler a 10 12
Vindicator a 10 10
Helios
Peewit

Age st lb
Greybird
Orontes
Wedding Peal
Wade 5 10 4
Humphrey Davey 4 10 4
Over the Sea a 10 0
Prescription 4 10 0

PROGRAMME OF BROMLEY SPRING MEETING
FRIDAY, March 22.
Selling Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 25 added ; three-year.
olds 7st 71b, four Bst 121 b, five and aged 9st 71b; mares
and geldings allowed 31b ; the winner to be sold for 50
soya ; if entered for 30 soya allowed 71b ; nearly seven
furlongs.
The Bromley Cup of 30 soya; three-year-olds 9st 71b, four
lOst 91b, five list 41b, six and aged llat 71b ; mares and
geldings allowed 31b ; starters three times in 1866 with-
out being placed allowed 71b; professionals that have
won a flat race value 100 sovs 71b extra. About ono
mile and a half on the flat.
Tho Tally-ho Plate of 50 soya; four year olds, list; five,
list 101 b ; six and aged, 12st ; half-brads allowed 71b ;
horses that have run twice in 1866 for any flat or hurdle
race and have not been placed allowei 71b; professionals
that have won a flat race value 100 sovs, 71b ; pro-
fessionals that have won a flat race value 100 SOTS, 71b
extra ; the second to receive 5 SOTS out of the Plate ;
the winner to be sold for 200 Boys; two miles on the
flat.
The Bromley Plate (Ilandica
50 sovs after March 11, 71
51b extra; nearly seven fur
Age at lb
Monk ... a 8 12
Frogmore ... 5 8 9
Rustic Beauty ... 5 8 5
Tomahawk ... 4 8 0
Hop Leap ... ... 47 10
Wild Bee
Marquis
5 7 10
Marquis of Wor-
nQ
jucastor
Mary 345 777
474
Fitz Ivan ••• ... 3 7 2
Maid of Erin ... a 7 2
4 (-11a2ndicap) of 50 soya ; winners
Aurorau
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P..i. ate
after March 14, 71b extra; about two miles, over six
hurdles.

tp) of 100 sous; winners of
lb extra; any other winner,
rlongs.

Age st lb
Pinchbeck... 4 7 0
Wheatley Rocks ... 3 7 0
Fanny 3 7 0
Algar ...4 6 12
... 3 6 9
Gaiety ... 3 6 7
Grafton ... ... 3 6 7
Colenso ... 3 6 4
Lupa ... 3 6 2
Fanchotto ... 3 6 0
Gentian ... 3 5 12
Knight of Downc... 3 5 10

Age et g4e s9t lb 4
Fortunatusll 12Victoria ...
1b
Cutler ... alO 7 Triumph ... 9 2
Balham a 10 7 Chicken Hazard ... 4 9 2
Contraband 510 5 , Vindicator... ... a 9 2
Havelock ..• 6 10 5 , Red Rose ... 5 9 0
Olivia „.. 6 912 Pirate ... 5 9 0
Maid of Erin ... a 9 101 Dovodale ... 6 9 0
Lord Waldegrave... 5 9 10i Northill 4 8 12
Medicis 5 9 10! Helice •.. ... 58 12
Risk 59 10 Saucy Lass ... 48 12
Mrs. Naggleton ... a 9 10 Equinox a 8 10
Lady Peel 6 9 71 Tuttie •.• 4 8 7
Slender 4 9 7 1 Ned of the Hills ... a 8 7
Orontes ... 5 9 4 ' Grafton ... 3 8 7
Sisyphus ••• 5 9 4
The Railway Steeplechase Stakes of 5 cove each, (2 ft to
the fund), with 50 added; any winner of 100 sovs after
March ,at a.m. 101 b, of 40 sovs 71b extra ; about two
miles and a quarter.
Sir Bobby, aged, Cutler, aged, Harold, 5 yrs, Clementi,
aged, Orontes, 5 yrs, Vindicator, aged, Triumpher, 6 yrs,
Risk, 5 yrs, 'Wedding Peal, 5 yrs, triumph, 4 yrs,
5 yrs, Isiabucklish, 6 yrs, Gardener, 5 yrs, Contraband, ii
yrs, Havelock, 6 yrs, Hecate, 5 yrs, Pirate, aged.
A Hunters' Stakes of 3 soya each, 2 ft, with 20 added, for
horses that have been regularly hunted in Kent, Surrey,
Sussex, Berkshire, or Middlesex during the season
1866-7 ; horses that have been in any training stable this
year 71b extra ; llst 71b each ; the winner to be sold by
auction for .50 sovs, and any surplus to be divided be-
tween the owner of the second and the fund; if entered
to be mold for 30 soya allowed 71b,
_it not to be sold to

carry I.olb extra ; any winner of a steeplechase value 60
soya 71n extra ; professionals that have won a steeple-
chase value 50 soya 71b extra ; about three miles.
SATURDAY.

The Bickley Stakes (Handicap) of 3 sovs each, with 20
added, for all ages ; the winner to be sold for 40 sovs ;
' winners after the publication of the weights slb extra ;

about seven furlongs.
The Hunters' Plate of 40 sous; four year olds list 41b,
five list 121 b, six and upwards 12st ; mares and geldings
allowed 31b; half-breds 71b extra; winners of a flat or
hurdle race once 51b, twice, or one of 50 sous, 101 b,
thrice, or one of 100, 141 b extra ; maiden five year olds
and upwards allowed 71b; qualified gentlemen riders,
professionals 71b extra ; about two miles on the flat.
The Bromley Spring Handicap of 5 sous each, 2 ft (to the
fund), with 60 added ; winners of a race value 100 sows
after March 16 101 b, any other winner 51b extra; about
one mile and a half.

Musketeer ...
Monk ...

Age st lb
...5 812
... a 8 7

Nabocklish
Dovedale ...

Age st lb
... 6 6 10
... 6 6 10

Frogmore 5 8 4 Nimble ... 4 610
Ropley 4 8 0 Queen Mary 4 6 10
Fort Lima tus 4 7 12 Pinchbeck... ... 4 6 10
Dayrell 5 7 12 Saucy Lass 4 6 10
Jevington 5 7 10 Algar 4 6 7
Slender 4 7 10 Wheatley Rocks ... 3 6 7
Mischief ... ... 4 7 10 Fanny 3 6 7
Clatford 4 7 10 Alcazar ... 3 6 7
Lord Waldegrave 5 7 7 Ned of the Rills ... a 6 4
Tomahawk 4 7 7 Mosquetaire ... a 6 4
Olivia 6 7 4 Mimulus ... 3 6 0
Little Bobby 4 7 4 Gaiety ... 3 6 0
Victoria 4 7 2 Colenso ... 3 5 10
Hop Leaf 4 7 0 Knight of Downe 3 5 7
Risk 5 6 12 Gentian ... 3 5 7
The Tradesmen's Steeplechase (Handicap) of 3 sous each,
with 20 added ; the winner to be sold for 40 says ; about
two miles. To close and name before fire o'olock on
Friday, March 22, at the weighing room.
A Steeple Chase Plate of 50 soya.

Sir Bobby aged, Cutler aged, Orontes 5 yrs, Risk 5 yrs,
Pirate 5 yrs, Gardener 5 yrs, Triumph 4 yrs, Triumpher
6 yrs, Hecate 5 yrs, Red Rose 5 yrs, Wedding Peal 5 yrs,
Vindicator aged, Balham aged, elementi aged, Helice, 5
yrs, Wade 5 yrs.
The Kent Open Steeplechase (Handicap) of 10 soya each,
2 ft; three miles.
Sir Bobby aged, Cutler aged, Hornet aged, Marble Hill
aged, Harold 5 yrs, Sportsman aged, Cocktighter 5 yrs,
Balham aged, Clemanti aged, Vindicator aged, Havelock
6 yrs, Nigger aged, Gardener 5 yrs, Helice 5 yrs, Stockings
5 yrs, Bishopton 5 yrs.

and stereotype founding, printing-press making, in
making bookbinders' tools, in bookbinding and pub-
lishing, was, in 1860, 37,723. Tha sole reason for
the existence of this class, their sole use, is to fur-

nish the remaining thirty millions with the means
of acquiring knowledge with the least possible ex-

penditure of time and money. That the people of
this country shall acquire knowledge easily, is of

paramount importance. Compared with the ques-
tion of education all other questions of our time
sink into insignificance. Except man's destiny in
the world to come, we know of no theme of such

tremendous moment as the cultivation of his men-

tal powers in this. Suppose all our publi9hers,
printers, and bookbinders in the United States

swept into the sea to-morrow, we should have to
deplore the loss of many most respectable and must

useful citizens, but would the effect of the catas-

rophe on the wealth Dr welfare of the community at

large be comparable to the evil which these gentle-

men are now inflicting on their fellow-country-
men ? In a few months we might get 30,000
other book manufacturers, not perhaps as

good as they, but good enough for the time
being. But whatever makes it difficult or impossible
for any considerable number of the people to culti-

vate any field of knowledge is an injury to society,

of which the effects are incalculable and last throng':

generations. It would be better for the nation, we

say deliberately, to settle large pensions on every
paper-maker, printer, and publisher in the country,
than have ten poor men forced to deny themselves

a good book or ten scholars forced to limit their
purchases. And yet publishers have apparently

succeeded in impressing Congress with the idea, that
the use of books is to maintain publishers in com-
fort, and that authors and readers are mere Eppen-

dages or ornaments of the great book-stores, whose
wants and wishes are of no import►nce. In fact,
in all that regards the acquisition and diffusion of

knowledge, the legislation of the last two Congresses
has been little better than might be expected from

an assemblage of Goths or Iluns dealing with the
fading and to them incomprehensible civilisation of
the fallen empire. They hava made books dear in
a Republic to whose existence and prosperity the
habit of reading is as necessary as light and air to

individuals. Of their forgetfulness of the interests

of science, a fine example has been afforded in the
tax on alcohol, which is so enormous as to have

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almost completely arrested in this country all re
. .

searches in organic chemistry. The heavy inter.
nal taxation has raised the price of books pro

duced and reprinted here ; the duty and high
price of gold have all but put a stop to the
importation of foreign books. Most of the libraries
may be said to have ceased to import them,
and very few are now called for, except by that
exceedingly small band of wealthy men who
devote any attention to literature. Nothing can be
more disheartening, we had almost said barbarous,
than the indifference of politicians—we do not use
the word in any opprobrious sense—to the interests
of authors and readers ; in other words, of the class
who keep civilisation alive and make progress, either
mental or material, possible. There are very few
men in Congress—we cannot name one with confi-
dence except Mr. Sumner—who have kept the in-
terests of literature and science in view during the
confused financial legislation of the last four or five
years. We have before us a letter from a gentle-
man, himself an author, who has taken a good deal
of interest in the copyright question. In telling us
of the results of his efforts to call the attention of
our legislators to the concern which our writers and
thinkers have in all legislation affecting literary pro-
perty, he says that one orator, not unknown to fame,
and who, doubtless, can spout by the hour on great
moral questions, cut short their conversation by
saying—" I do not take any interest in the question
of authorship, and I do not believe anybody can
make me take an interest in it." Just such a reply
as a Gothic warrior of the sixth century.might have
made to a Roman jurist pleading for guard for his lib-
rary in a town captured by the barbarians. There is a
class of books which can be produced and are produced
just as well in this country as in England, and with
regard to which the American author and publidier
might, with some decency, ask for protection—we
mean school books, novels, epic and lyrical poetry,
tragedies, sonnets, and books of travel. In these
particular fields of literature the reading public does
not suffer very much from heavy import duties.
Any portion of this class of works which is at all
valuable, American publishers are likely to reprint,
or would reprint if the internal revenue system were
reformed. Those which they would not reprint
society here would not suffer seriously from never
seeing. But there is a large class of books
historical, scientific, legal, politico-economical, and
metaphysical—of which the English press is very
prolific, either original or translated in London from
the French or German, for which there is in
America no popular demand, and which, therefore,
publishers do not reprint, and for which no sub-
stitute is provided here. it is the product of the
higher cultivation of the Old World, and of which
it is not only our interest but our duty to avail our-
selves, if we mean to maintain our place or win a
higher one in civilisation. This class of books is
mainly sought for by scholars and students, whose
means are generally limited, and to the wealthiest
of whom an addition of 40 or 50 per cent. in the
price of books is a serious matter. The tax gain to
the Government from even a light duty on books
of this kind would be too small to be worth
counting; the gain from such a duty as is now
proposed would be absolutely nothing, for the tax is
all but prohibitory. The publishers will not
profit by it, for, as we have said, they would not re-
print these books, and native authors can hardly
produce any books to compete with them, if the
word compete can ever be applied in a commercial
sense to the efforts made by men of thought and
learning to swell the sum of human knowledge. It
cannot be too well understood or too often repeated,
however, that the progress of a nation is not kept
up simply by the general diffusion of a small degree
of education, such as men get in district schools or
pick up" in the spare moments of a busy life. We
might all know how to read, write, and cipher, and
might all possess a passable acquaintance with what
is called " polite literature," and have a high respect
for knowledge, and yet settle down for ages in a
state in no respect superior to that of the Chinese.
The movement of the world towards purer manners
and nobler laws ; towards larger liberty, deeper in-
sight; its growth in faith and hope, and in moral
and material power, is due to the labours of a com-
paratively small number of thinkers. Nearly all
great advances in civilisation are brought about by
the labours of men of high culture and deep
thought. They conceive what others execute ; and
it is the duty and interest of every nation, even of
those who conceive material comfort to be the
highest good, to make, by all available means, the
labours of its men of science easy and, if possible,
pleasant. So far from discouraging them here,
there is no country in the world in which they need
to be more cherished and encouraged. We could
name half a dozen men of letters and of science in
this country who are of more value to the nation
than double the whole number of booksellers and
printers which it now contains, to whose door it
would " pay" for the Government to deliver gratis
every work of importance that appears in any part
of the world. To make it difficult for such men to
become acquainted with the result of the labours of
their confreres in other countries is to attack civili-
sation itself. Those who suppose, as some Con-
gressmen seem to do, that the newspaper is the only
kind of literature that America needs, and that the
" reportorial corps," as it calls itself, can supply all
the facts that American students need to know,
differ less than they imagine from the Caliph who
burnt the Alexandrian Library on the theory of the
all-sufficiency of the Koran.—The Nation.

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