young man.  He comes of a good old county family—­his mother was a daughter of the Right Honourable A——­s L——­l, and he himself is old enough to know better.  But we hear of his escapades night after night, and day after day.  He bets all day and he plays all night, and poor tired nature has to make the best of it.  And his poor worn purse gets the worst of it.  He has duns by the score.  His I.O.U.’s are held by every Jew in the city.  He is not content with a little gentlemanlike game of whist or ecarte, but he must needs revive for his especial use and behoof the dangerous and well-nigh forgotten pharaoh.  As luck would have it, he had lost as much at this game of brute chance as ever he would at any game of skill.  His judgment of horseflesh is no better than his luck at cards.  He came a cropper over the “Two Thousand Guineas.”  The victory of the favorite cost him to the tune of over six thousand pounds.  We learn that he hopes to recoup himself on the Derby, by backing Shylock for nearly nine thousand pounds; one bet was twelve hundred guineas.

And this is the sort of man who may be chosen at any time by force of family interest to make laws for the toiling millions of Great Britain!

DOCUMENT NO. 6.

Extract from “Bell’s Life” of May 19th, 1848:

THE DERBY DAY.

WEDNESDAY.—­This day, like its predecessor, opened with a cloudless sky, and the throng which crowded the avenues leading to the grand scene of attraction was, as we have elsewhere remarked, incalculable.

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THE DERBY.

The Derby Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. for three year-olds; colts, 8 st. 7 lb., fillies, 8 st. 2 lb.; the second to receive 100 sovs., and the winner to pay 100 sovs. towards police, etc.; mile and a half on the new Derby course; 215 subs.

Lord Clifden’s b.c. Surplice, by Touchstone.......... 1
Mr. Bowe’s b.c. Springy Jack, by Hetman.............. 2
Mr. B. Green’s br.c. Shylock, by Simoon.............. 3
Mr. Payne’s b.c. Glendower,   by Slane............... o
Mr. J.P.  Day’s b.c. Nil Desperandum, by Venison...... o

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DOCUMENT NO. 7.

Paragraph of Shipping Intelligence from the “Liverpool Courier” of June 21st, 1848:

The bark Euterpe, Captain Riding, belonging to the Transatlantic Clipper Line of Messrs. Judkins & Cooke, left the Mersey yesterday afternoon, bound for New York.  She took out the usual complement of steerage passengers.  The first officer’s cabin is occupied by Professor Titus Peebles, M.R.C.S., M.R.G.S., lately instructor in metallurgy at the University of Edinburgh, and Mr. William Beauvoir.  Professor Peebles, we are informed, has an important scientific mission in the States, and will not return for six months.

DOCUMENT NO. 8.

Paragraph from the “N.Y.  Herald” of September 9th, 1848: