Mundig and Cotherstone, as well as of Trustee, Jagger, Michel Fell, with a dozen others more or less known to fame. Emma was foaled in 1824. A portrait of her, after Herring, with full particulars of her produce and performances, will be found in the April No. of the Sporting Review, 1845. We also have to notice the deaths of Belgravia, by Robert-de-Gorham, at Newmarket, from an accident; and of Mr. Cookson's The Confectioner, by Sweetmeat, who broke his leg in a gallop. Poor James Robinson's leg, we are sorry to hear, has been set two inches shorter than the other, and he will never ride again. DECISION OF DISPUTED RACES.-The objection against Titterstone for the Welter Cup, at Chester, as not having carried extra weight for winning a handicap at Liverpool Hunt Meeting, in his favour; the Stewards of the Jockey Club, to whom it was referred, considering these Hunt Races as private ones, from their not being recorded in the Racing Calendar. The disputed Hunters' Stake, at Lincoln, in favour of the owner of Dandy Jem, who ran second, the Little Queen not having carried the penalty for winning the Lincolnshire Handicap-by Mr. Rudston Read, the steward of the meeting. The Bedfordshire Stake in favour of Azaël, who ran first for it. The point here was whether, in raising the weights of the acceptances, the Messrs. Weatherby should have included penalties for winning. This they took the trouble to do. The decision is generally considered as wrong, and the following rider to it not likely to be much respected : "The stewards observe that this question was only raised after the race, and they take this opportunity of stating that the more proper course would have been for those who had horses in the race, and entertained any doubt as to the correctness of the weights published in the Calendar, to have appealed to the stewards before the race was run. "(Signed) "EXETER. The Derby, and that now is all we have to talk of, has been a dead letter of late at the Corner, though it has received some "interim notice during the October Meetings. In the first of these Cheddar was backed for some money at 20 to 1, Umbriel for a smaller stake at the same price, and a fifty laid out on North Pole at just double these odds. The result of the Cesarewitch week kept the market at something like these prices: 12 to 1 against Orestes, 18 to 1 against Cineas, 20 to 1 each against Sittingbourne, Umbriel, Pharos, the Reiver, and Elmsthorpe, 25 to 1 each against Cheddar and Filbert, 30 to 1 against Ninny-hammer, and 50 to 1 against Pindus-Orestes, Umbriel, and the Reiver, commanding the largest outlay. The Houghton, with a further study of performances, thus adjusted the wants of layer and takerthe racing of the month will mostly explain the why and the wherefore-15 to 1 against The Reiver, 16 to 1 against West Australian, 20 to 1 against Umbriel, and 30 to 1 against Cheddar. The Reiver in great force, and looking very like reaching the first position again. ENGRAVED DY J. SCOTT, FROM A PAINTING BY COOper. CONTENTS. Page. LETTERS FROM MY UNCLE SCRIBBLE THE UNSUCCESSFUL MAN; OR, PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF TILBURY NOGO, ESQ.-BY FOXGLOVE. TURF REGISTER :-DONCASTER WALSALL- TEWKESBURY- BEDFORD-LEICESTER-EGLINTON RACING CLUB-MAN- CHESTER AUTUMN MEETING-SANDBACH-NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING-CHESTERFIELD-BRECONSHIRE AUTUMN MEETING-YORKSHIRE UNION HUNT CLUB- ROYAL CALEDONIAN HUNT, LOTHIANS RACING CLUB, AND M. W. D. D. 1 W DIARY FOR DECEMBER, 1852. Last Quar., 4th day, at 22 min. past mid-day. OCCURRENCES. 2 T Whitchurch Coursing Meeting. 3 F 4 S 5 Second Sunday in Adbent. Sun rises and h. m. Moon HIGH WATER rises & London Bridge. Morning. sets. morn. | aftern. d. RISES h. afternoon m. h. m. r 7 4620 8 1 4 30 4 50 is 3 5221 9 13 5 10 5 30 r 7 49 22 10 30 5 55 6'20 s3 5123 11 49 6 45 7 15 | r 7 5224 7 50 8 25 s 3 5025 1 9 9 10 9 40 r 7 5426 2 32 10 2010 50 s 3 4927 3 58 11 25 11 50 7 5628 5 25 No tide 0 20 s 3 4929 6 52 0 45 1 10 r 7 59 N SETS. 1 30 2 01 is 3 49 5 2 25 2 50 [mouth C. M.r 8 0 2 6 15 6 M Smithfield Show week. 10 F 11 S 12 Third Sunday in Advent. 13 M Ember Week. 17 F Oxford Term ends. 1 afternoon.. s 3 49 5 9 56 5 30 5 55 Our theme, haply, will show a logical sympathy between these apparently discordant theses. The English version of the philosophy at issue is a courtier's-at least a Court bard's-reading of a certain proverb, wherein Connaught, in the kingdom of Ireland, is socially associated with-how shall it be written for eyes polite?-paradise lost-in "kingdom come." Now, in the afore-hinted homely adage, the Hibernian province of such ominous pre-eminence typifies, by a familiar metaphor, the Laureate's ideal" parlour," which we may imagine a ground-floor "front" in Somers-town; the wife of one's bosom ; a grove of "olive branches" round about the table (or "board," the better to describe the item of upholstery), and cookery upon the principle of the Beef-steak Club. Who would call a couplet, meet posy for the million's millennium of progress and prosperity? Here it is, for the gathering-"ut pictura poesis" "Crammed just as they on earth are crammed, Plato wrote the EpwTIкos for Athens: Hood sang "The Song of the Perhaps it is the mere necessity, certainly it is the prepense purpose of our insular existence, to "realize" Horace's policy touching ways and means. Quocunque modo rem" is the national motto at these presents, and the "peoples are prostrate before Mammon. Commerce runs a muck with the lightning, and labour goes to bed with the stars. Thus is it with fine old English social life. A quaint, antique ditty of days gone by recites "There's a difference, I ween, 'Twixt a beggar and a queen." How soon will the distinction be numbered among the things that were? Without such threadbare comparisons as instances at home of merchant princes in the rival capitals of London and Liverpool, cotton commonwealths and railway republics, let us look at what is going forward at the antipodes; at the popular prospects of the British penal settlements. They write from Botany Bay, on the 18th of June ultimo.... "The masons and carpenters decline to work for £1 a day, and a cab-driver's income averages from £30 to £40 a week. At the 'diggings' (another guess-work from spade labour in the mother country), some men clear £300 or £400 a month: there is one just returned, and now in the hotel, who was away six weeks and cleared £3600. The governor has no servants. The chief justice told me that his had left him months ago; his son opened the door to us, and I believe his wife, as many other ladies have had to do, washes her own clothes. There is scarcely a man you meet in the streets who has not his pockets full of notes. The common waiters at the hotel we are living at get £200 a year each, and the boots gets above £100.".... If that be not the premier pas towards a second golden age, then is the saffron morn no herald of the noon of cloudless skies. The fool's paradise has had its day-the wise man's turn is at hand... "Rarely have human calculations or human foresight been more rudely exposed than by the events of the last few years. Our age imagined that it was past the calamities and errors of former times, and perused the records of ancient generations with a mingled sentiment of incredulity and compassion. Not all our political economy, nor our commercial resources, could save us from the visitation of a worse than mediæval famine; not all our sanitary science can detect the sources, or ascertain the nature, of a mysterious and deadly plague; and never were armies more numerous, or politics more unsettled, than since it has become the fashion to ridicule the idea of war. There now appears to be impending a revolution more perilous still. Among the thousand social questions which have occupied the attention of statesmen, the single one which was never included is that which is likely to overpower all the rest. Half our legislation, and all our fears, have proceeded on the supposition that these islands must necessarily suffer from an excess of population, and that neither work nor wages, social place nor political function, could be long provided for such an abundance of claimants. We are now actually threatened with something very like danger from the opposite quarter, and at this very moment, for the first time, perhaps within man's memory, the population of Great Britain is rapidly decreasing."..... Thus a journalist, of keen and cautious observation, notes the "effect effective" which has "come by cause"-most apropos, and eminently seasonable. Mr. Macaulay, in a recent allusion to this vitally national question, remarked......" Perhaps I may be sanguine, but I think that good times are coming for the labouring classes of this country. I do not entertain that hope because I expect that Fourierisın, or St. Simonianism, or Socialism, or any of those other isms,' for which the plain English word is robbery, will prevail. I know that such schemes only aggravate the misery which they pretend to relieve. I know it is possible by such legislation to make the rich poor, but I know it is utterly impossible to make the poor rich. But I do believe and hope that the progress of experimental science, the free intercourse of nation with nation, the unrestricted influx of commodities from coun |