The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-20 00:00:00

Foreign hiail Packet Lket.

MAILS. DUE.
Mistral's. and New Zealand, via Southampton., Mareh 28
Ditto, via Marseilles ............ March 22,
Ditto, via Panama ............ Feb. 28 .
Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video March 5.
Ditto, by French packet .... . ..... ... F. b. 22
Caps Verde. by Brazil paoket • ...... . March 5.
Cape of Good Hope. Ascension. and St. Helena Feb. '.7
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton march 5.
Ditto, via Marseilles. . ..• ....Feb, 27
Falkland Islands March 5.
Gibraltar, via Southampton . Feb. 28
India.via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseil es
Malta, Egypt, &o.
Natal, via
D!lto, Marseilles Feb.
22.
Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Feb. 23
Southampton
Ditt ), al &reel les Mari.' 2
Setrioundla i. d ...... •••••
Ditto, by pr.\ 1 le ship to Oporto
... March 15.
United Ditto
sates ,
t k to to Lisbon
&e., isbon Marc' March 5
1 .
Portugal .„ . a
, ,
aitnada,
California,by British
pitek.et

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Ditto, by I. Lited „itates packet
Ditto ditto 'New York)
Ditto ciitto Ntw York)
Ditto dittt (Baltimore)
Ditto, by Canadian packet Feb 21.
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenetlife March 1.
West Indies and Pa.dlic (exoept Alexizo and 43aha-
mas) Feb. 28.
Cub and .!it este.° ........................... Feb. 28St .
arch -.
iiallamaS, via New ............ •6-•
82C111114.41 via Wigs*. .. 11161.41- 14.

PROGRAMME OF HARROW SPRING FLAT RACES
AND STEEPLECHASES.

FRIDAY.
A Soiling Handicap of 3 sous each, with 20 added ; any
winner after the publication of the weights 71b extra ;
Thesaobyoj
itet fideviheo,s
efhux rf o(rniagunsdc.
a.e Openof
about three miles. Sacteceepplteacnhcase)e, wHiathudliOuradudiedlo;
Age at lb
Globule
Sprite a 11 11
Sinite a 11 3
Patience
Huntsman a 11 3
Arlescott
Bishopton
Tottie (inc. 51b cx) 5 10 12
The Harrow Steeplechase P.
any winner after Feb. 6 (at
Age et lb
Comberton
C )lumbia a 12 0
IL-dice (including
71b extra)
Patience ..
Spatehcock
Kronberg 6 10 12
Ace of Trumps
g by The Chicken,
dam by M.D. a 10 10
Countersign
Old Warrior
\Vaterperry a 10 9
Portfire
Acolyte „,„ a 10 7
Broomstick
A Plate of 40 sous (Handicaj
noon) 71b extra.
Age st lb i Age st lb
Goodfellow 4 812 Vicious ... 4 7 0
Lady Clinton 48 5 Dignity ... .. 4 7 0
Dawdle
Practitioner a 8 2 Gaiety .. 4 6 10
Columbine ... 4 8 2 The Shrew 3 6 10
Venturer ... ... 5 8 0 Diligence ... 3 6 10
Red Ribaud .. 4 8 0 Little Peevish ... 5 6 7
Wild Bee ... 6 7 12 Adjutant ... ... 3 6 7
Harlington 4 7 10 Primula ... 6 et
Paulina
Easby
Veni
Marquis, of Wor- Lady Zetland (dr). l 6 4
cestor
The -Hackler
Bouquetiere
Dutch Admiral 4 7 4 Sister toGlowworm 3 5 10
The Stand Plate of 40 sovs ; two year olds 6st 101 b, three
9st 51b, four lOst 41b, live and upwards lOst 71b; the
winner to be sold for 80 sous ; if catered for 50 soya
—' allowed 71b, 30 121 b; any winner of 50 sows 41b extra.
mHalf a mile.

Age st lb
Oldminster
Lisbryan
Kronberg
11 1
00
a 1
Gelert 5 10 7
Miss Emma
Puebla
Knight of Down() 410 7
Caustic
late (Handicap) of 40 sous;
noon) 71b ex ; about 2 miles.
.610 7
Age st 111
Goes, hawk
i-Pne a 10 6
Novice . a 1(1 5
Wedding Peal
Order
Tom Coke... ... 5 10 0
Knight of DONTIIO... 4 10 0
Rod in Pickle ... alO 0
Volker 6 10 0
Belle of Kars ... 6 10 0
The Dictator a 10 0
Little Peevish ... 510 0
Flying Spur ... a 10 0
Signal ... a 10 0
Miss Emma

)); a winner after Feb. 6 (at
khout half a mile.

Little Coates 2 yrs (30 sovs), Rugby Lass 4 yrs (50),
Primula 3 30), Balvie 3 (80), Mendicity 2 (50). Inheri-
tance 3 (30), Tubal Cain 2 (30), Practitioner aged (39‘
Proctor 0 (30).

LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING.
THURSDAY, March 5.
The Liverpool Spring Cup of 200 sovs (speci3), added to
a Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, and 3
only (to the fund) if declared by noon on Tuesday, Feb.
11, to Messrs. Weatherby only ; wieners of a handicap
after February 5, at 11 a.m., 101 b extra. A mile and a
half. 65 subs., 35 of whom pay 3 sovs each to the fund.
The highest weight accepting being Bst 61b, it has been
raised to Bst 121 b, and the others in proportion.
Age st lb Age st
Knight of the Garter 48 12 Clown ... ••• a 6 13
131inkhoolie ... 4 8 6 Sister to Vedette ... 4 6 12
IBiroonwe
snt
yB re.a..d
56
88
46
CS ititlaarmn awnocoaci 6 12
3 6 8
Belmont ... ... 584 Nu 6 6 6
Christmas Carol 67 12 Lady Diana ... 36 4
Foresight ... ... 4 7 8 Affection ... 36 4
Paxton ... ... 4 7 8 Weather Isle 36 4
Feodor 4 7 8 Purveyor ... 3 6 3
G. by Vedette— Rhine Wine ... 36 3
Vixen ... 4 7 6 Caprera ... 3 6 2
Aggravator ... 47 6 Philosopher, by
Belzoni 5 7 2 Laughing-Stock 3 6 2
La Ferte Fresnel ... 47 2 Adamant ... ... 3 513
Gipsy King 4 7 2 Citron ... 3 5 13
Child of the Islands 4 7 1 Harnmerion ... 3 5 13

DERBY SPRING MEETING.
THURSDAY, Feb. 27.
The Great Midland Steeplechase (handicap) of 100 sovs
added to a Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, and 3 only
(to the fund) if declared to Messrs. Weatherby only on,
Feb. 11, by 12 noon; winners of a steeplechase afte
Feb. 5, at 1 p.m., once 81b, twice or more 121 b extra; the
second to save his stake. About three miles and a half
twice over the bt ook. 30 subs.
The highest weight accepting being list 131 b, it has
been raised to 12st 71b, and the others in proportion.
Age st lb Age st lb
Benazet ... al2 7 Greenland ... all 10
Globule ... ... al2 6 Woodbury Hill ... all 8
The Nun (in.Blb ex) a 12 4 Moose ... a 11 G
The Tiger... a 12 1 Risk ... ... 6 11 1
Tennyson ... 5 11 13 Mrs. Allan 5 10
Farnane 5 11 12
The Great Midland Spring Handicap of 100 sovs, added
to a sweepstakes of 10 sovs each. Three-quarters of a
mile.

Age st lb Age st lb
Bismarck ... ... 4 812 Secrecy ... ... 4 6 8
Python ... ... 4 8 4 Valorous ... 1 6 8
S weet Anno ... 5 7 10 T hermometer 4 6 8
Moonbeam ... 4 7 4 Sister to Vedette 4 6 7
The Last Rose of , Van Dieman ... 3 6 0
Summer ... 3 7 2 Substance ... 3 6 0
Lady Lambton 4 7 2 Spendthrift ... 3 5 10
Cauthleen ... 4 7 0 S ugarstick ... 3 5 7
Innerdale ... ... 3 6 12

RACING FIXTI
MA:

L'verpool Spring M 3
0 .elinsford Spring M 10
Sarewsbury Spring 10
West Dray ton l2
Warwick Spring

Bromley Spring 6
Durham
Hendon l3
Newmarket Craven
Knighton l4
Abergavenny .,... 16
IL

Chester 5
Winchester
York Spring
Doncaster Spring
Salisbury l4
JU

West Drayton 1
Croydon 2d Summer
Manchester 3
Ascot Summer
Beverley, Hull, and
East Riding lO
Windsor Summer

RES FOR 1868.
,du.

Margate
Epsom Spring Mooting 24
Croxton Park
Northampton

Cattorick Bridgo
Lewes Spring
T hirsk

Ourragh April
Newmarket let Spring

Bath
Croydon Ist Summer
Harpenden
Epsom Summer ......

Chelmsford
Worcester Summer
Carlisle 7
Newmarket July 7
Pontefract
'Leading
Down Itoyal Corp.
Liverpool July Al.

Newton
Hampton
Newcastle
Bibury Club
Stockbridge
Alexandra Park

Odiham,
Stamford
I tailel it-To
II uutiu gdou.
N °Ulu glum July
Southamptou
Goodwood

AUG

Brighton
Brighton Club 6
Lewes Summer
Wolverhampton ll
Stockton
Plymouth
Windsor August l3
Egham lB
Hastings
York August

UST.

SEPTA
Baden
Warwick September
Abingdon 3
Leicester
Doncaster September 8
Brecon
Richmond
Hampton Autumn l5
OCT(

Dovor

Oxford
Scarborough
Canterbury
Derby Summer
Weymouth
Lichfield
Tuubridge
Margate

EMBER.
' Kelso l5
IHendon l9
Monmouth .. l7
'Newmarket tat October 22
1 Walsall 23
1 29
West Drayton
Royal Caledonian Hunt
and IV/Warn M
)13Eft.
Cheltenham l3
1 Ealing
'Newmarket Houghton 19
1 Worcester Autumn. 27
alBElt,

Bedford 1
Bromley Autumn
Newmarket 2d October 6
Chelmsford Autumn 13 _
NOVE
Shrewsbury Autumn 9
.Leamington and Warwickshire Hunt,.,, l7

'CHASES.
VARY.
Windsor Grand Military
and Open
Baschurch 2B

SPIRO! OP TUB PUBLIC JOVLUAIAS,

At length, says the Times, we have had a church rate
debate in which almost everybody has been of the same
mind. Only one or two members of very extreme or of
very immovable principles refused to join in the general
harmony. This happy result is, indeed, simply the ac-
knowledgment of a fact which has been perfectly apparent
luring the last few years. That fact is, as Mr. Gladstone
said, that " the principle of church rates " has been prac-
tically surrendered on all sides. No one seriously proposes
to enforce the principle that every member of the com-
munity is liable for the maintenance of the fabric of the
church. The principle may be right or wrong, but it is
"onfessed to be impracticable. One exception must be
made, perhaps, if it be worth while to mention it. Mr.
rewdegate conceived the idea of converting what
is practically a voluntary rate upon persons into
a compulsory charge upon property, which would,
of course, fall upon persons in the end. He
irenans, in fact, that Dissenters would be content
that the grievaneJ should be substantially aggravated,
provided it wt re inflicted with less personal annoyAnce.
With the excuption, all were agreed, in some way or
other, to surrender the compute; .ry powers of the existing,
law—in other words, to preclude for the future the possi-
bility of ary man having to sacrifice his tables and chairs
in the name of conscience, and consequently to remove the
occasion of a bitter party fight between the clergyfflan and
li.s Dissenting parishioners. There remained only a differ-
ence respecting the way of doing it. The Conservatives
long ago proposed, says Mr. Hardy, to exempt anyone
from payment on his declaring himself a Dissenter, and
accepting some consequent disqualifications. This scheme
under various forms has been renewed every session, and
has of late been promoted by Mr. Hubbard and the party
with which he acts. It was properly objected to this plan
that it stamped Dissenters as a distinct party in the parish.
Mr. Bright, again, had suggested that all that was neces-
sary was to abolish the bailiff and the summons, leaving
everything else as it stands ; or to abolish what was
obnoxious in the existing law, and nothing more. This
idea caught the attention of Mr. Gladstone two years ago,
and he has since been endeavouring to put it into a prac-
tical shape. There is every reason to hope that he has at
last succeeded. The authors of the other proposals, Mr.
New igate of course excepted, are disposed to waive their
meas- -es in favour of his. Mr. Hardcastle withholds for
them ment his proposal for total abolition, and Mr. Hub-
bard ;od the Government are alike ready to accept Mr.
Glade r ,ne's scheme as the basis of a settlement, into which
any sl ;cial provisions they may think desirable may be
aftery Irds introduced.
- -

It i - not likely, says the Herald, that any such solution
as .t proposed by Lord Russell with regard to the Irish
Chu ..11 would put an end to the strife of parties in Ireland.
It f; far short of the programme of Cardinal Cullen and
the Limerick separationists on the one hand, and on the
otl ,r it would evoke the indignant remonstrance and re-
• ,anee of the Protestants throughout the kingdom. The
a sument which is advanced for the destruction of the
rish Establishment and the spoliation of its revenues
might be applied, with almost equal fitness, to the Church
of England on a future occasion. Considering the rate at
which Roman Catholicism and Dissent are progressing in

this country, the argument as to numbers is one of those
two edged.weapons which should be very warily handled.
Moreover, Lord Russell's proposition involves this special
grievance in the case of Ireland, that under the pretence
of removing a fancied grievance it creates a real one, and
that it gratifies Roman Catholic jealousy at the expense of
Protestant money and Protestant scruples. A Church
supported by the contributions of its own members can
hardly be a grievance to outsiders, but to appropriate five
or six-eighths of its revenues to the endowment of a hostile
Church is surely a manifest wrong. And it is none the
less patent because it is inflicted upon that section of the
Irish people which is conspicuously loyal to the Crown, in
order to conciliate another section, the allegiance and
fidelity of which are certainly not above suspicion.
The Standard discusses Mr. Mill's Irish land scheme.
The general purport of Mr. Mill's argument, cleared of
the passion and prejudice with which it is clothed, is that
Ireland must be governed, not as England is governed, but
upon Irish principles and according to Irish ideas. The
excuse that there is one law for both countries is not only
no excuse for the English, but a proof and an aggravation
9f their incapacity for ruling Ireland. Among the Irish
ideas is, that the land is the property, not of the rent re-
ceiver, but of the cultivator. "In the moral feelings o'
the Irish people the right to hold the land goes, as it did
in the beginning, with the right to till it." The landlords

arc an excrescence and a burden upon the land. Such
being the prevailing Irish idea, England is abused for not
comprehending it, and for not legislating according to
its spirit. Before making any apology for England,
in iniquitously and basely insisting upon treating
the Irish as though they were English, it may be
remarked that Mr. Mill himself is untrue to bis own
theory of a sound government for Ireland in the very pro-
posal which he makes—the only tangible remedy of any
kind which is offere 1 in relief of the monstrous wrongs
which he recites. He has proved a gi- at deal too much
for his own case. For if it is necessary tllitt we should
govern Ireland accordirg to Irish principles, and if one of
those pr ncipei is that he who cultivates the land is its
real own .r, it is clear that Mr. Mill's scheme of a kind of
general copyhold system of land tenure will not meet the
required conditions. If the Irish right is to be iiiterprete 1
i i the Irish sense--that is, in the Irish tenant's sens 3—
then we must not only give fixity of tenure, L '; we must
yield absolute property. There is nothing to shew that a
system of copyholds is in accordance with Irish ideas ; it
is quite certain that it would be no remedy for Irish dis-
affection. It is not for the privilege of paying rent in
perpetuity that the tenants are agitating, if they are
agitating at all ; but it is the immunity from all payment
that they desire.

The deputation to Mr. Gladstone on the subject of trades
unionism has not, in the opinion of the Pose, thrown any
new light on the matter. The organisation and action of
trades unions, in their character of a Power assuming to
control, and actually controlling, the free development of
capital and the free employment of labour, whether by
him who seeks to engage it or by him who possesses it and
desires to take it to market, still remains a difficulty to be
dealt with. If demand and supply, and supply and demand
could be so perfectly adjusted that they exactly dovetailed
and were exactly equivalent at all times, the problem would
be solved and trades unions would be dispersed. There would
be no such things as commercial speculations, manufacturers
would have no ups and downs, accounts might be kept in
accord with perfectly logical ideas, as Mr. Chadwick
phrases it ; the streets would be paved with gold, and the
ducks would fiy about ready roasted—not crying " Come
eat me," but scientifically silent, as knowing that the
demand would exactly, and without pressure or advertise-
ment, absorb the supply. But we have not come to that
yet ; and till we do we fear it will be found necessary
that the country shall insist upon Nix. Potter and his
friends substituting simple combination for complex
unionism.

In dealing with the case of Crossley v. Elworthy, the
Daily News observes that the proceeding illustrate only
too well other defects in commercial practice besides the
mode of cheating by false directors' reports. The cheating
was here so gross that the most moderate degree of care
would have discovered it. What were the other directors
about that they made no examination? What were the
auditors about that they made no comment? One of them,
indeed, we perceive, has been already served with a writ
for passing the accounts. But, finally, what were the
shareholders about that they made no inquiry, or were satis-
fied with stupidly false answers ? How often must the
lesson be taught that there is no way in the world of making
safe and large profits without even the trouble of
superintendence ? Twelve and a-half per cent. covered all
blunders and blinded the recipients-to all frauds. Perhaps
some lurking suspicion that it was not really earned may
have crossed the minds of some, but if SJ it was dismissed
as too uncomfortable. The rest simply accepted the bribe
to make no inquiry.
into their own affairs. It is this blind
and greedy confidence that encourages the frauds of
mfulaging. directors. Let us hope that a sufficiently fre-
quent petition of the lesson will at last cause it to be
learned.
When people have become satisfied that ruin in-
stead of wealth is the probable consequence of entire neg-
lect of the ordinary rules of prudence, British trade will
grow sounder, and then British credit may be expected to
revive.

t:l3y.could take I
rmoved bt dent]

Discretion is the better part of valour ; but discretion,
says the Telegraph, may he so far as to leave no
room for the display An excess of prudence is
likely to be ascribed to the rowing members of the Univer-
sity of Cambridge. After having
r offer challengeaccepted,
to their
Oxford competitors, and having had
the captains of the college boats who compose the club
the approaching con-
have thought fit, to withdraw from
it
tile Gordon, who
test on the plea of the death of the
was to have been a prominent member of
crew. Now, in so far as ta resolution thus
adopted represents the genuine and heartfeltgreenirieestileZeYd
by the untimely fate of that unfortunate
can have no word to say against it. Only those gentleman,
are
acquainted with the intimate ties of friendship that
con-
nect men rowing in the same crews, can fully appreciate
the shock which the melancholy death of the gallant yout,,
,'airman must have caused to his comrades anZ
fellow athletes. We cannot weeder if, in the tir,t
_ ~f ‹orrow, Mr. ijordori's friends should feel as if
t in a. contest from which he was
et further reflection will pr..iethly
second thoughts- are best. The
;lit Blue cannot seriously believe
f!ieni,Ave.-t, or ,::I)eet the v.-odd to berevo, that beer,nso
Mr. Gordon died in Fel,ruary their depression of mind
v.-:!1 b..• too gr;Nit to allow them to row in April. If the
university race is to be kept up as a per" anent institution,
its continuity should be maintained at some sacrifice.
Moreover, the aquatic honour of Cambridge is at stake.
For many years past the representatives of the Cam have
been. defeated by the heroes of the Isis ; and it is matter
o: common notoriety that this year was expo, ted to add
another to the well-earned triumphs of Oxford. Serious
difficulties have been experienced in composir g a Cam-
bridge crew which could enter for the great Thames
struggle with any chance of success • and the p. blic, with
1-.,3 rough, but not unfair, judgment:will assured y as.iime
that Mr. Gordon's death been been seized on at a prete t
fc,r escaping from inevitable defeat.