The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1860.

SOUTH WALES IN AUTUMN

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CITY BETTING—LAST NIGIT.
GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES.
10 to 1 agst Chere Amie (taken and offered)
12 to 1 agst Gladiolus (taken and offered)
14 to 1 agst Bogle Hill (taken)
15 to 1 agst Feodorowna (taken and offered)
ST. LEGER.
3to 1 agst Thormanby (taken)
7to 2 agst The Wizard (taken and offered)
sto 1 agst Sabreur (offered)
Bto 1 agst Umpire (taken)
Bto 1 agst St. Albans (taken)
14 to 1 agst Sweetsauce (offered)
33 to 1 agst High Treason (take 40 to 1)
33 to 1 agst Buccaneer (take 40 to 1)
GO to 1 agst Horror (taken and offered)
100 to 1 agst Tom Bowline (offered)

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-FRIDAY.

The betting to-day was marked more by nuinerous horses
being introduced for the Yorkshire Handicap than eaten •
sive outlays of money, and speculation on the St. Leger
showed no material change upon the quatations returned
from Derby yesterday. 3to 1 was currently offered against
Thormanby, the Wizard was in great demand at 4 to 1, and
7 to 1 was taken to £5O about St. Albans; but those odds
were offered up to the close against him. 6to 1 would have
been taken to money about Sabreur. Wagering upon the
whole was very limited, and the following were the closing
prices :

ST. LEGER.
3to 1 agst Thormanby (offered)
7to 2 agst The Wizard (take 4to 1 freely)
11 to 2 agst Sabreur (take 6to 1)
7to 1 agst St. Albans (taken and offered)
15 to 2 agst Umpire (taken)
11 to 1 agst Sweetsauce (offered)
100 to 1 agst Cape Flyaway (offered)
100 to 1 agst Sir William (taken)

YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
100 to 8 agst Conscript (taken)
100 to 8 agst Chere Arnie (taken)
100 to 8 agst Gladiolus (taken)
100 to 7 agst Adam Bede (taken)
100 to 7 agst Moorhen (taken)
100 to 6 agst Bogle Hill (taken)
20 to 1 agst Feodorowna (taken)
20 to 1 agst Starke (taken)
20 to 1 agst Miss Digby (offered)
25 to 1 agst Hepatica (taken)
100 to 3 agst Moorcock (offered)
5C to 1 agst Greek (offered)

ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM RACES.
FRIDAY.

The Nursery Stakes of 40 sous, for two-yr-olds. Three-
quarters of a mile. 11 subs.

Mr. Baker's Wee Polly, 7st 91b (G. Reeves) 1
Mr. Formby's f by Wild Dayrell—Blemish, 7st 121 b
(G. Fordham) 2
Mr. Gulliver's Necromancer, Bst 71b (Sadler) 3
The following also ran :—Caprice, Fisherman, Rap-
ture, Nut filly, and Memzie.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Blemish filly, 3to 1 each agst Necro-
mancer and Wee Polly,
Won by two lengths; half a length between the second
and third.

The winner was objected to on the ground that she was
not entered in time, and the stakes are for the present with
held.

The Members' Plate (Handicap) of 50 sovs. One mile.
Mr. J. Clark's Rara Avis, 4 yrs, 7st 51b (W. Bottom) 1
Mr. Pallett's The Gem, 4 yrs, 7st 31b (in. 71b extra)
(A. Sadler) 2
Mr. Hoof's Remunerator, 4 yrs, 7st 51b (car. 7st 71b)
(Fordham) 3
Mr. Pallett's Dispute, 5 yrs, 7st 71b (J. Page) 4
Betting-2 to ]on The Gem, 7to 2 agst Remunerator, 6
to 1 agst Rara Avis.
Won by a neck ; a bad third.
The Medway (Selling) Stakes of 25 sovs, added to a sweep-
stakes of 3 sovs each. Optional selling weights, &e.

Half a mile. 6 subs.
Mr, Land's The Gentle, 3 yrs, £6O, Bst 81b (Nightingail) 1
Mr. C. Pormby's cby Boiario—Phingari, 2 yrs, £4O,
6st 21b
Mr. T. Lennard's Memzie, 2 yrs, £2O, sst 71b
(W. Johnson) 3
The following also ran :—Carlotta, Contention, Diploma
filly, sister to Electric, and Smut.
Betting--2 to 1 agst The Gentle, 3 to 1 agst the Phin-
gari colt, 7 to 1 each agst Carlotta and Contention.
Won by three lengths; two lengths between the second
and third.

The winner was sold to Mr. Ward for 63 guineas.
The Kent Stakes of 10 soya each, h ft, with 70 added.
Two miles. 29 subs, 12 of whom pay 2 sovs each.

Lord Portsmouth's Tame Deer, aged, 7st 131 b (inc. 71b
ex., car. sst) (J. Goater) 1
Mr. Charles's Gibraltar, 4 yrs, sst 101 b (J. Daley) 2
Mr. Hughes's Winkfield, aged, Est 31b (Mitchell) 3
Killigrew and Heiress also ran.
Betting-6 to 4on Tame Deer, 7to 2 agst Gibraltar, 6to
1 agst Heiress.
Won by two lengths ; a bad third.

handicap Sweepstakes of 3 sous each, with 20 added;

winners extra. One mile. 9 subs.

Mr. Rigby's Royal Sovereign, 5 yrs, Bst 71b (Fordham) 1
Mr. Mortimer's Stanley, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b .... (A.. Sadler) 2
Capt. Marshall's Fanscombe, 3 yrs, sst 121 b.. (Mitchell) 3
The following also ran :—Marwell, Carlotta, Kitty King-
ston, Lord Milton, and Wee Polly.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Royal Sovereign, 2to 1 agst Kitty
Kingston, 6 to 1 agst any other.
Won by three lengths ; a bad third.

Handicap Hurdle Race of 20 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes
of 5 soya each. Heats, two miles, over six flights of
hurdles. 10 sovs.

Mr. Egginton's Dove, 4 yrs, lOst (in. 51b extra)
(A Sadler) 1 1
Mr. James's Egbert, 3 yrs, 9et (Nightingall) 2 2
Mr. Barling's Gourd, 5 yrs, 9st 81b (Eatwell) 3 dis.
Betting—First Heat-5 to 4on Gourd, 6to 4 agst
Egbert.
Won by two lengths; the same between the second and
third.

Second Heat-6 to 4on Dove.
Won by 30 lengths ; Gourd bolted.

LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.

ST. LEGER.
100 to 30 agst Thormanby (taken)
4to 1 agst Wizard (taken)
sto 1 agst Sabreur (offered)
7to 1 agst St. Albans (taken and offered)
Bto 1 agst Umpire (offered)

DONCASTER HANDICAP.
14 to 1 agst Miss Digby
14 to 1 agst Bogle Hill
100 to 6 agst Conscript
100 to 5 agst Starke

KELSO RACES-FRIDAY

Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 added ; two year olds,
7st ; three, Sat 71b ; f and g allowed 31b. Three-quar-
ters of a mile.

Mr. Sharpe's Nelia 2 yrs
Mr. Sharpe's Lamlander, 2 yrs

Ranee and Miss Longley also ran.

Betting-5 to 4on Nelia, and 2to 1 agst Ranee.--Won
by two lengths.
The Border Handicap of 10 sovs each, h ft and 3 only if de-

clared with 60 added. Iwo miles. .
Mr. Jackson's Syr nge 3 yrs, 7st (Madden) 1
Mr. Hunt's Moorcock, 4 yrs, Bst llb (Challoner) 2

Sweetbriar and Julia also ran.

Betting-7 to 4 agst Moorcock, 2to 1 agst Syringe, and
3to 1 agst Sweetbriar. Won by three lengths. Sweetbrier
did not pass the post, and Julia bolted.
The Innkeeper's Plate of 30 soya added to a sweepstakes of

2 sovs each. Once round and a distance.
Mr. Johnston's Bella Donna, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b Madden)( 1
Mr. Oliver's Gammon, 5 yrs, 9st Sib (Bunting) 2
Mr. Heppel's Certainty, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b.... (J Snowden) 3
The following also ran :—Just in Time, Sims Reeves, and
Mutiny.

Betting-5 to 4 agst Gammon, 6to 4 agst Bella Donna,
and sto 1 agst any other. Won by half a length ; a length
between the second and third. •

The Welter Cup of 50 sovs added to a handicap sweepstakes

of 5 sous each. One mile and three-quarters.

Mr. Carter's The Alderman, 5 yrs, list • (Bates) 1
Mr. Jackson's Spiteful Dick, aged, 12st 21b (Mr. Donkin) 2
Mr. Bruere's Dilkoosh, 5 yrs, 12st 71b
(Mr. G. S. Thompson) 3
- - - - - - -

The following also ran :—lrish Emigrant, Laird o' crud
hoe, Benvoirlich, The Friar, Coup de Main, and Aibone.
Betting-5 to 4on Dilkoosh, 7to 2 agst Irish Emigrant,
7 to 1 agst The Alderman, and 10 to 1 agst Spiteful Dick.
Won by a neck; the same distance between second and
third ; and a head between the third and fourth.
The Beaumont Cup of 50 soya. One miles and three-
quarters.

Mr. Brown na View Halloo, 4 yrs, Bst 911) (Waddington) 1
Mr. Sharpe's Dewdrop, 4 yrs, Bst 9lb ..... (Basham,) 2
No betting.---Won by a short head.

THE MALTON MEETING,
The Malton Handicap of 10 am each, h ft, and only 2 if

declared (the latter to the ft
Scptmber, with 100 sovs ac
stake, and the winner to pat
winner of any handicap, val
are declared to carry 51b, of
200 sovs, 81bs extra. One
Age st lb
Gladiolus
Dilkoosh
Volatile
Flash in the Pan 4 7 8
Prince of Denmark 5 7 8
Petra
The hap .... 3 7 6
Brown Holland.... 4 7 4
Sparrow Hawk. , 3 7 4
Syringe
Viatka 3 7 0
Hegira
Arist ()ileums 4 7 0
Donner and Blitz 3 6 13
Weights declared on Tai

Ind) on or before the 11th of
[tied. The second to save his

y2O sous towards expenses. A
iue 50 so`ts, after the weights
two, or of a handicap value
mile and a half.

Age st lb
Springwell 3 6 13
Upperhani 3 6 12
The Prophet 3 6 12
Edmund Kean 3 6 8
Golden Pippin 3 6 8
Walkington
Ma Ipas
Greta
Secret Treasure.... 4 6 6
Millionaire 3 6 4
Professor Dick 3 6 2
Cambondo 3 6 0
Prologue

sday, Sept. 4, at 9 a.m.

SIR J. COLERrDGE ON PUBLIC

BCIIOOLS,

The Right Hon. Sir J. Coleridge delivered a
lecture at Tiverton, on Tuesday, on " Public
Schools." Mr. J. H. Amory presided.
The LECTURER said that education for many
years had much engaged his mind. He had felt the
deepest anxiety for the spread and improvement of
it among all classes. The wants of the country and
the circumstances of the times, he believed, made
the call for its extension and improvement more ur-
gent. He had said before, and he repeated it now,
because he was convinced of the truth of it, that the
irresistible tendency of the times was not so much
to increase education as to bring into activity the
political power of what were called the lower classes
of the country. This was so marked a tendency, it
was so regular in its advance, so vigorous in its
springs of action, that it could not be overlooked.
It therefore became their duty to strive to make the
classes in question fit to exercise the functions cast
upon them. Again, in order for the other classes to
preserve their places in society, they must be dili-
gent in their own education. It would not do to rest
upon tradition or upon To ivilege, for if they still de-
sired to lead they must make themselves fit to be
leaders. They must strike out with the most skilful
swimmers in the race. While all around the under-
wood of the forest were making shoots, their own
growth must not be neglected, lest they were over-
grown. (Hear, hear.) Let them feel no dismay, for
the stream which might overwhelm if they at-
tempted to stop it would become a source of abun-
dant blessing if they directed its course aright ;
but the ability to do so could only come by diligent
self-culture. The greater public schools of the coun-
ty were more especially the subject of his lecture,
but as he had abandoned the idea of including the
Universities, so he should confine his remarks and
illustrations principally to Eton—not merely be-
cause he knew more about it than any other, but
partly because he conceived, from its size and com-
position, it was at once the most important and
complete of its class. He avowed his filial fondness
for Eton. He looked back to the days spent be-
neath her shade with gratitude, which increased
with years, and which would endure to the close of
life. He was not blind to her faults, of which be
should speak with freedom and impartiality. With
regard to Winchester, Harrow, Rugby, and others,
their merits were well and widely known, and they
had reason to be proud of their distinction. Trac-
ing the origin of Eton to henry IV., and giving
an elaborate sketch of the history and character of
the school, the right hon. gentleman said that Eton
and her fellow-institutions had ever fulfilled, and
were still fulfilling, their glorious mission ; adapt-
ing themselves in form to the changing manners of
the times, but always preserving their identity and
spirit. (Cheers.) Every educational institution
had its idea—that which, so long as it was con-
sistently carried out, influenced all its details.
The idea of Eton was the union of liberty of action
and independence of thought in the boy with that
maintenance of discipline and subordination with-
out which no school could exist, much less the
scholars maintain progress in learning. Many of
the schools seemed to have their idea founded upon
the problem, how much of restraint and discipline
was consistent with the maintenance of the vigour
of the intellect and the warmth of the heart. Boys
were trained to walk regularly rather than to fly
high or far. Safety for all was sought rather than
excellence for many. These principles, however,
admitted of qualification. Each school, perhaps
had its merits, and England had room for all. The
judicious parent would select a school according to
his son's peculiar disposition, intellect, and circum-
stances, for

"The child is father of the man."

There was, it must be admitted, for many children,
danger in the Eton system. Even with men,
liberty often trembled on the edge of license, and
it required great firmness, discretion, and skill so
to govern a school on this principle as to maintain
constant regularity, obedience, and willing appli-
cation of the mind. The tendency of the Eton
system was to make a boy generous and firm-
minded, to teach him to exercise his common sense
and feel his responsibility, and to make him act
under the influence of generous shame and emula-
tion,—in short, to make him a manly boy, trust-
ing because he was trusted. (Cheers.) This was a
favourable pieture of the tendency of the system.
Many might fail to be influenced by it, but these
were its natural results. The traditions of an an-
cient school had great influence upon the working
out of its ideas ; and the Eton traditions were fa-
vourable to these results. Et3n boys loved their
school while there, and would leave happy homes
to return to it with none of the usual schoolboys'
regret. They were often idle, noisy, and not proof
against temptation—they might desire, but could
not easy make their boys faultless ; but there were
many faults from which an Etonian was free, in
part, at least, because he was an Etonian. After be-
stowing gencial and high praise on the system of
teaching adopted at Eton the lecturer said, it had
been commonly remarked that Eton boys did not
bring to the University and to the competitive ex-
amination that sound knowledge of the mathematics
which Eton professed to teach, and the suspicion
got about that there was a want of reality in ma-
thematical teaching. It was, however, said that
within a few years a great apparent change had
been made, but without corresponding results, as
tested in the Universities and elsewhere. This was
much to be lamented, if true, for if there was one
principle more sacred in schools than another it was
that nothing should be professed more than was
performed, and that what was taught should be
taught well. Was the other department of teach-
ing sacrificed to this ? He believed not, and yet the
scholarship of the pupils appeared to him to be be-
low what it had been, and the composition less ac-
curate. Perhaps he spoke with the prejudice of old
age, and he should not trust his own opinion, but he
spoke the opinion of those who examined the boys
for the Newcastle scholarship. He did not say that
the best boys were inferior in the knowledge of
metres, but they did not appear to grasp the ideas of
the great writers as good Eton scholars used to do,
and in composition they showed less orthe manliness
and simplicity of the great classical masters, and too
much of Italian conceit and false brilliance. Scholars
could distinguish what he spoke of ; Lucretius
would not have been ashamed of Dr. Ideates' poem
on the " In mortality of the Soul," and Virgil
would have admired the verses of the Bishop of
Lichfield. Some might smile, perhaps, and think
he attached too much importance to these things,
but they indicated a less perfect command of ie
language. He did not think this was the result of
too much attention devoted to other studies. The
boys used to be incited to exertion by the honours
they might gain, and the honours for competition
were sent up for " good" and for " play" in the sixth
form. The head-master read them aloud to the,
assembled class in the former instance, and the send-
ing up of a good exercise was the condition upon
which the half-holyday depended. By modern
practice, however, he thought these honours had
been made much too cheap—too much the reward
of good behaviour rather than of good composition ;
and the boys were content to reach the standard.
He thought, too, that the number of prizes and exa-
minations was excessive, and tended to distract boys
from regular application. These prizes, however,
were useful as testing results, and were most satis-
factory when they were preceded by no specious
training of the lads. With reference to the sports,
he had watched the cricketing, boating, and drilling
of the boys with increasing interest as some indica-
tion of the general well being of the school. (Cheers.)
It was a bad time for the study of the school when
the st.orts languished. There was, he was glad to say,
marked improvements in the religious tramingof the
school, in the knowledge of the Scriptures and eccle-
siastical history, which was in some degree owir.g to
the Newcastle scholarship, the influence of which
had extended throughout the school, even to those
who might never be in a condition to compete for
the prize. On the subject of parental influence, the
right hon. gentleman said that some parents ex-
pected everything good and great from their boys
through the instrumentality of public schools, for•
getting howmany other agencies operated upon them
and doing nothing themselves to aid in the production

of the virtues they desired. Some deliberately and al-
most avowedly disregarded the studies of the schools,
rather leading their sons to consider that their first
objects were the formation of good connexions for
after life, and the acquisition of good manners.
The boys, in such cases, were the victims of bad
homes rather than bad schools. The sons of such
parents were very injurious to schools, and it was
the duty of masters to give such boys ample warn-
ing and trial, but if these failed to send them away,
as one would send away an infectious patient, as
kindly as might be, and with as little disgrace as
possible, so that the removal might not fail to pro-
duce a good effect upon the school, while it could
not injure the boy himself, but might do him good.
There was great wisdom in the maxim, " Learn or
depart." In conclusion, he said the public schools
of England had a powerful influence on the Eng-
lish character. To have been together at Eton,
Harrow, Winchester, or Rugby was a tie for life ;
and to have been friends there was a charm which
made the holiest friendship more holy. Even to
have been in the same school, the same class, and
the same chapel was a link which bound together
old and young, great and humble, soldier and
civilian, and made personal strangers at once
familiar by common associations. (Cheers.) And
so Wellesley, the stately and puissant governor of
millions, and Charles Metcalfe, a boy from Eton,
commencing his course in life, met first on the
banks of the Hooghley, and felt themselves the
sons of the same mother. A feeling such as this
operated on the character, and it spread so widely
and deeply as to leaven the mass. But this was
not all—for the education itself was of a kind to
favour the growth of certain qualities. Of course
a strong and uncongenial nature might overpower
it, but it tended in itself, with a silent force, to
make men ready to oblige, affable, and self-reliant ;
it helped to the development of common sense and
dexterity in the ordinary concerns of life; to make
men cheerful in retirement, agreeable in society, no
less than to bear their parts gallantly and cleverly
in the tumult and conflicts of publio life. In a
word, it fostered that assemblage of qualities
which, combined with the higher ones of integrity
and goodness, constituted the accomplished gentle-
man. His last words then were—Este perpettla.
(Cheers.)
A cordial vote of thanks was accorded to the
right hon. gentleman C. the close of his lecture.