THE RACE FOR THE DERBY. (From the Saturday Review.)

Otago Daily Times, Issue 212, 25 August 1862, Page 6

THE RACE FOR THE DERBY. (From th e Saturday Review.)

The foreigners who congregated oil Epsom Downs last Wednesday had an opportunity of learning that, although this i« an aristocratic country, the turflevels for a time nil distinctions of birth and wealth. How many noblemen and gentlemen are at this moment envying Mr. Snewing, the publican of Marylebonestceet, the fortunate owner of the winner' of tub year's Derby. That prize which premiers and millionaires covet, lias, by a strange caprice of forttu.e, fallen to a licensed victualler. If a tradesman semi* his son to a public school, or his liowa to a racemeeting, he is certain of the same carri^re ouverte as if he were a peer of ancient lineage, or a in^rchant of boundle^wealth ; but on some other fields of competition, social and pecuniary advantages count for a good deal, as, indeed, •it is only right they should,* The owner of Caractaciw is welcomo to the honor he has gained, though we 'lure say many persons cannot, help wishing that the great prize ot the turf couli have been aijudg'-d in the presence of the u-sem bled world to some nobler candidate than Me. fcmewing. The very name which, this lucky speculator ia horseflesh bears h Builiciont to put to rout all preconceived ideas of the tun hcuig an autocratic sport, Tho umuy persona who did not know naturally inquired, after the race, who ilr. Snewing wan. It was felt that he ought nut to be a country gentleman, and it was a relief to leani thut he was not. The name of the horse is illualvkim, but that of the owner is, to h\>Q\k plainly, tjuobbish. llowuver, if the hearer of a snobbish name can breed the best horse of the year, by all means let him win the Derby. It is curious to munrk that the calculations whidi KUide the betting on these jrivat races arc almost always justified by the result to a vi:ry eousidaable extent, but not entirely. After all, if bets are to be made, the Hufot way to make them is to observe and compare the- publr; running of the horses. Jiut iui;her this nor auy other method can atuiiu certainty; there is always som<:thii)£ turning up whie*. hiiA not been, aud perhaps could not he, ioreaceii, ami thin the whole betting scheme ge;* disan aimed. Thus, in looking forward to thU wick's Rrcat event, it was calculated with something like confidence that thtj i i Marquis could tn-at again the h'trtv* which he Ital I I beaten at Newmarket, and with h-<* coullleuee, ! although not unreasonably, tint he could Imat Buckbioiw. Now these conclusion* wenr justified to the very letter, but then it happened I hat there <:x«U:d among the more oUscurc competitors for the prizr* a h<»rs» of luUevuiop-d power called Cunwtacus, who nu'.nuged to bent tin horses that had been thi-oreu-enlly ur practically dcmoii.stratcri to bo able to Ix-at aH tau rest. It was just tlur «ime l:a>i autumn in the Hr. I.s'jrt'i-. It lnvl been fhid hefure linvt race that Kettledrum c-uuld heat h\\ hw kutnvn competitor*, and h.j Wit* bick.d act'./rdingly. He di<( beat them aH, but he mi-t uu unknown competitor whom h^ could not t^at, and thus hi& kicker* lo,t their money* The wonder k, not that the caleulutioas o( the tur fait, bat rather that they suyei-d. A neck or even a length seems a very small difP<r enee upon a rac.- of a mite *or two, and yet it suflict'S to mark a .suj>eri>iri!v in the winning over the hfc-uiy Ir-rse, mi^iu ind»;.-d, but generally adequate .'is a xuidt* tv the '.rubJuliI tie»of future contents. IJ.fore the iu<:e by.nis, Ut us ] take oar ««•: aitdniik1 our ute-erva;:,»!is in the padlock, which, aft-.-fail, is thf- wo.t >uU&f.u'.Vn-y p!ai;< fur thu.i«- who to Kjte mi t> sw hurs.'j*. Outni-teriii-jf tliLs repertory of trpiiiic ifiVfiimws, the !in.t luic.; thut uttrncled our aiU-utiuti wan h\j>t««us, who if Itc-nuty aUiim r<uil>l wi.i a race, Wuuld <vrtniiilv n"t have lost the Derby, Nor wa-t beauty his onsv ground of claim to public cuntideuce. liis twovr.ir*>A 1 i»erfiirnja!io.-* hail been vry giK>J, aud iuclmftd a «l(Md heat with the rt-dgubtsl Alarquis. UU j^rfwi condition, «!.*>)', daikbruwncwat, lightspringy tread, and beautifully *ut-on hetul aud nuck, mali; hiui n porfoet picture yf a raco-hoiM;, bat unfurtunatelv Hither in minUtmtj. " lk> you like him bettor than the .Marquis V askt»l n byt>tnnder of a veteran raciog man. •' Yt-s, for a park hack, but not to win tin; Derby," was th" reply. The next to &nue tn>dcr our o!»s<:i"vntioii w.ih Lonl Stauif.mi'H liusigii. This was a tall handHotui! borne, but li^ht and wcrtly. H|^etl hu ii) doubt has ; but the Derby course in Urn severe for one of his build. He was sound, however, and in excellent condition; and it seemed the geucrnl opinion that he would Unt more Uuui beat him. A general r.isli to the other side of the paddock took place on the entrancsof John Scytt'« lot. There they were— live beauties eiic'.i Kurrounded by an udmiring cruwl. To luok at th-'iu, it seemed likely tluvt cv.-n if the Maniuis shoiiM not win, the chutioss of the \Vhit«> wall stable would not b-j ba»l. Ace of Clubs, n xtro;ig cliesuut with a w/iife f.if-c, and a look of hedaU-m-s* and wislom bvyond his years*, Itxl the way. Then camp the Marquis, accoujp»ii&l by h\ H particular I cndimiui, Jaimy* I'etTCii, \v!i<> openly t*X()ri'jt>kHj hti c-'taiideiico in th« f-ivyritei su«j.-v«. " The Marquis wore at) at N» wmarkut, blink^r.i, a->d v sort of h .^l, aad Ins condition wa»a.i pidV-ct, a:i-l hi< tcinpir a> aqrcns:, as when htcarried oh'tbe Two ThoUrtaud tjuinww. There followed eloso behind him Welcome, Jla'ek, and Vanguard. Why none of thes? horses were uneasy or fractious, or Lai a supeiiiuous oui.fe of II f.-:h upon them, <»r ftppc^red too fuus drawn or overwork ed, h a secret of the Whitehall Ktable. Unwillingly tunuiui uur eyes away from these five northern lairacki.s, we Jooke>J at feir Joseph Huwley'i* pair, Argonaut and Ht. Alexis. It was fnij.<j*iible not to call to mind that the last Great llxhibitt >n year when, on nearly the svme spot, we saw Ted-iin^ton and The Br\n under the same cherry c.-loui- and black, prepared for the great raee-aud-senm; of victory. TliK year, however, tli« case wa-: rlifT'.ront, for neither of the*.; horses s ;emed properly jireo.u'ccl. Arj^aiut, it must be owned, is a splendid horse, but as Writo ntijusted li'h saddle he kept up an undig-nifie<l whirmving ami prancing, as ifhe did j-ot rightly appreciate the importance of thii coming stride. 'j}, 3 ineffaceable marks of the firinir-irous on bin legs showed al^O that hw youth had not lw*;ti altogether joynus. As Lonl Uxbridge had withdrawn Laujrhin^ 'Htock from the race, St. Alexis hud the advantage of being guided by lloaers. But no jockey can win a race all by himself, although they frequently contrive to lose them. We thought, as we turned away from them, that the Marquis hail littfo to fear in that qiarter, although it was reported that Sir Joseph Uawley, who alway* knows what he i^ about, had backed Argonaut for a kip sum. Baron Rothschild, being disappointed in Wingrave, who tailed utterly at Newmarket, now brought Nbrroy, not gainirm much by the change 1 he horee, however, made himself conspicuous by refusing to canter, an.l showing an inclination to get into the Grand Siand and watch the race from thence Jhickstone seamed to us to deserve nil the praise that had been bestowed upon him, for lie looked a Derby lioree all over. lie was preceded iufo the course by thelvnave,whom we thoughtmostnppropriately luiuica. lie is acwe-necked ra»-{je(l-lookinglittle hoiw;, but with good substance nnd excellent quarters. As he was never intended to v, in the race, but "only to make running for Buekstone, it may be supposed that he did all that was required of him, for he wou'd get off well and quickly, where a largo horse like Buckstoue might find considerable difficulty in mnking a .start among a numerous field of horses. We were not so discerning or so* lucky as to recognise the merits of Caract;icus in the paddock, although, aftcrwarda, his cantering struck our fancy, and caused us to isote him as a horse to be looked after when the struggle came. As his owner, trainer, and jockey were all equally obscure, he received in the paddock much the same sort of treatment as undiscovered merit does elsewhere in the world. There were two other horses which we did particularly ob-erve, and we did so for the purpose of inquiring why such crippled brutes were started for this pr*vvt race. Neither Gemse nor Maharajah could walk, and they did not look as if they coul I gallop. It is too bad, considering the difficulty of sfarting a large fled, to encmnber the ground with animals which would be mote in their places in a knacker's yard. Compared with noisy hill and" babel-like Grand, Stand, the paddock is a quiet pleasant spot. -Not that there te any lack of auxiefy or excitement within that enclosure; but the majority of those who enter it come oh business, and use their eyes rather than their mouths. Tn the paddock, backers of horses make up their minds at the last moment whetherornotto hedge their money/ and owners and trairierscrive their last secret orders to the jockeys. Some idlers and sight-seers of course there are, and sometimes they do not carry away with them.the most authentic information on the all-important topic of the day. There was, for example, an outside horse, called we believe Ashfordj who, without any other claim to notice, excited great curiosity, bedause he wore blinkers. He. was followed by a large^ crowd of people, under the impresMm that ther'were looking at the Mar4uis,whi.e the

hoy iho ledth'e horse took particnlar "care not to undeceive them. If the K&rqub had won the, race, his backers ought to have rewarded that boy liberally. And "now the horses have left the paddock, aud are taking their canters past the stand. The Marquis goes beautifully, and looks the very perfection of a racehoTae. Buckstone, too, ia admirable, and Caroc* t-icua co upcls us to take notice to whom the light blue jacket and . white cap bolong. Argonaut will not do at ail, although Wells aits him faultlessly. After the Marquis has gone op the course, there is some delay in his return, and we begin to fear an outbreak of his dreaded temper. But soon he comes swiftly and smoo hly over the turf, accompanied by the stea 'y going Ace of Clubs, whose example may have a pacifying? effect. The thirty-four horses enter once more Jnto the paddock, and Boon emerge on the other side and take their places for the firat effort at a start, ThU effort has to be five times repeated before the horses can be got oft, and even then two or 'hree are left behind. Ait soon aa the hill is mounted, the Marqais and Argonaut show well in front. Then the Marquis comes away with a clear lead. It is seen that either he cannot be held, or else his jockey is playing I the dangerous game of trying to cut down a large field. We asked ourselves whether even such a horse as that could venture thus to expend the power which would be needed by the final struggle, and experience forbad our hoping that he could. Between hope and fear, but much nearer.to fear than hope, we watch the horses -round that dreadful corner. The Marquis is still as full as he caa be of running, but it is not yet that the pinch comes. However, the pace has had the desired effect, and the question almost is whether anything will live long enough to challenge Marquw 1 There i Buckstone jufct upon the same lino in which Mr. Merry's horses ran last year and the year before, and ther^ i? that horse which iuhuc us look at him us he cantered. Buckstone, | ■however, is already beaten, although he still runs | gamely. The obscure horso cuijies up on the Marquis' wl»p-hand, and now is the time to wish for a particle of that energy which was expanded in cutting down the field. Ashmall calls upon his horse, who is not of the eort to need calling on. He struggles as hard as a horse can, but it will not do Camctacus beats him by a _neck, while Buckstone runs without opposition-into the third place. The beautiful Neptunts and another horae came next, and all th« rest were nowhere. Tlia opinion generally entertained by those who observed the Marquis's performance at Newmarket wa« amply justified by ht«s runniug for the Derby, although he had not tje luck to win the race. The horse ia a thorough good one. and, amid the uncertainties of the turf, there cculd be i.othiiig nearer certainty than to stand to win upon the Slarquia. Thi* was our opinion before the race; and ii' the race could have been run again next day, we should still have lacked the Marquis, with the 'proviso, however, that he should be ridden more juuicious'y. Jf the Marquin could have been spared a little in the early part oi the race, we do not think he could possibly have Ix-en defeated. His failure must In: attributed to undue eagerness either in the horse or iockey. No doubt he made awful hevoc »>f the fkl<l, fur "although Buckstone ran into the third place, he b/ul no chance of b«ing either first or wowl ; and the remnhing thirty-one hoise* might as well have been in their Btahles eating oata The Marquis ha I h>i exhsiuteJ himself that, although he struggled uwfllnehin^ly to the last, he was juat beaten by a father horee, and thus the honor of the Derby was Bimt:hed from him iv the last few yards. Put o***s who watched hU rqnuin?, from start to finish, know that hi* owner Urn in dim one of the ;uo*>t valuable horse* of the veir. If the Marquis were to l« *.A I by auction at futtersall'rt on Monday, i it woui-l U* weu how little hU ciiaracter as a rae<jh.jrw; lvi* huti^rtd by his defeit at Epvuu. It is certain that he it fnU of pluck ; and in this respect ha differs from the Wtranl, who, liko him, won the Guinea;*, and hfterwanta ran second fortiid Derby, Ttiq Wi«itd has euiploytt} the iuicrvenin^ two Vearj* is» e»tab!Uhh)x a r» puta'ion for fchutting-up whenever a rival fairly coll;ir« him. Hut we dv not think there ia a soft sjiOt about the Marqui*.

Xlk. Knvujr Jamks avi> the New York lUh.~ The Ij\w lastitute of New York having- iiKcortafued tli- exact circumstances under which ilr. E*l»iu Jauiet »iw <>)m!<;«,! to bvc t|n^ ountry, has demanded an explanation fro'.u that sreritltiu.Hn, who, &» ocr rftdcrx are aware, hm lf«-ii adznitk-d a metuler of tli-» Near Y.trk bar. Mr. Jni/)*:.« han replied a> j f<»!lows:~" I deny eniphntirally that 1 have ever Iwjii ifuilty <.f iwpropcr conduct,, nod I deny that I ; )*iw ItigHlly diskirrs-d. An itT<-»]wu»ible anil '< iH<juij.ltonrd tri!..inal — self i3>nstitute«t, c>uipOrt«l ' of pn-ftAci: >:nl rivjj*. an-i political enemie^-Ia viola- : tion of awry principle of Kngiish juHicx;, employed th«ro««»-lvv)» in the .-.vc'vt investi^ntion uf privau; and conft-k-iktinl jH'.-uniary n-!ati«m» bvt\vi*«» a rsobk- lord an I niyMrlf -wh.j, or well as hi* !uivi»«w, lia<l decHnt.4 to uiake any rumplaint a-airi&t vie—and, ia my ableuee. rvhiM! I Ut litar tiiw«- to whum I entrusted my iot«sivsUi, and by a majority passed N>nie re^uEutiotti as if«[»ot"ut s.t It was unjust. At the time of my application to the Stifireine Court V> practice I wus a (jLiJcenVcounsel of the bar of Hnglnitd, and an ko now. The committee whora you represent may adopt, if they think pr »per, th<- nutcinenu in malicious and defamatory articles, written by a pgm>iinl cneiuv, rtplcte with the |wrvcu>ion and suppr^wtion of every rxplnnnt.jry cin-um*»tanct-, acid pubS^hed nearly twelve iiifMith*- nfUr ev<>iy fact wa«s publicly known, from motives which lire known nnd apprmabtl Jwre ■ and they nuy take any action they may think becoming uj>ki such frroiimiis; but I, «r, shall bj prcpar^tl whenever nwa«ary, before a court of honourable ami hijrh-miniled jud^ex—impartUl and rtspon»ib'c to public opinion -to vindicate tny conduct, ond evrv part of it, in ' the amtttr of any"?ipp!icaUon fur adiuixHiuit to practice in the Supreme' Court of Hew York.' To that tHbuual, ausl to the generosity of the majority of the bar with whom I am now Hh>.> cbti'd, i hh:i!l .'ipjwa!, no longer to tolerate the vir.di catm* persreutinn to whicli I have been subjecifd, nnd by thi/ir arbitraiueiit a'one will 1 be found.' tS<tb<4«-<|uctitly tho committee of tic Law lusutute xubin.tted th<ir rf{>frt to «h? .Supreme Court of tk Unhfl State*. TJie comasif u-c liiui that some «f tho fiit'ts i»nneet<xl with Mr. Ja'u<u»'n professsionai jiosition in Xi, A 'l;uid w. re not disci.-X.-(i to the court at the titu« of his application; and that, for such rfa«>n f tli« ord«rw U'lmittiii"; him should be revoked. It i*, liowwrr, n.-comiiK*n:lcil th.it Mr. James have an opportunity to \x> heard, in reply to the report of the 1 committee and in op]H*ition to the motion for revocation. Kyxco.vKOßjiiTY Mkmoumjus — AlHivo£S4,ooo jia\e hemt suttscribetl t« a fand fir building the memoriuJhalj in tho metropolis, already alluded to, and erecting new chapels in tUs provinces, ia celebration of the Bicentenary «f Nonconformity. Some promoters of the movement are sanguine thit even thus sum will be doubled during the eunvut year.

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