The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-13 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES.
No. CCLXIV.
ILSLEY AND LIVERPOOL MEETINGS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN.
Sre,—ln addition to the great meeting at Liverpool
we have also a small one at Ilsl.l this week; and as
there has been a tolerable amount of betting upon the
latter, it is deserving of some attention. There are only
two stakes, however. Worthy of comment, the Ilsley and
Berkshire Stakes. Tile former is a two and three years
old stake, but havinrg none of the latter denomination in
it; the distance is t'eree-quarters of a mile. The names
of Gold Duets. Catherine Hayes, Chilton, Defiance,
and Pug Orroe:k figure on the list, rendering it apparently
a more interesting and attractive race than it will really
turn out tr., be. Catherine Hayes having incurred, by
her two vletories this year, 71bs. penalty, and Chilton
ind, De6'.ince each being penalised Sibs., the race seem-
nsly ty, a certainty for PUG ORROCK; Gold Dust, pro-
bad,' running very forward.
ne Berkshire Stekes, over the mile and-a•half course,
be contested by Ki;mency, Little George, Proud-
,' oot, Sleeping Partner, and perhaps another or two.
limmerier and PROUDFOOT ought to be first and second.
The fields for to-morrow's races, as far as I can as-
certain from somewhat incomplete information, will bo
composed as follows:
Charming Woman, Hy his, and perhaps Conspiracy filly.
Strait Jacket is also there, but I believe will not run. In
the preceding list I have inserted the names of Hybla
and Sister to Mountain Deer as starters, bat I hell: ve it
is tolerably well understood that should Hybla run the
Sister to Mountain Deer will be reserved for the Pro-
deco Stakes, if that stake should be run after this, of
which one or other is the certain winner.
The 50 sous. Produce Stakes, Father Thames walks
over for.
The Lancashire Oaks---Plot Bst 41b, Butterfly Bst 71b,
Calot Bst 41b, and. one of Osburne's—Lady Agnes Bst
10Ib, or Merry Bi!cl Bst 71b. PLOT, as I remarked in
my note of last Friday, is almost certain to win; Butter-
fly and Osborne's starter filling the second and third
places.
The Great Lancashire Produce Stakes. So few have
arrived for this stake, and so imperfect is my informa-
tionwhat is to be sent for it, that I shall de-
clinemore that! that I expect the SISTER
rseasypiencg tiaDngything
TO MOUNTAIN DEER will have it by hook or by crook.—
I am, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.
July 13.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
--...
TATTERSALL's v
ESTERDAY.
Poodle, against whom 10 to 1 was offered the day be-
fore, was backed freely at one time at 4 to 1, the layers,
however, willing to g
Offers to take 7 to 1 about
Lucie, and, within a
o on.
few minutes of the break up, to lay
the last bet, after those odds
at 7 to 1 in ponies. A few
nGtooldiofionid„erb,eing
h 8 atdo b 1 e eang at
ai ilk:
small investments were made, at 12 to 1 each, on Colater-
dale, Banshee, and Cossack. The advance of The
Brahmin to 16 to 1, of Little Harry to 5 to 1, and the
decline of Kingston to 6 to 1, were the features of the
betting on the Goodwood events. Latest quotations:—
LIVERPOOL CUP.
4 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Poodle—taken and after-
wards offered
6 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton'a Lucio—take 7 to 1
7 to 1 eget Mr. Palmer's Goldfinder
12 to 1 agst gr. Pedley's Cossack—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Heron's Colsterdale
12 to 1 agst Mr. Mills na Banshee
25 to 1 agst Lord Wilton's Herbert
GOODWOOD STARES.
12 to 1 eget Mr. Williams's Chief Justice—t 14 to 1
16 to 1 agst Mr. Winch's The Brahmin
20 to 1 agst General Anson's Champion
25 to 1 agst General Anson's Backbiter—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr T. Parr's Weathergage—taken
000DWOOD CUP.
5 to 2 agst Mr. Meiklam'a Stilton—taken and after
wards offered
5 to 1 agst Mr. Howard's Little Harry—ditto
6 to 1 agst Mr. Morris's Kingston—ditto
15 to 1 agst Mr. Aumont's Horvine
DERBY.
12 to 1 agst Lord J. Scott's The Reiver
22 to 1 apt Lord Eglinton's Vanderdecken—t 25 to 1

COURT CIRCULAR,
OSBORNE, MONDAY.
Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the
Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, atiended
Divine service yesterday morning at Osborne. The
service was performed by the Very Rev, the Dean of
Winchester. The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting
were also present, and the domestic household.
Colonel Wylde
has succeeded Lieut.-Colonel F. Sey-
mour as Groom in Waiting to Prince Albert.
The Dean of Winchester remained yesterday on a
visit.

Jler Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent is expected
ko arrive to-day from Frogmore Lodge.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Rent, attended
by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George Couper, left
her residence, Frogmore Lodge, at half-past nine
o'clock yesterday morning, on a visit to her Majesty at
Osborne.

Major Bisset, Cape-mounted Rifleman, had an inter.
view with Sir John Pakington yesterday at the Colonial•
office.

Mr. T. F. Kent had an interview with Mr. Secretary
Walpole yesterday at the Home-office.
Sir Edmond bead had an interview yesterday with
Sir John Pakington.
Lord John Manners left town yesterday for Tonbridge
Wells.

Dispatches from the Governor of Canada were re-
ceived yesterday at the Colonial. office. Dispatches were
received on Sunday from the Governors of the West
India Colonies.

A HOPEFUL BOAST.
The Morning Herald thus sums up the result of the
elections :
We resume our review of the losses and gains of the
Conservative party by the borough elections, so far as
they have gone. We begin with the losses, bringing
forward Seventeen :
Bristol—Langton, vice Miles—one.
Leeds—Baines, vice Beckett—one.
Newport—Biggs, vice Plowden—one.
Ditto—Massey, vice Martin—one.
Newark—Vernon, vice Stuart—ens,
Total, Twenty. two.
On the other side, our gains, we begin by bringing
forward from our former list Thirty-nine:—
Armagh—Moore, vice Rawdon—one.
Bodnain—Sawle, vice Lacy—one.
Dartmouth—Herbert, vice Moffat—one.
Dublin—Vance, vice Reynolds—one.
Maldon—Miller, vice Lennard—one.
Penryn—Freshfield, vice Alowatt—one.
Sandwich—MacGregor, vice Paget—one.
Total, Forty-six seats.
The net result, therefore, up to this moment, gives a
gain of twenty-four seats. This, of course, may not sa-
tisfy the eager hopes of the over-zealous. But if the
same success continues to attend the Conservative cause
throughout, the result will be, the formation of a phalanx
which can never be placed on the benches of the Oppo-
sition side of the House.

KNARESBOROUGH ELECTION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,-1 find in your paper of the 18th inst. that you
have not stated the Members returned for Knares-
borough quite correctly. The poll at the close stood
thus:—

J. P. B. Westhead (L) ... 113
J. Dent Dent (L) 113
Basil T. Wood (C) 113
, Thomas Collins (C) ... 107
The three first named gentlemen being equal were de-
clared duly elected by the returning officer, and were all
three chaired. It will remain for a Parliamentary Com.
wittee to decide which of them have the best right to
sit. Should both the Liberals maintain their seats it
will be a gain of one vote to the Opposition.
I am, Sir, &0.,
A SUBSCRIBER AND READER.
Knaresborough, July 12, 1852.

DEATH or SIR GEORGE HENRY SMITE, BART.--•
We have to announce the death of Sir G. H. Smyth, Bart.,
of Berechurch-hall, Colchester, and formerly for many years
M.P. for that borough, which took place on Sunday last.
He was son of Sir Robert Smy th the fifth baronet, by the
daughter of Mr. H. Blake, bornin 1784, married in 1816 the I
daughter of Mr. George Elmore, of Penton, Hampshire, and
succeeded his father in 1802. Their only issue was a daugh-
ter,
the late wife of Mr. Thomas White, of Wethersfield-
hall, Essex, whose eldest daughter, in default of male issue,
is heiress to the Berechurch estates. The deceased Baronet,
who was of Conservative politics, was first elected for Col-
chester in 1835 ; and, with the exception of a short interval,
continued to represent the borough until February, 1850,
when he retired in consequence of declining health, and was
succeeded by the present Member, Lord John Manners, her
Majesty's First Commissioner of Woods and Forests. Sir
Henry Smyth was of a warm-hearted, generous, and hos-
pitable disposition, and was considered a fine specimen of
the old English country gentleman. He was in the 68th
year of his age.
ADELrrn THEATRE.—The revival of Jack Shep-
pard, announced for last evening, was necessarily postponed
in consequence—we have very great regret in stating—of an
accident which disabled Mrs. Keeley. The occurrence took
place yesterday at rehearsal, when, in consequence of the
support of a ladder yielding, Mrs. Keeley, while in the act
of personating the hero's escape from the " Round House,"
was precipitated to the ground and lifted thence with a se-
verely sprained ankle. The disappointment felt by many at
w
the postponement of the playas slight compared with the
universal regret with which Mrs. Keeley's mishap was re-
garded. Sprains are, however, of very different degrees of
intensity, and we have only to hope that that endured by
the lady in question is of the slightest. While writing under
the heading of the Adelphi, we may as well state that Ma-
dame Celeste has returned, after a most prosperous and bril-
liant successful American tour, to rejoice her old admirers in
the Strand with her picturesque and piquante style of acting-
PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—Mr. Spencer Lambert, Of
the treasury and free-list office, takes his annual b enefit to-
morrow evening, the 14th, when the performances wilLCooonr:
sist of the new comedy of The Trial of Lore, and Ur. B
cicault's thrilling drama, The Vampire. It is the last night
of the present season, the theatre closing until September,
and will prove, we trust, to be a crowning bumper.
THE ESTATE OF BALMoRAL.--The occasion of his
Royal Highness Prince Albert being infeft in the estate of
Balmoral was celebrated in the Iron-room attached to the
Castle, on Friday last, by a dinner. Dr. Robertson, Indep,
the Prince's Commissioner, presided; and about 150 of the
tenantry, with those from Abergeldy and Birkhall, and their
friends, were present. A ball followed in the same place,
which was very numerously attended. Arrangements are,
it is understood; in progress for the erection of additional
buildings to the Castle. The royal party are expected to
arriyo on the 22d instant,—Scotsman,