The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-21 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

VVARWICK SPRING MEETING.
TUESDAY.
The Cast' It, Stakes of 15 BM; each, 5 ft, far 3-year olds';
colts, E 'et; 71b ; and fillies, Bat 41b. Certain penalties
and all o'afances. One mile. 3 subs.
Mr. Pelt's • Polestar, Bst 01b ......(Kendall) walked over.
A Sweeps takes of 5 soya each, with 25 added, for three-
yr-olds at td upwards. Optional selling weights, &c.
Winne' s pextra. One mile. 5 subs.
Mr. Sand( s Questionable, 3 yrs (201.), sat 111 b (Prior) 1
Mr. Wood!: Miss Hatch, 3yrs (20/. ), sst 111 b (Fordham) 2
Mr. Steer e.n's See Clear, 3 yrs (201.), sst 131 b (T. Lee) 3
The foll "'lying also ran :—Ruminator, Royal George.
Betting to 1 agst Miss Hatch, 5 to 2 each asst
Question: 6bile and Ruminator. Won by a length ; three
lengths b etween the second and third ; head between
the third and fourth. The winner was bought in for 32
guineas.
A Handicap Plate of 50 soya. T.Y.C.
Lord Jo hn Scott's Le Juif, aged, Bst lib (Prince) 1
Mr. Les oCh's Master Slender, 6 yrs, 7st 111 b (T. Chile) 2
Mr. Isaac; Day's Hothorpe, aged, Gat 121 b (Crouch) 3
The 2c Ilowing also ran : Humboldt, Friendless,
Marvel, See Clear, f by the Era.

Bettirhg-6 to 5 on Humboldt, 6 to 1 agst any other.
Won by ball a length ; three-quarters of a length be-
tween the second and third ; bad fourth.

The Gifea t Warwickshire Handicap of 20 sovs. each,
10 ft, and 5 only if dec:ared, &c., with 50 added. The
winn.,,r•of any handicap value 100 sovs after the decla-
ratio:a of the weight,, 51b extra. The second to re-
ceive 20 sovs out of the stakes. Two miles. 40 subs,
17 of whom pay 5 sovs. each ft.
Mr. Rowdon's Little Davie, Bst 71b (Carroll) '1
Mr. Mt Aher's Lily, 3 yrs, 6st 21b ....('r. ChM) 2
Mr. J. M. Stanley's Catspaw, 5 yrs, 7st 1116 (Ash mall) 3
anthe, handy
The )following also ran :—Venison,
Duke of Hamilton, Smithmoor. -
Betting--3 to 1 agst Little-Davie, 9to 2 agst Cats..
paw, 6 to 1 each agst Venison, lanthe, and Stint/moor,
Btolag st the Duke of Hamilton. Little Davie made
all the in ruling, and won by four lengths ; six lengths
between the second and third ; a length between the
third and fourth.
The Deb&ale Stakes of 5 soya each, with 25 added.
12st each. Certain allowances and penalties. Gentle-
men riders. Two miles. 7 subs.
Mr. Little dale's Squire of Mallon, aged, 12st 71b

(C:ipt. Lane) 1
.I\fr, Str-ittov's Milesian, 5 yrs. 12 t (Mr. Elwes) 2
Mr. Lucy's British Sailor, 6 yrs, 12st 31b (Mr.

Beville) 3
The following also ran :—Royalty, Don 'Quixote,
Good. Morning, Bungcrston.
Betting-5 to 4 agst Squire of Malton, sto 2 agst
tish Sailor, 3 to 1 agst any other. Won cleverly
by ; length ; bad third.
The Two-year-old Stakes of 10 sous each, with 50 added.
Colts, bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. Five furlongs. 10 subs.
Mr. E... Parr's Stork, Sst 71b
Captain Lane's Persia, Bst 41b
Mr. J.ll.l.6tanley'sSauve-qui-pent,Sstilb...(A.shniall) 3
Mr. Fenning's The Gaillard, Bst 7!13 (Charlton) 4
Mr. Adkins's Mark Foulis, Bst 71b (Wells) 5
Betting-2 to 1 agst The Gaillard, sto 2 agst Mark
Foulis, 3to 1 agst Persia. Won by three-quarters of a
length ; half a length between the second and third ; bad
fourth.

The Farmers' Handicap Hurdle-race of 50 sovs, with
10 to the second horse. Three miles. Tapthorn came
in first, Starlight second, Catesby mare third, Omar
Pacha, fourth, and Johnny fifth. The betting was sto
4 against Omar Pacha, 3 to 1 against Tapthorn, 4 to 1
agst Catesby mare. The rider of Tapthorn being short
of weight, the horse was disqualified, and the stakes were
awarded to Starlight.
As the betting was chiefly with reference to the horse
that might be first past the post, the disqualification of
Tapthorn does not affect it.

BETTING ON THE COURSE.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
to 1 agst Noisy (taken)
Bto 1 agst Quince (taken and offered)
Bto 1 agst Remus (taken ar.d offered)
1U to 1 agst Eulogist
12 to 1 agst Vindex (taken and offered)
12 to 1 agst Scherz (taken and offered)
12 to 1 agst Mr. Sykes (taken and offered)
20 to I agst Topsy
GREAT METROPOLITAN.
9 to 2 agst Pharsalus
7to 1 agst Redlands (taken)
9to 1 agst Fandango (taken)
20 to 1 agst Cossey
The principal investments were on Noisy for the City
and Suburban, and Redlands for the Metropolitan.
The Scurry Handicap, Selling Sweepstakes, and Hunt
Cup Steeplechase, to be run on Friday, close to•morrow
(Thursday) evening.
EPSOM SPRING MEET.L.NLi--rAtutitcAmAlE OF
THE SPORT.
THURSDAY, MARCH 22.
The Epsom Trial Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added ;
three yrs old, Gst 121 b; four, Bst 71b ; five, 9st ; six
and aged, 9st llb ; mares allowed 51b, and geldings
31b. One mile.
Saucebox, 3 yrs f
ITospodar, 4 yrs
Scherz, 3 yrs
The Balaklava, Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added ;
for two-yrs old and upwards. Optioaal selling weights.
The Squaw. 2 yrs 30/. b f by Verularn—
bfr by Tha Ilewhipper 1 Calista, 3 yrs, 30/.
—Herculaneum,2yrs I
301.
The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added ; for
two-yrs old and upwards. Optional selling weights,
&c. New T.Y.C., three-quarters of a mile.
Rosalinc, 4 yrs, 301. I Questionable, 3 yrs, 30/.
The Railway Plate of 100 sous (Handicap), for all ages.
New T.Y.C., three-quarters of a mile.

Age st lb
Orinoco
Hospodar
Convalescent 4 8 2
Sextus
Noisette 7 13
Mouser
Palmeria
Singapore
Conspiracy
Pollard
Titortnus
The Inkerinan Plate of 50 sovs, for all ages ; two yr•
olds, sst 21b ; three, 7st ; four, Bst 71b ; five, six,
and aged, Bst 91b ; mares allowed 51b, and geldings
31b. Half a mile.

Age st lb
Cimicina 3 6 7
Heartsease 3 6 7
William the Third 3 6 7
Lady Alicia
Moonshine 3 6 C
Flageolet
Gondoline

Fearless
3 5 7
Mary Ann 3 5 4
Bulbul

Age.
Kenny side Hero

Age.

Romiine 4 Scalade --
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Comfit
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The Quack 2lCirnicina
Hospodar
Scherz
The City and Suburban Handicap of 15 save each, 10
ft, and only 5 if declared, with a bonus of 150 sovs
added ; the owner of the second horse to receive 25
soya out of the stakes. Penalties for certain winners.
The winner to pay 101. 103. to the Licensed Victual-
lers' Protection Society. Last mile and a quarter of
the New Derby Course. 30 subs., 40 of whom pay 5
sows each.

Age st lb Age st lb
The Nabob 6 9 5 Remus
Scherz
Tindex
Marsyas . 4 8 4 Billingbam 4 6 4
Grand Inquisitor 4 8 0 Mary 3 6 0
Frantic
Wild Huntsman.. 4 7 10 Topsy 4 5 12
Epaminoadas ... 4 7 10 Antoinette S 5 10
Hunabdldt
Eulogist 5 7 5 Duke of Lancaster 4 5 9
Ladybird
Ireland's Eye 5 7 4 Herald
Suaresbrook
Pharos
Hercules 4 7 1 Sis. to Singapore 3 5 6
Quince
Mr. Sykes 5 6 13 Moonshine 3 5 4
Boer
Saraband
Little Gerrard ... 4 6 11 Imogene 3 5 0
Testy ..
The Yore
The Exile of Erin 4 6 101 Rambling Katie 3 paid
The Two-year-old Stakes of 10 sow; each, with 50 added ;
for colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Est 41b. The owner of
the second horse to save his stake. Half a mile.
Tenth Year of the Great Metropolitan Stakes (Handi-
cap) of 25 sovs each, 15 ft, and only 5 it declared, with
a bonus of 300 goys added, ko. Great Metropolitan
Course, two miles and a quarter. Gr
eat Met
35 of
whom pay 5 soya, each.
Age st lb
Talfourd 5 8 7
Joe Miller
Epaminondas 4 8 1
Wild Huntsman 4 7 12
Winkfield
La Belle 5 7 9
Royalist 4 7 8
Kaffir 4 7 8
Dr. O'Toole

Age st lb
Remus

Neville

Mishap
Postulant 5 7 0
Quince 4 7 0
Hutuguffin 4 6 13
The Exile of Erin 4 6 12
Seducer
The Yore
Saraband
Itodo-meli

Phat sal us

Billingham 4 6 4
Lincoln'slnn 4 6 4

F~~:~l,,nm~~ ......

3 a 2

Corcebus
Saucebox
High Priest
Vandal
Cloud 3 5
Cossey(in.slb.ex.) 3 5 0
Chisel 3 5 7
Joshua
Vandyke
Sis. to Singapore 3 5 4
Lancewood 3 5 4
Kettleby 3 5 4
3 Noisy
Redlands
Pantheon
Steelyard
Matilda 3 4 9
Imogene 3 4 9
Homily 3 4 6
aid
Mincemeat
Brinklow p
43
pa d

RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.
Ordinary Wee will be charged by the ordinary trains

from London to Epsom up to 9.15 a.m., and from Ep-
som to London from and after 8 p.m.
Additional trains will run from London Bridge to Ep.
som from 9.30 a.m. till 1,30 p.m., and from Epsom to
London from 4 p.m. till 8 p.m., uring which timo the
ordinary traffic between London and Epsom wiil be ens-
paraded.

A special express train will leave at 2.15 p.m. direct
for Epsom, arriving in time for the race for the Great
Metropolitan.

ORDER OF RUNNING.
1. O.—Epsom Trial Stake?.
I.3o.—Railway Plat&
2. o.—City and Suburban.
2.30.—Tw0-yr-old Stakes.
3. o.—The Metropolitan.
4. o.—Selling Stakes.
4.3o.—lnkerman Plate.

5. o.—Balaklava Stakes.

ARRIVALS AT EPSOM.
Vindex, Plausible, Winkfield, Dr. O'Toole, Billingharo
Remus, Corcebus, Vandyke, Redlands, The Herald,
Epaminondas, Duke of Lancaster, Exile of Erin, Fan-
dango, High Priest, Paletot, Cossey, Flageolet, Eulogist,
Postulant, Flcaway, Sirocco..
EXPECTED.—Sauve que Peut, Scherz, Hospodar, Imo-
gene, Saucebox, Pantheon.
Deckeray's and W. Day's are expected this morning
31TDDLEn.u1.—Lancewood, Steelyard, King of Tr, mps,
and Robin Hood have left for Epsom.

NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING—APRIL-9.
The Craven Handicap of 25 soya each, 10 ft, with 200
added ; for three-yr-olds and upwards, penalties for
certain winners ; 10 to accept or no race. T.Y.C.
Acceptances to be declared on Tuesday, March 27.
Age st Ibi Age st lb
The Nabob
Ephesus a 9 4 I Pharos . ........... 5 6 10
Scherz
King of Trumps 6 9 0 Bessie 3 6 7
Orinoco
Meteora 4 8 4 Trajan, by The
Epaininondas
Nathan
Cineas
Calamus 4 7 8 Chalice ..•• ••• 3 6 2
Nelly Hill 4 7 6 Mary 3 6 2
Ireland's Eye ... 5 7 5 Duke of Hamilton 3 6 2
Hobby Horse ... 57 5 The Medway 36 1
Alas
Ceres ......... 5 7 0 Instructress
Testy 4 612
Pact
Foxhunter 4 6 12
Bobby

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Asliind
i Newmarket
handicap, only those horses
which are specially ordered
:scribed.

The above being a free
will be considered to accep
to be left in by the time pn

HARROW STEEPLEOHASES.—We are requested to an-
nounce that it has been determined to unite the Harrow
Steeplecbaes with the Uxendon Steeplechases, and that
under the denomination of " The Harrow and Uxendon
spring Meeting," they will take place on Thursday, sth
April. Full particulars will be published in due course.

TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE AT BRISTOL.

BRISTOL, Tuesday Morning.—The city was at about
10 o'clock this morning electrified by the startling intel-
ligence that the great iron bridge, leading from Bath-
parade to the London -row/, had been completely:carried
away by a steam-boat, and that a number of persons who
Were crossing at the time, as well as some carts and
horses, had been precipitated into the river, and several
of them drowned. The intelligence, as may be supposed,
spread like wildfire throughout the city, and within half
an hour of the occurrence of the accident there con d not
have been less than 10,000 persons attracted to the spot.
At the time when the tidal river of Bristol was converted
into a floating harbour, a new course for the Aron was
cut from the Hotwells, and this course directly crossing
the high roads to London and Exeter and the west of
England, two bridges had to be constructed sufficiently
capacious for the traffic. The one in question, which
was called Hill's-bridge, connected the city at a point
near the termini of the Great Western, Midland, and
Bristol and Exeter Railroads, with the main roads to
London and Wells. It was a cast iron bridge, made by
the Colebrook-dale Iron Works Company, was of 160
feet span, and comprised a single arch, with six cast iron
ribs, trussed by iron girders, tied and pinned, and sup-
ported by cast iron stanchions. It occupied in its erec-
tion from 1805 to 1809, and it is worthy of notice that
in 1808, owing to some defects in the stonework upon
which it rested, it fell, and either killed or severely in-
jured 32 persons.. The present accident arose out of the
following circumstances :—TI• greater part of the coke
used in workii g the Bristol and Exeter Railway is ma-
nufactured by Messrs. Isnall ard Co., of Cardiff, and the
contractors deliver it by means of steam barges. One of
these, the John, which is worked by a screw propeller,
and has an engine of six-horse power, had delivered her
cargo of 180 tans of coke, and was descending the river
on her return voyage when she came in contact with the
iron framework of the bridge which rests on side piers.
The force of the collision was so great that, nctwith-
standing the power of a very strong ebb tide, the
steamer rebounded 8 or 10 feet, and the bridge imme-
diately fell with a tremendous crash, carrying with it
everything that happened to be upon it at the time of
the occurrence. Of the extent to which life was sacri-
ficed it is utterly impossible to speak with accuracy.
Three or four persons swam tr tLa hanks_ and zero got
out alive, but, it is said, that a woman with a child in
her arms, and two other ladies who were seen strugs
gling in the water, are 'missing, as also a little girl who
witi seen close to the bridge, and who, it is believed,
was upon it. Two carts were thrown in by the fall,
and one or two of the horses drowned. Mr. Alderman
Plummer had a narrow escape, as had also two gentle-
' men who were walking with him, and a gentleman in a
gig who was within a yard of the bridge at the time of
its fall. The fact of some hats having been seen float-
ing down with the ebb tide induces fears that more per-
sons than are known of must Lave fallen victims to the
accident, and it is thought probable that 80020 bodies
will be found among the heavy debris of this ironwork.
The steam-barge was very much injured at the bows,
and floated down the river to the second iron bridge,
leading to Bedminster, where she ran with great force
towards the pier on the Bristol shore, but happily
grounded on a shelving rock. Tie immediate cause of
the collision is differently stated ; by some it is said that
the barge was coming down under full steam, the tide
also running full six knots au hour, while the engineer
asserts that by the captain's order he was reversing for
some time before they reached the bridge, but the cur-
rent (it had been the high St. David's flood), was irre-
sistible. The captain of the barge has been arrested by
Inspector Alexander, of the Bedminster division of
police.

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