The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-07 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

THE LIVERPOOL AUTUMN CUP.

TO TH6 EDITOR OP THE EXPRESS.
SIR,--AR yet, the minor events at Lirerpo.d
have brought forth no second Beeswing or Gardener to
jeopardise the pretensions of the carefully bottled " good
things" for the Liverpool Cup ; and the race looks sur-
prisingly epee, even now the scratching has commenced in
earnest. The pen has already disposed of Beeswing, ale
rumour says Ackworth also—too lightly handicapped to
run, I suppose; with others the public jumped upon from
the first ; whilst the pencil has settled the pretentious of
another numerous lot, apparently—Dalby, Mandrake,
Montgoubert, and Bracken being under a cloud it seems
impossible fur them to get clear from. The letter a.is
attacked very suddenly with the metallic fever, to the
horror of those who were daily hearing accounts of hew
well he was doing; but Mandrake has merely
retired before the staunch support conceded to
his stable-companion The Corporal, to help whom
do battle for the north Fatrwind appears about
the only reliable candidate. Newland being quite out of
his element just now in such • race. Weighted to a nicety
on their recent form, it is hard to choose between the
and the weight of metal there must necessarily be
behind one of Dangerous Dawson's representatives helps
to make one • better favourite than the other; still,
Corporal was tried to do • great thing with Mandrake
just before the Cambridgeshire, which quite ignored his
public form with Major Stapylton's useful outsider.
Most of the south-country champions backed are three
year olds, Honesty, Knight of the Garter, Scipio, Excite-
ment, Now Guinea, and Salamanca being all likely
starters, and they may be joined by Deceit and Secrecy,
if only to keep Honesty in check. Going as smoothly iv;
though his Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire "friends"
did not know what working the market went, the latter
is now reported to be doing better work than he did for
either of the Newmarket races ; but his name is neverthe-
less • most suspicious one to believe in yet, allowing
that he did get badly off for the Cambridgeshire,
and then run fourth. Could Knight of the Garter's stay-
ing the mile and 3 half be depended upon he would be a
much better investment at the present prices, for hi,
party are all " on, " whilst all accounts agree as to the
improvement he has made since he ran so close to Honesty
at home, giving him 201bs. Scipio Newmarket men will
not have, although be has always been hacked in the face
of the support conceded to Regalia, who since the Caith-
ness business of Saturday last that created such a sensa-
tion has been backed down to a very short price. The
fact of the " party " lending her companion to a certain
bookmaker who would not believe the mare was the
better horse, and laying him 10,000 to 1,000 that he could
not make Caithness win, naturally caused attention to be
directed to what was left behind, when the knowing ones
discovered it was Regalia and not Scipio the Stephenson.
Grahams were depending upon. At least so they think ; and
the idea seems feasible, when we look at what the twa animal s
have done, allowing for certain peculiarities of the mare,
whose defeat by Rama and Lord Lyon at Lincoln we are
told to ignore altogether. But she has at times shown
most unmistakable softness, and should she " turn it up"
in this instance, the layer of the big bet against Caithness
will not have much the best of it, no matter how superior
Regalia may he at home. The hest performances of the
one will read about as well es the best of the other's,
taking into account the half-stone advantage the gelding
has in the weights ; and what I cannot understand is the
Regalia man initiating Caithness will not be in the " first
six," for if he is not, where can they expect the mare to
be' The Peer may beat them both, and everything elge,
if his spring doings with Westwick and the strafforti'm
dam colt were correct ; yet when he beat the former,
Ischia was a good third, showing the northerner must
have been backward, and even on the running
of Lord Glasgow'. oolt recently, any fair three-year old
should beat The Peer, who is handicapped at but 81b lease
than the dangerous Primate. The everlasting Moulsey is
carrying money again, but can hardly win with his Bst 121 b,
if he does look more like business than Pearl Diver,
Minster Bell, Zenobia, Tribune, or any of the "outsider.,"
in fact. One of the defunct may revive at the last mo-
ment, the supposed victims to Bracken having the conso-
lation of knowing he is on the spot, and " fit to run for a
man's life." There is, too a dangerous name among the
arrivals in Abergeldie, looking at the company lie will he
in ; still, as matters at present stand, there is nothing like
Rachuta in my eyes, the next in my estimation being
Caithness and The Peer.—l am, he., METEOR.

BY 71CLZGRAPH.)

LIVERPOOL MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

HANDICAP PLATE.
Madrid . .
Parma . .

6 via.
HANDICAP PLATE.

Lanham —7.--
Attache
Humphry Davy
G ran.
XVBS.EitY.

Purveyor
Bassoon
Returned

11 ran.
WESTMORELAND CiT.
Palisade . .
Minster Bell ... .

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6 ran.
LIVERPOOL CUP.
4 to 1 apt The Peer (t)
%to 1 Honesty (t)
1000 to 80 Moulaey (t)
GRAND STAND STAKES. T.Y.C.
Popgun, Irwell, Themisto, Atreus, Ashtead, Tigbtfit e,
and Festivity. All are here.

HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE. Three miles.
Hornet, The Lamb, Benazet, Tallyho, Pole Star, Farnane,
Pensioner, L. S. D., King of Hearts, Reporter, Helen,
Ace of Trumps, Birdie, Rose, and Signal are here.

SELLING STAKES, Five furlongs.
Coleneo, Themisto, Phantom Sail, Zingers, Holstein,
General Sherman, Atreus, Paradise, Albatross, and Festi-
vity are here.

STEWARDS' PLATE. Six furlongs.
Regalia, Queen of Tromps. King Hal, Knight of the
Garter, Elvire, Abergeldie. Skipper, Dawdle, Ilphus, Star,
The Corporal Newland, King of Spades, Rejoinder, Col-
lins, Beauty, Jeannie Deans, Humphry Davy. Salamanca,
Contract, Minster Bell, Derwent, Paxton, Affection. But-
tercup, Yardarm, Scipio, The Returned, Proctor, Amend-
ment, and Flora are here.

BETTING IN LONDON.-(THIS DAY.)

2.30 P.Y.

There were but few members present at the
club. to-day, and the business transacted did not amount
to much. The favourites maintained their position undis-
turbed, and The Peer was in extraordinary request, as
little as 9 to 2 being accepted, and in the end asked for in
vain. No other feature presented itself, and the closing
prices were as follows :
LIVERPOOL AUTITAIN CUP.
9 to 2 apt The Peer (t & off)
sto 1 Honesty (t & off)
13 to 2 Regalia (t)
100 to 7 Caithness (t f)
100 to 7 Monleey (t &o)
100 to 7 Knight of the Garter (off)
100 to 6 Corporal (t)
20 to 1 Primate (off)
25 to 1 Scipio It and an
25 to 1 Pearl Direr (t sad off)
25 to 1 Mandrake (t and off)
25 to 1 New Guinea (t and off)
100 to 3 Dalby toff)
100 to 2 Abergeldie (t)

THE CONDEMNED CONVICT MAGDIRE. —The fol-
lowing letter was received in the Manchester court yester-
day by Mr. Digbv Seymour, Q.C., from the late surgeon ,
of her Majesty's flagship Princess Royal. Mr. Seymour
has forwarded it to the Home Secretary, with an
urgent appeal in favour of the prisoner :—" It,
Mount Edgecombe-tertace, Stoke, Devonport, Nov. 5.
" Sir,—lf my testimony on behalf of Maguire's character
can be of any use, or be partly the means of saving his life,
I shall feel glad. I was the surgeon of the flagship
Princess Royal on the China station the whole commis-
sion, end frequently had him oa my sick-list, during which
time be was obedient, and in fact never gave any trouble.
The hospital attendant found him always useful and atten-
tive to the more sick mariners and seamen. He was, in m
opinion, an irnomnt man, and could easily be led to drink
by others when on shore. He has not the brain to do what
the other Fenian" did. Had he been • bad character be
would not have been re-entered, or, rather, taken on again
for a definite period. I had no idea till Saturday that
Maguire was one of the doomed. I therefore think it my
duty to may what I know about the poor fellow, having
been in the same ship many years. Had he been a bad
character, the discipline of the ship was such that the
captain (Capt. Wm. Gore Jones, of the Royal Navy), would
have tried him by a court-martial. What could have in-
duced him toget into such had company I know not. I can
assure you that none of hie friends have written to tile on
the subject. I have written this quite of my own dic-
tation, believing the man to he innocent.—Believe me,
in baste, yours very faithfully, FRANK G. Tor ea."—
The Cork Constitution states that Allen is a native of
Cork county. His father was formerly • turnkey in the
county gaol of Cork, and was transferred from thence to
Bandon, where he acted for a long period as bridewell-
keeper. For many years his grandfather was parish clerk
of Ballymartle. His father was originally a protestant,
but became a Roman catholic after his marriage with a
woman of that persuasion, and reared all his children as
Roman catholic'.

Mr. Whitty, solicitor, is to be the next Mayor
of Liverpool.