The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-05
TIE TURF IN EUROPE.
FspM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

fhlM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.
The Derby of 1S6S-IIs Reckoninss and
EHects-Lord Hastings and the ''Teasers''-
Indy Elizabeth and the Earl-Latest "lIeet-
inss''-New Rule Of the Jockey Club.
LONDON. June 90 1865.
dare say youT readers will shrug their shoulders
IN disgust at the very mention Of the Marquis OF
Hastings, Lady Elizabeth and the Derby Of 1868.
cannot help feeling that 1t must bore them TO hear
the "old, Old storyn served up again and again in
another form, am quite aware that to,yours per-
erGr is an unsatisfactory dish, with whatever Gull
nary art II be elaborated, If put on the table seven
ZINES week. should very much prefer to have a
total change Of menu and earn an undying reputa-
lion the other side of the water clever caterer
for public taste ID the sporting line But fear it is
not TO he. The campaign has commenced with false
tactics which seem TO leave their mark all
through tue curtain has drawn up on a
'sensattonn tableau, and seem destined 10 have
s. reour in every act, with the most "damnabe itera-
toD.n Determined 10 do my duty a ''brief chron-
ice Of the fracngl time" cannot shirk the "great
DaDebuIy scandal and even at the risk OF being
voted bore must trouble your readers with few
new facts IN the matter. Facts precisely what
we nave long been wanting. We have had ''some
thing 100 mGch,' as the melancholy Dane has IT, OF
fiction We mad, to commence with, two stubborn
facts which there is getting over-Lady Elizabeth
d
graced my own old Dobbin and The Earl, who few
weeks ago peat the winner OF the bue ribbon" and
il al human probability could have done so again,
was ruhessiy scratched" the night before the race.
There You are The noble marquis himself, shiity
and doJgng he Is viii have some difficulty in ex-
planning away these ''teasers.n But until this week
W. have had nothing more, but speculation, doubt,
nuendo Indignation and disgust enough and 10 spare,
winch are not satisfactory. His loTdship smoked
ms agar in his honse in Crosvenor square or struted
ff q Nv liNNn n
pleasing horse play OF Partisan dancing gardens.
E.sconndeniial advisers, who get hin SO cheapy
cleverly OUT OF all his monetary scrapes pre-
served countenances as inscriltabe as that OF the
sphinx, though occasionally Illuminated with smiles
OF satisfaction as they slapped their breeches pocket
The Danebury tactics were worked out with Unfal-
terlng determination, and the Paris and Ascot NC
tories OF The Earl filed the almost exhausted Golfers.
Bat we were told nQthi Lattery we got somewhat
Conicnted. having lost and paid or won and received
our money. We talked OF bygones being bygones:
OF there beng no use in crying over split milk; OF
what could NOT be cured being endured, and great
deal more proyerbal philosophy quite as true as any
be found in the hexameter OF Mr. upper and quite
a wholesome and edfying The esc!dndre which
had aroused rather greater because more prolonged
interest than the taking OF Magdala or
tie passing OF the Reform biz or Mr.
Gadsones assault and battery on the IRISH
Church-we are a scandal loving people, and
good healthy one lasts longer than anything in the
political or philosophical or poecal or anything OF
The young nobleman VINO had got into such d ini-
cultcs the TURF were almost as dead as the late
Queen Anne 70 all but himself, his advisers and his
But one day this week we awoke and found our.
selves not famous, Ike Keats, but excited. There IL
was IN the coiumns OF the London TtlneS-a letter
from Admiral Rous telling US ''all a )out NJ Yes,
there no mistake-a mlnion loaded episte, signed
II. }. Rous, ana dated from No. Is Berkeley square,
Jane 10. what was IT, simply oroadside fired
after h.s blunt hasty seamaniike fashion, al any
pen n ms hand and an ink pot before him he went
at tear NJ regulations into rags, scattering the wild.
est assertions all over his paper and generally
Ilancing about like an aged sporting bun IN china
shop The letter was hung upon denlal'o of a state
mont IN one Of our Journals, which formerly men
t.oOed % you, that The Admiral n0d SAID N lie
had ldSen as much laudanum az had been
given 70 The mare ne would be dead
man. Having washed his hands of this inslnuatlon
he proceeds 10 make two statements and TWO
charges Item, that the trainers OF Lady Eliza.
leih, lie Days, discovered In March that she had
Lost her lorm' that they then reversed a conmls
fOn 90 back her for the one thousand guineas;n that
.'when Lord Hastings went to see her gallon they
Dade excuses Tor her not TO appear and that "she
has never been able 20 gallOp the whole year,
U,1t, mat Lord Hastings has been shanefully de-
when Lord Westmoreland came TO town TO try 20
d-suade the Marquis from scratching he found Mr..
connected with the Daneburs stablel going on 10
weiherbys with the scratching order Of The Earl in
ms pocket and Mr. Padwlck the 'nnance agent
WHO getting Lord Hastings out OF his dinculiies')
closeied with his lordshp, and tina, his lordship
mTan why did he scratch him'" What can the
lOOr nv demand from the spider In whose web he s
enyeopodT That was the letter, ana clearly II con.
tanned two grave charges, one OF which Ger.
tainy WAS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, that John DAY,
whose character as "A trainer has hitherto
been above reproach had betrayed his EN-
piOyer; and that Mr.. II. Hill and Mr.. PadwicS the
'splders," who had got the poor little "ny their
web were alone responsible for the scratching of
The Earl and that they could not have served the
interests OF Lord Hastings 10y doing SO 10 view of
the $4,000, they must have done II Tor their own.
Here was pretty Kettle OF nsh Were we 20 have
the truth hauled from the bottom OF the very deep
wei al last. Perhaps only we had some doubt Of
the Admiral, who, many remembered, had years ago
made similar charge against the celebrated Nation
Trainer, John Scott IN respect OF one OF Lord Derbys
Leger horses, Acrobat and ON being threatened with
the dire terrors OF the law, had TO 20 down on his
marrow bones and cry "peccdCtn However, there
was no doubt that people so grlevously assailed in
print, however much they might desplse the cer6d
IgscYpd, would at length be reused to action Even
the worm will turn when you tread On him IN the
wick, and strange 70 say, Lord Hastings too,
IN next mornings Times. needn't reproduce
them; for that of the "sweAn does nothing
more than say, almost IN the very words,
that Admiral Rous is liar: that of the money
lender, and Celebrates the same idea into quarter
Of q column. The Marquis says that there is no
one single circumstance mentioned regards my
two horses correctly stated and that "The Earl was
scratched by my express desire and authority, and
that no one either prompted me suggested 20 me
20 ADOPT that course" Mr. Padwck's efrusion IL a
painfully abored affair, written in a pseudo
style and is full OF little details which would have
no interest TO your readers. IL makes no alusion
20 the Lady Elizabeth matter; but contains these
WORDS with respect TO the scratching OF The Earl
II had control over or interest IN the horse and
was no party TO his being scratched and 81 had
not betted one single shilling either on or against
The Earl for his Derby engagement" Oh course MI
John LAY was only affected 10y the charge made 10y
Admiral Rous as 10 Lady Elizabeth, and he took
strong measures TO clear himself ON Thursday a
letter signed "yallance and Valance appeared in
the Times. stating that these gentlemen are Mr..
Days solicitors and that they mad been instructed 10y
Bun TO institute legal proceedings AGAINST Admiral
Rous with view Of vindlcatng the character oil MI
Day and bis family from the nput.tions which have
been cast npOn them.n y! -. 4, D. ,.N.t4.s- 81.
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