Year: 1868

to 90 for it, Friends kept him at Cambridge. Inc
newspapers DO him honor in letters ana III igauiis %
articles. CTitcise him poet, and welcome mn dS
man. Notably for his early Antl-olaVerI utteI-
ances in the days when abolition was as ulIashioh-
able the womans cause IS at TINS lno9o 3 i nj n f
gland He will reach London at. almost the emu OF
the season. but very distinguished "elcoS awaits
him. Personally no American is more popular than
Longfellow, and one out OF many reasons ioI ua' -
that he is one of the most English OF Americans Al
any rate Enqlishmen are glad TO claim as peculiarly
their own that mingng of high culture with geher-
Gus nature which they 30 luch IKE III % w.
Derby might never be disclosed. Now. after month
of silence the questions which were in everybody
mouth begin to be asked pernaGlously III the papers.
Why did Lady Elizabeth lose the racer And why
was the Earl scTatchedi One writer IN sporting
journal affirmed that she had been drugged, and
quoted Admiral ROus as saving that he should De
sorry to have as much poison iii his stomach as the
mare had in hers. The Admiral being the highest
known authority on the Turf, his reported saying
raised no little excitement But when IL mad Deeh
quoted into daily paper the Admiral wrote pun
gent letter TO The Times. denying that he had made
the remark assigned TO him. lie added:


peei Is tnat Lazy EhzaoeIr M ava naH at
she had lost her fOrm-a very common occurrence WIN


ies that have been severely trained at two years Od
that when the dicOvery made they reversed com
back for the One Thousand Guinea stakes
at Newmarket, and they declared that Lord musings
would bring her cut before the Derby on which he
stood TO win great stake. am informed that when
Lord Hastings went TO Danebury to see her galop they
move the bubble would have burst But the touers re-
ported. she going like brd;' $40 will make any
horse fly If the trainer wishes IL TO rise in the market
she has neter been able 10 ballOp Ute uhOle year"


AS to the scratching OF the Earl the Admiral sald
that was the act of MT: Padwick, finance agent to
the Marquis of Hastings; and If you ask why
what can the poor fly demand from the spider III
whose web he is inv0VedT


But plainly, Lord Hastings would not Ike being
called a fy nor Mr. Padwick desire to be thought a
spider. letter from each appears In next mornings
lines. The Marquis declares he has read the letter
of Admiral Rous with the greatest astonlshment;
that il is q tissue of misrepresentation that the
Earl was scratched by my express desire and author
iy and that no one either prompted me orsuggested
to me to adopt that course" Mr.. Padwlck writes a
longer Letter TO the same effect. Neither Lord Hast
ings nor Mr. Padwick has word TO say in respect to
Lady Elizabeth, although the defeat OF the mare
a matter much more serious than the scratching
of the Earl. On the following morning, not the
Days. whom Admiral Rous accuses of knowing that
the mare had gone TO pieces and of decelvlng Lord
Hastings but theirsOlicitOrs write to 1heIme 1hey
repe all mJutations on behalf of their clients and
say they will sue the Admiral for defamation OF
character.


Let us hope they will. The Days are the most
eminent trainers on the tu[i the admiral iS most
agent Lord Hastings its most eminent victim III
they could once be got into the witness box IN court
of law with eminent cross-eXamining cOunsel-MT.
Sergeant Ballntine, for instance-pTying ito the


truth there might be such n revelation OF turf morals
and customs as would evoke at least spaSm OF
public indignation. Bring II into the daylight OF
judicial inquiry, and the lmmeasurable knavery
of this institution must shock and disgust
even those who tolerate and encourage it,
without sharing in ITS most lmqutous practices.
Whether Lady Elizabeth was drugged, or whether
her owner was deceived by her trainers, or himself
deceived the public, are questions you may not for
their own sake much care TO have answered. But ii
they or the quarres growing out of them. beget
an inquiry into the customs the code the unwrlten


laws and the habitual Tascaties of the turf and ITS
highest authorities, very considerable beneht IN
deed may reSult-may result to you not less than 10
people here-and the hope that there may be such an
exposure as shall check the growing mania III
America for the turf is my sole excuse for touching
on matters that are otherwise supremely unlmport-
ant c. W. B.