The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-24 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES.

ALL IS LOST NOW.

William Day has achieved a triumph. For the Cesare-
witch he expressed an opinion that Sultan could not be
beaten, and "Honest John" emphatically declared 'that
Sultan was the best horse he ever tried. In fact, Sultan
could beat Nabob easily at even weights and give Joe
Miller "three stone'." These facts justified the confi-
dence which was placed in the horse for the Great Event
of the Second October Meeting, and although his party's
expectations were then disappointed, yet the result of the
race for the Cambridgeshire has proved that neither
Honest John nor " His Boy William" committed an
error of judgment. Still the horse was comparatively
" friendless" at the close, although perhaps with the
exception of Mr. Davis few book makers have won on
the race, for prior to the Cesarowitch Sultan was
freely backed for the Cambridgeshire. The Ingle).
rious exhibition which Crown Pigeon made eau
only be accounted for by the fact of the horse's
getting somewhat badly off. He never showed pro-
minently in the encounter. That his party were in
earnest to the close and sanguine of success is shun•
dantly proved by his steadiness in the betting. When
the horses passed the Duke's Stand Flacrow held a clear
lead, with Mary in his track, Sultan on the upper
ground. The race, however, from this point scented a
" certainty" for Sultan, for young Goater there "took a
pull at him," and looking steadily round seemed to mea-
sure with his eye the capabilities of hie opponents. Van-
dyke seemed a " dead 'un." Throughout the morning
rumours were afloat that he would not start, and he
might just as well have remained in the stable, for like
the apothecaries' bottles he only served to make up a
i<how. Veteran figured even more respectably than I
anticipated. It is said that he had been so highly tried
that poor old 'Orinoco could not have won at 7st Nib.
He, however, turned out to be a second Breisa for his
party.
The finessing and kidding about John Osborne's, too,
was shameful. Bearpark at first weighed for Lord
Alfred, but after he had been paraded on the ground,
and the betting had nearly closed, he was walked quietly
home again. A more disgraceful case of " milking"
was never witnessed on the turf. Everybody was pre•
pared for Robgill's performance. Verily, Tom Parr is
a clever man.

I can hear of no great winners on the Cambridgethirt.
The principal bookmakers bad laid their money prior to
the Cesarewitch. I am glad to state that Mr. Davis
throws in for a good sum Lord Anglesey backed kis
horse, whilst an Irish gentleman is reported to 1)1 a
good winner.
Newmarket, Tuesday Night.

A FRESH MAN•

DEATH OF MR. FREDERICE LUCAS, M.P.

We have to announce the death of Mr. Frederick
Lucas, M.P. for the county
which took place yesterday
at, an event winch
has long been expected, and
afternoon, at the residence
Fre
was the
elder soil
of his
_ mother-in-law, Mrs.
Ashby, at Staines. member of the Society
of Mr. Samuel Lucas, a worthy
ol:11,
near
of Friends, formerly of
Cr in Croydon,
I!"
h"
derick Lucas
now, for many years resided
th Middle Brighton.
Re w"
theof following year Templebecame ein
member Easter
Term, 1838, and in
called to the Bar
of the Cillanr h • th
Rowan Catholic c , e grounds of his oon•
• „world at the time, in the shalt*
ovfe-rsion he gave to a
pamphlet, called the
Reasons for becoming a Roman
Catholic, especially addressed to the Society of
Friends. As a Roman Catholic barrister ho took an
active part in the proceedings of the Catholic Insti-
tute, and started the Tablet newspaper in London, in
1840, for the purpose of disseminating the most ultra-
montane doctrines of his Church. He also was a frumpl
contributor to the pages of the Dublin Review,. Is
1849 he removed the Tablet newspaper to Dublin, and
bas Continued to conduct it there since that time. His
was also one of the secretaries of the Irish Tenant
League during the brief period of its existence. In
1852 he was elected, through the influence of the Re-
loan Catholic priesthood, as member for the
County of Meath, in the place of Mr. Henri'
Grattan, who had represented it for many years.
He has always lived a life of political and religious
strife ; and having advocated in the Tablet the right
.if the Irish priesthood to interfere in politics, and befog
eel
rebuked by the Irish Roman Catholic bishops, i
h iawthe
to Rome, as our readers may remember, earlyvr_..
,i_rtsi
present year, to prosecute his appeal against
idni, ow°
and the/
decision. The appeal was decided against
Lucas
_,___,..
• result was the entire prostration of Mr. ° Par
o_
his premature death at the early pa f
cal system, and prerna
43. Mr. Lucas was the inbrother--laon
this moll.
Mass was offeredmoll
the M.P. for Manchester.
of the metropolis far
in all the Roman Catholic chapelsseuf. In private life he was a
the repose of Mr. LucasHe leaves behind him a fidew,
most worthy character.
of the late r.. 3,/ Win. Ashby, of siafines,
the daughter
His loss will be severely felt by
and an only daughter. . 0 .
e was a member.
the communion of which
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szvlrts FAMILY AFFLICTION.--BouLoulim-sun•Mis
Wynne, Esq., known in literary circles as *bp
author of several very choice dramas, has just suffered
an affSiction more than usually painful, by the occur-
rence of three deaths in his family, and all within as
short period of three weeks. His two sons (only chil-
dren) and sister-in-law have been carried off by a severs
bronchial complaint. The latter, Miss Monier, a highly
accomplished young lady, fell a vi, to ber Wolse
assiduity while watching by the death-.ed of her young
relatives. She wai to have been married in a short tiro,
to a young officer in the French army stationed at Bon'
logne. The bodies were conveyed to Inland ;
terred in Kensal-green. Death is sad in anyreap
to 'b.
but a grief like this is ,hard indeed, stryl