The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1866.

out, because they could not supply the rolling stock
for carrying the material. He found they had not
commenced either the corn or cattle traffic, and up
to this time it had not been commenced. He at once
took upon himself the responsibility of ordering such
an amount of rolling stock as would place the railway
in a position to earn its dividends. The rolling stock
and sidings he thus ordered exceeded £750,000 ;
and when he told them that in five months they had
paid draughts on England for rolling stock and
sidings exceeding £761,000, they would feel that he
had pressed heavily on the resources of their con-
tractor, Mr. M'lleury, and on the general resources
of the company ; yet he was exercising, as their
chairman, a wise determination—(hear, hear)—be-
cause the amount of receipts for the first six months
of last year compared with those of the last six
months showed that when they had an adequate
amount of rolling stock a very different result was
achieved. Since the Ist of January last 14 new
locomotives had been delivered on the line, and be-
tween 300 and 400 additional trucks and carriages,
or more than 10 per cent. on the amount existing up
to the 31st of December. When he told them that
of the £531,000 per annum earned more than six-
sevenths was earned from their own line, and that
the ability of the company to earn was simply a
question of their means of carrying the traffic, he
thought they would feel he had exercised a very
sound discretion. Pittsburg was the Birmingham
of America. There were the great Government
foundries, and there was located an amount of busi-
ness, in regard to the metal trade, not exceeded in
any city or town in the world, with the exception
of their own Birmingham. This additional link be-
tween their own line and Pittsburg had been under-
taken by another company. They had agreed to
construct it entirely, giving them running powers
over it to Pittsburg ; so they would have it without
cost or responsibility. (Hear, hear.) The enor-
mous importance of getting a communication with
Buffalo completed was evident. They had reserved
the amount necessary for the completion of that line
to Buffalo. Irrespective of that reserve, the con-
struction of the International-bridge, which, after
all, was the measure of the time which must elapse
before they could complete connexion with the
Canadian lines and their systems, was altogether
undertaken by a distinct corporation. That
undertaking was sanctioned both by the Le-
gislature of Canada and by that of America,
inasmuch as the bridge would be one-half
in the territory of the United States and one-half in
that of the province of Canada. The Grand Trunk
Railway of Canada guaranteed that it should re-
ceive, in the shape of tolls from traffic over the
seven miles of connecting lines, an equivalent to
£lO,OOO per annum, and the company guaranteed a
like amount. That structure was now proceeding
as rapidly as possible. Mr. Kennaird's designs for
the superstructure were now in England, and the
Grand Trunk Company had placed them in the
hands of Mr. Fowler to give an opinion on their part.
That bridge, when completed by the end of the
autumn, would place them in connexion with all
those systems which were so important to their future
interests. (Hear.) He had received a great many
letters from proprietors about the certificates of
debentures. He had been asked if an amount of
reserve had been made sufficient to insure their
punctual repayment. The reserves in the Bank of
England, placed there under the original agreement,
were more than sufficient, if those securities were
placed at the present market price, to pay the entire
amount of those certificates of debentures. The
issue of those certificates of debentures was simply
intended as a relief at the time, until the undertak-
ing was sufficiently developed to insure the bonds
and shares being duly appreciated. By the time
those certificates were due, they would find their
receipts and position would be such that the present
market price of their securities, which was enough
to pay off the debentures, would be largely in-
creased, so that holders need have no alarm about
punctual repayment if they then desired it. Another
question was, whether they had enough to complete
the road to Buffalo and all the other engagements.
They had reserved all that APllenry could claim for
finishing the road to Buffalo. The road could be
completed out of the amount reserved, leaving a fair
profit for the contractor, and irrespective of the road
to Buffalo and of the reserve for certificates of
debentures and of the amount yet to issue, they
would have something between £BOO,OOO, and
£1,000,000 applicable to future rolling stock, sid-
ings, and extensions. (Cheers.)
Mr. ROBINSON seconded the motion for the adop-
tion of the report.

Mr. RIDGDALE wished to know how it was that
the Oil Creek line had suddenly disappeared from
their accounts. He believed it was 21 miles in length,
and had cost $BOO,OOO. He wished to know some-
thing about the certificates of debentures. He saw
they had a lease of the Morris Essex Railway. He
was a large holder of bonds, and wished to know
how it was they could now be purchased to pay 30
per cent. interest.
Mr. APHENRY, the contractor, said the Oil Creek
line was 35 miles in length, and when the consoli-
dation of the lines was completed, they reduced the
mileage and capital of the Atlantic and Great Wes-
tern by deducting those of the Oil Creek line.
Mr. YILLEBOISNET remarked that the traffic re-
ceipts for February were one-fifth less than those
for January, and said it did not look like carrying
out the progressive increase of the traffic ; but
perhaps next month the returns would be different.
He did not know how the £2,800,000 was to be ap-
plied. It was represented as being collateral secu-
rity for the sum lodged, and supposed it was in-
cluded in the $43,441,050 of capital expenditure.
Looking at the receipts for traffic in the revenue
account it appeared to him perfectlymarvellous that
so much should have been received in so short a
time. Each quarter exceeded the other in receipts,
and the net profits were most satisfactory.

Major GORDON said he wished, if possible, to know
the cause of the recent depreciation in the price of
the bonds. Ile had been told they were held largely
by the London Joint Stock Discount Company, that
they had been issued at a discount to finance com-
panies, and were now being brought on the market.
Mr. M'IIENRY said the London Joint Stock Dis-
count Company had £41,000 of them, that he had
relieved them of £30,000 of these bonds, and they
had now on their hands only £ll,OOO. The bonds
were not issued at a discount to any finance com-
pany.

The CHAIRMAN, in reply, said that the traffic of
only 24 working days was included in the receipts
for February, and therefore did not represent the
whole traffic. The amount of securities deposited
in the Bank of England was more than sufficient to
pay off the whole of the £2,800,000 debentures, and
irrespective of that there had been provided £700,000
to pay for additional rolling stock and sidings. In
reply to a question he stated that one-half the oil
creek stock was held in America and the rest in Ger-
many. When he went out to America he found that
one gentleman held £85,000 of their debentures and
bonds. The Secretary of the Treasury held $420,000
of them. The Americans had a very good opinion
of the undertaking and held a large amount. He
could not account for the depreciation in the price
of the bonds ; there was none of them held by the
bankers. With regard to the Oil Creek line it Was
entirely out of their hands, but the company had re-
cently completed two railways in the oil district
which would be ample for their purpose. There were
39 oil refiners in Pittsburg, and their only difficulty
was to carry the traffic. They could not carry half
that was offered to them. In reply to a question, lie
stated that Mr. M'llenry had carried out his con-
tracts with the company in a most liberal and satis-
factory manner. The traffic was being developed
to a great extent, and for the last quarter on 490
miles it was so considerable that it would not only
pay the whole of the bondholders their full dividends,
but soon leave 15 per cent. for the ordinary share-
holders.

The report was unanimously adopted, and the best
thanks of the meeting were voted to the chairman
and directors, and to Mr. Mllenry, the contractor,
for their valuable services to the company.

which included a reserve of £923 from last account•
The directors recommended a dividend of 6 per
cent., leaving a balance of £769.
In moving the approval of the report, the CHAIR-
MAN stated that the bill for the amalgamation of the
leasing company, the Scottish North-Eastern, with
the Caledonian would not affect the rights and pre-
ferences of the Arbroath and Forfar shareholders.
The report was unanimously adopted.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALLS'—Last Evening.

CITY AND SUBURBAN.
Bto 1 agst Out-and-Outer (taken)
10 to 1 agst Mephistopheles (taken)

TWO THOUSAND.
Even Lord Lyon (taken)
10 to 1 agst Janitor (taken and offered)

THE DERBY.
6to 1 agat Lord Lyon (taken and wanted)
Bto 1 agst Rustic (taken)
22 to 1 agat Blue Ribaud (taken)
very little betting.

MANCHESTER BETTING-YESTERDAY.
CITY AND SUBURBAN,
10 to lon the field (offered)
11 to 1 agst Delight (taken)
20 to 1 agst Czar (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
100 to 7 agst Harry Brailsford (taken)
15 to 1 agst Dalby (taken)
20 to 1 agst Baragah (taken)
20 to 1 agst Saladin (taken)
20 to 1 agst Sandal (taken)
20 to 1 agst Redcap (taken)
200 to 9 agst Surney (taken)
200 to 9 agst Helen (taken)
25 to 1 agst Treasure Trove (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mephistopheles (taken)
30 to 1 agst Rococo (taken)
TWO THOUSAND.
sto 4 agst Lord Lyon (taken)
10 to 1 agst Janitor (taken)
11 to 1 agst Augusts (taken)
DERBY.
Bto 1 agst Rustic (taken)

NEWMARKET FIRS'

Acceptances for the Prince 6
added to a handicap of 25
and upwards. R.M.
Age st lb
Argonaut ... a 812
Cambuscan ... 5 8 11
Breadalbane 4 8 10
Archimedes 4 8 9
Raglan 6 8 6
Zephyr ... ... 4 8 1
Muezzin... 6 8 1
Broomielaw 4 8 0
Zambesi... 4 8 0
Air. Pitt ... 3 8 0
Don Basilio 4 7 11
The Buck 4 7 7
Vespasian ... 3 7 7
Wedding Peal 4 7 7
Xi 3 7 4
Van dervelde... 5 7 0
Sealskin 3 613
Pintail ... 5 6 12r
Endsleigh ... 4 6.12
Plutus ... 3 6 11
Tourmalin 3 6 10
The Raven .. 3 6 10,

SPRING MEETING.

Wales's Stakes of 200 sovs,
;ovs each, for three-year-olds

Age st lb
Mount Palatine 3 6 9
Salim .. .. 3 6 9
Treachery g 4 6 7
Mossmate ... 3 6 0
Lincoln Green ... 3 6 0
Acttea 3 6 0
Haphazard 3 6 0
Cecrops 3 6 3
Gladiator ... 3 513
Claverhouse 3 5 12
Loughrea ... 3 5 12
Custaloga 3 5 12
Jollity 3 510
Nineveh... 3 5 17
Mrs. Allen .. 3 5 7
Vulture ... 3 5 7
Effervescence ... 3 5 7
Roland ... ... 3 5 7
Heart-breeaker ... 3 5 7
Brahma . . . paid
Crown Prince paid

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGEMENTS.

March 23, at 3.50 p.m.—All Sir Joseph Hawley's
horses out of their engagements in the Craven

Meeting.
March 27, at 9 a.m.—Renfrew, out of all handi-
caps published to date.
March 29, at 9 a.m.—Merry Hart and Sidewind
out of all handicaps to date.
March 29, at 9 a.m.—Crown Prince, out of the
2,000 Guineas, Derby, and all handicaps.
March 29, at 9 a.m.—Brahma, out of Prince of
Wales's Stakes, Newmarket.
March 29, at 9 a.m.—lon, out of Newmarket
handicap.

COLOURS OF RIDERS.-Mr. E. Studd, cerise body,
white belt and cap.
Wolfdog, by Windbound has been sent to the
Mauritius.

KINETON RACES.—The annual races and steeple-
chases at Kinoton are to take place on Friday, April 6.
The stewards are the Hon. W. H. North and G. Wise,
Esq.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866.
APRIL.
Newmarket Craven 2 T h i rsk lO
Durham 2 Epsom Spring
Blackheath & Woolwich 2 Newmarket Ist Spring l6
Catterick Bridge
Abergavenny 5 Chester
Lichfield Spring
Chelmsford Spring
__
__

MAY.

Ascot Spring ..... 1
Salisbury
Bath 8
Harpenden lO
York Spring
JU.

Windsor S ummor

Newton
Hampton 7
Odiham
Bibury l3
Stockbridge
Chelmsford l9

Carlisle
Newmarket July
Pontefract
Abingdon
Reading
Nottingham
Down Royal Corp lB
. ___

AUG

Brighton 7
Brighton Club
Lewes lO
Egham l4
Wolverhampton l4
Stockton l5
Oxford l6
Hastings 2l
SEPT]

Warwick September 4
Curragh 4
Leicester
Doncaster ll
Brecon l7
Canterbury
OCT(

Northampton ............... 2
Newmarket 2d October... 8
Curragh ................... 16

Epsom Summer l5
Uxbridge 2l
Manchester
Ascot Sutumer

Liverpool
Beverley 2O
Ipswich
Hungerford
Newcastle-on-Tyne 26
C urragh 2B
Worcester
,Y.
Stamford l9
Radcliffe 23
Winchester 24
Southampton 25
Huntingdon
Goodwood 3l

York August 2l
Plymouth
Lichfield
Devon and Exeter . .....
Tunbridge 2B
Derby Summer 29
Weymouth 3O

:MBER,
Richmond lB
Hendon 2O
Monmouth
Manchester Autumn 21
Newmarket Ist October 25
, Walsall f 2B
IBER.

Newmarket Houghton 22
Worcester

Lincoln ................. ................... 1
Liverpool .................. 5

The Laws and Practice of Horse Racing.

BY THE HON. ADMIRAL ROUS.

This little book is most characteristic of the Charley
Napier of the Turf. In the very first sensation of the pre-
face he hoists the British flag ; and then, steering his trim
corvette (which has been overhauled from stem to stern)
out of port, he fires a broadside into every suspicious look-
ing craft, very often without stooping even to hail them
and examine their papers.
Brevity is the soul of wit, and half a dozen short chap-
tars comprise " the whole duty of man" on the Turf, be he
breeder, owner, trainer, jockey, or official. Racing philo-
sophy in the abstract comes within the scope of the pre-
fate. Gladiateur is declared judicially to be " the best horse
since the days of Bay Middleton," a position which the
fond admirers of Blair Athol and West Australian may be
disposed to query ; and the sporting press hear the well-
known music of the cannon in the very 4th page. The
first chapter, " On the State of the English Turf in 1865,''
just glances at the great turf sore of the day—viz., " the
docility of horse-owners" who stand in with dishonest les-
sees, and treats at some length of the black mail which is
levied by the managers of meetings small and large. The
former is unfortunately one of those charges which it is
impossible to bring home. A starter pleading for his (offi-
cial) life to the Admiral may divulge his accomplices in
the desperate hope of pardon, but both parties to those un-
hallowed contracts which flourish most especially with the
budding and the fall of the leaf keep their mouths closed,
and it is only when a straightforward owner demands the
whole stake and nothing but the stake, and is met with a
whining request for " only fifty out of it, that's notmuch."
that light comes through a chink. It amounts to certainty,
unless the whole racing world is in a perfect hallucination
on the point, that there are meetings where the stakes are
hardly ever drawn, or, if they are, the money is returned
by arrangement, and that handsome bonuses, given
with an eye to the future, are flying about
at others. Still, like that celebrated Punch who in-
fests a certain large Charity on election days, and holds
mysterious vote selling meetings with red hot partisans in
corners shortly before the poll closes, the actors stand on
their honour when such a thing is breathed, and press their
hands on the region of their heart like the horsey Peck-
sniffs that they are. ,

On the general question of "black mail," the Admiral
quotes "a gentleman of great experience connected with
the press," who undertakes to tell his Father confessor
(whose satisfaction on hearing it must have been at once
grim and edifying) that the press dare not mention the
subject, or they would not have the advertising of the pro-
grammes. It would be most " ill-dispoged" of us to say
that there is "no sich person as Mrs. Harris" on the sport-
ing press. We quite believe there is, and she is, moreover,
capable of taking and acting as she has done. If she will
be the special organ of the Admiral's occasional manifesta-
tions, she must not wonder if some of her tender but gos-
sipping confessions are blurted out to the world. She must,
however, speak strictly for herself. We disclaim all sym-
pathy with brothers or sisters of the Press who dare not
tackle an abuse for fear of a diminution of the Saturday till.
We have had nothing to do with bolstering up Barrys
and MCallums, but have preferred giving them the small
end of our rifle first, and the butt end afterwards, before a
judge and jury, at Guildhall, which is more than Mrs.
Harris dare do for her life. If we do not take Admiral
Rous's view of drawbacks at country meetings, where
lessees run on the square, it is simply because we believe it
to be a most exaggerated one and not in unison with that
of the racing world, which is quite competent to take care
of itself, and quite ready to give "a first warning," and
often no warning at all, if a lessee is too mindful of "num-
ber one." The extortions practised at race towns have
been exposed over and over again to no purpose, and as
Admiral Rous's presence and precepts at his model New-
market have not made the Suffolk cormorants ono whit
better, we can hardly hope for much amendment elsewhere.
Lord Carligan can measure both horse and man pretty well
at anynumber of paces, and his lordship believes that a certain
Newmarket surgeon can give most lodging letters a stone.
If this is done in the green leaf, what shall be done in the
dry?

The fallacy which runs through all the Admiral's argu-
ments,or rather invective; against lessees is that they alone
make a business of racing, and that owners of horses are
doing them such a favour by coming that they should
have their sport for nothing. If racers wore kept purely
for pleasure there might be something in it. Owners may
be so minded, if they ever meet departed Whalebones and
Gohannas in the Elysian Fields, but not while they linger
on this side the Styx. There is no getting over the fact
that racing has gradually become as much a hard British
business as calico manufacturing, and that in Manchester
bets are as regularly passed as sales through the ledger.
Owners no more expect to have race meetings kept up
week after week, at which they may make their bets and
land their "pots," without being subject to some taxation,
than to enjoy their pool or pyramids and not pay for the
table, or to do business with Messrs. Weatherby and not
be charged for what sporting foreigners call "de bureau."
They know too well the enormous outlay and risk which
a lessee runs to grudge him some aid if they win, in the
shape of drawbacks, as well as selling plates and entrances.
He has often to make himself liable for some hundreds in
the shape of addcd money, besides every other expense of
the' course, police, &c., and another meeting set for the
same days or very bad weather may leave him wholly in
the lurch. Racing men are as just-minded upon these
points as they are generous when a case of distress is
brought to their notice ; but if a lessee was found pressing
them too hard he is pretty certain to hear something not to
his advantage when he goes up to them with his red book
in an enclosure or when entry day comes round. If the
owners were asked where the greatest entrance exactions
are practised they would say, nem. con., "Newmarket !"
and point to tho three sovereign entrances to £5O over-
night plates, and the transcendent liberality of the Jockey
Club in giving 200 sous out of their funds to the Cesare-
witch, and at the same time "sacking" the 2 sovs entrance
on the whole of the nominations, of which there were 181
last year. What is.this but receiving nearly double what
is given to be run for ? The mine remarks would apply to
the Newmarket Two Year Old Plate. As to weighing
fees, 10s. is charged for every horse that runs at New-
market, and even if a horse receives forfeit and has not
necessarily to appear, the fee for the scales is still de-
manded. If Ascot is to be the model, why does not New-
market take pattern by the Royal Meeting in these matters ?
Again, a Corporation is said to be like a cherubim in one
respect, that it has nothing tangible to kick, but the Ad-
miral always contrives to give the Doncaster one (which
is now good for 3,000 guineas per annum in public money)
a flying shot when he can. We doubt the justice of his
remarks. The Corporation have always placed themselves
in the hands of the Jockey Club, and, with the exception
of a coronation knight and one or two other mild members
who used to " whobble a bit" over the annual vote, they
are all fond of the sport, and anxious in every way to meet
the racing world's wishes. Still, as trustees for the town,
it is with them a matter of business, and having invested
from £30,000 to £40,000 of corporation funds, they are
bound, if possible, to show a percentage for the money,
more especially as nearly a third of the burgesses reap no-
thing from the races but discomfort and heightened prices.
The expenses of the meeting are very great, and they
have, moreover, never made within a " monkey" of the
highest sum which the Admiral states. All their draw-
backs, &c., were freely handed over to the Race Fund a
few years since at the Jockey Club's suggestion, and last
year they gave £2,250 in addition to the Queen's Plate.
The Admiral is the only turfite who taunts them with
acting illiberally, and the taunt comes with no good grace,
as their list is regularly overhauled at Old Burlington-
street before it appears in the Calendar. His virtuous in-
dignation against them is also considerably discounted by
the complete silence which he maintains about Goodwood.
He can hold up the Doncaster Corporation to odium for
nevarcontributing sixpence to the Park Hill, but he has
not a word to say about the Gratwicke, the Ham, the
Findon, or the Nassau. He can sneer "at still the old
song, £2OO to the Great Yorkshire Stakes, the winner to
pay back 50 SOW," but he is dumb about the Goodwood
Stakes, with not one penny added, and £l5 subtracted.
"Glorious Goodwood," and its support of the turf, is a
theme which he can hardly have missed by mistake. Those
who see the enormous throng on the Grand Stand, or have
to attend on the booth letting-day, can pretty well guess
that there is not a better farm than the racecourse on the
Goodwood estate, and yet last year, exclusive of the Queen's
Plate, and the Railways' hundred, only £1,050 was added
to thirty-four races. Doncaster gives back £1,050 of its
deductions avid selling gains to be run for, and Goodwood
deducts nothing from the stakes but a " pony" for the
starter, and takes the Richmond Plate entrances. Where
the entrances for two other plates go to is not stated. As
a regular attendant, and member of the house party, the
Admiral knows perfectly well that the advance in the re-
ceipts at Doncaster, on which he dwells so sneeringly, ap-
plies to Goodwood with equal force, and hence there is a
great lack of fairness in running down one meeting, and
running dumb upon the other.
Apart from such lopsided views, the little book is capital
reading. We can adduce no finer specimen of its style
than the passage on the woes of racing men, who are " im-
posed upon by racing committees, pillaged by lessees,
cheated by the publicans, liable to be poisoned by the sin-
ners, and anathematised by the saints." St. Simeon Sty-
lites on his polehad a comfortable time of it in comparison.
Their category of woes is wound up by a horse coughing
or lamed by running over " an atrocious course," or a lad
ruined by getting into a public house. Horses will catch
coughs at home as well as abroad, trainers must look after
their own lads, and if there ever was an "atrocious course,"
it was the latter part of the Cambridgeshire course in 1865,
when, owing to the neglect of the authorities, it was a 71b
pull for any horse that could get the shepherds' track amid
the wilderness of long grass. In the chapter " On the
State of the Law of Racing," Mr. Naylor's proposition
(which was, after all, only a bad imitation of a plan pro-
posed seventeen years since, to supersede penalties in a
weight-for-age cup race) is inferentially written down as
nonsense ; and we also learn that, as the law stands, a two
year old can run for a three year old, &c., plate, if the
owner is an innocent-minded man with a clinker, and
chooses to sink the year.
The rules of racing make up a capital chapter, and no
portion of it is more valuable than that which settles the
time within which certain complaints must be lodged

The young jockeys have also their word of caution. Tur
fites of the old school, who remember Robinson and Chif-
ney, are thought censorious, but still they, and many of
their juniors, will be found to agree with the Admiral,
when he observes that he "never saw worse riding than
amongst the young crack jockeys last autumn." We are,
glad to find that the power of jockeys to withdraw their
services at the end of the season is recognised, as their
seemed a disposition some time since to consider that once
your servant always your servant, was the rule, and that
practically a jockey could not send in his jacket. Betting
rules are very ably treated, and the sale and purchase of
horses and the legal points which may arise within the
scope of a steward's duty are from tha pen of a well-
known barrister. In the article on a stud, there is a well-
merited compliment to Mr. Bloukiron, who has given buch
a princ,ely national prize out of his breeding profits, and
three things are espcially dwelt upon—the mode by which
roarers might be improved, not butting more than thirty
mares to a sire, and Count Lagrange's system with
young stock.

The Claxton decision, which is stated very briefly and
without giving the year, is the last cited, and there is a
sort of defence of it in the comment on Rule 5, in page 33,
but beyond that there is no special reference made to it,
and it would seem to have been purposely ignored. Now
it appears to us that, by the very wording of the fifth rule,
the owner of Claxton had no right to the bets, and that
according to the evidence which came out there was
" especial fraud," or something own brother to it, in the
way the horse was reinstated on the card at Huntingdon.
Admiral Rous may not have been impressed with Load
Campbell's directions to the jury at Cardiff, but we must
hold with "Plain Jock" against the Jockey Club, and
believe that the farther the latter wander from great
legal principles the more certain they are to multiply
such strange decisions as that in the Claxton case•
There are no nice distinctions in Westminster Hall
between fraud and "especial fraud," and it is well
that an amendment in the rules of betting has been
made to stop such work in future. Turf moralists cannot
now say to Mr. Edwin Parr, " Thank you for nothing."
It is plain, however, that, as the amendment to Rule 2 of
betting appears in the Admiral's new book, it must have
been framed some time previous to its publication; but this
new law—which is to meet cases analogous to the Claxton
affair, and prevent a repetition of the absurd decision then
announced with respect to the bets—was not given to the
world till March 17, the same day as that on which Admiral
Rous's new volume appeared. But the Admiral, doubtless
for reasons of his own, reserves the new rule for his Own
book, and we consider that a gentleman who works with
so much disinterested zeal for the public benefit might
have availed himself sooner of the immediate publicity of
the newspaper press to enlighten readers on such an im-
portant amendment in the Turf statutes. Admiral Roue
must have been some time over his six chapters of 64 pages,
as we find him (in page 3) recommending the Jockey Club
to pass the new law on selling races. This had been done
before the publication of the book. The appendix contains
the rules of betting and racing, as well as scales of weights,
and very useful they are. Abundance of stewards is the
current fashion, and Mr. Topham puts down eleven for his
Liverpool Summer ; but with this book in his pocket any
one of them, if a knotty point arises, may feel quite a host
in himself, though the other ten be far away.—Sporting
Life.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

MANCIIESTER—TurnstaY.

There was only a moderate attendance at our market
this morning, and a very dull feeling prevailed. The de-
mand for wheat, both English and foreign, was limited,
and a reduction of is per qr. must be noted. Flour de-
clined 6d. per sack, with a very limited business. In beans,
oats, or oatmeal no change was observable. Indian corn
was the turn dearer.

BRIS T L—T HURSDAY.
There is very little of interest to report in the corn trade
this week. English wheat has given way in value about
is per qr. The trade in foreign has been almost nominal'
The wheat trade was without animation, and we note
decline of is per qr. on both English and foreign. la
malting barley less doing than of late, but last week's prices
were fully maintained. Grinding commanded the extreme
value of last week. The demand for oats was unusually
restricted. Beans improved in value is per qr. Indian
corn the turn dearer.

BURY ST. EDMUND'S—WEDNESDAY.
There was a good show of wheat here to-day, for which
there was a fair trade, at last week's quotations. Veil
little barley on offer, and no alteration in value. Oats,
beans, and peas inquired for, and fully as dear.
White wheat, 53s to 55s ; old rod, 46s to 48s ; new red,
40s to 448 , malting barley, 85s to 38s; Page's prolific bar'
ley, 39s to 44s per qr.
Averages :—Wheat, 876 qrs, at 41s 8d ; barley, 1)59
qrs., 37s 2d ; oats, qrs, —s Od.