8 T Oxford U.v.CambridgeU.at Lord'ss 8 15 21 11 49 11 Fifth Sunday after Trinity. Morning. 's 8 1323 0 6 r 3 5824 0 23 9 s 8 12 25 0 44 10 r 4 32 5 50 6 5 6 30 6 50 7 15 7 35 8 0 8 30 0 9 35 010 35 026 1 711 1027 1 37 No tide 0 5 228 2 15 511 35 6 8 3 14 W Liverpool Races. Lewes Cat. Shows 8 15 T M.C.C. v. Westm., at Vincent-sq. r 4 16 F 17 S 18 Sixth Sunday after Trinity. s 8 19 M Gentlemen v. Players, at Lord's. r 4 20 T Stamford R. Royal Irish Reg. s 8 21 W Knutsford Races. Margate Reg. r 4 10 22 T M.C.C.v.Surrey C.,at Kennington. s 8 1 23 F Guildford Races. r 4 13 24 S M.C.C. v. Harrow, at Harrow. s 7 58 25 Sebenth Sunday after Trinity.r 4 16 26 M St. Anne. 27 T Goodwood Races. 28 W Public School Matches 29 T Goodwood Cup Day. 30 F 31 S 0 30 0 55 2 9 46 3 25 3 45 310 10 4 5 4 25 4 10 33 4 45 5 10 Morning. 510 53 5 35 5 55 611 14 6 20 6 45 711 36 7 10 7 45 8 8 10 8 40 s 7 55 9 0 39 20 9 50 r 4 1810 0 3610 2511 5 begin at s 7 5211 1 1711 40 No tide [Lord's. r 4 21 12 2 8 0 15 0 45 s 7 5013 3 11 1 15 1 45 r 4 24 FRISES. 2 6230 THE RACING IN JUNE. BY CRAVEN. "Est modus in rebus: sunt certi denique fines HORAT. England is proud, and with reason, of the freedom of her press; it is a privilege, the attributes of which, like those of charity, are "doubly bless'd." The commission is one of frank grace, both in its relation to those who confer and those who receive it. How fair and full of promise is occasion, when the guardians and censors of civil order feel that their office is a sinecure-that society is so hale and wholesome that their occupations gone! How eloquent of the reign of right principle is the condition of that land whose charter ensures for opinion, and expression, liberty as free and fertilizing as the air which circulates within it! With a deep conviction of the value of this rich national inheritance -earnest disciples of the commonwealth of mind-we are jealous and watchful sentinels of our prerogative. We can ill brook the chance of blow or discouragement to the gracious career of untrammelled thought. It is not the province of this work to take cognizance of what has recently occurred in connexion with the politics of other countries, and the fashion of comment on them in some of our periodicals and newspapers. It might, indeed, be more conducive to the general convenience, were the "genus irritabile" to repudiate the habit that goes about begirt with Colt's revolvers, and to bear in mind that a mission commands more of the elements of success which accosts with courtesy, than that which opens its business by a box on the ear. Hector's vein is not that most becoming the professor of humanities; it is not the advocate of a good cause that addresses himself to the issue and the jury, like one -as Mathews, père, used to sing" tucking up his fingers for a fight." "Suaviter in modo: fortiter in re," is the philosophy of oratory, and the canon of good taste; it would be well were it at all times the motto of journalism. Having then in account the social compact involved in the conventional animosity accorded to the public writer, the natural instinct of fair play is opposed to any pretence for abusing it. In this spirit we may profitably investigate the steps at present being pursued by propounders of opinion, in the direction towards which the especial interests of these pages point. The context will furnish both the premises and the purpose of this review. The crisis of a public scandal, such as that of unrestrained gambling in our streets, has reached its culmination. Upon what principle of social policy the dies ire was so long posponed, it is difficult to surmise; a specimen of the logic may not be out of place or season. The chaplain of the Compter, in a letter to the editor of the Times, published in that paper on the 1st ult., after bearing witness to the "inevitable tendency of Betting Houses to lead to an increase of crime and robbing employers," goes on thus to philantrophise his denunciation......." But allow me to say that the remedy is to be looked for more from public opinion and private exertion than any act of the legislature. If my Lord this, and the Marquis of that, will carry on the same system of betting enormous sums upon horse racing, and public opinion will countenance them in it, no act of Parliament will ever prevent their example being imitated by a crowd of humble followers.' The last place under the sun where one would have imagined twaddle might calculate upon making a lodgment, was the broad sheet of "The Thunderer." Here we read, and are required to learn, that he who has fifty thousand per annum of income, is by no means to dispose of his money as he thinks fit, lest he who has nothing a year should see occasion to do the same by the property, cash, and chattles of other people. Company honoured by invitation to Buckingham palace will carefully refrain from touching blanc-mange or Burgundy, otherwise "no act of Parliament will ever prevent their example being imitated by a crowd of humble followers." Henceforth, and for ever, must turtle and iced punch be banished from the bills of fare at Guildhall and the Mansion House, unless the corporation of the city of London are prepared to provide similar items for the dietaries of all metropolitan and provincial unions....... "Dum vitant stulti vitia, in contraria currunt." Descending the scale of balderdash, we arrive at one of the regular betting-den robbery cases, lately presented to Sir Peter Laurie at the Justice Room. Upon this occasion a city constable, or in the refined phrase of modern vocabulary, "officer" (a generic title of distinction of unlimited range, from the official par excellence, or Government officer-A flat in alt-down to the sheriff's officer, A sharp below the line) -upon this occasion a civic captivating functionary-in the course of his report, is made to assert that, to his knowledge, there was no betting carried on at the house of any licensed victualler in the city."... Now here we have the member of a corps so eminent for preventive subtlety, that Mr. Dickens wrote a chapter of Household Words about them, in the style of Alexander Dumas and Eugene Sue-here, I say, we have this constable-officer of the capital of the universe, deliberately stating that which he knew, or was bound to know, had no truth in it. If Sir Peter Laurie will take the trouble to inquire of any costermonger, cabman, omnibus-conductor, street-" orderly," or other "gentleman," miscellaneous in the thoroughfares between Tower Hill and Temple Bar, he will be informed the greatest betting establishment in London is that conducted on licensed premises by a licensed victualler of the city, within five hundred yards of the justice room (if it wasn't a libel, I would take odds the Lord Mayor could tell the worthy alderman" the sign of the tap). The bubbles which burst consequent on the issue of the Derby, of course begat strictures various in their character as the cases to which they related, in cause and effect. An eminent instance quoted was that of a certain Mr. Barnett, of somewhere in St. James's! by nomenclature apparently, a scion of that "wonderful people which from the days of Jacob, downwards, have believed and swindled." This "indiwidual,” as Liston used to pronounce it, is a member of Tattersall's (who were his sponsors?) Well, on the settling day, having drawn all the money he could from his debtors, it seems he drew all the cheques that he could THE RACING IN JUNE. BY CRAVEN. "Est modus in rebus: sunt certi denique fines HORAT. England is proud, and with reason, of the freedom of her press; it is a privilege, the attributes of which, like those of charity, are "doubly bless'd." The commission is one of frank grace, both in its relation to those who confer and those who receive it. How fair and full of promise is occasion, when the guardians and censors of civil order feel that their office is a sinecure-that society is so hale and wholesome that their occupations gone! How eloquent of the reign of right principle is the condition of that land whose charter ensures for opinion, and expres sion, liberty as free and fertilizing as the air which circulates within it! With a deep conviction of the value of this rich national inheritance -earnest disciples of the commonwealth of mind--we are jealous and watchful sentinels of our prerogative. We can ill brook the chance of blow or discouragement to the gracious career of untrammelled thought. It is not the province of this work to take cognizance of what has recently occurred in connexion with the politics of other countries, and the fashion of comment on them in some of our periodicals and newspapers. It might, indeed, be more conducive to the general convenience, were the "genus irritabile " to repudiate the habit that goes about begirt with Colt's revolvers, and to bear in mind that a mission commands more of the elements of success which accosts with courtesy, than that which opens its business by a box on the ear. Hector's vein is not that most becoming the professor of humanities; it is not the advocate of a good cause that addresses himself to the issue and the jury, like one -as Mathews, père, used to sing" tucking up his fingers for a fight." "Suaviter in modo: fortiter in re," is the philosophy of oratory, and the canon of good taste; it would be well were it at all times the motto of journalism. Having then in account the social compact involved in the conventional animosity accorded to the public writer, the natural instinct of fair play is opposed to any pretence for abusing it. In this spirit we may profitably investigate the steps at present being pursued by propounders of opinion, in the direction towards which the especial interests of these pages point. The context will furnish both the premises and the purpose of this review. The crisis of a public scandal, such as that of unrestrained gambling in our streets, has reached its culmination. Upon what principle of social policy the dies ire was so long posponed, it is difficult to surmise; a specimen of the logic may not be out of place or season. The chaplain of the Compter, in a letter to the editor of the Times, published in that paper on the 1st ult., after bearing witness to the "inevitable tendency of Betting Houses to lead to an increase of crime and robbing employers," goes on thus to philantrophise his denunciation......." But allow me to say that the remedy is to be looked for more from public opinion and private exertion than any act of the legislature. If my Lord this, and the Marquis of that, will carry on the same system of betting enormous sums upon horso racing, and public opinion will countenance them in it, no act of Parliament will ever prevent their example being imitated by a crowd of humble followers." The last place under the sun where one would have imagined twaddle might calculate upon making a lodgment, was the broad sheet of "The Thunderer." Here we read, and are required to learn, that he who has fifty thousand per annum of income, is by no means to dispose of his money as he thinks fit, lest he who has nothing a year should see occasion to do the same by the property, cash, and chattles of other people. Company honoured by invitation to Buckingham palace will carefully refrain from touching blanc-mange or Burgundy, otherwise "no act of Parliament will ever prevent their example being imitated by a crowd of humble followers." Henceforth, and for ever, must turtle and iced punch be banished from the bills of fare at Guildhall and the Mansion House, unless the corporation of the city of London are prepared to provide similar items for the dietaries of all metropolitan and provincial unions....... "Dum vitant stulti vitia, in contraria currunt." Descending the scale of balderdash, we arrive at one of the regular betting-den robbery cases, lately presented to Sir Peter Laurie at the Justice Room. Upon this occasion a city constable, or in the refined phrase of modern vocabulary, "officer" (a generic title of distinction of unlimited range, from the official par excellence, or Government officer-A flat in alt-down to the sheriff's officer, A sharp below the line) -upon this occasion a civic captivating functionary-in the course of his report, is made to assert that, to his knowledge, there was no betting carried on at the house of any licensed victualler in the city."... Now here we have the member of a corps so eminent for preventive subtlety, that Mr. Dickens wrote a chapter of Household Words about them, in the style of Alexander Dumas and Eugene Sue-here, I say, we have this constable-officer of the capital of the universe, deliberately stating that which he knew, or was bound to know, had no truth in it. If Sir Peter Laurie will take the trouble to inquire of any costermonger, cabman, omnibus-conductor, street-" orderly," or other "gentleman," miscellaneous in the thoroughfares between Tower Hill and Temple Bar, he will be informed the greatest betting establishment in London is that conducted on licensed premises by a licensed victualler of the city, within five hundred yards of the justice room (if it wasn't a libel, I would take odds the Lord Mayor could tell the worthy alderman ” the sign of the tap). 66 The bubbles which burst consequent on the issue of the Derby, of course begat strictures various in their character as the cases to which they related, in cause and effect. An eminent instance quoted was that of a certain Mr. Barnett, of somewhere in St. James's! by nomenclature apparently, a scion of that "wonderful people which from the days of Jacob, downwards, have believed and swindled." This "indiwidual,” as Liston used to pronounce it, is a member of Tattersall's (who were his sponsors?) Well, on the settling day, having drawn all the money he could from his debtors, it seems he drew all the cheques that he could |