The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-12 00:00:00

no answer. Joe Tomlin and Charles Christian they
stood close against Twyford Brook ; I got well over
that. Then we had some rails, such stiff uns !
Clasher hits them with all four legs, and chucked
the Squire right on to his neck ; Clinker took 'em
like a bird. We were each in a mess then ; the
Squire he lands in a bog, and his horse makes
a dead stop, it did take a deal out of

him ; then I jumps right into a dung
heap, up to Clinker's knees : we had no manner
of idea the things were there. Going up John
o' Gaunt's field we were together, but I turns to
get some rails in the corner, he was such a good one
.
at rails was Clinker ; I thought he was winning, but
decry me, down he comes at the last fence, dead
beat.weorgle:
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going Horncastle Fair. Theyf me minutes, and then
b:
the horse looked in no
manner of form, as round as a hoop for all the
held Clasher up, and they flung water iu his face,
and he won in the last hundred yards from superior
training, and that's the honest truth. Many didn't
like Clinker, but I never got on so good a steeple-
chaser. I'll tell you one though that was bet-
ter, that's Cottingham ; I won the Grantham Steeple
Chase on him, and Mr. Greene bought in fo- 200
guineas. How hard " the Squire" did ride that
match day to be sure ! I went up to call on him
one afternoon at St. John's Wood, and he pointed
to that picture of the finish, hanging up just oppo-
site the fire-place, and he says to me—" Dick, that
Clasher and Clinker day beat me a deal more than
the 200 miles." He was at his horse all the way.
_Here is another sketch from a later " lecture" of
Dick Christian, which is to be found in Silk and
Scarlet :
The Squire was the oddest man you ever saw at
a cover-side. He would talk for an hour ; then
he would half-draw, and talk again, and
often blew his horn when there was no manner of
occasion—always so chaffy. The whips mostly
drew the cover, while he was talking. Very keen
of the sport though; sometimes have two packs out
in one day : get away with his fox like a shot. Af-
ter that second leg business, he was a bit nervous
in a crowd ; he wanted a wide berth. At a fence
it would be, "Now it's my turn—don't press." If
he could get well clear of them he went like a bird.
He was a rare match-rider across country. I never
see a better at that game.
In Baily's Magazine for the current month is a
notice of the Squire's death, from which we borrow
the graphic description of him as "a little, short,
square, dumpy man, with a shrunk-up figure,
round shoulders, and limping gait, with battered
features and teeth all set wrong." The Squire
beat Time at Newmarket, but Time had his re-
venge in London. Perhaps the most obvious re-
mark upon his career is that which we made on the
occasion of the death of his comrade of old days
in Leicestershire, Captain White—that it is almost
incomprehensible how a man of such adventurous
spirit could be content with fox-hunting in England
between the years 1805-15. The career of Dick
Christian is intelligible, for he might have served his
country through the French war and never have
risen higher than to be a sergeant of dragoons ;
whereas, in his capacity of rough-rider to many
noble lords and gentlemen, he had no reason to
complain of being kept in the " cold shade." There
arc the men who go into the army and find oppor-
tunities, there are the men who go and do not find
them, and there are the men who prefer fox-hunt-
ing at home. As in each of these three classes there
are many men of nearly equal merit, an English
Sovereign may venture to say on the death of almost
any one of her subjects-
-1 trust I have within this realm
Five hundred as good as he.
But the Squire's place cannot possibly be filled. He
was the greatest of a great generation of sportsmen,
and he was the last. It is true that he was not what
is called an intellectual man, and just now we have
been desired to take notice how intellect has tri-
umphed over courage and bodily vigour, combined
with a little stupidity, in Bohemia. But, neverthe-
less, when it comes to making soldiers, Mr. Osbal-
deston and Dick Christian' the master of hounds
and roughrider, would not be a bad sort of stuff to
to work with.

The International Wortmen's Congress

in Geneva.

The principal question discussed at the meeting of the
Congress, on Thursday last, was the comparative merit of
the means adopted in England, France, and Germany for
maintaining the rate of wages. Mr. Laurence from Eng-
land, was of opinion that the Association should supply
the working men of each country with the state of the
labour market in other countries, with a view of disabling
masters from imposing their own terms on the m©n by the
importation of foreign workmen. A tailors' strike took
place in Edinburgh in 1859, and in consequence of the
importation of journeymen tailors from Germany the
Scotch tailors had to yield. The German tailors were
then dismissed, and had to endure all the distresses of
exile. M. Miral, from Paris, supported the proposition
of Mr. Laurence. M. Coullery, a juge de pair, thought
that the causes of the antagonism between labour and
capital should be investigated. Tho chief of these causes
was the concentration of capital in the hands of a few
persons ; it was necessary, therefore,' to decentralise
capital, and the Association should promote this end by
favouring savings banks, which would prevent the savings
of labour from going to swell the profits of capitalists, and
enable workmen to establish societies of production and
consumption. The general object of co-operative societies
was to make the workman a capitalist by means of labour,
economy, mutual aid, and morality. No opponent would be
met on that road, and the end would be gained without vie-
lence and injustice.—M. Dupont, a deputy from Paris, ob-
served that co-operation was, perhaps, a good method for
emancipating labour; but there was something more pressing
and more general for the Association to accomplish, and that
waste draw up a statistical account of the state of the labourer
in each country, and to publish that account regularly. In I
England strikes wore much more numerous than on the
continent, and this was caused by the legislation which
placed the workman at the.mercy of the master. It was
above all things necessary that the workman of each coun-
try should bo acquainted with what was going on elsewhere.
M. Tolain, also from Paris, said that in consequence of
the state of the law in England, and the immense power
of the capitalists, all the efforts of the working man to
emancipate himself consisted in defensive organisation
and resistance by means of strikes. Things wore different
in France, and the working men of that country expected
more from association. Mr. Cramer (London) cited facts
to show that the English masters succeeded against their
workmen by the importation of foreigners, or the threat
thereof. The evil existed in the comparatively low wages
on the continent. The English workmen, theref,?re, in
their own interest, should endeavour to brig
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tween masters and man; and the former, seeing the power
that was opposed to them, were generally anxious to come
to an arrangement. M. Chemolet (Paris) said that a strike
was a vicious circle. It was as injurious to the men as to
the masters. It procured a rise of wages to-day, to fall
perhaps to-morrow. A strike was a last resort, but it was
not a real and durable principle of amelioration. What
was wanting was to suppress the principle of wages alto-
gether by means of association and co-operation. The
Congress finally adopted the following proposition :
" While admitting that in the actual state of industry,
which is a state of w-,r, workmen ought to lend aid to one
another for the defence of their wages, the Congress de-
clares that there is a higher object to be attained—the sup-
pression of the wage principle, and recommends the study
and practice of economical processes based on justice and
reciprocity." Other questions discussed in the Congress
were" The Reduction of the hours of Labour, "The Em-
ployment of Women and Children in Manufactories and
Workshops," and " Professional education." On the first