The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-27 00:00:00

LITERATURE.
TILE IRISH TOURIST'S ILLUSTRATED

HANDBOOK.
If the admirable arrangements for the convenience
of tourists to Ireland, by Chester and Holyhead,
which have been announced for the present summer,
cannot fail to draw a numerous section of the travel-
ling community to the shores of our Siater
Island—
none of the visitors should set forth unnrovided with
this admirable pocket volume. It is themost service-
able Irish tour book that has yet appeared. It con-
tains a copious amount of information, excellently
arranged and clearly and agreeably written, whilst
the pages are illustrated with some highly picturesque
'views. The maps are drawn with the utmost accuracy,
one being devoted to each of the four tours, which
embrace the most notable features of Irish scenery.
These tours are—the first, from Dublin to Cork,
taking in Killarney, Glengariff, and Limerick ; the
second, the county of Wicklow, the pleasure-garden
of Ireland ; the third, from Dublin to Galway and
Connemara (the Irish Highlands) ; and, tne fourth,
Giants'
Causeway, the regions of Ulster, with its far-famed
Causeway, the beauties of the Mourne M.Mountains and
lovely Rosstrevor, and the most flourishing town of
Belfast. Moreover, every possible information
as to railway travelling, hotels, &e., is to be
found in thu pages of this volume, of the merits
of which we can safely speak from intimate
acquaintance with the scenes and subjects
of which it treats. "The design of its compilation,"
says the preface, " has been, in the first place, to show
the rapid, convenient, and economic means that now
exist for travelling between every part of the United
Islands ; secondly, to point out, in brief terms, the
more remarkable of the picturesque beauties of Ire-
land, with passing allusions to the historical and other
associations of each place visited under the privileges
of the tourist ticket ; and, lastly, to draw attention to
the vast field for enterprise now existing in various
parts of that country for the safe and profitable in-
vestment of capital." This design has been fully and
efficiently carried out in all its departments, and Mr.
McGlashan may be congratulated on turning out so
valuable and well got-up a work of national interest.
THE "'"

WINNER OF THE DERBY.
So many of the prophets having been" out" re-
specting the winner of the great race yesterday, it is
interesting to observe that one, at least, evinced upon
this matter a very extraordinary degree of prescience.
Without directly assuming to himself the power of
vaticination, the writer of a pamphlet, noticed some
months back in the columns of The Sun, and calling
himself " The Wizard of the North," named the
-three' first horses that actually passed the winning

post—Daniel O'Rourke, Barbarian, and Chief Baron
Nicholson. The pamphlet in question was entitled
" Who's to Win the Derby?" and was published by
Vickers, as far back as January. Of the Chief Ba-
ron the Wizard of the North said, " We come now
to Chief Baron Nicholson, game to the back bone, as
his two dead heats with Kingston prove. The heats
are said to have been run remarkably quick, the dis.
tauce being performed in 1 minute 29 seconds ; but
this cannot be so, as, in 1850, Payment won the
same race in 1 minute 14 seconds, but then there was
difference of 41bs. in her favour. The Chief Baron
cut a very bad figure in the Malcombe Stakes at
°roodwood, but he was so decidedly shin-sore that he
could not raise a gallop, and ought not to have started
atlall. He is wonderfully improved upon his best
er „Year old form, and as he is undergoing a very
is"rentl preparation in first-rate hands, though per-
uaPe not so great as your Day's or your Scott's, we
Would sooner back him at 30 to 1, than the favourite
at 4to 1." Of the second horse at the winning post
he said, " Barbarian is a big horse, but he is said to
be unsuited to the Derby course. He won his race
from the Indian Warrior by accident; but, notwith-
standing that circumstance, he will have to carry a
dollop of specie for the Irish division, and a famous
jockey has been secured for him in conse-
quence." This jockey rode Hobble Noble. Still
more remarkable was the writer's prediction
in regard to the actual winner 'of the Derby
of 1852, Daniel - O'Rourke. In regard to
Dan he spoke as follows :—" Daniel O'Rourke is a
Compact, though mean looking little horse, of the Eu-
clid build, and gifted with great speed for a short
distance. We expect to see him retrieve his early
defeats, if not in the Derby, at least in some other
equally good thing?' It must be confessed that the
Rood fortune of Mr. Bowes was owing not only to
the excellence of the horse itself, but to the masterly
jockeying of Frank Butler, who may be said to have
absolutely kited his horse in, at the critical moment,
half a length beyond Barbarian !