The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-06 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDI3.—SATCADAT, Arroxrsr 4.
Their lordship met *a Saturday, and forwarded several
Lille a stage.

HOUSE OF 00)1110N8.—SATURDAY, Aug. 4.
After the ekes of our report es Saturday,
Sir J. PAKINGTON entered into explanations of
charges made by Mr. Seely in regard to alleged extrava-
gant expenditure in dockyards, especially in reference to
baste, and dated that the boat. for her Majesty's
ah3pa were built by eontnut, and repaired in the yards, so
that the charge far repair would only appear to be unduly
large ; and, in fart, the charge which was attributed to
one boat was applinehl• to three. A rum, of 5,0001.,
which bad been Wd as the coat of the repairs of
83 boats, was, In act, the value of 223 boats after they
had been mitred.
Kr. SMY admitted that in ens or two instances
be had been in error, but on the whole reiterated his
charges of undue expenditure for repairs.
After some discussion the subject dropped, and
The house adjourned at 20 minutes to 2 o'clock.

Svarting inttiligenct.
MIDSUMMER RACING Di SUSRRY
TO THII ROMP. OP Tli/ =PPM&
SIR,—" The beet sportsman of any age or
country," as Squire °shad-01ton was formally christened
by some of ourlbest men, on the occasion of his resigning
the mastership of the Pytchley, passed from among us
whilst the fever of the Goodwooa meeting was at its
height, leaving another void in the ranks of those old
Corinthians who sport for sporting's sake ; and when some
of the pima= of his glorious life are conned over by the
Young -baders who prostitute the name of " sport" by
making a sort of ehandler'eshop trade of one of its most
important branches, their consciences must be stung to the
quick, unless they are lost to all sense of shame. Good-
wood wee a profitable week to them, • being prolific of
" milked" horses, and gentlemen who bad been " fore-
stalled" • and those hasty individuals who backed l'argii;
on theCi;ps—very foolishly, for the two mysterious
literally mean " plunder the public"—had an awful lesson
on their want of patience, two of the hottest favourites
that were ever made for the Stewards' turning out
"safe," whilst their being left in up to the last mo-
ment raises the suspicion that their parties' motives
from the first were none of the purest. However,
this is only remiss ; and the heavy losses sustained by
some of the vary boss and sinew of the national pastime
(for it is the public who help materially to keep it going,
after all) over Mrs. Stratton, Gretna, Cedric, Archimedes,
Bradamante, Cornball, No, Sarney, Potomac, Othello,
Slender, Windham, Janitor, Corsair, Regalia and Gladia-
teur, who from various causes—not at all disgraceful—did
not give them even a run for their money, should deter
them from having more to de with p.p. races, which often
means nothing more than priming the pockets of those
harpies who use racehorses as instruments of even worse
than gaming. Taking the meeting altogether, the public
and talent eventually bad all the worst of their battle
with the bookmakers, who floored them one and all round
after round on the last day, and on every big race (except
the Goodwood Cup, which was not a big race at all this
year) mauled them rather severely. The winners of the
three peat ante-post betting races were doubtful starters
en the morning of their victories, and it is said Sultan was
to have been reserved for the Cambridgeshire and Rama for
the Caorewitch had not things turned out as their parties
did not anticipate. That both these are good horses I fully
believe, whatever may have been thought of them a week
ago, until when their performances were not at all recom-
mendatory. Sultan's was a great triumph for the French
pirty, who might just about have won with Plutus had he
failed todothe trick ; and there is no doubt about where the
Goodwood Cup would have gone had Gladiateur been able
to bid for it, as The Duke was not quite up to the mark,
and would certainly have been beaten by Tourinalin had
they galloped the whole course instead of only about a
third of it. The orders given to the latter's tiny jockey
lost Baron Rothschild the Cup, for having to wait with
the filly he was dead beaten before she began to "go, es
she took a deal of holding whilst the pace was so slow, and
when it came to a race Fordlnun was enabled to completely
out-mameuvrePeake. The grandest displays of th e four days
were those of Broomielaw and Ostreger, under their heavy
weights, in the Chesterfield Cup, and of the latter in a
plate, when he was giving the second (a two-year old, it is
true) 4st 71b, which fairly established him the sediest
horse of the day, barring, of course, the "wonder,"hieve-
ment, who cleverly sustained her title of The Inv'ncible.
That there was a two-year-old at the meeting worthy to
be placed anywhere near her is yet doubtful, despite the
one great performance of Marksman, who in the Molecomb
showed such an improvement on his Findon form that it
is hard to say what he really cannot do, when he and those
connected with him are In the humour. People, how-
ever, did not go away from Goodwood impressed
with the idea they bad seen the Derby winner ; and
the quality of the hones running during the four days,
whether they were two, three, or more years old, did not
come up to the usual standard, the only three year old race
of any importance being that won by the French Auguste,
not in the St. Leger. Nor was the meeting exactly like a
Goodwood of old in other respects, despite the royal
patronage it received, for what with the bad weather
(wintry on the first day), and the dreary appearance of that
end of the enclosure where the new stand and paddock
were formed, old frequenters saw what it may take them
some years to get accustomed to, and then not appreciate.
Brighton race-course will present a strong array of plea-
sure-seekers, but of a different clam to that seen at Good-
wood, as the meeting is looked upon by the working-bees
of the Turf circle as their holiday, and the professional
betters have so increased in numbers of late years
that the stand and balcony are almost monopolised
by their families. The sport, again, is somewhat dif-
ferent to that seen 'at the ducal gathering, notwithstand-
ing the improvements recently made in the bill of fare,
for there are no rich two and three year old stakes to at-
tract first or second clam horses, and much depends on
bow the handicaps take for the success of the sports. The
programme holds forth every hope as to these items, the
entries fur the Brighton Handicap and the Nursery, and
the two plates, being very numerous, and it the accept-
ances ane only in the same proportion the fields mast be
good. Pending the declarations, it would be madness to
touch upon the plates ; and in selecting Tomato and Bar-
ney for the great event, I must make the reservation that
one of them shall accept. There are some very fair two-
year-olds in the Railway Stakes, the Hermit and rri-
pannier at 9st 21b, Huntsman at fist 131 b, Pirate
Chief and Treader° at Set Mb, Captain Kidd
at Bst Sib, Knight of the Garter at Bst 71b, and Dick
Tondo at Set 21b, being all worth pulling out for
the prize ; at the same time we may not see the
first named at Brighton or Lewes, and the heavy weights
will then lose their best champion here, for I can-
not suppose Friponnier capable of giving the weight
to Captain Kidd, if she can to the Knight. The Cham-
pagne has a splendid lot of seven entered, and there is
every chance of disproving or confirming the idea that
Ostmer is the best mile horse out, for he has the Duke
(41b extra), Cecrops, Redan, and the Baron's Robin Hood
arrayed against him. My opinion is he can beat all the
quartet, and Cecrops will do all I expect of him if he can
dispose of Auguste for their Biennial, the Frenchman,
if the latiet should succumb, having a chance of winning
the second day's Biennial with Trucadt'uo whose
third to Friponnier and Bismarck at Goodwood !oohs
better form than either Cannon Ball or Mendrake
displayed in their races. The Brighton Cup, two miles,
may poodbly recompense the owner of Tounnalin for his
Goodwood disappointment, only Tormenter hiving to be
feared, and it is not a certainty the is quite herself.
The Brighton Club events have all to close, with the ex-
ception of the two Biennials, which ehould be won by
Brims (one and Trocadero respectively, if the "open" meet-
rng does not bring out a superior to them ; and there are
only two of the Lewes races (which wind up the Sussex
fortnight on Friday and Saturday) complete as yet. These
have both excellent entries, although with his allowance
D'hitournel cannot well lose the Priory Stakes, whilst I
think Ostreger can carry home his Uht for the County Cup.
There is only another noteworthy " fixture" this week,
Ripon St. Wilfred, which is made for Monday and Tues.
day, and here nothing of general interest comes off, the only
point the events can settle being whether Hehe (who is
nicely in two handicaps) won her rich stake at Goodwood
through her own improvement, or her opponents being
below mediocrity.—l am, km., METEOR.