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Hfs pidtur,,s, deferring. the payment, he never thought it
would bring him into Ow Court of Bankruptcy. The
process-server would reply that the Act must be good
law, because it was framed by Lord Cottenham, who.
was ,our years Lord Chancellor.) His Noble and Learned
Friend had a better memory than he (Lord Brougham),
for he (Lord Brougham) could not repeat to•
night, word for word, the speech which he
made two months ago---(Bear; hear, and a laugh),-
yet he remembered one thing, which their Lordship
would scarcely believe, that the clause which was held
up to so much odium, as if it were intended to give an
undue protection to Members of both Houses of Parlia-
ment, was actually copied from a Bill introduced by
Lord Cottenham himself, when Lord Chancellor. On
the third reading of this Bill he would move a clause to
prevent a debtor from being remanded for more than
twelve months. The Bill, however, would in all cases
abOlish imprisonment for debt under 201. The
number of small debts courts in the kingdom
was 272, and the condition of the unfortunate
debt Ors imprisoned by them was most deplorable. In
many cases they were confined upon bread and water,
and subjected to felon's fare and felon's punidhmest.
This would be abolished by leis Bill, which would in fact,
abolish imprisonment for debt in all cases; as no man
need be arrested, or, being arrested, need remain in pri-
son one hour. As to the statement that the pro
cess of liberation would be expensive, he would
only say that he understood that the attorney
generally charged 201. for getting a man out of prison
under the Act of 18.12. But the advertisements re-
quired by that Act cost 5L That expense would be
done away with by this Bill ; and he cautioned those gen-
try (the attorneys) that he would keep a watchful eye
upon them, and if he found any of them charging 15/.
for expenses under this Act, they should hear from him.
He concluded by moving that the report be received.
Lord CAMPBELL expressed surprise that the Lord.
Chancellor, the speaker of that House, remained silent
under a charge of gross inconsistency. The charge was
made by a Noble and Learned Lord on that (the Oppo-
sition) side of the House ; and another Noble and
Learned Lord (Lord Brougham) who still continued to
sit on the same side of the House—(A laugh)—and who
. seemed to be the standing counsel of the Lord Chancel
for and of her Majesty's Government.—(A laugh.) That
.Noble and Learned Lord defended the Bill, 'but he
said not a word in defence of the Lord Chancellor's
inconsistency. He (Lord Brougham) complained, in-
deed, of Lord Cottenham's'foo. often quoting the speech
of the Noble and Learned Lord on. -the woolsack-but

lie (Lord Campbell) thought that so excellent a speech
could not be too often repeated until its arguments were
carried into practice-
- decies repetita placebit,
and it could not be more aptly quoted than on the pre-
sent occasion. When the two Bills were committed, the
Noble and Learned Lord on the . woolsack took care
that it should be so constituted as to express his own
opinion, and in truth, the report of the Committee was
the report of the Lord Chanceller.—(A laugh.) -The
Bill of Lord Cottenham, which,had been so lauded by
his Noble and Learned FriCnd hn the' wPolsaCk was
thrown overboard. What was it that caused the change
in the opinion of his Noble and Learned Friend on the
woolsack? Was it a miracle—was it mesmerism, of which
they beard so much of late ?—(Laughter.) He could not
ascertain the cause, but the event was most extraordinary,
and not more extraordinary, than deplorable. There
would have been no difficulty in introducing a clause
exempting members of the royal family from the opera-
tion of the Bill. He rejoiced that the Government had
changed its opinions on the subject of imprisonment for
debt by the courts of conscience. Whereas in this
session a member of the Government introduced a Bill
continuing imprisonment for debt by courts of conscience,
and assigning a day's imprisonment for every shilling
of debt, he hoped that in the next session of Parlia-
ment, the Lord Chancellor himself—(A laugh)—who-
ever he might be would come down and bring in
the Bill of his Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Cot-
tenham.) No one could be better qualified than the
Noble and Learned Lord on the woolsack to consider
this question, as he had made the best speeches on both
sides of it.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said he should have
before replied to the personal attack made upon him,
but that he waited to hear what the Noble and Learned
Lord who had just sat down, and who had been a mem-
ber of the Committee, would say. But he ought to have
spared himself that delay, for the Noble and Learned
Lord had done no more than to follow, longo
the arguments of his Noble and Learned Friend, the late
Lord Chancellor. He would not occupy the House
many minutes. He would only say that he had not been
guilty of any inconsistency. He supported this Bill be-
cause it put an end to the imprisonment for debt—for
mere debt—for debt in all cases where it was safe to do
away with it.—(Hear, hear.) He had always declared
that he would, if he stood alone, resist the introduction of
so great a novelty in our law, as that the peers of
the realm, and the princes of the blood should be sub-
ject to the laws of bankruptcy. As long as he held a
seat in that House, he would oppose such an innovation.
He had declared to his Noble Friend in the Committee
that he would never consent to so great a novelty. That
was the reason, although it might seem to his Noble and
Learned Friend to be a good reason, for the course
which he had taken. The present measure would give
every assistance to the just creditor, and every protec-
tion to the honest debtor, who was willing to give up his
property to pay his debts as far as he could. No debtor
who was willing to give a fair account of his property
could be imprisoned. But if you act leniently to the
honest debtor, you should be stringent in your dealings
with the fraudulent. Upon these grounds ho supported
the present Bill. His Noble and Learned Friend had
said that there was a great difference of opinion between
him (the Lord Chancellor) and the Secretary of State for
the Home Department in respect to imprisonment for
small debts. He (the Lord Chancellor) had not known
that a Bill was introduced into the other House, re-
taining the power of imprisonment by the courts of
conscience and the county courts, of " not more than
one day for one shilling." He was not aware that such
had been done. But it was only an enactment, which
was usual in those Bills, and it would be rendered null
by the present Bill. He had always, upon principle,
been opposed to imprisonment for debt. He had always
looked upon it as equally cruel, but not equally reason-
able, with the old practice (which we read of in history),
of allowing the creditor to sell the debtor as a slave.
The law of imprisonment for debt operated in the same
manner, though not to the same degree. It punished
the debtor, but it did not, like the old practice, repay the
creditor. It had been said that the effect of abolishing
imprisonment for small debts would prevent poor men
out of work from getting credit. But the evidence
taken before the Committee on this Bill had proved
that such was not the case.—(Hear, hear.) The Com-
mittee had examined witnesses from the Tower-hamlets,
when the Commissioners of the Court of Requests lost
the power of imprisonment, in 1842, in consequence of
the magistrates of Middlesex' refusing to allow the pri-
soners to be lodged in the county gaol. From that time
the summonses fell off from 30,000 per annum, to 13,000.
But there was no diminution of the credit given to poor
people of good character. Similar evidence was received
from other parts of the country. The Committee had
also inquired into the state of the prisons for small debts
throughout the country, and the description of some of
them was appalling. If this Bill did not pass, it would
be necessary for Parliament, or the Government, to turn
their attention to those horrid dens. He would not
occupy their Lordships longer, and he hoped that he had
sufficiently answered the charge made against him.
Lord COTTENHAM and Lord BROUGHAM explained.
The report was then received.
On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, three
clauses were struck out, which could not pass in their
Lordships' House, being money clauses.
A message from the Commons brought up the Duchy
of Cornwall Lands Bill, and several other Bills, which
were severally read a first time.
The Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill was read a third
time and passed.
Their Lordships then adjourned at. Half past Eleven.

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`or Castle.

LITERATURE.
THE COURT AT RA VENNA.
Nich;'sson London, 1844.

The " Court at Ravenna" is, without exception,
me of the drollest comedies we ever read. As for
the plot, it is impossible to give any account of what
,asseth all human understanding ; and the leading
;ncidents of the play are hardly less perplexing,
'or they set both nature and probability sit
lefianee, and go ttimblinir one over . the . other in
glorious confusion, just like so many drunken
Irishmen at Donnybrook Fair. Many of the scenes
are laid in the coffee-room of the Swan tavern at Ra-
venna; and two of the principal personages are the
Boots and Chambermaid of that same tavern, who
indulge in a World of waggery which it is but justice
to the author to say, in no respect reminds us of the
brilliant repartees of Congreve or Sheridan. Then there
is a Sir William Kypes, who, it appears,- is a great
patron of the Swan, and who does the landlady, Mrs.
Goodwife, out. of no `less a sum than one hundred

and fifty pounds, of which she more than once ex-
presses her apprehensions that she shall never
touch a farthing. Also, there is a certain Duke
Charles, together with a Count and Countess of
Naples, who vie with each other in talking just
such ank verse as is in fashion on the boards of a
penny theatre in Whitechapel. The quantity of
broken metaphors in which these illustrious per-
sonages indulge is really incredible, nor is their
lofty disdain for the low vulgarities of syntax and
grammar less to be admired and wondered at. We
should not omit to add that, among the dra-
matis personae, there is an exceedingly funny steward
who, in an excess of the comical, kicks Boots for
having presumed to fall fast asleep in the doorway of
the Swan Tavern. This remarkable incident takes
place towards the close of the fourth act, and from the
impassioned exclamations of Boots we are not with-
out our fears that the steward's kick must have sorely
endamaged him. Those who have the slightest pre-
dilection for the absurd and ludicrous cannot do better
than peruse this comedy. No wag's library can be
considered complete without it.

BRITISH 4. FOREIGN RE VIE IV. No. XXXII'.
Taylor, London, 1844.
The character of Robespierre—a curious problem
on which of late years so many historians and es
sayists have exercised their ingenuity—is canvassed
at considerable length in the present number of this
periodical. Unlike the generality of those writers
who have speculated on the subject, the Reviewer
does not go off in paroxysms of horror while enu-
merating the events that marked the close of this
sanguinary Dictator's reign ; but discusses his pre-
tensions as a statesman calmly and impartially,- and
after detailing the incidents of his career from the
year 1789, when he first took his. seat in the Consti-
tuent Assembly, down to the period of his fall in.
1794, comes to the conclusion that justice has not
been done to his powers of mind, and that he was by
no means so poor a creature as he has been generally
represented to have been. In this opinion we are
strongly tempted to coincide with the Reviewer. The
man who overthrew in succession every party op-
posed to his views, and " wielded at will the fierce
democracy" at by far the mostcritical period—as Lord
Brougham has justly remarked—of French history in
any age, must have possessed intellectual powers of no
ordinary calibre. As an orator, though it is the
fashion to deny him any sort of eulogium, he was in-
comparably the most adroit, argumentative, and con-
vincing, of all that the Revolution produced; and his
calm, practical sagacity contrasts most favourably
with the bombastic rhapsodies and tinsel imagery of
the clap-trap speakers of the Gironde. The great
defect of his speeches as we read them now, is their
incessant and sickening adulation of the mob ' • but
this, at the time they were delivered, constituted. their
chief excellence, and is the secret of that tremendous
influence which Robespierre exercised during the
three stormiest years recorded in the annals of
France. Of the political system which he deemed it
incumbent on him to 'adopt, of course nothing can be
said but in unqualified reprobation. "His tyranny,"
observes the Reviewer, " if he had been able to carry
it out, would have been, perhaps, the most intolerable
ever known on earth, being at once a religious, moral,
and 'political tyranny, uniting the worst intolerance
of Puritanism with the despotism of Napoleon." It
was; a great day for France. and humanity when
the axe fell on the neck of this gloomy
and remorseless fanatic, for, though many of
those who brought him to the scaffold were quite
as cruel and despotic as himself, and not half so
conscientious, yet their power to do evil was circum-
scribed, and they were compelled to go with the cur-
rent of public opinion which had already set in in
favour of mercy and toleration. The Reviewer hints
that if Robespierre had shown vigour and presence of
mind at the crisis of his fate, the result might have
been different, and he might have "gained a dominion
more absolute than the Ceesars'." This was clearly
impossible. His hour had come, and no human
means could have averted his fall. If he had not
perished in July, he must have perished in the fol-
lowing month, for he had no resources left; public
opinion was fast deserting him; the mob, by whose
agency he had risen to power, were ready to turn
round on him,- having nothing more to expect from his
sympathy w ith their fortunes; the middle classesh ad been
long alienated by his cruelty; and the fabric of political
and religious fanaticism, which he proposed to erect in
France, and whose foundations he had laid so deep in
blood, was wholly unsuited to the free-thinking spirit
of his countrymen. In the article on " Modern
English Dramatists," occur some ingenious specula-
tions on the subject of the present declining state of
the stage, which, we think, may be quite sufficiently
accounted for by the fact that we have no first-rate
performers among us, whether in tragedy or comedy.
One or two stars we have, such as Farren and
Macready, but compared with their predecessors,
they are but "stellae ininores" twinkling faintly in
the theatrical firmament; and why should we put
ourselves out of the
way to see a play of Shakspeare
or Sheridan imperfectly represented on the stage,
when we can enjoy it without stirring from the
snug retirement of our study ? Referring inciden-
tally to " Ion," the Reviewer says, " We have heard
this draina termed a noble tragedy ; we admit its
nobility, but we crave to read, instead of tragedy,
lyrical drama ; for its conception, its construction, and
its dialogue, notwithstanding the blank verse, are all
lyrical." If " Ion" be not a pure tragedy, fashioned
in strict accordance with dramatic propriety, then we
know not where such a production is to be found.
To our thinking it is incomparably the noblest pro-
duction of the sort that has appeared since the
golden age of the drama ; and exhibits a skill
of
ul
at an elevation and catholicism of sentiment that no
coornsstarvuectsihonai,o a grandeur of conception, and
1.01 ine r t
o dayse other's
Shakspeare has equalled. Had it appeared
Kemble and Siddons, the one
playing Clemanthe, who can doubt
the enthusiastic reception it would have met with ?
but Mr. Macready with his flat, broad face, and
eccentric fashion of, declamation, made a very indif-
ferent Greek hero, and Miss Tree was scarcely less
efficient in the character of the Greek heroine. In
the " Condition and Prospects of British Husbandry"
—a sensible, practical article—the Reviewer states
that, with the sole exception of the Netherlands, there
is no other people- whose agriculture exhibits such
anomalies as our own. The " Sugar Question" is
discussed with a calmness and fairness that will ex•
tort the respect even of those who may dissent from
the line of argument which it adopts. Of the few re-
maining articles, the ablest is the elaborate account
of the Literature and History of the Slavonic
Nations." From the sketch of Robespierre" we
quote the details of the last days of this inexorable
Dictator :
" It is strange that a man So suspicious as Robespierre
should not have foreseen the plot that was to destroy
him so soon. He must have observed extremely omi-
nous signs in the general reception of his last harangue
on the preceding day ; and those members of the Con-
vention wbo knew that they must either destroy Robes-
pierre or be destroyed by him, were busily employed
during the whole night between the Bth and 9th Ther-
midor in bringing over to their side that mass of the
Convention upon which Robespierre seemed to rely.
The genius of the Dictator had in fact deserted him; or
rather it bad done its work, and another kind of genius
was wanted for what was now to be done. And yet if
he had reflected on what his position had been when be
overthrew the Girondists, he might have seen that, had
he. then not brought a force to bear upon the Assembly
from without, he and not the Girondists must have
fallen. His course was now clear—it was no longer a
time for talking, but for prompt and energetic action.
The Jacobins and the commune of Paris were his ;
Henriot, the commandant-general of the national guard
of Paris, was ready to, die for him. Henriot, it is true,
was not a man of head ; but there was no man of head
to oppose to him, and he had been found sufficient in the
case of the Girondists. But instead of .giving instruc-
tions to Her.riot to march his troops and surround the
Convention with the canonniers of Paris, he went to the
Assembly with a foolish notion of more speech-making
and drivelling about respect for the laws. His voice
was drowned in the shouts of his enemies vociferating
a bas, I bas le tyran !' It was an open rebellion, with
nothing to oppose it but the unheard voices of himself
and his brother Augustin and his adherents Saint Just,
Couthon, and Übe* ; he was like a general who has al-
lowed himself to be surprised, or rather like a wild
beast taken in the toils ; for in this his last struggle he
showed no want of courage, making such violent and de-
termined efforts to be heard, that Ft eron exclaimed,
" Ah! qu'un tyran est dur a abattre!' But vain were
those convulsive struggles: Pour la derniere fois, presi•
dent d'assassins, je to demands la parole.' And when at
length he had exhausted himself by repeated efforts,
Gamier de l'Aube exclaimed, ' The blood of Danton is
choking him.' And truly the same measure which be
had meted out to Danton, vainly demanding to speak
for life and honour,' was now to be meted out to him.
"In the twilight of that July day (the 27th), in the
year 1794, the Place de Greve (which to him who treads
it with a competent knowledge of the past is alive with
so many memories) presented a busy and eventful scene.
Hackney coaches, arrived bringing-Robespierre and his
friends from the five different prisons to which they had
bean conveyed, and froth. 'which they had again been
_

illiettted
.by the power of the council-general of the
commune. Buhl? Of the section battalions and some cf
the canonniers came also ; and ttm latter, posting them-
selves round. the Hotel de Ville and turtlhig the mouths
of their guns so as to command the approaches, stood by
them with lighted matches Within that building, at
his last council, sat the Jacobin chief with an anxious
uneasy look, the sallow hue usually spread over his re
pulsive countenance deepened. by the agitation of his
mind. Beside him sat a young man, the almost feminine
softness and regularity of whose fine features formed a
!grange contrast with his character—stern, daring, and
cruel as that of Claverhouse or Sylla. It was Saint-
Just—that strange sombre young fanatic, whose fanati-
cism was at once so strong and so cold-blooded, so sin-
cere and so unscrupulous. Even in that moment of im-
pending fhte his countenance preserved its usual impas-
sive serenity, his pulse its regular beat ; the imminence
of the peril had not deprived him of the power of
making the most collected exertion of his mind. And if
he had had the lead for that night., perhaps the result
might have been different ; for both he and the younger
Robespierre had acted in the field with the armies which
they superintended as commissioners (where indeed the
younger Robespierre had been the friend of Napoleon
Bonaparte, then an officer in the army of Nice) and bad
acquired something of military promptitude and deci-
sion. Even yet it may not be too late ; now is the time
—now—now! The alternative is a felon's death, or a
dominion more absolute than Cmsars'. Surely the
difference is .worth an effort—and if it fail, it is but death
at last! But that effort the adroit speech-maker cannot
make: the quality that can make such efforts succeed is
not his. If he had but a man instead of a drunken
ruffian to work his guns, they might still, if well served,
blow the opposition into the air. But the hour is past—
the tide has turned for ever for Maximilien Robespierre
and his fortunes."

SOCIAL SYSTEMS. Longman, Lonohn, 1844.
The work before us, as we gather from the preface,
was written by the late Mary Hennell, of Hackney,
who died of consumption in the year 1843. It is
reasoned with great acuteness and ingenuity, and
gives an outline of the various social systems and
communities which have been founded on the prin-
ciple of co-operation. The arguments of the work
are almost wholly of a practical character, to a degree,
indeed, that it is not often met with in the writings
of women.

JAMES'S WORKS. Vol. I.
Smith and Elder, London, 1844.

This is thefir;t volume .of a republication, in an
octavo form, of Mr. James's voluminous series of
novels, and includes the whole of the " Gipsy," which
was originally published in three volumes. The
work is introduced by—a
-brief, modestly-written pre-
face, wherein the author states the peculiar circum-
stances under which he was first induced to embrace
literature as a profession ; and, in reference to his
fertility as a novelist, which has occasioned no little
surprise in the literary world, states that the secret
consists, first, in his being an early riser, which
enables him to get through a good deal of work be-
fore the ordinary hours of business have well begun,
and, secondly, i❑ his making it a practice to employ
an amanuensis, which saves him a world of toil and
time in the task of transcribing his thoughts.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERnAY.
The betting was uncommonly flat, and, except in the
instance of Croton Oil, the Elegance filly, and Murton
Lordship for the Stakes, and the mare for the Cup, who
were in great favour at improved quotations. Nothing
arose out of it to require more than a summary of the
closing quotations :
GOODWOOD STAKES.
7 to 2 agst Mr. Wreford's Franchise—taken 4 to 1
6to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Croton Oil-7 to 1 t freely
9to 1 agst Mr. H. Johnstone's The Era—t & aft offd
10 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Best-of-Three—t & aft offd
11 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Canton
12 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Pride of Kildare—t & aft offd
13 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Parthian—taken
16 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Elegance filly—taken
18 to 1 agst Mr. Shelley's Lucy Banks—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Murton Lordship—t freely
20 to 1 agst Sir S. Spry's Subduer
200 even between Canton and the Best-of-Three.
GOODWOOD CUP.
Even on Mr. Salvin's Alice Hawthorn
6 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Prizefighter—taken
17 to 1 agst Mr. Quartermaine's Discount—take 20 to 1.
ST. LEGER.
4to 1 agst Mr. Salvin's The Cure—t and aft offered
4 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Ithuriel—t and aft offered
9 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's The Princess
1,000 to 25 agst Mr. Vane's Valerian.
BRIDGNORTH RACES—TUESDAY (CONCLUDED).
The Members' Plate of 50/., for horses that never won
that sum at any one time. • Heats, twice round and a
distance. The second receives 5L
Mr. Saunders' Caitiff, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b (Calloway) 0 1 1
Mr. E. Pcel's Cain, 4 yrs, Bst 31b
Mr. Wildman's Coheiress, 4 yrs, Bst 31b
Mr. Mostyn's Miss Miggs, 4 yrs, Bst 51b—Mr. Jones's
Phcerrix filly, 3 yrs, 7st 11b—r. Thompson's g by
Shrigley, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b—and Mr. Raworth's Donna
Anna, 4 yrs, Bst 31b—started for the first heat, but were
not placed.
The Free Handicap of 3 sovs. each, and 15 added, the
second to save his stake, once round and a distance, was
won, in two heats, by Mr. Flintoff's Exciseman, 4 yrs,
Bst 41b (Calloway), beating Coheiress, 4 yrs, Bst 41b,
and b g by Memnon, 3 yrs, 6st.
LANCASTER RACES—WEDNESDAY.
The Maiden Plate of 50/, given by the Duke of Hamil-
ton. For 3 yrs, ist 81b ; 4 yrs, Bst 41b ; 5 yrs, Bst 101 b;
6 yrs and aged, 9st 41b. Mares and Geldings allowed
31bs. Heats, 2 miles.
Mr. Meiklam's Godfrey, 3 yrs (Hutchinson) 1 1
Mr. J. Osberne's Sloane, 3 yrs
Mr. Hayes's Meg Merrilies, 5 yrs
Mr. Milner's Miss Prim, 5 yrs
Mr. Smith's Fair Ellen, 4 yrs 2 4
Mr. Heap's Chintz Print, 4) rs
First heat won by a half a neck—Second won cleverly.
The Cup Stakes of 10 sovs each, p. p., 3 yrs, 7st ; 4 yrs,
Bst ; 5 yrs, Bst 81b ; 6 yrs and aged, 9st ; winners of
50/ this year 31bs, twice 51bs, thrice or more 71bs ex-
tra. Two miles and a distance (6 Subs.)
Mr. Meiklam's Aristotle, 5 yrs (Templeman) 1
Mr. Cuthbert's Queen of the Tyne, 5 yrs
Mr. Atkinson's Lady of the Lake, 6 yrs 3
A fine race with the two, won by a head.
ROMFORD RACES.—THURSDAY.
The Romford Stakes of 2 Sovs. each, with 20 added,
the second saves his stake ; 3 yrs old, 7st 51b ; 4 yrs,
Bst 71b ; 5 yrs, 9st ; 6 yrs and aged, 9st 31b ; once
round and a dis. ; winner to be sold for 801, (4 Subs.) ;
were won in two heats by, Mr. Parr's Nora Creina, 6
yrs (owner), beating Mr. Cowderay's Ascot, 6 yrs, Mr.
Clarke's Mespelus, 3 yrs, and Mr. Dixon's The Star
(dis.) easily.
The Brentwood Plate of 15 sovs., added to a sweep-
stakes of 2 sovs. each ; winner to be sold for 60 sore. ;
other conditions as for Romford Stakes ; was won easily
in two heats (the last a walk over) by Mr. Parr's Nora
Creina, beating Royal Oak and Waterloo.
The Liberty Handicap of 5 soya. each, 2 ft., with 30
added. Once round. (13 Subs.)
Mr. Heppel's Lady Flora, 6 yrs, 7st 61b. (Pattison) 1 1
Mr. Coleman's Lufra 3 yrs, Est 121 b 2 2
Mr. Southby's Waterloo, 5 yrs, 7st 51b 3 dr
Won easy.
The weather was fine, and the company numerous.
GOODWOOD RACES.

The great length of the programme for the ensuing
meeting occupying, with the notice (with regard to the
examination of horses objected to before starting, and
the determination of the Duke of Richmond to exclude
all persons guilty of malpractices, or in default for
stakes or bets) so comprehensively, and so carefully
drawn up, as to leave no loop-hole for escape, no less
than seven columns and a half of the " Sbeet Calen-
dar," renders it inexpedient that we should give more
than an outline of the sport to be anticipated. On the
first day, there are thirteen races on paper, including
the Innkeepers' Plate, which will be run in heats, the
last of the day • the Craven Stakes has at
present eight subscribers, and will open the ball. To
this will succeed, in the order to be hereafter determined
upon, the Lavant Stakes of 50 sovs. each, 30 ft, for two
years old, 26 subs., for which the Maid of Orleans, the
winner of the Two Year Old Stakes at Bath and Gor-
hambury, and Full-sail, winner of the Woodcote Stakes
at Epsom, will be the favourites. The Gratwicke Stakes
of 100 sovs. each, h ft, for three yrs old, 65 subs.—for
this race Antler, Ithuriel, and Red Deer, are likely to
meet, the first carrying the full weight, and giving his
opponents Gibs each ; Pastoral, Zenobia, Brunel, and
other winners of minor pretensions, are engaged in this
stake, which, at a moderate calculation, will
net 3,700/. The Drawing-room Stakes of 25
sovs.. each, for three yrs old, has an entry
of 30 horses, and, the Ugly Buck being scratched,
is an open race, will ensure a large field ; the best public
runners are the Devil-to-Pay, Croton Oil, All-round-my-
Hat, and Zenobia ; Vattel will not show. The Great
Four Year Old Stakes of 300 sovs. each, h ft, 16 subs., is,
if in his old form, a certainty for Cotherstone, who has
been reserved for it ; Phlegon is engaged, and, if there,
will no doubt be a starter. The Ham Stakes of 100
soya. each, h ft, will bring out a large field of two year
olds, most of them "dark," and not a single winner ;
Bastion, who ran second to the Maid of Orleans at
Gorhambury in the deciding heat, and Lord Glasgow's
Impertinence filly, beaten by Espoir in a match, New-
market First Spring Meeting, having in the same meet-
ing run a dead heat with Molly Mogg in a match, are the
only public runners. The Goodwood Club Stakes of
10 sovs. each (we give the handicap below) has an entry
of seventeen horses, and the Welter Stakes of 20 sovs.
each, four horses ; both are for gentlemen riders. The
matches between Cattonite and Robinson (the latter has
paid 100 sovs. forfeit), f by Jack-in-the-Green, and
f by Almack, Hampton and Mechanic, and Olive
Oil, and the Canada filly, with the Innkeepers'
Plate, will complete a day's sport that will oc-
cupy six hours at the least, and realise to the
various winners, something like twelve thousand pounds.
On the second day the Goodwood Stakes, with an ac-
ceptance of fifty-two. and the certainty of an immense
field, and the Stewards' Cup, value 300 sovs. (the horses
to be named on Monday next) will be the features ;
there will also be the match between Lord G. Bentinck's
Captain Cook and Lord Maidstone's Larry M•Hale,
owners riding ; one between Vitellius and Roderick, for
300/. ; the Queen's Plate ; the Cowdray Stakes ; the
Chichester Members' and the Ladies' Plate, heats ; the
entries to be made on Monday next. Including heats,
nine or ten races may be expected. On Thursday,
the grand day, besides the Cup, for which Alice Haw-
thorn and a large field are likely to show, there will be
several interesting and valuablhase stakes :—The Racing
Stakes of 50 sovs. eacb, pp, twenty-five entries,
which the Devil-to-Pay, Akbar, and the Miser Scarce
(the Ugly Buck being struck out), are the only public
Runners of any pretension. The Molecomb Stakes of 50