The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-16 00:00:00

SPORTING GOSSIP.

The doings at Newmarket during the past
week have (says Beirs Life) been chiefly confined to the
Derby horses. Typhoeus is still on his legs, although
to every outward appearance his last, but if there
is the remotest possibility of keeping him there he will
be got as forward as possible for the Epsom event. Specu-
lum is progressingas satisfactorily as his backers could wish,
and has been doing rattling work oa the ; and no
fault can be found with the work and condition of the
TOM Bowline colt, who, being a big, heavy base, daily
takes a few gentle breathers on the turf, and his
finishing gallops over the tan. The Baron's horse Suffolk
has been doing an extra amount of work, together with
his stable companion Restitution, consequently there will
be no excuse for hint in the Derby on the grounds of condi-
tion, as his followers strenuously assert has previously been
the case. St. Ronan has been at work, and this is all
that need be said of him, and but little else of }tableau,
further than his friends must not be disappointed in failing
to behold another Gladiateur. Hermit has not yet emerged
from his seclusion, and his old opponent Vauban is a com-
panion in retirement. Julius has been striding along in his
usual form ,and Friponnier going and looking well—the same
may be said of the once famous horse The Rake. Lord
Westmorland's The Vixen colt has joined M. Dawson's
string for a time.
The Sporting Go:ette learned from Donnington-park yes-
terday, that one of the Marquis of Hastings's most pro-
mising yearlings, a colt by Trumpeter out of Attraction,
has met with an accident, which necessitated his destruc-
tion. The same authority says it may interest the backers
of the Derby favourite to know that Lady Elizabeth is
going on as well as her trainer can desire, and intimates
that her ladyship will not be tried between now and the
Derby.
EAIST ACTON SALE Or YEARLING-.—The following studs
of yearlings will arrive at East Acton Stud Farm on Mon-
day, June 1, to be sold by Messrs. Tattersall, on Friday,
June 5 :—Sir Lydston Newman's, Mamhead-park, 24 ;
Messrs. Graham's, Yardley Stud Farm, 14 ; R. Sutton's,
Esq., Benham-park, 10 ; Mr. Charles Snowing's, Holle-
well-park, 5; and the Right Hon. the Earl of Sudeley's,
Toddington-park, Gloucester, G. They will be on view
during the week. East Acton Stud Farm is four miles
from the Marble Arch, on the Uxbridge-road.—Sportsiriati.
The Sporting Life understands it is certain that
Achievement will make her first appearance as a four yelar
old in the Beaufort Cup at Bath on Tuesday, when she la
likely so be opposed by Julius. Her weight, with bet 1016.
penalty, will be 9st. 2.1 b., and Julius's fiat. 101 b. Presum-
ing they meet so, they will be antagonising on 111 b. diffe-
rent terms to the advantage of Julius to those on which
the pair encountered in the St. Leger, when Julius was
third, a bead behind Hermit, who was beaten easily by
Achievement by a length. The Earl, Speculum, Lecturer,
Vauban, Knight of the Garter, Friporuder, and other cracks
are also among the nominations for the Beaufort Cup.
It was reported early in the week, says the Field, that
Mr. J. Day had become the purchaser of Lord Uxbridge's
horses, and the report was confirmed by Miss Foote, the
" long-looked-for," running in the Danebury trainer's
well-known colours, and winning the Biennial Stakes for
two-year-olds at Winchester.
The French Oaks is run at Chantilly to-morrow, and the
French Derby the Sunday after.
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The Sporting Life sajs that several large double and
treble events have lately come off. Mr. William Wright
of Covent-garden, laid a gentleman of Plymouth, the
magnificent sum a 16,000/. to 201. some time since against
Paul Jones's winning the Chester Cup, Fortunio the Great
Northern Handicap, and Rosicrucian the Derby. Should
Rosicrucian win the Derby, anl this leviathan bet be
landed, surely the Plymouth gentleman will bless the
memory of the commission agent and his firm. What
a wonderful haul the Plymouth speculator can even now
make either way, by betting, say 6,0001. to 1,0001. or more,
against Rosicructan ; but be has not at present hedged, I
understand—at all events, to his town agent, who laid
him the bet. The same journal announces that the Rev.
Walter Blunt, the owner of the Danebury estate, died at
his residence, Wallop on Wednesday, at 7 o'clock in the
morning, after a brief illness.
" in the Sportsman, devotes an article to the
turf career of the Marquis of Hastings, and professes to
lay before the sportin' world a plain unvarnished state-
ment of facts relative to the position in which the
marquis stands towards hid creditors.

The Australian aboriginal cricketers will play
their first match at the Oval with the Surrey Cricket Club
on Monday week, and give illustration of aboriginal sports
—the chief of which (beating each other about the head
with "waddies," and boomerang experimental will,
we suppose, be modified to snit European mildness of
taste. One man is said to be wooderously clever in
parrying, with • slight shield showers of cricket balls,
hurled at him from 20 yards' distance.—South London
Press.

At present Serjeant Armstrong's motion " That,
in the opinion of this house, the position of her Majesty's
ministers is opposed to the principles of representative
government, subversive of constitutiooal administration,
and incompatible with the character and dignity of parlia-
ment " is fixed for Monday the 25th.

Mr. Gregory, President of the Institution of
Civil Engineers, bee issued cards for an evening reception
on Tuesday, May 26.

On Saturday, next week, May 23, a grand
amateur performance will be given in the Gallery of Illus-
tration, in favour of the Hospital for Women. A Rainy
Day, by Miss Virginia Gabriel, and Offenbach's operetta,
Tvo Many Cooks, are the entertainment, proposed.
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Mr. Paul Bedford's farewell benefit took place
at the New Queen's Theatre, this afternoon, commencing
at 1 p.m.

Mr. F. Doulton, M.P., contradicts,! in the
Trtegraph, the statement that he had withdrawn from the
House of Commons and the representation of Lambeth.
" The paragraph in question," he writes, " is untrue, as I
have no intention of relinquishing my seat. I have been
confined to my bed by severe illness for several days, sad
unable to attend to my parliamentary duties, as my friends
are well aware ; but, so soon as I shall hare sufficiently
recovered (which is not yet the cue) I shall attend in my
place in the house."
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE
Marina WEER.—Monday: Asiatic, 3, Anniversary.
Tuesday : Royal Institution, 3, " Development of
Animals," Dr. Poster ; Horticultural, 3, General Meeting
and Lecture; Engineers, 8, " Engineering Philosophy,
" Durability of Materials," Mr. Clark ; Anthropologialt
8, " Ain° Skeleton and Skulls," Dr. Davis, " Elasticity of
Animal Type," Mr. Davis; Statistical 8 " United States
Finances, 1881-61," Mr. Courtenay. Wednesday : Society
of Ails, 8, "Condition of Agricultural Labourer," Mr.
Denton ,• Geological, 8, " Eruption of the Kelmeni of San-
tora," Dr. Schmidt ; " Crarbeds of Norfolk and Suffolk,"
Mr. Prestwich ; " Carboniferous Corals," Mr. Thalami;
Literature, 83, "Remains of the Disk-Wonthippsys at
Memphis," Sir C. Nicholson. Thursday : Royal Institu-
tion, 3, "Astronomy," Professor Grant ; Antiquaries, 84,
"E. Warsopp's Diary relative to Titus Oates sad the
Poplah Plot," Mr. Black. Friday : Royal Institutiks, 8,
" Heat of the og-hydrae's Flame," Professor Odling.
Saturday : Royal Institution, 3, " Astronomy," Preiemer
Grant.—Aftemvion.