The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-29 00:00:00

THE JOCKEY CLUB.

A general meeting of the Jockey Club was held at New-
market on Wednesday in the Houghton Meeting, present :
—Mr. Craven, Admiral Rous, Duke of Beaufort (stpwards),
Lord Annesley, Mr. Bartle, Count Batthyany, Mr. Chaplin,
Lord Falmouth, Colonel Forester, Marquis of Hastings,
Sir Joseph llawley, Captain Lane, Mr. Lowther, Mr.
Payne, Baron Rothschild, Mr. Saville, Lord Westmorland,
Lord Wiuchilsea.
The notice as to dates of the Newmarket Meetings, 1867,
published in the last Calendar, having been read, it was
recommended by the stewards, and unanimously resolved :
—That on account of Easter falling so late, the Craven
Meeting, 1867, shall be brought forward a fortnight, and
commence on Monday, April 8." The Newmarket Meet-
ings, 1867, will therefore take place as follows:—
Craven Meeting, April 8 First Oct. Meeting, Sept. 24
FirstSpringMeeting,Apl.22 Second Oct. Meeting, Oct.
July Meeting, July 2 Houghton Meeting, Oct. 21
It was resolved by a large majority to improve the stand
at the end of the flat by adding a room on the first floor,
with a roof on the present plan over it.

THE NATIONAL HUNT.

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were elected as gentlemen riders : —Mr. David
Pringle, Mr. C. 0. Wodehouse.
The following additions to the Grand National Steeple-
chase rules were agreed to :
To add to rule XI. the following words:—" until it has
been duly registered in the book of Steeple-chases past."
To add to Rule XIII. :—" and in all minor handicaps
where there is any forfeit, and the highest weight left in by
4 p.m. the day before running is under 12st 71b, it shall
be raised to that weight, and the others in proportion."
Rule XIX. When the qualification of any horse is ob-
jected to before starting for the race he is engaged in, the
owner must produce proof of his qualification to the
stewards or clerk of the course, and if the owner shall
start his horse without so doing, the prize shall be with-
held for a period, to be fixed on by the stewards, at the ex-
piration of which time, if the qualification be not proved
to the satisfaction of the stewards, he shall not be entitled
to the prize though his horse should have come in first
but it shall be given to the owner of the second horse.
When the qualification of a horse is objected to after the
race, the person making the objection must prove the dis-
qualification. The objector shall at the time he makes
his objection deposit in the hands of the clerk of the
course the sum of 5 sovs, which shall be returned if the
stewards decide the objection to be simply valid orinvalid;
but if their decision shall be that the objection is frivolous
or vexatious, the money shall be forfeited to the Bentinck
Fund.

(Signed) W. G. CRAVEN.
BEAUFORT
GREY DE WILTON, I Members of the
C. H. CAREW, }- Grand National
B. J. ANGELL, i Hunt Committee.
WESTMORLAND 1
H. COVENTRY

The Committee recommend that clerks of courses should
write to each of their appointed stewards, seven clear days
before each meeting, requesting their attendance, or the
appointment of substitutes to act as stewards, should they
themselves be unable to attend.

IMPATIENT HEARERS.—One Sabbath morning
the Rev. Richard Watson, when engaged in preaching, had
not proceeded far in the discourse when he observed
an
individual in a pew just before him rise from his seat, and
turn round to look at the clock in front of the gallery, as ,
if the service were a weariness to him.
This unseemly
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s t aken
act called forth the following rebuke lace among the
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change," said the speaker, ha
people of this country in regard to the public service of
"
t be too late in
of theirplaces of worship that they mightno
religion. Our forefathers put their clocks
on the outside
their attendance. We have
should stay too ransferred them to
long in the
the inside
of the house of God, lest 1,70
service. A sad and an ominous change ! "
IGNORANCE AND RICIIES.—The great danger
which vto as a people are to fear is from ignorance and
riches. There is no other nation in which ignorance is
so dangerous as it is in the United States. There is no
other nation whose stability is so dependent upon the direct
co-operation of the popular will. There is. no nation,
1 i c
therefore, whose salvation demands that, as an insurance
and the whole economy
national
life.
i
of intelligence,
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ag nation
ene,
are
policy, the common people should be educated. Schools,
boobs,
indispensable
newspapers,
vitalisers
o f
where men are intelligent, riches are shorn
their danger ; but in a nation where of much of
riches are despotic. Tno element here is men are ignorant
power of dominion as capital. that has such
horizon of And han •
the future I see the hanging upon the
and misrule, which shallcall possibilities of despotism
correc-
tives, as theresult for the severest
. of the misuse penal
affairs. The great national leverage;of wealth in political
b instrument of progress and civilisation the great material
y which God developer the lower ; the great element
and civic virtue—this becomes, form of moral culture
capable of being despotic and by the perversion of men,
and national peace. The r destructive of natioual purity
in our time to inculcate, agndeattruths then which we need
about which we should, if pos-
sible, raise up an enthusiasm,
duties of wealth.— are education and the moral
Watchman and Reflector.