The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-09 00:00:00

ir THE BUILDERS' STRIX.C.

The Executive Conference of the United Opera-
tive Building Trades met yesterday morning at the
Paviors' Arms, Johnson -street, Milibank, and it was
reported that Mr. Wrn. Cubitt, of Gray's Inn-lane,
had sent for the smiths to resume their work.
Ac-
cordingly about thirty attended, but had no sooner
done so than the tiocument was presented, to which
they were regnared to make an adhesive declara-
tion. To this the men at once objected, and,
as that was to be the condition of their obtain-
ing work, they one and all immediately left.
•Mr. Potter has returned from Glasgow, bring-
ing with him a handsome subscription by the tin-
plate workers of that city. Fifteen pounds
was received from Cardiff; and meetings will take
Place every night of the different trades at Glas-
gow, when there is no doubt votes of money will
be made, amounting in the aggregate to something
very considerable. A meeting of the operatives of
Greenock will take place next week, at which Mr.
Gray, a member of the conference, will attend.
This day a meeting of the operatives of the
United Building Trades was held in the Surrey
Gardens, for the purpose, as the notice stated, of
" taking into consideration the decision of the
Master Builders to enforce the obnoxious docu-
ment, on Monday next, to all men resuming work
in their employ." Resolutions, demanding the
unconditional withdrawal of the " document," were
agreed to.

SPORTING NOTES.

THE CESAREIVITCH AND CAMBRIDGE-

SHIRE.
[The following appeared in 'Jur last edition of yesterday
evening :—]

People at Warwick were on the tip-toe of expec-
tation. They were awaiting the announcement of
the weights for the Cesarewitch and Cambridge-
shire, and their curiosity and anxiety suffered no
diminution from the fact of the imposts allotted to
certain animals htiiing been already divulged.
The Handicaps were announced to be published
after Warwick, and I think it is extremely impoli-
tic to allow the weights to be known until the very
moment appointed for their publication. On
this occasion, as in many former years,
money has been lost by betting about the weights,
owing to the indiscreet announcements which
have been made by certain people who are in
the confidence of the handicapper, or who have been
admitted to a share in his deliberations. Admiral
Rous, by whom the handicaps have been made, has
bestowed much labour on his self-imposed task,
and really the sporting community owe him a deep
debt of gratitude for the time and attention which
he employs to protect their interests and to promote
the cause of fair and legitimate sport. Few people
who have not experienced the difficulty of construct-
ing a handicap can comprehend the laboriousness of
the task in framing a bill of pains and penalties
for upwards of two hundred horses, whose
chances of success have to be reduced—as far
as human skill can reduce them—to a perfect level.
This is not the only difficulty which a handicapper
has to contend against, for much patience and a
practical acquaintance with horse-racing enables
him to contend against it with some degree of suc-
cess. He has many annoyances to encounter after
he has conscientiously executed his task. He has
to stand the brunt of fault-finders, whose grumbling
is the offspring of prejudice, disappointed hopes, or
caprice, for what owner or backer of horses was
ever satisfied with a handicap if the horse on
which he had built his hopes had not at least
a stone the best of the weights. Because I
have on many occasions been compelled to criticise
somewhat severely the Admiral's Handicaps, it
gives me great pleasure to bear testimony to the
great judgment which he has exercised in allotting
the imposts for the tyro great races under notice.
No man can divest himself entirely of prejudice, or
abandon an opinion which he may believe to be well
founded, but which is evidently wrong, and it is
not therefore a matter of surprise that an undue
leniency may apparently be bestowed upon cer-
tain horses, whilst the pretensions of others are
over-estimated. After all, however, Handicapping
resolves itself into a question of opinion, and that
man who has a long experience of, and a thorough
acquaintance with, the subject before him, has the

truest claims to have his dictum received and re-
spected. Admiral Rous has proved his title
to the position which he holds as the
foremost of our turf legislators, and the
latest specimen which he gives of his practical ad-
ministration of turf affairs will tend to increase his
reputation amongst all classes of the sporting
world.

As usual, The Sun is the earliest newspaper in
the field with information of much importance to
racing men, and this evening it alone of all its con-
temporaries gives the two great Autumn han-
dicaps.

That Underhand would be the top weight
for both the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire,
was no secret, the fact was made known
even before the Warwick Meeting, and good
as the horse has proved himself to be no per-
son would be sanguine enough to believe that with
the steadying weight of 9st 101 b for the long race,
and 9st 91b for the short one, he can possess the
ghost of a chance for either event. Tournament

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has also been well " remembered," and old Fisher-

man, who was withdrawn from the Guineas and
the Cup at Warwick, and whose fore legs look

very siispicious, is not likely to visit Mr. Hibbard
on this occasion. The performance of Lifeboat at
Warwick yesterday has evidently induced the
Handicapper not to'initigate the " pains and pe-
nalties" with which he intended to visit him. His
performance was perhaps more calculated to render
his impost heavy, for the style in which the
" boat" rolled about at Warwick was so incom-
patible with the way in which he endeavoured to
sail away with the Goodwood Stakes, that it was
patent to the most su..erficial observer that there
was a screw loose somewhere. Lifeboat has been
scuttled with 9st 31b, and he is likely to sink
to the very bottom of the sea of speculation,
from which he will be scarcely raised this season.
Gunboat—a good horse, that has enjoyed a season
of rest, which he required—has also been overladen
with ballast, and he is likely to do little execution
with 9st. Indeed all the top weights down to, and
inclusive of, Monartue—who li is been put to the
stud—appear to be handicapped out of the race.
The first name that attracts serious attention is
Prioress, 6 yrs, Bst 51b, and it must be confessed
'that the " Admiral" has leniently considered her
sins of omission and commission. Arsenal's
chance would have looked more rosy to his friends
if his weight had been under Bst. The rest on
the list for whom I am inclined to entertain
a strong partiality is the slow and sure Borderer
(5 yrs, 7st 121 b), who has some racing pretensions,
albeit he has not this season displayed them to very
great advantage. Newcastle, two years younger,
and with 21bs less, may be passed over. The
" Alderman" will doubtless be satisfied with the
weight, 7st 91b, allotted to Argosy. Running my
eye down the list, it is arrested by Yorkshire Grey,
aged, 7st 41b, and if the horse were in his last
year's form, he would be difficult to beat. Polestar,
at 7st 11b, is light enough in, but she seems to
have gone all to pieces since she ran second for
this race in " Vengeance's year." I must now take
a long skip and alight upon Clydesdale, 4 yrs, Est
71b—a horse whose chance I shall be much disin-
clined to hold in light esteem. He has given pro-
mise of coming back to a form which he once un-
questionably possessed, and in him his party may
have another Rocket-blaze of triumph. Marine
(3 yrs, Est 61b) has been mentioned. The public
know little of him beyond the fact of his having
been backed, when a two-yr-old, for the Derby of
the current season. He belongs to a party who
know when they have a good thing, and who can
make the public believe they have, if they havn't.
Cincinnati is a reputed American " flyer," and
people have seen enough of the Yankees lately to
induce them to believe that they can rear horses
fast enough to chase a flash of greased lightning
round a field, or slow enough to take a week in
galloping off a cabbage leaf. Tiara is most favour-
ably weighted—she is also in the Cambridgeshire
on very lenient terms, and the short race may be
her " cut."

Amongst the extreme light weights I can dis-
cover nothing really very formidable at present.
The Cambridgeshire weights are not likely to be
examined with that care which is now bestowed
upon the Handicap for the Cesarewitch. Tiara,