The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-18 00:00:00

TO THE ED:TOR OF THE EXPRESS.

Siu,—With the fight for the cliampirotr,hip
brought to a conclusion, we shall have the attention of the
sportiug world concentrated on the events to be decided at
Epsom, and there are plenty possessing some interesting
features in the programme advertised, the minor handicaps
being well patronised, while the 2.. yr-olds races, the City
and Suburban, and the Metropolitan Haudicap, have bete,
entries than usual. The experiment of extending the
meet to two days is, consequently, certain to turn out
and when Mr.i Dorling can command upwsuds .4
8001. for bonuses alone, it would be strange indeed if Epsom
could not afford two days' *port of a first-rate description,
seeing what they can do at Northampton.
On Thursday the City and Suburban Handicap, over the
last mile and a quarter of the Derby course, will be a
wed feature, especially as considerations of the Metropo-
' litau will not keep many out of the field as heretofore, and
the probable starters may be selected from Defend,-r,/Mlle. de Chantilly, Lord Nelson, .trhelne, Roman Candle,
Nucleus (not nominated, it is said, by the Captain Vernoa
recently
,d,eceased), Fits-Roland, Bastion, Royal Sovereign,
Isfarselle' , Maid of the Mist (doubtful), Comforter, Charles
le Temeraire, Sir Lac, Brown Holland, Herndon, Top.
sail, Ode, Confectioner, Simple Simon, paleface, Apollyon,
Fly-by-Day, Oliver, Infanta, Birdbolt, The Nun, Man-at.
Arms, Remunerator, Hetman, Homeward Bound, Bentinck
(doubtful) colt by Andover, Professor Dick, Gridiron, Nar-
cissus, Chance Shot, Yooicks, Maid of Orleans, Dana' Aus-
tralian Maid, the Swift, Queen of the May, and Chere Arnie,
After Defender's detest at Newmarket, .Inesine is the only one
among the heavy weights that hal buckets, and she doe', not
go down NO well as her supporters couhl wish, the running,/
the four-year-olds this season buying proved them all so
moderate that her Bet is not a lenient weight. I cannot for-
get Lord Nelson's easy victory over a inile of this course with
fist last Junei &Li:seeing that Zuyeler Zee, who was second to
him,
heat a e field at Goodwood, with Fat 12Ib up, the
Admiral will ht well for Sir J. Hawley in the event of
his finally taking the place of Fitz-Roboid—not an immerse.
ble occurrence. Comforter being meter a cloud, and the
stable hoarding Maid of the Mist as a lodger, apparently
going for the Andover colt, the middle weights do bet
look threatening, so that Charles to Temersire sod
Harmton—" outsiders" though they be—might run
as well as the beat of them. Confectioner car-
ries 41b less than Adana++ won with in 1857, and
there is no denying his formidable pretensions, although
the partisans of Oilo believe be will gave him plenty
to do, and Oliver run him to three parts of
a length when conceding 1811, et Lewes. It is impossible,
however, to shut one's eyes to his veneer improvement, and it
is on the cards for him to beat all the yullugst,:s. ThO Nun
was trot herself at Croxtou Park, and will run.' different
mare here ; but she eau hardly hope to compete with Re.
munerator when giving him the year and 211,, the latter
being very dangerous over a mile and a quarter, and de.
ci ' well in." Bentinck hes been on highly tried that
it is just possible he will be kept for the Derby, there
being no doubt that the fancy I iudidged in, when analysing
the Derby last winter, that he would eventually prove the
best of Lord Statuford's three-year-01de, having been well
gronnded, for be haa completely put iu the shade Paleface,
on whom there was such an anxiety to get for the
Derby at one time. Homeward Hound'., severe race
' with Bivouac at Catterick Bridge doom him no
good, and considering the half fit Bivouac was
giving 81b, fat fill, is not a winning weight for him, as Lord
Zetlanol's colt would have no friends at 54 131 b. unless
thoroughly fit. Hetman has declined in the betting re.
cently, and the Andover cult also ; but neither are the
worse for it, and they will run good homes, or I am much
ro mistaken. Gridirons party do not appear half so eoufslent
as they were before the Yooicks sort, ioaiuu came into the
market, and they may be frightened out of the field, although
Gridiron is their bole representative. He is Is red horse,
nevertheless, or his looks belie him, and will be worth at.
tention when wanted. Ynoick's decline has been conse-
quent on the rush upon Confectioner, Chere Arnie, &e. ; the
last mentioned having done all that wax asked of her, and if
her party are in earnest ((not often the case when they
have a favourite in the market lung), it will not do to cry
" Yooicks" too lustily, for there is 711, between them,
and it is reported they have both been through the
mill with Man-at-Arnie. Yooicks, however, 1 have heard
the most flattering accounts of, and if he do not prove the
best in the race, he is nudouldedly the inset highly tried of
the whole hundred acceptor.. Initure carries gosal money,
and her weight is walling to complain ,of ; still, if her party
build their hopes on her Warwick sues. ea' they may he
greatly deceived, as Bevis, who wax aecoml to her, cut up
wretchedly at Newmarket, sal in selecting a lot to beat
the field, I am compelled to give Haman, the Andover colt,
Gridiron, Yooicks, Chem Arnie, Remunerator, and Con-
fectioner the best of her. This is presetting; on the absence
of Bentinek, who would nut be put aside by me for any.
thing, if in the field, and Yooicks or Chem Arnie may get
placed A 1 in the nice, followed by Confectioner and Re-
munerator. The best public performer in the calf-mile
Two Year Ohl Stakes is Little Lady, who will
not require an extraordinary clipper to beat her up
the hill, and I have still hopes of T. Parr's Lupus. The
Likermann Plate, half a mile, appears a gift for Flimsy, 6
yrs, ist 711,, after what be did at Newmarket, but the
talents will find it difficult to select the winner of The
Heatheote Plate, six furlougx, unless Twilight, 4 yrs,
Bst 131 b, jeopardises her Chester Cnp by entering the
Siena.

The field for the Metropolitan Handkup, two miles and
a quarter, run od Friday, will greatly depend on the first
day's results, and I can only set down the pr..balde starters
from present appearanoes, these comprising Roman Candle,
Special License, Clydesdale, Mounivietf, Marine, Svret
Treasure, Heiress, Confectioner, Chlo, Paleface' Oliver,
Simple Simon, Wallace, lion ('cassock, Malpas,Professor
Dick, Chalice Shot, Gridiron, Narcissus, The Bribery colt,
and Dame. To enter into au analysis of all these would he
out of place, pending the nice for the City and
Suburban ; and I can only plead • fancy for
the Bribery colt as the best of the favourites,
while be has nothing to boast of in the shape of
superiority over such outsiders as Special License, Gridinu,
and Chance Shot. The former has been always spoken of by
me as the most leniently treated iu the rune, and the "good
money" being entrusted to hint, or about to be, I may
have no ranee to regret the choice. At any rate, let me
stand or fall on him, the next in my estination being the
Bribery cult, Gridiron, and Chance Sled, iu the order minted.
The Vi alton Stakes, one mile and a half, must fall to Pro.
raised Laud, if lie piosielAcs a chalice in the Chester l'up,
Red Eagle is too "big" yet to travel MO miles for the
sake of hawker/ a cut at him. The New Two Year Old
Stakes, six furlong', con boast nothing better than the :db
penalised Zodiac among this vales winner., and I have gm
great affection for him, the half wile rues being pretty cur-
tain to bring out etenething to pra.c.ent hi. liet...lllifig a
favourite, and Chorsehill, vrs.. 10/4 1311 t, is the most
threatening in the Welter Handicap. I am, •e.,
METEOR.

(131 £UXTKIC TKI.DMAPII.)
EPSOM. -(WKONDWAY.)

ARRA-ED.—Cher,. :Uuie,Wstllnce, I) me, Britery
c, Nareierue, Y,lllc. Chantilly, Simple Simon, LW%
Little Lwly, Hawkecye, sal itegiue l'relexeor.

REPRIONTAION Or BERKAIIIRE.—The
grove of the sudden death of rupLtiii Leicester Vernon,
the conservative member for Herks, was receivisi at
Abingdon on Monday morning, and wits the subjeet of
much sympathetic discussion in the market held that ilay,
the gallant captain enjoying not only the confidence and
re pct of his political supporter*, hut having, hy his
urbanity of manner*, and his esprit iu public end weial
matter. in the county—good fellowship in the hunting-bald.
dining with the fernier* here, and lecturing tliere,quite won
the likings of all parties. So much, indeed, was this the
subject of c.,nvervation, that little war., said as to the filling
up of the vacancy thus created. The hopes of the rouser
retiree, however, are uodonl.telly directed to Colonel Loyd
Lindsay, of Luckinge Park, to whom, we lie3r, there is an
intention of getting up n reptiaition.
REPREERNTATION or HARWICH.—The liberal'. of
Harwich, convinced that with divided action oil their fart
the careens of the conservative eandidate wait lowered, at
last determined to *elect by ballot ono candidate from
among the three gentlemen who offered them...lves for their
choice—via, Mr. Montagu Chandlers, (Mi., Mr. .lanas
Duncan Thomson, alai Mr. Alfred Ito-It. The n.,ult rf
the ballot was that 40 votes were reconleil for Mr. Thomson,
3R for Mr. Brett, and only 11 for Mr. Chambers. Mr.
Thomson is accordingly now the ecleeted candidate of the
party. Mr. Beat has come down to Harwich, and has
given in his assent to the decision of the elector*, and Mr.
L'hanahers will in all rasibalwility also acquiesce in the rev,•
lution arrived at. Toe ballot tilts .1131'01 in. however. ll'
only half the number of regi.teivil liberal elector.... thud
the result is after all acareely cnclusive. Mr. Thotii.ou te
a relative of the Bsehaw family, long cowman' with liar
wick and Ilarwieh politics.
THE CLARE ELE.TION.—A loci' journal, alluding
to the late election iu Clan-, mays that Captain White 1. re.
solved to iireettute a petition mptinst Mr. Calculi. The
omcial declaration of the poll took Owe on Friday. in the
courthouse, Ennis. The goer majority for My ealcutt
la,findl4..
aufithlr.ofealthcainatkt. ity.4 ttitituee.Nl lir
Sheriff
proocedings.