Star.
London, England, 1829-08-27 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

'WHAM RACES.—SacoueDay. Weissman, Ana. 26.
Agreeably to the promise held out on Tuesday, his Majesty
Visited these races to-day, and was the occasion of a much greater
assemblage of spectators than could have been expected with suck
gloomy weather. His Majesty reached the ground about a quarter
past one, in an open carriage and four, attended by a few out.
riders in grey livery, accompanied by the Marquis of Cocryngbasn
and Lord Moontcharies : the suite followed In a second carriage
and four, the Royal visit being quite private. His Majesty re-
mained le his carriage near the Judge's stand throughout the races,
at the end of which he left amidst the cheers of the met-mom—
His Majesty looked remarkably well, and was dressed as at Ascot
Races, with the addition of a blue coat, to guard galas' the cold
and damp. Besides the King, there were present—The Duke of
Dorset, Duke and Duchess of Richmond. Marquis of Wurcester,
Earl and Countess of Sefton and the Ladies Molyneaux, Earl
Jersey, Earl and Countess of Harcourt, Lord James Fitzroy, Lord
George Bendnek, Lord Rambles, Lord &reams, Lard Onto:,
Lord Mainers, Sir Jokes Gibbons ; Misses Berkeley Craves,
Irby, Graving, Peel, Rantsbottom, Moberly, L. Hervey, Wood,
and most of the leading families of the counties of Surrey and
Middlesex.
The following is a statement of the naming :
Handicap Sweepstakes of $ sous. each, and 2.5 sons. added, for
horses, Sic. of all ages. Doe mile and a half.
Mr. J. Day's Haji Baba, aged. est. Ilk
Duke of Richmond's Miss Craven, S pa, List. lab.
Mr. G. Bulkeley's Helas, 6 yrs, est. 101 b.... . .............. 3
Mr. IL Bulk/Ares Goblet, 4 yrs, 711.121 b.
Ms. Clark's Hal, aged, eat. tilib.
Two paid.—Betting 5 to 4 on Miss Craven, and I to 2 apt
Haji Baba. It was generally supposed that Miss Craven, who has
always run a stout honest mare, would get best througli the deep
ground, and she was backed freely. She started in front, making
the running at a brisk pace, the others well up in a cluster. They
maintained this order to the distance, where Hal (who is It only
for hunting), and Goblet (a very bad one), drops off; Heise and
Haji Baba then came up on either bide of Miss Craven, and ran a
severe race home, the mare being second half a length, and Hein
about a length and a half behind.
The Surrey and Middlesex Stakes of 25 sees. each, IS ft. and only
5, Sze. Two miles and a distance.
Lord Worcester's Marealleid, 3 yes, Ist. 71b.
Lord Mouneckarles's Bassein, 4 yrs, 7st. Sib
elr. J. Day's Liston, aged, Ist. 12Ib
His Majesty's Jour des Noces, 4 yrs, 7.e. 10lb 4
Bight paid.—Betting even on Rasselas; 3 to I against Rambo ;
and .5 to 1 against each of the other two. Liston took the lead at
a capital pace, Jour des Noces Mowing him, Raman dose at
kis heels, and klaredield at the end, but wed up. Liston main-
tained his running to the last turn _ (about three-quarters of a
mile from home), where Jour des Noces was beat d; and hers
Liston gave way to &sodas, which carried en the running for a
abort distance, when Maresleld went up to him and challenged.
A tremendous run home ended in favour of Maredleld by a neck
only ; Rasselas beat Liston several lengths, being the third dme
that they have run together this season with the same result.
The Magna Charta Stakes of SO sm. each, h. ft. foe three yrs. oh!
colts, Ist. Oh and Snits, est. The New Mile.
Duke of Richmond's Hindeo.. 0 1
Lord Moontcharies's Beatrice

One pai.
First Heat-5 to 2on Hindoo ;a d
very line race, and ended in a
dead beat. Second Heat—i to 4on Beatrice which fell of ha this
race after running a short distance, and was beat In a canter. The
deal beat waa one of the most punishing races we have seen for
some time.

ROWING MATCH.
Another good rowing match took plan yesterday for a purse of
sovereigns given by the Ladks and Gentlemen of the Ward of Far.
ringdon WWII. to be cootewed for by sic waternsen, three beats,
antler'. wager. The men had been tints placed to contend for the
prise

MIT INAT. 1111COXD NUT.
W. West Hine. S. Brent Red.
T. Bull .Yellow J. Ware Greets.
.1. Christey Crimson. R. Phillips White.
To start from Iliackfrillee-bridge, mad a boat moored eff Queers.
kith* up the North shore, remade beat eff the Temple down round
the said boat up to the bridge. Crimson was brat in the brit heat,
and Rine second. In the second beat Green was brit and Red .
second. At starting teethe grand beat Crimson took the lead, and
maintained it the wink way. Rue was second and Green third. 1

EFFECTS of TAXATION on CONSUMPTION.

From the Scotsman.
" Is the condition of the people of this country worse
thaniinterewesszt2 at forty years age?"' Or have the new emus
of wealth up by the march of impromeasot mootoraated
the pressure of taxation ?" Them are "Nudges often
agitated, bet which ham not yet perhaps reedved a wahlootere
solution. If we might believe the animal reports of our lismelen.
we have been advancing in wealth with a constant, though not
wetly an equable pax, all the time. For the truth of this=
position, they generally refer to some of the mddledeies
paying duty to the Customs or Buie. We have seen amminferts
gauged at various these by the cominsptioa ofghee and ma" of
kicks and tiles, of wine and tobacco, of tea and sugar, of amp and
vinegar, and so forth! And, in one way or another, a show ot
yea was always produced, In order to satisfy us that in *ea
bad trade, heavy taus, sad new privations. every year was add-
ing to our happiness and lty ! If there is say truth in
arithmetic, these annual ad should, in course a dine. have
given us suck a ilh in the social scale, that the beggars of 1900
ought now to be on horseback, and the mechanics dour day ought
to revel in what were once the lunties of gentians !
When the consumption of different years Is compared, three
things are necessary to give a value to our conclusions. Mt. we
should take lea meidible period of time, became this frees us
of the inequalities arising hem tempera t 7 dramatises., and glees
es en accumulated effect, which is mere may wiesemed.
coodly, as variatises at price, duty. or fashion. 41the us flan cue
commodity to another—from Ms, flor kotanie, to rile--we
should take in as great a amber of oldie he "Mendate as we
can. And, thirdly, ter SlMelimMenro not wore. Swill
unsolus
we attend to the provadm Wm* of the gordedem lost
is an element of so moth impenteme that It dwell sot be lost eight
of, even in compseing tree einseeadve years. We Sod, he in-
stance, from eke these enumeradens made in this century, that
the lwriktkoll of Iffrilidn adds owe seventy-third part to he nun-
bers every year. Wm, es the griper middle, and Imes timers
stay be supposed le berme wkk ;qui rapidity, It knows, if
capital kalif: as ought to do with popelatioe, that the taxes
paid, the employed, the beer. wine, a ought c. consumed,
all to mum the same ratio. Suppose, thee, that oar revenue
yields 7011,01101. (roe seventy-third part) more in 1919 than in
1829, and that the tobacco, brandy, and wise consumed, have
risen in the same proportion—what is to be inferred? Noe, sorely,
that the people are richer than they were, but that their state has
undergone no change whatever! If the increase exceeds the rate
alluded to, we have then a symptom of improvement ; if It falls
short, decay h kdicated.
In the table Wale, we have endeavoured to obviate this source
of error and hp wometain what the real effect of our taxation has
been on the muldien of the . We have done dds by show.
Ins what poetise of the eemgsedities consumed fell to the share of
ten thousand penises at mask of three periods, divided by consider-
able intervals, end ausepoodlog to one another in being periods
of peace. This may be oiled the proportional consumption. To
avoid the effect of secoodery fluctuations, we have taken an average
of three pan at each dine ; and though this throws one year of
war into the middle period, the dreamscape, cannot afect the ac-
curaey the result in arty sensible degree. The table is founded
on a liansetatary Paper newly published (No. 340), which has
been used without garbling or partiality, for every article included
ink has been put into the table. It must be kept in mind that it
applies to Britain only, not to Ireland.
The value of the table, it will be observed, lies chiefly in the
snood calm of figures, which exhibits the quantity of the diffe-
rent commodities consumed by ten thousand persons at each of the
three perk& The can= showing the rate of duty generally
affords a key to the change in the proportional consumption.—
Taken altogether, the articles perhaps supply better data for esti-
mating the condition of the counuy, than we can find in any
other way. Without being strictly necessaries of life, they are
yet consumed by all classes, and in greater or less abundance. ac-
cording te the degree of ease they espy. The table we =odder
u both coky and instniedve, and shall sow show the inferences
to which it leads.

Average 3 Tan ceding 17111
Do. 3 years nary; 11103....
Do. i Tsui eadiNg Un-.-

Wara.

Average Sloancoding 1791
Do. 3 years maw 1903....
Do. 3 years coding Dn....

BlWllirt am Gas.
Average 3 yews ending 1791
Do. 3 yew =din 1903....
Do. 3 years sodas 1111111....

Average 3 years oodles 17311
Da. 3 years aiding 1103....
Do. 5 years ending 151 a....

Soak.

Average 3 years roam 1791
Do. 3 years ending 11103....
Do. 3 years ending 10U....

Mi.

Average 3 years media( 17911

Do. 3 years adios 11105.....1

Do. 31eon ending 1M.....

Average 3 year* sliding 1791
Do. 3 years coding 1903.....
Do. 3 years ending 1949....

Consumed
in all
Britain.

lb..
•,$lO,OOO
11,740,000
14,340,000

Galloon.
8,650,000
7,1110,000
7,100,000

Gallons.
2,060,000
2,750,000
1,710,000

GsUoas.
2,310,000
3,060,000
4,300,000

arta.
1,490,000
2.1711,000
3,180,000

14.770,000

°named
1,7 now
Putions.

MALT MADE.

VI .2:.0,0(10

lea.
8.800
10,430
9,200
Gallant.
6,650
6,530
4,540

X 1.060
2,480
1,090

2AOO
2,710
2.750

la 3d.
Is. 7W.
3s.

26,080,000

060,000
14,740,000

Cwto.
1,490
1,970
2,050

lbs.
14,770

10,600
16,700 I

3,920 I 10s.
Hi,
Do. 5 years ending 1103-1101. 3,460,000 I 3,150 is,. &I.
Do. In 111211....
In Tobacco. which has been called peculiarly " the poor males
luxury." the consumption by any given number of persons Is nearly
the same as in 1791, but has fallen of one-sixth since 1803. The
whims of duty at once explains the cause. In Wine, which is a
undid= to the poor, a luxury to the middle ranks, and a Daces-
sary of MN to the opulent, the consumption is me-third less than
in 1791 and 1803. The adman of duty accounts for the change.
In Brandy and Gin the prevent consumption is only one-half of
what it was in 1791, sod may two-fifths of what it was in 1803 !
The mere laspection of the duty at the different periods supersedes
commentary. In Rum, the consumption is scarcely either greater
or less than it was in 1103. In Sugar, the constunptioo, which
ought to have been Increased greatly, bas been stationary since
1803, and is only about one-third greater than in 1791. The duty
is doubled since than.
In Tea. as an snide recently introduced, sad much liked by all
classes, the consumptien would certainly have tripled itself since
1791, if the taste foe it had not been checked by excessive taxa-
tion, and the monopoly prices of the India Company. What we
Imo is, that among 10,000 inhabitants taken promiscuously, the
=y of tea used would have been thrice as great now as it was
even years ago. Bo hew does the fact stand? The con-
sisamela at present is very little greater than 1791, and actually
osiodstb part less than in 11103! Nor awed we be surprised at
this rusk. when we lad that the duty is Dow eight times as great
u it woe at the int of these partook!
In Coffee, die increase has been greet, sad this has resulted
partly ken a growing taste fee the article, and partly from a re-
dudon in the duty and the . Coffee has certainly taken the
place of tea to some extent sincelB2S, whoa the duty was reduced
from Is. to 6d. per pound. But in consmaptisa sae read of tea
is equal to two or three pounds of coffee; and the increase in the
one may therefore, probably, go nearly to balance the decrease in
the other.

Is. Sid.
U. Sd.
41. led.

782
9,450

s'.
109.94.
IM. 94.

4s. 4d.
ss. 14.
7s. ld.

13.. Id.
fils.
Vs.

112* per et.
Frost

Q
3.920,000

20 to 95
per cent.
Na 100
per cent.

101 L
Is. Sid.
64.

Average 3 years ending 17911

statement respecting this article Is derived from
other documents. The consumption in 1803 was about 14 per
cent. greater, and in 1721 Montt 42 per cent. greater than in 1921 !
Had we taken the tare, years, instead of 1821 alma.
the difference would have been still more striking ; but we amid
not lay our hands ea the proper documents to glee us the quantity
made in 18118 and 1827. Mr. Blaney, In his speech on 11th May
last. stated that the entire quantity of malt used is &plead in 1787
was greater than in 1627, though the population at that date had
inereamed about SO per teat.
We would have willingly added to the table the quandty of Bri-
tish Spirits consumed at the three periods, but we amid not lay
oar bands on the DOWNealf ilserameam Not only the abudlslas
but the proportional seasempden of this ankle ka. certainly in-
creased. We may obeeree, however, that a considerable loft of
the addition being in malt Welts. goes to increase the quantity of
wale made, and of course emus sada that
Taking the facts, then, 4upfy as they stand, sky „owl,e us
to conclude that tuition has forced privations upon an classes, and
positively deteriorates our condition.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW.STRIXT.

• reipestehle Makin as, who appemell le be Monde( gaga
mare indlipulden. applied far sane teillimindlimee, to sob,
him to rash his zeds pine, a vilb.M Nandi. Be stew that
he hid beep Ike years in the aliemen Guards, bst hog
lately been ieeisoA on annum of kM lbws Mot rank be bold
was that of a esprit, and Ms pension was only 'lmpasse a day.
At the doe of k discharge he nicked a sea of 11d funs the Re.
ghost, out of a find kept on purpose, and entrusted that sok
together wkb W fumigate and oder rids peperty, to his was,
whom he sons a the him him, Weft ha wait in tom
Massif ler the rusk al a ealsind hue holds beady,
by the Mows al On Ilagfrnat. The levant this oak Ms sr
ranged. ha presided hem, le the expeemds el *lig Ms wNs.
bat vnitypily fee him, be famed so wile to Pis Ho Mooed that
the MMus women had dispesd of Ms little all a few dap prier to
Ms antral. ad &paned no one knew where. By greet surds
be had lime dbesowed that she was Meg at Ades with aOM
Serpent of ibe same seeps, with when she had contracted aa is.
dmacy aids, de Mess. This individual, however, perekaog is
say* Om he /id not know her, sklasugit he (the applant) bad
the most eaddstory Feud to the contrary ; but as his wits had
proved herself so wortbkss a erasure, he was determined to take
no farther trettbk about her. and &safest was most desires of
returning bees, but bad not the means.
Mr. Hats regretted die draanstames, and that he had no
power to comply with the pplieent's rases, having so fond ap.
pleable to sue! purposes. The proper ems for the appikant was
to apply to the peel* in which he last slept fee uhf, upon which
they would pees him home.
The appinot bewei end redred.