The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-13 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES.

The Ascot Meeting, in point of the number of races and
the attendance of fashionable visitors, was the most success-
ful ever held—the only mar to its brilliancy being the
unfortunate railway accident at Egham. No doubt the
terrible calamity will be found to have arisen from some of
the servants of the company having neglected to pay atten-
tion to the signals. For years the London and South-
Western Railway Company have enjoyed the confidence of
the public in safety of travelling and rapidity of transit, and
it is impossible to suppose that on so important an occasion
as the Ascot Meeting there could have been any relaxation
on the part of the officials in providing for the safety of the
many thousands who invariably avail themselves of the
facilities offered by this company. On the Derby Day they
conveyed on their line nearly 100,000 passengers, all of
whom arrived at Epsom without the slightest delay and
with the most commendable punctuality, and this large
number were also safely brought back to London in the
evening.

The first day's proceedings at Ascot opened with the
Trial Stakes, and the dozen entered all put in an appear-
ance, among them Auditor, a very big, fine looking colt of
Lord Westmoreland's, who, with the redoubted Catch-'em-
Alive, in addition to Man-at-Arms and The Gillie—William
Day started the whole fleet—made a race of it, the young
one winning cleverly by a length. The promenade before
the Queen's Vase within the Royal inclosure is always a
pretty sight, and the 12 competitors, as they passed in re-
view order, Sam Rogers on Sea King leading the van, with
Claremont, Little Stag, Caller Ou, and Birch Broom follow-
ing in his wake, it seemed difficult to find the winner from
a lot of such good looking ones, Soon after the flag fell
Little Stag, always a puller, overpowered Carroll, and rush-
ing to the front made the running at such a pace that he
was pumped before reaching the stand, leaving Fairwater
with the lead, which the old mare had soon to resign to
Young Rapid, who rather unexpectedly landed the trophy
for Mr Craven by a length. The Gold Vase is of course
nothing of the sort, but a handsome centre piece of silver—
the subject, Neptune creating the horse," and comes from
the atelier of the Garrards'. The Maiden Plate, for which
Birch Broom made his debut last year, brought together the
usual large field, and was chiefly remarkable for a fine piece
of riding on the part of Custance, and for the unlucky
Shrapnell again running second for the third or fourth
time, we forget which. The Count's colt appeared last at
the stand; but his energetic jockey called on him, and by
dint of riding and his own gameness, King Charming got
le'e neck in front of Shrapnell at the finish. There was
nothing very particular about the winner, Audax (a colt
of Captain Gray's, who has been backed for the
Derby) being about the best-looking of the let. The Stand
Plato was won by Le Bearnais (a promising young one from
the French stable), defeating all the top weights easily. The
Ascot Stakes for the last two or three years has been a bad
race in every respect—a bad acceptance, and a bad betting
one, and this occasion was no exception to the rule. The
lot was an indifferent one, and the little speculation there
was had made Hippolyta the first favourite, a post which,
though she was temporarily deposed, she held when the
flag fell, and justified her backers' confidence by winning in
a canter, all the other pseudo-favourites being nowhere in
the race, Baldwin broke down, It must be considered a
bold measure of Count de Lagrange, his bringing
Fills de l'Air over to run for the Prince of Wales's Stakes.
It looks as if he was determined she should show what an
uncertain lady she is ; but then there was every excuse for
her here, as she mitt be stale from her recent running. Ely
certainly surprised us by his easy win, and Knight of Snow-
den was never in the race, which makes his Epsom
" place" inexplicable. There was a rash to get on Lid-
dington for the Seventh Biennial, but only evens could be
obtained. He won with nothing to spare, by a neck, and
if we look at Gardevisure's position, who finished four
lengths behind the second horse, we must consider him as
a pretty good one, Not that it much matters if he is not,
He will hold his own in the market, doubtless, seeing what
stable he is in, and if he is beaten will probably become a
warmer favourite than ever. The Ranger showed some
old form in the Triennial by defeating Blue Mantle and
King of the Vale cleverly. The Royal party took their
departure soon after the Biennial was decided, and
were loudly cheered as they passed down the course.
The racing on Wednesday was of the same abundant
character as on Tuesday, and equally good in quality.
Jessie defeated the favourites easily in the Visitors' Plate,
but found an unexpected competitor in Oldminster, whom
Aldcroft brought with such a rush in the last few strides,
that the mare only landed by half a length. Of course
Breeze carried off the Coronation Stakes as she liked ; and
in the Ascot Derby, Peon, a great, ungainly-looking brute,
managed to defeat the Calista colt—upon whom he waited
to the stand, by a head. The Hunt Cup is of course the
one great event of the Ascot Wednesday, and absorbs all
field, the speculation going. There was the usual large
sporting silk for the trophy, which consists of a chased
silver tazza, surmounted by a group of stags, and has a very
elegant and at the same time simple effect. The race was
distinguished for the effect the hill seemed to have upon
many of the horses, Amelia (despite her bottle of whisky),
Saccharometer, Clairvoyante, Odine, and others, shutting
up before they had gone half way up it, Which left the
Baron's ware apparently in possession of the field. Gem of
the Sea, however, with Crisis, headed her at the enclosure,
and the two raced home, both so much distressed as to
swerve against each other more than once, which led to an
objection being made by Mr. Merry against the winner, on
the ground of foul riding on Grineshaw's part. The
stewards, however, decided in favour of Mr. Longfield's
horse. It was a surprise—but then the Hunt Cup gene-
rally is : last year, by the way, was an exception,
when the favourite (Victor) won, There was nothing else
in the race besides the above two, Evelina finishing a bad
third, and a number pulled up and did not pass the post.
Attraction showed her turn of speed for half a mile in the
Fern Hill Stakes, which she carried off very easily. The
Twelfth Triennial brought out a very handsome Trumpeter
in the Duke of Beaufort's Kcenig, who came with such a
private reputation in addition to his good looks that they
laid 7 to 4 on him. But "public form" would not be denied,
for Tennyson shook off his horses at the stand, and won
very easily, Baragah and Hollyfox made a match of it in
the Sixth Biennial, the former winning cleverly, and set-
ting Mr. Valentine's mind at rest, we presume, as to which
is the best of the two. On Thursday the Prince of Wales
again honoured the meeting with hir presence. The 100
sous Plate brought a large field. La Mechante, the favon
rite, did not show at all forwardly in the race, which was
left to the three placed ; Lord Westmoreland's colt coming
with a rush at the last, but failed to reach the leaders,
Lemonade winning winning rather cleverly. Mr. Merry
is certainly always fortunate in his two-year olds. He
appears to have two woo will figure in the betting all
through the year ; and rumour speaks of a third,
that
d,the
Phemy colt, as being better than anything of his
has been out yet. In the Second New Biennial, Zambesi
won very easily, Koenig alone near him. He is a fine-look-
ing colt, and particularly pleased " the Wizard," who was
sitting near us at the finish. Kcenig again ran second.
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Knight of Snowden gave another proof of his roguery by
again cutting it when collared by Hark Forward inthe
80178 Sweepstakes, the latter being eonsidered very moderate
at home and his winning a surprise. The clouds had been
threatening all the afternoon, and a smart shower fell about
four o'clock, but it held up as the time for the Cup drew
near, and the rest of the day was fine. Contrary to expec-
tations, nine were telegraphed for the event, Molly Carew
(one of the uncoloured ones) being added to the list. The
absentees were the Clown and Jack of Hearts. Here was
the customary promenade in the Royal enclosure, Sam
Rogers on Lord Zetland leading the way in; he looked a
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work before him. Wingrave's chance many judgetan• S
sidered to be a grand one, but Gibraltar was in rather too
good company, and the Ranger found no friends, The Chief
and Lord Clifden were both splendid specimens, the latter
coming up, as we before have had occasion to observe, more
to one's idea of a perfect gentleman than any horse we have
remembered of late years. Still he had the same lc ok he bore
at Newmarket, when he ran for the Claret--that of above
himself, and carried too much flesh to inspire any great
degree of confidence. In fact, we suspect Little Stag car
ried the money. The Chief did not condescend to make his
bow to Royalty, but went quietly down to the post and took
his canter. lie moved, we thought, somewhat stiffly, ea it
he remembered his previous race, but he looked as well as
horse could, and ebere was no suite' Ilueus flesh about him.
We were terribly behindhand as to time now, and there
seemed no wish to make it better, for the jockeys dawdled
about the course, and it was some time before Mr M•Georp,o
got them in order. This done they were soon diepatehed .
Alabama took up the running wills Wingrave and Little
Stag in attendance, Lord Clitden again being the last off,
some way in the rear. Little Stag requires a man on him,
not a boy ; he soon overpowered young Grimshaw, and
rushed to the front, making the pace hot down the Swinley
bottom, the Leger victor still in the rear; in fact the latter
was never in the race from the moment the flag fell. The
Chief lay well with his horses, and coming round the turn
into the straight went up to Little Stag, who was still lead-
hie, easily shook off his horses, and went a winner by some
' half-dezen lengths. There was of course the usual cheer-
ing., but not the scene of excitement witnessed last year on,
the occasion of the ever-memorable dead heat. Still Mr
Merry's success was hailed with general pleasure, and hie
absence through a domestic calamity generally deplored.
The Grand Stand was not nearly half filled on Friday.
The first race set for decision was a plate of 100 soya, which,
Stanton, under waiting orders, put to his owner's credit in
an easy fashion, The First and Second-class Wokingharna
are generally good handicaps. The first of them was pro-
ductive of a fine race between Durham and Olivia, the
favousite Lobelia running jady; and the second Walloon
carried off easily, nothing else being in the race—so the
fielders began the day well. The interesting race of the
day was the meeting of Ely and the Derby victor in the
Eleventh Triennial, for which the former had slightly
the call at the close. Blair Athol certainly looked rather
jaded, and as if he did not half like his work; while
Ely, with a free bounding action, caused his backers
to be rather confident. He cut it, though, when Custance
called upon him, and Blair Athol won without being asked.
He looked lighter than he did at Epsom, for which the
work he has gone through lately is a sufficient reason. A
great look both of sire and dam has the Derby hero, and he
will in all probability grow into a magnificent animal. The
new stake, the Alexandra Plate, was another great turn
for the fielders, as Anglo-Saxon was overlooked by most of
the clever ones—one noble lord alone being cute enough to
back him for " a century" at 25 to 1. Crisis was greatly
fancied by the public and she ran well, but Anglo-Saxon
won in hollow style at last. There was an unusual large
number of entries for the Queen's Plate, but the
runners were reduced to three, Caller Ou, Gibral-
tar, and Guerilla. It was 6 to 4on the mare,
but still many fancied that old Gibraltar could both
outstay and outpace her. Custance acted up to this sug-
gestion and made strong running with Gib along the Swiu-
ley bottom; but Challoner brought the mare up soon after
passing the road, and heading Gibraltar before they reached
the stand, went in a very easy winner. Gibraltar pulled
up very lame and seemed much distressed. The other two
events were of minor importance.

There are two meetings this week, namely, Newton-le-
Willows and Hampton. For the Surrey and Middlesex
Stakes either Alabama or Welcome should be Euccessful,
and Fontenoy or Blithfield for the Newton Handicap.
A FRESH MAN.

Public Address to Mr. and Mrs, C, Kean.

(From the Melbourne Argus of April 25.)

An address from the citizens of Melbourne was
presented to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean on Satur-
day. The presentation took placa in the conucil
chamber of the Town.hall, which was filled on the
occasion with ladies and gentlemen. About half-
past one o'clock Mr. and Mrs. Kean entered the
apartment, amid the applause of those assembled,
and were escorted to the dais by the Mayor, Mr. T.
T. Smith.

The address was presented by the Mayor, who
observed that he regarded the pleasing office as one
of the most gratifying incidents of his mayoralty.
As a native of Australia, and knowing little be-
yond it, he was proud to have the honour of pre-
senting, on the 300th natal day of England's
wondrous dsmatist—on a spot which, now the heart
of a mighty city, was a quarter of a century ago
primeval wilderness—a fitting compliment from
hundreds of the citizens of Melbourne to the ablest
of Shskspere's interpreters. The Mayor then read
th 3 address as follows:

Mir wad MLA" Ohaalea ore apgircus
before your departure from this colony to present a
congratulatory address on the occasion of your visit
to Australia, and we have selected the birthday of
Shakspere as the most appropriate opportunity for
acknowledging the vast services you have rendered
during your professional lives to the cause of Eng..
land's incomparable poet. Your visit to Victoria
will long be remembered by us es an important and
gratifying event, from which we have derived great
intellectual enjoyment, having witnessed during
your stay amongst us some of the most wonderful
creations of Shakspere, portrayed in a manner
which only the highest order of theatrical art
can attain, In your retirement from that pro.
fession in which you have so honourably won
respect and admiration, you will leave names
of historic celebrity to mark your brilliant career;
and amongst the many recollections which that
career will bring to your minds, we indulge the
hope that not the least agreeable will be the remem-
brance of that period when, little more than a
quarter of a century after the first habitation was
built in Melbourne, you trod the boards of a theatre
amidst the restless activity of a population busy in
laying the foundations of its social, political, and
moral institutions. The stage, es you have occupied
it, is a powerful engine for elevating the moral tone
of a people, and we feel sure of your kindly symd
pathy for all that may conduce to its future and.
permanent prosperity, here as well as in England,
To both of you we present our warmest wishes for
your success, and health, and happiness."
Mr. KEAN replied in the following terms :
Mr Mayor, Ladies, and Gentlemen,—There is -no
honour that you could have conferred upon Mrs Kean and
myself more gratifying to our feelings than thus to asso-
ciate our names with the commemoration of a day that in
golden letters should be set among the high tides of the
calendar.' Apart from my intense admiration for the genius
of Shakspere, I have good cause to reverence the memory
of the greatest of poets, whose fame is unapproachable and
imperishable, for as a representative of his marvellous
creations 1 have gained all I possess in the world. What-
ever fortune I have acquired has been won in his service,
and if spared to fulfil my intention, I shall be thereby
enabled to leave my profession at an earlier period
of life than any of my celebrated predecessors.
While science reveals the wonders of the mats.
rial world—diving into the ocean, penetrating the
earth and soaring upward to the msjestical roof fretted
with golden fire,'—Shakspere has disclosed to our view the
workings of the human heart, with all its changing passions
and humours, its joys and griefs, its strength and weak-
ness. Every spring of action, every impulse, every emotion,
every sensation of feeling, was known to him. Whatever
may be his blemishes, they are but as the spots upon the
bright and glorious sun, and do not dim its lustre. His
greatness was his own—his faults were those of the age in
which he lived. (Applause.) The study of Shakspere is
the study of philosophy and wisdom; I rejoice, therefore,
to hear of the scholarship about to be instituted in the
Melbourne University ; such a measure cannot fail
in due course of time to be of great public
benefit, provided it be strictly and exclusively
confined to the author whose name it bears, and in
principles of knowledge. (Applause.)
"Ladies
whose pages the student will find the richest materials of
and
Gentlemen,—l beg you to accept our most
cordial and heartfelt thanks for your kind wishes ; and let
me also assure you that in our retirement from the toils
thought
and cares of public life we shall remember with pride the
gratifying expression of your good opinion, as conveyed
in the address with which you have this day honoured
us,"

The address and the signatures (between 400 and
500 in number) occupy several sheets of vellum.
The address itself, appropriately enough, is enclosed
Nvithina sketch of a proscenium, which bears three
medallion portraits of Shakspere, and the names
of his works. Among the first signatures are those
of the commander of her Majesty's forces in Aus-
tralia (Brigadier-General Chute), the Ministry, and
members of both Houses of Parliament.

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