The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-11 00:00:00

TO MA 11011TOZ 91 TIM 1371/128.

stet,—Pail Jones has iira'ved the perils of the
Rhoads*, to the extreme gratilaation of Illts public and
the prophets peerelly, and the pares who first inno-
vated Ids great worth perMoularly ; bet he would have
beam a very tame biro by this time had he on been In the
Des, • sees that fee*. nut olden days will shunt
aseaspelies the attention dell cleanest the nudist, - and
=m to that matter—emmeineity. What 501"
throw a brick at the bold Beeman: last
Weasel% just to help him aloes • the shot failed to
en-to-tour shun coming off, and
C.siliairenanstance Is now almost forgotten save by
Gmdwell, who was riding old Clown
Es; in the wake et the amok, aid received" on
t to (tome tune. Had Resicrucian effectually
cholosrtimself the other day, or Blue Gown taken poison,
or Lady Elisabeth bolted with the Earl, or the darling of
Lord Glaagow's crew gone aloft, there ,would have been a
real seasation if you like ; for these are Derby cracks,
whose doings are cbrcnicled as graphically as were the
movements of royalty in its best day, and read with far
more interest, I'll bet long odds. But anything belonging
to Cheater is very uninteresting now ; and hence it is not
necessary for me to note how, in the lace
for the Cup, Treasure Trove broke down, Grey
Stocking and Strathoonan were seriously disap-
pointed, Goodwood managed to beat his more fancied
stable-companion in their places, and the thousand and one
other circumstances. It is enough that Paul Jonas won so
easily as to take a front place among the great guns of his
year, and at the tams time to make the believers in " Sir
Joseph," Speculum, the Tom Bowline colt, The Earl, Orion,
lJneas, Suffolk, and St. Ronan, rather uneasy. It is a re-
markable fact that these, the cream of the Derby horses
beyond Lady Elizabeth, have all been in public this sea-
son ,• and last year's form is so revolutionised, too, that
Peal Jones and Speculum are held in nearly as much es-
teem as Rosicrucian, having quite shunted Green Sleeve,
Suffolk, Pace, Banditto, he. It is still maintained
that the Danebury .ady has been over-rated:
because the majority of the Middle-park Plate oelebrines
have out up so indifferently since ; still, we have seta
the Earl to great advantage lately, and she did enough
with him in a rough-up" lut week to make things look
very nay at Danebury. Sir Joseph Hawley's three are
all doing well, though Blue Gown is quieting down before
the support conceded to Rosicrucian, and they are evi-
dently trying what rest will do for Green Sleeve ; so are
Speculum and the Tom Bowline colt " all right," despite
the hardness of the ground at Newmarket, one or two
good judges going so far as to assert that the letter is
another Gladiateur ; and Orion, Suffolk, Dana, and Paul
Jones help to make up a strong array of good names to
contest the Blue Riband. Other favourites may
crop up yet, there being whispers of Forest King
and Tympanum already ; and who knows what price
Typhoeus may not come to again, hopeless as is his chutes
of winning? Perhaps the foreigners have a rod in pickle,
though the French Derby will have to produce something
better than the French Two Thousand did foe them to make
the least noise in the world. However, there appears little
chance of any great change in the present aspect of affairs
beyond those that may be effected by the hard ground and
the "pencils," for we are not likely to see anything in the
shape of a Van Amburgh at Bath, nor at any of the current
week's meetings. Paul Jones is certainly in the Great
Northern Handicap, run for at York on Tuesday next, and
on the spot ; but it is very doubtful that he will run, whet '1
with his 141 b. penalty, and the "fortune" dependent on his
keeping second and well up to the Derby day. Besides,
the race would be no certainty forhim, seeing he is meeting
Beauty on 181 E, Strathoonan on 141 b., Bracken on 161 b.,
and Minster Bell on 141 b. worse terms than in the Ches-
ter Cup, so that him repeating the doss to all these is no
easy matter. Blinkboolie, again, is only giving 141 b. in-
stead of 241 E for the year, and Westwick 1211). instead of I
301 b. for two years ; and for him to win again be must
excel Speculum's City and Suburban performance which be
undoubtedly failed to do on the Rhoads.. He has also to
give lamps of weight away, virtually to Regalia, Honesty,
Fortunio, Chelsea, Beanstalk, Grant des Bataillee, Ajax,
Ploughboy, and Landscape—all talked about as likely to
run, ailbeitl mint coulees to having grave doubts about the
three last-named showing. Most of the remainder named
above have performed this year,the exceptions being West-
wick,
Boothe, and Fortunio ; and it requires little calculi,
tion to discover that Blinkhoolie, Westwick, Beauty, Paul
Jones, Fortunio, and Stnthconan, on the strength of the
most recent form, have the best of the handicap (leant
des Bataillea may be a Tartar, notwithstanding Belmont's
concession of 331 b. to him at Oroxton, and Richmond will
doubtless try there again with Chela ; but I would just
as freely stand Beanstalk as either, and he has a very poor
chance after the exhibition at Newmarket behind Tara-
ban, who resigned this race in favour of Westwick. The
letter appears bound to win, in fact, if he is really West-
wick, for he has twice beaten Strathoonan at
even weights, and in the last Cesarewitch ran second with
fist 41b.. giving 181 b. for the year to Blinkhoolie, who was
only fourth. The grey, it most he admitted, has run
many pounds better over York than any other course, and
Mr. Chaplin's young Rataplan bas proved that his Cesare-
witch running was wrong ; nevertheless, a stone is a great
advantage to bust over two opponents in a two-mile race,
and this Weetwicic certainly bacon paper, over both Blink-
hoolie and Strathoonan. Haan he must have the
share of my confidence, and I shall leave Beauty,SZnlr
Blink-
boolie, and Fortunio to fight for the second and third
places.
The minor items in the programme of the York
August Meeting are difficult matters to tackle, and
it is sufficient to note that Lady Zetland in the Knaves-
mire Plate, Fitzwilliam in the Zetland Stakes, and
Helen in the Hunt Plate, look most like winners,
after a careful study of public running. These are all
weight for age races, the results of which must speak eon-
zeroing Wednesday's Eglinton and Tally-ho Stelae, whilst
the Great Northern may say something about the Flying
Dutchman's Handicap, wherein, however. Knight of the
Garter has no penalty, and he or Python should win. The
Londesborough Cup is a scurry that will suit either of Mr.
Payne's (Tremble is best in) and Chivalry.
Clashing with the meeting in the north we have two
days at Winchester, whereat some capital sport is pro-
mised, the weight for age races being of a better class than
are generally to be found in a minor south-country pro-
gramme. In the three-year old Biennial, one mile, are
Herald and Cock of the Walk, of J. Day's, and Lictor,
Tom Vernon. and Witchcraft of Drewitt's, besides Ly-
unagton and other fair Rerformers. My fancy inclines to
the Lewes stable, both Lictor and Witchcraft having shown
a little form the other day at Newmarket, whilst on last
season's result. it would be a gift for Liner. Most of the
two-year-olis engaged being "dark," and the 'takes they are
in being worth pulling good ones out tar, they are scarcely in
my line • and the handicaps are not to be thought of until
it is discovered what will represent certain interests, all I
dare venture to observe being that the brothers Goater will
land the principal one, the Hampshire, if they
one better than Venomous. The Derby
rriresStakes, one mile and a half, will barely tempt
Knight of the Garter or Lozenge ; but Mariner, Philoso-
pher, Lyniington, and Lictor should make a good race of it,
though Philosopher must win unless his owner has made
an awful mistake when matching him to run Paul Jones at
71b. over two miles is the autumn.

The Salisbury end Doncaster Meets p, held on Thurs-
day and Friday, shall be treated upon when the above are
decided.—l am, be., METEOR.

BETTING IN LONDON.-SATURDAY.

The clubs were well attended to-day, but affairs took rather a
quiet turn, and the proceedings were unmarked byes, important
feature or startling change. For the Great Northern, Bllnkhoolle
was a good deal Inquired after, but backers generally stipulated
for sto 1, whlle the current offers were 11 to 4. Beauty was
backed for apparently good money at Bto 1 and 11 to 2, and at
the finish no more than 5 to 1 was offered against her. About
.8100 was invested ou Weetwick at 7 to 1 with a start, and a like
amount unconditionally at 15 to 2. Portant° had a few friends
at 7 to 1, and !leant des Batailles met with fair support at 100
to 0 and 12 to I. Honesty was offered against without • re-
sponse, hut Strathconan, after be rag backed at 600 to 80, had
15 Ws booked In his favour. After 100 to 7 had bees
accepted two or three times about Paul Jones, 16 to 1 was
offered, while 2 to 1 would have bees laid that he did not run.
Per the Derby the outside price obtainable about Lady
Illasbeth was 3 to 1, met by counter propositions to accept 100
WMk elosicnician advanced another step, for after 7to 1 had
been vainly asked for, 100 to 16 was taken to .2100. Nine Wiles
were booked in favour of Speculum, and after 100 to 8 and 12 to 1
had been laid against Paul Jones, E. 50 was invested um him at
11 to 1. There was a disposition to lay against The Narl, and on
the other hand, a desire to support Orion, 90 W 1 being several
times asked for about the letter, while 1000 to 66 was tooted,
and some smaller bete on the same terms. Prices as follows :

O SEAT NORTURRN HANDICAP.
11 to 4 eget Blinkboolle (o, 14 to INO Strathoonan
3 tot t 1 w) 15 tot t)
sto 1 Beauty (o, n 16 to 1 Paul Jones (es,
to 2t) efts 100 to 7
7 to 1 ?Menlo (tit o) had bout t)
16 to 2 Weetwkdt (t 25 to 1 Miss °shame
12 to 1 Oeant des Ba- (o, 190 to St)
taill (t 1 36 to I Ploughboy (0)
Honesty icf) 100 to 3 Beanstalk io)
1000 to 30 Wettlebolder,o
4 to I apt Paul Jones, with a start (o, t6to 1)
5 to 1 Beauty, with a start (t)
7 to I Westwieit, with a Mast (t)
100 to 8 Chelsea, with a start (o)
60 to 40 Bllokhoolis and Beauty coupled (w)
6 to 6 Cu Blinkhoolls, 1,2, 3 (t)
5 to 4 sot Beauty ,1,2, 4 (t,
2 to 1 Portionlo, 1, (t)
4 to 1— Stratbconan, 1, 1 8 (t)
DERBY.
Bto last Lady Elizabeth 11 to 1 apt Blue Clown o)
_(0 t 100 to 30) IS to 1 Orion (t)
R 100 to 15 eekrocianecul (t) 18 to 1 The Earl (of,
9to 1 ftson tfOtol,
11 to 1 Pant Jones (t LS to 1 Dhess
(of, 1 1490 to 16 Ilereary (eN)
5000 even on Orion v. TM Bart (GC
7 to 2 apt Sir .1. Hawley's lot (of, t 404 to 100.
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11 Beauty at Heiman@ (is)
to I Fortitnio Oho) 140 to 8 v— Psi loose (o)
100 10 9 Honesty (tit o) 20 is 1 Sintilioceau(ll)
lo Is 1 Chelsea (t)
3to 1 eget Lady
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NAVAL AND MILITARY.

PORTSMOUTH. AP au, 9.

COURT-MARTIAL ON A BUIS-LIRLITZNANT —This
morning a court-martial assembled on board the Vietory
flagohip, to try Mr. Jahn Lloyd Crawley, Acting Bab.
Lleatonant of her Majesty's ship Pallas, for being drunk
la uniform at West Cowes on the 30th of April, and also
for being drank on board his ship the same day. The
Pallas was serving as guard skip to her Majesty. in Cowes
Roads, wises the "Bodged offence was committed. The
court consisted of the following Akers : Captains
Seymour, C.B. (President), R. J. J. G. Macdonald,
G. Hancock. W. C. Chamberlain, G. Le G. Sowyrar,
A. W. C. Hood, J. B. CommereU, V.C., C.B. ; J. C. &ad'',
and°. W. Waton. Mr. Hasidim, of Oomport, sat as oil.
elating judgoadvireate. The prisoner voluntarily pleaded
guilty and threw himself on the mercy of the court He
was dismissed her Majesty's service.
The fierspis troop ship, Captain Jobs 0. Soedy, will sail
on Tuesday for Alexandria, to bring h cue in ow from
Abyssinia.

PLYMOUTH MAY 10.—The True Briton, from
Melbourne, wised up the Channel off here dlting Baur-
day night. She brings gold valued at 116,000/. She
landed 25 of her massagers by pilot boat.
The Major and Commandant of tho Royal Hos-
pital, Chelsea, Sir John Morillyon Wilson, died on Fri-
day night, at his official residence in that aaylnm. The
venerable and gallant officer had been in unsatidantory
health for some weeks past, and as he was 86 years of age
his relations wore not unprepared fir the result of his
Muss.

COAST DEVICNC6B.—A new battery has been
erected at Slictley, Suffolk, in a ldition to a firmer one,
and fourteen new Armstrong guns of 71 in. o tlitre hays
arrived from Wollwieli. The erection of see tarraeks
at Sbotley is also understood to be in oentemplatka.