The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING; MAY 30,' 1861;

one severe critic only, while all the weekly periodi-
cals of the last fortnight and the great leading
journal, the Times, have treated his work with
that praise to which, in the opinion of Professor
Owen, as well as of many geographers, it is emi-
nently entitled. (Cheers.) His numerous friends
and admirers have now only to express a hope that
the work on Equatorial Africa may bring much
profit as well as reputation to the undaunted ex-
plorer, who, despite of numerous fevers, has gone
over some thousands of miles of hitherto unknown
lands, and has brought to us unanswerable evidence
of his fidelity of observation—evidence which the
council of this society has considerately allowed him
to exhibit to the public in our own apartments in
Whitehall-place.
_

In the evening the members of the society and a
considerable body of invited guests, to the number
in all of about 300, dined together at the Freema-
sons' Tavern.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

THE DERBY.

The French Derby at Chantilly, from all we hear of it,
must have partaken more of the nature of a well-selected
fete champetre than a great notional race. No noise was
there, we are told, of " discoreant travelling bands," "no
pushing card seller," "no shoats, no riotous crowd." Even
bets were quietly booked, and the conicourse, if we may apply
so rude a term to the elite of Penis, were ruled by a handful
of policemen. It must, of course, arise from a depravity of
taste on our part, but after hearing such a description we
confess to entertaining a strong opinion that the French
Derby must have been a dull, 3low, and solemn affair; and,
when the historian adds, in a moralising mood, that "it is
strange so small a slip of water should keep up such a dif-
ference in the manners of twe great nations," we feel, on
the whole, by no means remorseful, but rather inclined to
congratulate ourselves on being on the right side of the
water in this matter. Fancy Epsom Downs arranged
after the French style—bandless, niggerless, devoid
alike of sharpers and their prey, without tumblers, con-
jurors, organ grinders, gipsies, performing monkeys, or pre-
cocious children. Under such a regime in Surrey yesterday
what would have become of the sallow vagabonds who now
for a trifling consideration knock their battered visages
about in mimic repetition of the great Sayers contest ? Have
not that numerous and influential class who derive an inde-
pendence from the patrons of Aunt Sally vested interests in
the ground ? Perhaps, under French arrangements, their
claims might be compromised by making them checktakers,
to see that every one went to his proper seat round the
course, or enrolling them to act in a body under Mr. Super-
intendent Beaunash, to prevent any one not in evening
dress from entering the Grand Stand. With a few such
minor alterations and improvements, such as making blue
veils and little dolls misdemeanours, and " three throws a
penny" felony, without benefit of clergy, the Downs might
be made a most orderly place, and even invalids go down to
Epsom to drink its celebrated salts, and afterwards witness
a mild and dispassionate Derby from their easy chairs.
Yesterday, however, there seemed not the remotest disposi-
tion to approach this beau ideal of a French race. There
was shouting and noise and pushing card-sellers, while the
bands were certainly more numerous, and, if possible, more
discordant than ever, amid the din of which one was only
able to discern that by far the greater number supported
" Dixie's Land," though a formidable minority rallied
round " Bob Ridley," and rather spoiled the general effect of
both. The road down was as crowded and dusty as the road
always is on a Derby-day, which is saying a very great deal
in a very few words. The great southern centre of bustle
and confusion, the Elephant and Castle, was as thronged
and as beset as ever. Everything seemed to muster there
previous to starting, from swell drags, crowded outside
with fast young men, and inside with turnip radishes with
which to pelt the lieges coming back; there, too, aspiring
clerks assembled and donned blue veils preparatory to going
quietly down by rail ; and there also were young fellows who
had so anticipated matters as even thus early in the morning
to require a helping hand to steady them on the i oofs of busses.
Foreigners ascribe our great metropolitan exodus on the
Derby day to the national love of racing, which we all know
is moonshine. If all the Downs were polled yesterday
three-fourths would rather have missed seeing the race than
seeing the road.
What, in the name of goodness, would the race be with-
out the road to it, and the pic-nics and little parties, and
the not little hampers ? The Derby-day is, in fact, Lon-
don's carnival and great day out. It is looked forward to
as such, and the race, per se, is a mere item of amusement,
to which the dust, hurry, confusion, noise, whirl, laughter,
champagne, raised pies, salads, and fowls are all necessary
adjuncts. It is rather the fashion to say that the glories of
the road are falling off, though, to our mind, as far as the
style and number of equipages go, they seem to increase
each year, and never were they greater than yesterday.
Through Clapham, where, as usual, all the upper windows
were stuccoed over with babies and nurslings, and the
drawingrooms and gardens filled with the brightest of belles,
who made believe net to notice the passers-by, the stream
of vehicles was dense and apparently interminable. Nor
was it a whit less varied than numerous. Everything that
could go on wheels, and very many also, as the event proved,
that could not, seemed pressed into the service. Postchaises
that had done duty any time these months past as pigeon
roosts in the worst inn's worst yard came clattering along,
the horses, warranted three parts blood and the other corn,
inutuglug in an imperfect recollection of a canter, a feeble
reminiscence which the old postillion fosters to the utmost
by rising in his saddle now and then as if the animals really
galloped. These, however, though slow, are sure, and, in
the event of surviving the journey down, are more to be
relied upon than the gay animal that is put to with his fore
leg tied up, and who is certain to come out in his true
colours on the first favourable opportunity. This, unfor-
tunately, he is sure to find in the narrowest part of the
road, where the bewildered driver can only fall back upon
the advice, tendered in peremptory directions, to "pull
a one side," or in sarcastic reminders that "the coachman"
must come out next time, as he is sure to be wanted in the
hayfield—observations which occasion a state of mind quite
unsuitable to administering to the eccentricities of a jib
horse. We have often wondered where all the bad horses
come from on a Derby day, and how it is that such very
unexceptionable turns-out come to grief, or, in polite par-
lance, are "plunged in despondency," while a costermonger
with all his family in a ricketty barrow, and a select party
of immediate relatives on the shafts, gets down safely and
in good time too. Such, however, is too often the fact,
and some especially neat gets-up were yesterday backed off
the road into a hedge, leaving their disconsolate occupants
no other alternative, if they wished to reach the Downs,
save that of getting into the shafts themselves. At the
Merton pike there was the usual obstruction, annoyance,
and delay. When will some one devise a method bywhich
may be mitigated or at least its
this
avoidance intolerable
compounded nuisanc e f
or?

The Downs were crowded to an extent that we have sel-
dom seen. The hill opposite the stand and far past the
paddock, and up on the left to the "corner," was one dense
black mass of carriages and people—a houseless population
as numerous in its crowds and as varied in its elements as
that of the metropolis itself. It was a real Derby gathering,
and, if possible, a Derby gathering exaggerated with all its
queer melange of high and low—blacklegs and lords, card-
sharpers and countrymen, gentlemen and ladies, knaves,
folks, foreigners, trampers, lame,
inshort, whom toil or money could
h bringfools,atand
together
blindshowmen,
n,;
all,
ear holiday
London, and what does that not com-
prise ? Here is a blind man reading the Scriptare, while
near him two other blind men led by dogs are playing so
vehemently on whistles as unconsciously to drown his
voice ; beyond these is a juvenile band whose performances
one cannot overlook or pardon, even on account of their
youth, and to these, after a brief interval of Aunt Sallys
and cocoa-nuts, succeeds a conjuror, apparently swallow-
ing whole reams of coloured paper, and whose hard case
we earnestly recommend to hon. members in the approach-
ing discussion on paper duties as a novel illustration of the
manner in which this impost presses on some consumers.
Towards two o'clock the huge concourse begins to settle
down, and the " business" of the day begins, on the part of
the public with lunch, and on the part of that small mino-
rity, the " racing public," with preparations for what is
never mentioned at Epsom but as "the great event."
In the matters incident to this latter we might fairly take
a hint from the French Derby, where, we hear, the riders
are weighed in a pretty and convenient kind of sum mer-
house. Under the Grand Stand is a sort of disused wine-
cellar, whitewashed clean enough, but as small, as ill-
placed, and as inconvenient as can well be imagined. Here
the visitor finds himself among apparently a new race of
pigmy men, with their gay-coloured silks shining brightly
underneath great overcoats, who converse by winks and
nudges of the elbow, and who, with bridle and saddle round
their necks, proceed with solemn gravity to seat themselves
in the scales and test in an amateur manner their precise
weight before weighing by the proper authorities. Thera
is nothing in the whole proceeding that is of interest, ex-
cept as suggestive of being capable of much improvement
in regard to the vault where it takes place. From the

weighing-room there is always a general move to the pa--
dock, the cool quiet of which pretty meadow comes in like
a rest after the turmoil of the course. There is an odd

muster always here—peers, trainers, jockeys, owners,
backers, betters, all more or lessengaged with note-making
on little slips of paper or small books, and all on the look-
out for authorities, " horsey" men, and what not. A queer-
looking man, vd,o:e attire, though good, is " slangy," and
suggestive somehow of the stable, approaches the largest
group and says something, at which they disperse as if a
shell had burst among them :—" Dundee has been cough-
ing," and in a minute every one is commencing either
to get the odds or give them, and at the mention
of he favourite's name puts on a grave air and looks
out in the distance, as if Dundee had eaten his groom,
and his name was rather a painful subject than otherwise.
A minute after and there is a great rush made as if the as-
semblage were fielding at cricket, and a brown, leggy horse
stalks in with such a very little stable boy on his back that
on the first glance you would imagine people were going to '
his assistance lest he should fall off and be killed. This
(the horse we mean, not the litee boy) is Royalieu, and two
minutes after Royalieu is nowhere in the betting books.
Soon afterwards, though not immediately, a bright chest-
nut colt comes into the field, light, yet powerful in its step,
holding its head well up, with a full inquiring sort of eye

and wide tremulous nostril. There is rather a movemen
made towards him, till the word is passed from mouth to
mouth, when the followers at once drop off, and. it turns into
a corner of the meadow, almost unattended save by a few
determined admirers. it is not Diophantus, not even Rouge
Dragon—it is only Kettledrum, who is forthwith consigned
to a betting limbo almost as deep as that of Royalieu.
Another dreadful rumour, and a good horse is reported bad
in the hocks just as Dictator, Klarikoff, and the Dragon
make their appearance. Dictator, a beautiful and powerful
colt, rises in the market, and Klarikoft is quoted at an im-
provement, with a tendency to go up, all of which his superb
appearance justified. All this while Kettledrum walks
round in a corner with Yorkminster, the Drake, Kildonan,
and others almost as good, and quite as unnoticed. Every
one is waiting for the favourites, and at last they enter from
opposite sides of the paddock, Diophantus, an exquisite
chestnut colt, and Dundee, if possible, a still more beautiful
black. Their condition was the perfection of training; their
skins glistened with the sheen of silk, and every muscle of
their bodies stood out in smooth, broad bands that seemed
to expand with power at each movement. Diophantus
was the most admired, as, with a lithe soft stop, he came
into the paddock neighing and tossing his head, looking
round upon his rivals with a high, disdainful air, as one
who should say, " Cave, adsum." The rumoured cough
of Dundee was still echoing round the paddock, so
that other horses were, in racing terms, "inquired
after," though, nevertheless, both favourites kept ahead
of all. Their appearance, as we have said, justified this
preference, for two finer animals have never been beaten at
the Derby.

Gently, and with the utmost care, the process of saddling
for the race was gone through; though, quietly as it was
managed, there were some horses whom it appeared to
alarm and distress, and whom Mr. Rarey would have sad-
dled more quietly, though perhaps with more time. Time,
however, on a Derby day is more than money; it is name
and fame as well to both horse and owner, and when the
bell is clanging and the course all but cleared, there are but
very few minutes to spare. Only 18 horses started yester-
day, in number certainly a falling off compared with other
years, when sometimes there were as many as 30 starters.
They came out from the paddock in a little knot out upon
the course amid the great mass of spectators, and, instinc-
tively, all broke into a canter and then a gallop. The course
was not quite cleared. There were the traditional dogs
(three this time) who ran an impromptu Derby of their own,
howled at and worried into incipient rabies. There was the
stout gentleman, too, whom no one would let under the
ropes, sweltering up the greensward amid derisive shouts to
"Ge in and win I" " What were the odds against him ?"
and ironical queries as to whether he is to ride Mr. Spur-
geon's horse. But the noise stops as Dundee goes down like
a hind moving over the turf with a long silent stride like the
shadow of a horse. No one notices Kettledrum, but Rouge
Dragon makes a great spurt and becomes popular among
the "know-nothings." In a few minutes after the colours
assemble at the starting-post, and go suddenly up the hill,
amid a hoarse cry of " They're off I" and " Hats off I" But
the course bell gives no sign, and after a minute of intense
expectation they come back again. Another start and the
Derby has begun as the little mass disappears behind the
hill. Yet another minute for last feverish bets and the group
emerges upon the horizon, all well together, like a group of
flowers. The pace seems tremendous, yet all keep well up
to the corner, when the leaders draw ahead ; the hum
deepens into a roar as the colours of Dundee and Diophan-
tus seem well in front—every one waves something as
they rush thundering up the course—the jockeys call on
their horses, who make desperate efforts. At the last an
unknown horse is leading, but the favourites rush in with
a pace that puts their backers quite at ease, and the race is
over in a minute, and No. 8 goes up at the post, and the
winner is—Kettledrum.

EPSOM RACES—WEDNESDAY.
The Epsom Town Plate of 50 sovs (handicap), for all ages ;
one mile ; the winner of any race (matches excepted)
' after publication of the weights (May 23, 11 a.m.) to
' carry 51b extra. Any number of horses the property of
' the same owner may run for this plate.
Baron Niviere's Wedding, 5 yrs, Bst 41b (Watkin) 1
Mr. Hudson's Miss Emma, 3 yrs, Est 21b.. (G Parsons) 2
' Mr. G. Simpson's Narcissus, 4 yrs, 6st 101 b (carried 6st
• 121 b) (11 Grimshaw) 3
The following also ran :—Vulture, Wild Bird, The Don,
and Tibbie Shields.
Betting-7 to 4 agst Miss Emma, 7to 2 agst Narcissus,
5 to 1 agst Wedding, and 7 to 1 agst The Don.
Mr. Jacobs declared to win with The. Don.
The running was made by Narcissus, followed by Vulture,
Wild Bird, and Wedding, in the order we have given them,
Tibbie Shields being the last, a long way in the rear. On
entering the straight the leading horses closed up, and ran
abreast to the distance, when they were joined by Wedding,
who took a slight lead at the Stand enclosure, and at the
same time Miss Emma became second. A good race home
between the three finished in favour of Wedding by three
lengths, a head separating the second and third ; a bad
fourth ; the others beaten off.
The Derby Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for 3-yr• olds ; colts,
Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b ; the owner of the second horse to
receive 100 soya out of the stakes, and the winner to pay
100 soya towards the police and regulations of the course,
and 50 sous to the judge. Mile and a half, to be run on
the New Course. 238 subs. Value £6,450.
Col. Towneley's Kettledrum (Bullock) 1
Mr. Merry's Dundee Edwards)
2
Lord Stamford's Diophanius (A. Edwards) 3
Mr. Henrys Xlarikc,ti (Fordham) 0
Lord Stamford's Imaus (French) 0
Count Lagrange's Royallieu
Mr. Merry's Russley (M ithington) 0
Mr. Manning's Seven Dials (Sopp) 0
Mr. Thomas's Dictator (J. Osborne) 0
Lord Glasgow's The Drake (Aldcroft) 0
Colonel Towneley's Yorkminster
Sir C. Monck's Gardener (D. Hughes) 0
Sir J. Hawley's Rouge Dragon (Wells) 0
Mr. Parr's Kildonan (Clements) 0
Lord Lincoln's Lupus (A. Day) 0
Mr. Hamilton's Aurelian (J, Goater) 0
Mr. Parker's Atherstone (S. Rogers) 0
Mr. Osborne's Lopcatcher (Challoner) 0
Betting-3 to 1 agst Dundee, 4to 1 agst Diophantus, 6
to 1 agst Dictator, 7 to 1 agst Klarikoff, 12 to 1 agst Kil-
donan, 14 to 1 agst Rouge Dragon, 16 to 1 agst Kettledrum,
20 to 1 agst Royallieu, 25 to 1 agst The Drake, 40 to 1 agst
Yorkminster, and 1,000 to 15 each agst Atherstone and
Aurelian.
Precisely at the time set down the horses left the pad-
dock and took their preliminary canters, after which Mr.
Martin Starling marshalled them in line, and in due course
handed them into the custody of the starter, who lost no
time in getting them to the post, and after one slight failure
the flag was lowered, amid the shouts of the anxious spec-
tators, and they were off at 3 24—to an indifferent start,
Rouge Dragon, Klarikoff, and Lupus being left many
lengths behind. On settling into their places, Royallieu im-
mediately went to the front, and with Imaus, Diophantus,
Kettledrum, and Yorkminster lying close up, cut out the
work at his best pace; the rear division being headed by
Dundee, who was running in the centre, Atherstone, Dicta-
tor, and Kildonan following in his wake, Rouge Dragon,
Klarikoff, and Lupus still being in the rear. With little
or no alteration they ran thus td the " furzes," when Dio-
phantus, as in the "Two Thousand," rushed to the front
and took a slight lead, Kettledrum going on second close at
his girths, with Royallieu, Atherstone, and Aurelian in
close attendance. Descending the hill Klarikoff began to
improve his position, and before the turn was made was on

equal terms with his horses. Diophantus, on entering the
straight, still held a conspicuous lead, Aurelian at this point
lying second, Kettledrum on the whip hand; Klarikoff, on
the lower ground next the rails, creeping up, was fourth ;
then came Atherstone, Royallieu, and the favourite, the
others presenting a lengthened tale, the last of them being
Rouge Dragon, Russley, Lupus, and Seven Dials. In this
way they ran to the road, crossing which Atherstone
swerved, and drove Royallieu out of his stride, and in so
doing sent him on to Dundee, who at that moment was in
the act of coming up on the outside, and nearly knocked
him over, but Custance fortunately had him in hand and
saved him from falling, but before the distance had been
reached, Dundee was observed to falter, and in a few strides
further broke down badly, but gamely struggled on to the
half distance, where he joined Diophantus, who with
Kettledrum, Aurelian, and Klarikoff closely laid up, came
on together to the entrance of the Stand enclosure, where
Bullock called upon his horse, who answered with great
gameness; and in a stride or two took a clear lead. Dundee
at the same time made his final effort, but was unable to
" act" through his misfortune, and was beaten, after a game
struggle, by a length, defeating Diophantus by a head only
for the second money, the latter beating Aurelian by a neck.
Klarikoff, who never fairly got to his horses, finished an in-
different fifth, Royallieu sixth ; the others, headed by
Imaus, Kildonan, and Atherstone, came in at wide inter-

vals beaten off a long way, the last three being Lupus
Rouge Dragon, and Seven Dials.

The Manor Plate, of 50 sous; 3-yr-olds, 7st 41b; 4-yr-olds,
Bst 101 b ; 5-yr-olds, 9st 21b; 6-yr-olds and aged, 9st 31b ;
mares and geldings allowed 31b. Maiden 3-yr-olds, if
they have run three times, allowed 31b; 4-yr-olds and
upwards, 71b. The winner to be sold for 200 soya, if de-
manded, &c. One mile.
Mr. W. Day's Deserter, 3 yrs, 7st 4lb (J. Adams) 1
Mr. Saxon's Jenny Longlegs, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (I. Snowden) 2
Mr. B. Land's Dartmoor,• 3 yrs, 7st 4lb (Clement) 3
The following also ran :—Cheesecake, Shepherdess,
Brawn filly, and Little Gerard.

Betting-5 to 3 agst Cheesecake, 4to 1 agst Deserter, 5
to 1 agst Shepherdess, and 6 to 1 agst Jenny Longlegs.
Deserter jumped off with a clear lead, followed by the
favourite, Jenny Longlegs, and Dartmoor; the others some
lengths in the rear. On entering the straight, Deserter in-
creased his lead, Cheesecake shortly after being passed by
Jenny Longlegs, the three running wide to the stand, where
Cheesecake was beaten and was passed by Dartmoor ;
Deserter, however, held his own, and won very easily by
two lengths, Jenny Longlegs beating Dartmoor by a length
for second. Little Gerard and the Brawn filly were the last

two. The winner was claimed by Mr. Saxon.
The Bentinck Plate of 50 sous (handicap) for all ages.
Winners to carry slb extra ; three-quarters of a mile.
Any number of horses the property of the same owner
may run for this plate. _ _ .

Captain Coates's Hesper, by Hesperus, 3 yrs, 7st 41b
(A. Edwards) 1
Mr. Thornton's Curlew, 4 yrs, ist 101 b (inc. 51b extra)
(Challoner) 2
Mr. Joseph Dawson's Neophyte, 5 yrs, 9st 71b (A. French) 3
The following also ran :—renalty, Von Strom, New

Brighton, Rockley, Squire Percy, Prince Frederick, Sister
to Morella, Girdle, Vigil, and Lady Louisa filly.
Betting-5 to 2 agst Curlew, 7to 2 agst New Brighton,
6 to 1 each agst Hesper and Rockley, 8 to 1 agst Von
Stroom, 10 to 1 agst any other.

Mr. Jacobs declared to win with Von Stroom ; Hesper, in
company with Curlew, Neophyte, and Sister to Morella,
mado the running to the centre of the stand, when Reaper
drew away and won in a canter by two lengths, Curlew de-
feating Neophyte by a length for second ; Lady Louisa filly
was fourth, Sister to Morella next ; then came Girdle,
Rockley, Von Stroom, Penalty, and Newßrighton, the last
of all being Prince Frederick, who broke down badly.
The Burgh Stakes of 5 sous each, with 30 soya added;
2-yr-olds, 7st 31b; 3-yr-olds, 9st llb ; 4-yr-olds,
9st 121 b ; 5-yr-olds and upwards, lOst 21b ; mares and
geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold ?or 150
sovs ; but if entered to be sold for 80 soya, allowed 71b ;
if for 60 soya, 141 b ;if for 40 soya, 211 b. 6 subs.
Mr. Merry's filly, by lon,--Calliope, 2 yrs (L4O), sst 71b
(Midgeley) 1
Mr. J. Dawson's Grant, 2 yrs (E4O), sst 71b (Wheateley) 2
Mr. Brown ns Nomad, 2 yrs (£4O), sst 101 b (O. Parsons) 3
Montebello and Miss Swift also ran.
Betting-2 to lon the Calliope filly, and sto 1 each agst
Miss Swift and Montebello,

The favourite took the lead at starting, followed by
Grant, with Miss Swift on the whip hand, who bolted at the
Road and threw her rider. The Calliope filly continued
her lead to the end, and won, hard held, by half a length,
Nomad being a bad third. The winner was sold to Captain
King for 255 guineas.

LATEST BETTING.
THE OAKS.

7to 2 agst Nemesis
4to 1 agst Silverhair
7to 1 agst Fairwater
Bto 1 agst Caller Oui
10 to 1 agst Gabrielle d'Estrees
10 to 1 agst Tattoo
12 to 1 agst Brown Duchess
12 to 1 agst Vergiss-mein-Nicht
100 to 8 agst The Babette filly
100 to 7 agst White Wave (taken)

2HE PAPER DUTIES.

(From the Times.)

The inevitable day has come at last, and the
fate of paper trembles in the balance ; or, if the
metaphor be thought more appropriate, flutters in
the wind. Will the kite go up, and carry with it
by way of tail the Government of Lord Palmerston
and its fortunes; or will it fall, and bring down
with it in its descent the destinies of a Ministry
and the hopes of a party ? Were there no other
reason for wishing success to the abolitionists, it
would be quite enough that by success, and by
success alone, can we hope to rid ourselves of this
interminable subject. But, while sincerely desir-
ing the abolition of a duty, from which this journal
will receive its full share of advantage, we cannot
forget the unprecedented course of events by which
this result has been brought about, and the reasons
which render it better to advance in a course ori-
ginally wrong than to stop short after matters have
reached their present most extraordinary position.
W hat may be the causes which have brought
Mr. Gladstone into such close union and har-
mony with Mr. Bright and his friends it is scarcely
worth while to inquire. This phenomenon has been
in its time a nine day's wonder, and is now con-
signed to that limbo where other vagaries of the
sameillustrious personage lie waiting for judgment.
Nor need we now inquire what the particular mo-
tives may be which make a reduction in this parti-
cular duty at this particular time a matter of such
overpowering and engrossing interest to a certain
section of the Liberal party. Enough to say that
there has long existed between Mr. Gladstone and
this section a very strong community of feeling,
and that for their exclusive gratification, and not
the least in order to conciliate any one else, in the
House of Commons or out of it, the arrangement
was made which led, as we all know, to the great
constitutional question of last session. Up to this
point we confess we could see no reason whatever
why the critical position of the revenue should be
still further compromised by the abolition of a tax
which had, indeed, its faults, like all its brethren,
but which could be ill spared at a moment when
the French Treaty made such serious calls upon us
for reduction. But from this period commenced
the inverted process by which what was origi-
nally wrong has been made to become right. The
question has been removed from the domain of
finance into that of politics. Mr. Gladstone
is in a position to take advantage of his own wrong.
We are obliged to do what is not financially ex-
pedient, lest we should do something which is still
more politically inexpedient. A breach has arisen
between the two houses. The Lords rejected a
money bill, and by so doing created a budget for
which neither they nor any one else in the world
can properly be said to be responsible. They have
given battle to the House of Commons on ground
of their own selection, and have come victorious
out of the conflict. The paper duty remains
as a trophy of their success. It is not desir-
able that this trophy should remain. It is not
desirable that irritating questions between the two
Houses of Parliament should be mixed up with
considerations purely financial. It might be better,
as some have argued, to reduce the tea or sugar
duties. The answer is that the reduction of the
tea or sugar duties would have left unsettled the
question between the two Houses, a question far
more important than the incidence of any duty
whatever. Were the paper duty to be preserved
for this year, it would nevertheless be condemned
to speedy extinction, and no one could invest
capital with any confidence on the supposition
either of its repeal or its continuance. It is
one of the powers vested in a Chancellor of the
Exchequer that he can not only repeal taxes,
but render their continuance impossible. There
is so much to be said, and said with truth,
against every impost, that the condemnation of the
Financial Minister is a deadly wound from which
a tax cannot recover. No two questions can be
more unlike than the question whether the paper
duty ought to have been included among the
s xeeping repeals of 1860, or postponed to tea or
sugar in the financial arrangement of 1861. That
which was wrong has become right, and the most
superfluous of all financial caprices now comes
before us in a form closely resembling a political
necessity.
Therefore, by all means, whatever have been the
intrigues by which the repeal of the Paper Duty has
been forced on an unwilling Cabinet, a hostile Par-
liament, and an indifferent public, however sordid
have been the motives which actuate its most active
supporters, and however injurious to sound finance
and to the general interest of the public has been
this discussion, we trust that the house will not
allow itself to be deterred by indignation, which it
may very excusably feel at the manner in which it
has been treated, from removing all causes of future
discord, and preventing the recurrence of disputes
which have monopolised the attention of Parlia-
ment during the present session, to the exclusion of
almost every other serious topic.
These motives are of such weight and so very ob-
vious in themselves that it may seem scarcely worth
while to recall them. But the decision of this even-
ing involves another set of considerations,which may
possibly be found to be at least equally important.
It is notorious that, should the repeal of the Paper
Puty be rejected this evening, it will be on grounds
entirely different from those which have hitherto
been put forward. The duty is a mere screen. Mr.
Disraeli has been long keeping the question in
abeyance, in hopes that in the varied events of an
existence so complicated as our own something
might be found which could be turned to his advan
tage. He has a minority so large that any casual
source of unpopularity may at any time convert it
into a majority. He has patiently waited upon
Fortune, and the fickle goddess for once has been
faithful to her ardent and confiding votary. The
Government has found it necessary to cancel, in
the ordinary course of business, the contract of the
Galway Line of Packets to America. This act has
been one of common official duty. The Company
broke their agreement, and were only after repeated
failures, which left no hope for further improve-
ment, punished by the annulling of their contract.
Immediately all Ireland is in a blaze. Into that
extraordinary country the notion that there can be
such a thing as a duty to the public which conflicts
with the wishes and interests of individuals does
not seem to have penetrated. Ireland desires a
communication between her Western shores and
the North American Continent, and therefore faults
and irregularities which in the case of an English
company would, as a matter of course, be visited by
the cancelling of its contract, are to be regarded as
venial when committed by an Irish association, and
it has been loudly threatened that if Government
does not assent to this view of its duties it must
forego the support, or rather undergo the
combined hostility, of the representatives of a
wronged and united peeple. Parties are very
evenly balanced, and it was said that Irish votes
would turn the Division upon the Paper Duty
against the Government which had cancelled the
contract. We have never any fear of such bargains.
The great bulk of the party resents them, and by
staying away more than makes up for the few votes
so obtained. It is with deep regret, then, we hear it
rumoured that terms have been made by which the
support of the partisans of the Galway route has
been secured. Any such arrangement, whatever its
terms, and however its object may be veiled, would
he in our opinion a most lamentable concession. It
is said that the subsidy is to be continued for six
months longer. If this be true, the meaning is that
£36,000 is to be paid to a private company in order
that a raeaeure of imperial policy may be carried

through Parliament. We trust this is not so. We
refuse to believe it. Better a thousand times be
defeated by a narrow majority than inaugurate once
more in this country the reign of Parliamentary
corruption. Let it one go forth that it is only by
bribes out of the public purse that a Parliamentary
majority can be held together, and the foundation
has been laid for a reaction against our present
constitution far more serious than anything that
has hitherto been contemplated.

(From the Morning Advertiser.)
To-night the debate on the Paper Duties will be
resumed, and we have no doubt, be also concluded.
Before recording their votes, it is right that men'
hers should distinctly comprehend the issues in-
volved in the division. The first great question
which they will have to answer by their votes is
this—" Is it wise, is it politic, is it just, to esti!):
guish, not for one year, but for ever, 'a source 01
taxation which contributes £1,500,000 annually to
the revenue, without any one of her Majesty's
subjects feeling the slightest pressure in paying
their part of the sum ?" Viewed in that one
light, there cannot, we should think, be two °pi'
nions on the point.. All must admit that it would
not be possible to imagine anything more inexpe-
dient than to dry up for ever, by a formal vote,
source of revenue which is so little felt, and at
the same time so abundant. If, therefore, there
were no other considerations mixed up with the
matter, that one fact ought to be sufficient to in-
sure the retention of the Paper Duties as the result
of the division this evening.
But then there is this other weighty considers-
tion,—that the proposed repeal of the Paper Duties
has been literally forced on Lord Palmerston and
the Cabinet by Mr. Gladstone. This is not denied
either by the noble Lord himself, or by any of his
colleagues. Neither the Premier nor any member
of his Cabinet ventured to repudiate the charge,
even when it was preferred by Mr. Disraeli in the
House of Commons, at a time when the gather
ing of the members was unusually large.
Mr. Disraeli, indeed, put the thing in more
expressive words than we have done. Fie
charged Mr. Gladstone to his face
.with .tbully-
ing" Lord Palmerston. And the silence alike of the
Premier and the Chandelier of the Exchequer under
so grave an accusation, was a virtual admission of
its truth.

The country is indignant at this, because, as we
have said a thousand times over, there is no mail
now, nor has been in the present day, so popular
with the country, both personally and politically,
as Lord Palmerston. He is a man whose noble
nature, courteous manners, lofty patriotism, and
eminent statesmanship, as well as unrivalled dipin"
matic abilities, render :him the idol of his country
men. So much greater the pity—so much deeper
the national humiliatio rt and indignation, that such a
man should be perpetually subject in Cabinet Coun-
cils, to the arrogant, acid even insulting demeanour
of one who has not am atom of generosity in his
nature, any mom than geniality in his manner.
If, therefore, there Iv ere no other reason than the
universal desire that Lord Palmerston should be
placed beyond the reach of Mr. Gladstone's bully-
ing" demeanour, that ought to be sufficient to in'
duce the house to vote for the retention of the
Paper Duties,—for inasmuch as Mr. Gladstone 10
pledged over head and heels to Mr. John Bright
and the Manchester Sabool, to carry the repeal of
the Paper Duties or resign, his defeat this evening
would necessitate his resignation and that of Mr.
Milner Gibson. Lord Palmerston is a man of
much too generous a disposition to make an admis-
sion to that effect, but there is no one in the
country at all conversant with the facts of the case,
who does not know that the resignation of Mr.
Gladstone and Mr. Milner Gibson would be to the
noble lord a boon and a. blessing of the first magni-
tude, while the country would raise one load ulll-
- shout of joy on finding that the career of Mr.
Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer had been
thus brought to a termination.

But in addition to all this, let it be remembered
that no one wishes for the repeal of the Paper
Duties except, —indeed, the proprietors of trie
penny papers. It is not pretended that the country
wishes the repeal of these duties. The country, on
the contrary, is dead a gainst their remission. Not
one solitary petition has been presented this ses-
sion for the abolition of the duties in question front
any class of the community, whereas an immense
number of petitions against the repeal of the Paper,
Duties have been laid on the table of the House of
Commons from all classes and all parts of the
country. But let hear the Times on this
point. In its impression of Tuesday, that journal
says, speaking of the proposed repeal of the
Paper Duties :—" But what is the weak point of
this measure ? It is that it cannot even pretend
to be a popular proceeding. There is absolute',
no such thing as a cry, or a cause, or even a public
opinion in favour of the measure. There has been
nothing to indicate that; a single labourer, or artisan,
or shopman cares a straw about the repeal of the
duty one way or the other. The agitation is con-
fined to Parliament-street; if you go southward into
Lambeth, or northward Into the populous quarters
of Broadway and Tothill-fields, you will find no
more known about it than about the politics of the
moon. The measure may be a very good one all the
same. The French Emperor does some very grand
things, but then he does them without public pres-
sure, and sometimes without public fore-knowledge.
If the House of Commons passes this measure, it
will be acting imperially rather than as represent-
ing the people."
There is no mistaking this language, and coming
from the Times, the staunch supporter of the Go'
vernment, such testimony is invaluable. If any
member had any doubts before as to the vote be
should give this evening, this extract from the Tunas
ought to make him determine at once to record his
vote against a measure for which no human being►
not personally interested, has expressed the faintest
wish.

The organs of Government are endeavouring to
frighten members into the support of the Glad-
stone proposal to abolish the Paper Duties, by
holding over their heads the threat of a dissolu-
tion. The menace is mere moonshine. And none
know that it is so better than those who make use
of it. Lord Palmerston no more dreams of s
dissolution in the event of a Gladstone defeat
this night, than he dreams of restoring the
Heptarehy. The idea, indeed, all things consi-
dered, is so supremely and so manifestly preposte-
rous, that it were a reflection on the intelligence of
the public were we to set about seriously to dis-
prove it. No; there will be no dissolution of Par-
liament—none even of the Ministry. The only
dissolution will be that of Mr. Gladstone, as Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, and as a member of the
Cabinet, followed by another "dissolving view," in
the person of Mr. Milner Gibson. And with these
two elements of weakness out of the Cabinet, the
Government of Lord Palmerston would acquire a
measure of strength which it has never hitherto
known, and never by possibility can know, so long
as it is its sad fate to have two such men among
its members. They are a couple of Achans in the
camp of Downing-street.

The Lord Advocate, on Friday, will introduce a
bill to amend the law rogarding conjugal rights in Scot-
land.

[ADVERTISEMENT.] Pills and medicine invariably ag-
gt
avate and perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, dis-
appointment, and expense may be avoided by persons
In indifferent health sending only their address to E.
S. Barry, Esq., 77, Regent-street, W., London, and they
will receive gratis- and free by post the " INvAzins' OwN
GUIDE," or Natural Restorer, without medicine or ex
pmse, of perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound langs, and
refreshing sleep, to the most enfeebled, insuring the removal
of indigestion (dyspepsia), constipation, liver complaints,
nausea, epilepsy, paralysis, debility, nervousness, palpitation,
cough, asthma, consumption, dropsy, flatulency, diarrhoea,dysentery, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds,
noises in the ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions,
hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpi-
tation, heartburn, headache, despondency, cramps, spasms,
sinking, fits, bronchitis.— " Unquestionably the safest Guide
to health."