The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-06 00:00:00

THE FOREIGN HAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 4.—The Hamburg and
American Company's steamship Germania, Captain
schwenser, from New York on the 24th ult., has arrived
here with 46 sacks of mails, 65 passengers, for this port,
Havre, and Hamburg ; also on freight 180,000 dole. in
specie for London, 130,000 doh. for Paris, and 12,288
packages of cargo for Hamburg. The Germania spoke the
following ships :—On the 2nd, the English barque Bent,
bound east ; steamer Bremen, bound west English
brig Ist pendant 4 Harriet signal, 35 days out from
Pernambuco, for Liverpool ; on the 3rd, the Swedish brig
Hiram, bound east ; Russian brig Konigin ; English brig
Marianna, bound east; Hamburg barque Madagiukar,
bound east ; American ship Natal Star, bound east ; and
on the 4th, the Bremen brig Clarissa, bound west.
QUEENSTOWN, APRIL 11.—The Guion steamer
Nebraska, from New York, arrived here at 4 p.m. to-day
with 80 passengers, some of whom she landed, proceeding
for Liverpool immediately.

OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL. Q'o REM:TOWN,
APRIL 5. The Royal Mail steamship Russia arrived here
at noon to-day. She embarked 60 supplementers sacks of
snails, her panniers and telegrams, and prooeeded for
New York at 3.30 p.m. All well.
DESPATCH OF INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 4.—The Peninealer and &len-
til Company's steamship Poonah, Captain Kellook
milled to-day with mails for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean,
Bgypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, China, and Japan. She took
amt 75 passengers and a full cargo of general merchandise!
on freight, including gold coin, 2,4491.: her silver, 37,8701.;
emeralds, jewellery, and precious stones, 2,0291. 14e. ;
silver coin, 7s. ; dollars, 1031. ; and gold thread and jewel-
lery, 2.3461. 15e. 10d.
floriftsmrron. APRIL 4. —The North German
Lieyj iteamer Berlin, Captain lindustosh, sailed at neon
to. 4.7 cog her Ant ocean voyage, with malls, 750 par
'mom an d s fall cargo for Baltimore direct.
Tim ilk•ArY BOMBAY hians.—Sormiamrronj
An, 6.—The 'Peduncles and Oriental Company's steamer
Dais. with ells heavy portion of the above mails, pawed
Os Moths at 12.30 lon- to day.
Sovraaarrrox, Awn B.—The Ron' Mail Cam-'
one,slwma owida. r the Brasil, pared the
Needles an 12.35 a.m. to-day.
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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
THE PAST AND THE FUTURE.

TO TM =TOR Or TIER UNITS&

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Ste,--1110wtheillTeitrredliglit blue was hot
week beaten, lest at Beaufort Hones, them on the wetly,
aid finally at St. Jamea's-hall oa the board of green cloth,
will long ;be discussed by =—and nenorting, for
that matter -communities • hut terfites, whose
, interest in the pattern nee ea the Thames is more of as
d. therache than say other, have almost forgotten
that by thin time, and it was strange to notice the eager-
nees with which those who had misted thereat plunged
into the Derby and Twe Thousand the moment they
returned to the clubs on Saturday. It is true the most
startling news had been pet ea the wires during the
morning and overnight, and if oar operator did not
" perform " another would, no doubt ; nevertheless It was
' none the lees remarkable that the knights of the blackhead
sated se though they almost regretted the time lost "up
the river," and that they were not earlier in the field to
watch the startling Pace and Harvester business. As I
prognosticated long ago, the latter has passed his big eon-
panion in the Derby betting, as he likewise would have
done in the Two Thoumed had not the eperratoes in his
favour turned round and knocked him out again when he
looked like becoming too great • favourite. He has done
I such • " good thing " at home with Pam and Silence as
, raises the question whether be is sot the equal or superior
' of Speculum, and es sure to afford good hedging to these
who took my oft-repeated hint, and get on. The 0011•141.
lion grows stronger every day that Matthew Dawson will
have to find something better to win the Derby with than
Speculum, whose Epsom rival, Orion, has not
clewed
hands as contemplated, for souse unexplained reason.
animal from which a " line" was taken to measure the pair
just named, Names, appeared for the third time at North-
ampten, in the St. las Handicap, and got so shamefully
beaten again as to take some of the gilt off their two per-
formances. Not only Grey Stocking, but Lady Coventry
and Lounge also bed fairly beaten her • long way from
home, so that when we consider how Cocas, with only a
stable-boy in the saddle, served the latter in the Warwick
Trial, there is room for the supposition that the Hedass.
ford crack is as near in farm to Speculum and Orion as
lass year's running clearly made out. Not only has Pace
been beaten in a "dust-up," bus his feat still give his
Mends plenty of anxiety, • dry spring being almost cer-
tain to do for him. Another whilom Newmarket creek,
Mahican, is in • worse plight, having most unmistake-
ably " gone," and turning last year's running
topsy-turvy we have Suffolk beaten in his Mal" by
Restitution, whose best race as a two year old was the
third in the Woodcote. We shall probably hear of Les Sac.
razin, the winner of this importhat Juvenile rate now
' that both the second and third to him are in such demand,i
especially with so little for the Frenchman to hope for in
Rebhan. Typhoeus is the steadier of the Newmarket
favourites in both the Two Thousand and Derby, and there
are few others about whom liberties are not taken, two of
Sir Joseph Hawley's three, Green Sleeve and Blue Gown,
being on the see-Ilaw, whilst both the Danebury pets, Lady
Elizabeth and the Bart, are tottering. The latter has made
the greatest backward stride, though he is not reported as
doing badly, like the filly over three weeks' walk-
ing exercise being rather alarming to those who
thought she would only be " eased " for • day or two.
However there are still seven weeks before her, and if
she is not really amiss John Day has only to beg in again at
once to get her fully no to the mark. Rumour says that
there are monetary obetaeles in the way of her starting,
and that The Earl is in the same predicament ; but it will
not do to believe all one hears in the turf world, and • horse
good enough to win • great race invariably " has its head
loose." There are exceptions to this rule, of course, but
very often through owners being led away by fallacious
private spins. There can be no other excuse, I should
hope, for Blueskin's declining the Northamptonshire
Stakes, when on!the ground and in excellent trim, than that
he was deemed inferior to Roquefort, though how
such a mistake could be made as to even run the
latter it is hard to conceive. Bursting a blood vessel on
the previous Thursday, and throwing up about • pint of
blood, it is a wonder that he was allowed to gallop at all
for some days, with such • horse as Blueekin to fall back
' upon, and I understand that from the time of his &evident
until his arrival at Northampton be was not allowed to go
faster than a good cab-horse, his trainer (no feather)
galloping alongside him on a cob to see whether he bled
again. Under the circumstances, it is not to be wondered
at that he should be tailed away in the race after going •
mile—the surprise being, as before urged, that Biu &tin
was not pulled out just to help him. According to his
running in the Metropolitan with the first, third, and
fourth hese, the young one must have been " there or
thereabouts," and being in snob good hand., his declining
a rich stake like the Northamptonshire Stakes is
a worse mistake than withdrawing Grey Stocking
from the City and Suburban. Blueakin very nearly
win the Queen's Plate on the second day, splint a moth
better horse than any in the handicap, Blinkhoolle, and it
cannot be otherwise than galling to Mr. Savile should he
ever meet Mariner again, and beat him. Very little else
came out of the two days in Northampton to be talked
about by those interested in the future, Ironmaster having
too light a weight for his Spencer Plate victory to make
him a favourite for the Two Thousand ; and I need only
observe of the two-year-olds that one of the unplaeed in the
Althorp-park Stakes, Melody, may some day turn
out as good as anything we had at the meet-
ing, admitting Cunene*, Flower Girl, and Vermi-
celli—all winners—with the brother to Poleaxe,
are not • bad lot to look at. Mariner is put out of the
Chester Cup by a penalty' which brings his weight up to
that of Beauty, who pulled me through for the Whittle-
bury, in the face of Athena, and is greatly fancied for this.
However, with almost a blank week before backers and
layers, the Bromley Meeting being merely a holiday for
cockney " sportsmen," there will doubtless be better
things than Beauty introduced into the market for the
Roadee event, and I cannot help thinking Landscape or
I Mercury will be • good favourite some day, notwithstand-
ing the market at present makes out the bitter is inferior
to the Priest. The Great Northern Handicap, just
framed, may not be introduced yet, but my predilection
for Mr. Bowes must be thus early expressed, with Tenths
in at 7st. 71b., and Fobert must supply a "good thing"
likewiee.—l am, he., METEOR.