The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LON I ON, WEDNESDAY EVE NING, MAY 22, 1867.

is usually found in a Despotism, where the ruler is
a man of ability and courage. What Democracy
does is, as DE TOQUEVILLE says, " to awake an all.-
pervading and restless activity, a superabundant
force and an energy which is inseparable from it,
and which may, under favourable circumstances
beget the most amazing benefits." No doubt these

are great objects, but we hold the greatest, to be the
security, conferred. There can be no revolt against
the people, for there are none to revolt. There may
be said to be the minority, over whom the majority
may tyrannise ; but experience will prove this to be
a delusion. The Government of a people, is a Go-
vernment of opinion—not of force. People will
always be divided in opinion, • and discuss and
squabble over their sentiments with each other.
With a free press, a free pulpit, free platforms, and
the power of assembly—all based on education—
the people may safely be left to themselves to work
out a majority for the right. Where they are in
the habit of meeting and discussing public ques-
tions, they learn to put faith in the theory, which is a
strong plea for Democracy that the majority of a na-
tion on a well discussed subject will, as a rule, be right.
America has shown this in aremarkabledegree. When
the will of the people is expressed by the utterance
of the majority, all bow and the point is se tied.
The people recognise the majesty of their own de-
crees. The way in which public opinion varies
under changing circumstances may be observed by
the national decision on a subject connected with the
previous question, which may be negatived by the
voices of the very people who but a few months
before, had given the affirmative vote. It is on these
questions of expediency, not of principle, that the
influences which bear on public opinion are seen to
work. Men discuss with each other the points in-
volved, and from these discussions public opinion is
formed. Newspaper artiees are a mere reflex,
though books, pamphlets, and the more matured
essays, being generally composed by leaders for or
against the movement, go far to form and steady the
opinion. According to HEPWORTII DIXON the more
free a people are, the more rude they are, and
it is this brusqueness of manner which has done so
much to retard Democracy, enlisting against it the
natural instincts of the more refined. There is
nothing so hateful to an English squire in the
idea of Americanising England as the spreading and
intensifying this free and easy manner, too often
amounting almost to insolence. How much of this
is also due to ignorance? Is it found in England
that the best educated mechanics are those who
adopt this tone? The education of a gentleman
makes him courteous. If a man is polite only to one
class and rude to another, he is a mere servile snob,
who has not the true instincts of a cultivated and
Christian man. Training, leads to universal cour-
tesy, and
_Democracy, which recognises the equal
rights of all, upholds good manners by this very
fact. It is not with Democracy, therefore, that the
blame lies of the rudeness of the untrained Anglo-
Saxon, but simply with the want of that training
which is, and ought to be, the first effort of a true
Democracy. The Americanising process, therefore, is
rather a gratifying spectacle ; "an educated Demo-
cracy" being, as Mr. PARTRIDGE says, " the only
final Conservatism, and they are but quacks and
doctrinaires, who, with infinite pains and trickery,
seek out many inventions for Conservatism, and
balances without or against the people, and neglect,
abuse, and refute that true Democracy, which is the
end and aim of political science."—Amglo-American
Times.

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RACE MEETINGS IN AMERICA.

(From Wilkes' Spirit of the Times.).
THE MAY RACE-MEETINGS.—There will be more

racing in May this year than ever before, and we

trust the weather will be favourable for the four
meetings to take place. during the mouth. The
first of them is to come off at Hoboken, on the
14th, 15th, and 17th, and the programme for the
three days is good. There are to be eleven races
run during the three days, including two hurdle
races and a steeplechase. The course is one of the
safest and fastest in the country, and the manage-

nient is good. Colonel MeDaniels is still. at the
head of affairs, and the enagy and ability of that
turf veteran must be supported. A great crowd
has attended to see the horses gallop. The meeting

at Ilob,,ken will hardly be over before that at Si
Louis will begin. There the excelleut club an

officers of the now Laclede Association are suro to
have a good meeting. It will commence on the
20th, and continue six days, during which there
will be thirteen races run. These are all over the
flat. The running is always good at St. Louis, and
two of the best race horses that have flourished
in this country made their first public appearance
there. 'We allude to Norfolk and Asteroid, who
first made their mark at the Laclede. The stakes
have filled well. There are twelve entries in the
sweepstakes for three-year-olds, mile heats ; and
ten in the Southern Hotel Stakes, which is two-mile
heats, for three-year-olds. The Accommodation
Stake and Jockey Club Stake, the latter two-mile
heats, for four-year-olds, closed May Ist, and we
have not the entries.

The Spring Meeting at Jerome Park will take
place on the 22d, 23d, and 25th of May. There
will be three fine races each day, besides the grand
match on the 25th between Maid of Honor and
De Courcey. The course is in splendid order.. The
improvements made since last fall are very great,
and a very large and fashionable assemblage may
be looked for. The drive out to the Park through
Westchester County is a very delightful one, and
when the lawns have the vivid green of the young
iSlay days, and the borders are gay and gorgeous
with spring flowers and opening buds, nothing can
be more attractive. There is to be a hurdle-race
on the last day of the meeting, and as a number of
good horses are in training over the timber, we look
for fine sport in this department.
The last of the May meetings will be that at Cin-
cinnati, which will commence on the fourth Mou-

day in the mouth, the 27th. The Club has pros ided
for six days' racing, with two races each day. The
prospect was never better for fine sport. The Pre-
sident of the Club and other officers have been un-
tiring in their labours, and we must say to their
credit that while seeking to advance their own meet-
ing they have not been unmindful of the interests
of others. They have provided for a special train
to come on to Paterson as soon as the Cincinnati
meeting is over, by which means horses can run at
both meetings. It is also Mr. Wooley's desire to
make an arrangement with the Railroad Companies,
so that horses may be brought right through at low
rates. his influence with the Western roads will
secure this very desirable result so far as they are
concerned, and he very reasonably asks that the
Eastern Clubs should exert themselves to the like
effect to secure the co-operation of the Erie Rail-
road. The racing is sure to be good at Cincinnati.
The entries are seventeen in number in the Buck-
mile heats, for three-year-olds; and
ethyeereSat'ras
are twelve in the Burnet Hope Stake, two-
mile heats, for four-year-olds. This will be a des-
perate race. There are hurdle-races on the first and
last days of this meeting.

It is not generally known that there are canni-
bals among the Red Indians of North America, the
numerous instances which are mentioned in the old his-
tories, especially iu those of the Jesuits of New France,
having been overlooked or disbelieved. However a Texan
gentleman sends to tha Nation au amusing account of the
Tunka:vas, a tribe of Texan Indians who are in the habit
of eating their enemies, the Conmehes. Among many
cave-witnesses quoted is Colonel James Bjwie, the inven-
tor of the celebrated knife. He assured ex• Governor
Rummels, of Mississippi, that once when he was with the

Tonkawas th,•y kilktl a Comanche «•nrrior an

him. They offered him a piece of the arm, which he had
the curiosity to taste, and found it tender and platabl,.
A. Montana Riper gays " the mortality of Helena
is extraordinarily goad. Only 17 mon were killed during
the past two weeks." A healthy, peaceable community,

surely! •
A machinist connected with one of the Boston
theatres has invented an arrangement by which stage car-
pets may be remo Q-ed without the intrusion of untidy-look-
ing supernumeraries in front of the curtain. A wire at
the prompter's desk is made to reverse the hooks upon
which the carpet is fastened, near the footlights, and thus
release it, when it may to pulled in from behind.
According to Prof. Felton, the Grecians prac-
tised the following method of detecting adulteration in
milk : A little milk was dropped upon the thumb nail ;
if the milk was pure it would remain in its place ; if not it,
would flow away." A useful hint for housekeepers."

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

(From the Registrar-General's Return.)
In the week that ended on Saturday, May 18,
he births registered in London and 12 other large

,own 3 of the United Kingdom were 4,684 ; the

deaths registered, 2,623. The annual rate of mor-
tality was 22 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 1,165 boys and 1,098

girls, in all 2,263 children, were registered in the
week. In thecorresponding weeks of 10 years 1857-
66, the average number, corrected for increase of

population, id 2,005.
The deaths register&. in London during the week
were 1,119. It was the twentieth week of the
year, and the average number of deaths for the
week is, with a correction for increase of population,
1,312. The deaths in the present return are less by
193 than the estimated number.

The mortality in the metropolis was lower last
week than in any week since that which ended on

the 19th July, 1862, when 1,111 deaths were regis-

The deaths from zymotic diseases last week were

197, the corrected average number being 310.
Thirty-eight deaths from smallpox,ls from measles,
12 from scarlatina, 38 from whooping-cough, 37
from typhus, and 17 from diarrhoea were recorded.
The deaths from phthisis were 174, from bron-
chitis 85, from pneumonia 45, and from diseases of
the heart 53.

A labourer, aged 25 years, died in the Greai
Northern Hospital on the 7th of May of " conges

tion of the brain from sunstroke."
The deaths of five persons who were killed by
horses or carriages in the streets were registered.
--The son of a brushmaker, aged seven years, run
over; died on the 18th of May, at 18, Waterloo-
street, City-road. Post-mortem. (Inquest.) The
son of a washerwoman, aged five years, run over ;
died on the 11th of May in High-street, Whitechapel.
(Inquest.) A brewer's servant, aged 29 years, run
over; died on the 15th of May in the London Hos-
pital. (Inquest.) The son of a greengrocer, aged
15 years, run over by a water-cart on the 16th of
May, at Red Post-hill, Camberwell. (Inquest.)
A carver and gilder, aged 62 years, run over by
a cab; died on the 12th of May, in the Charing-
cross Hospital. Post-mortem. (Inquest.)
The annual rate of mortality last week was 19 per
1,000 in London, 33 in Edinburgh, and 31
in Dublin, 17 in Bristol, 21 in Birmingham,
25 in Liverpool, 29 in Manchester, 25 in Sal-
ford, 18 in Sheffield, 24 in Leeds, 22 in Hull, 30
in Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
and 25 in Glasgow. The
rate in Vienna was 37 per 1,000 during the week
ending the 11th inst., when the mean temperature
was 5:7 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same
week in London, where the rate was 21.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.697 in.
The barometrical reading increased from 29.22 in.
on Sunday, May 12, to 29.98 in. on Friday, May
17. The mean temperature of the air in the
week was 46.8 deg., which is 5.2 deg. below
the average of the same week in 50 years (as de-
termined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day
temperature was 63 deg. on Saturday, May 18.
The lowest night temperature was 34.9 deg. also on
Saturday, May 18. The entire range of temperature
in the week was, therefore, 28.1 deg. The mean of
the highest temperature of the water of the Thames
was 56.9 deg. ; that of the lowest was 55 deg.
The difference between the mean-dew point tempe-
rature and air temperature was 7.5 deg. The
mean degree of humidity of the air was 75, com-
plete saturation being represented by 100. Rain
fell to the amount of 0.12 in., of which 0-11 in. fell
on Sunday, May 12. The general direction of the
wind was N.E. According to a return furnished
by the engineer of the Metropolitan Board of
Works, the average daily quantity of sewage
pumped into the river Thames at the Southern
Outfall Works, Crossness, was 53,126,806 gallons,
or 250,475 cubic metres, equivalent to about as
nany tons by weight.

frightfully depressed securities than in any others
on the Stock Exchange. There can be no perma-
nant improvement until the public begin again to
invest. The dealers on the Stock Exchange cannot
buy shares unleSs the opportunity occurs of selling
at a margin of profit. When all are sellers, prices
not only fall, but shares become unnegocia-
ble. The question is one simply of demand on the
part of bona
.fide investors, for " bears" and " bulls"
can make no market whatever, moving merely in
advance of the general public. Although a rapid
rise might catzh many " bears" with outstanding
sales, the dealers on the Stock Exchange would be
delighted to see a revival of confidence, which
would bring with it a return of hilliness. It is a
mistake to suppose that prices are made by Capel
Court. They are male by the public and only
officially announced through means of the Ex-
change. The jobbers, who have very little to
do with it, are often blamed for depressing securi-
ties over which they have, in truth, no control.—
Anglo-American Times.