The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1864.

dared, &c,; winners extra ; second horse to receive 100

says out of the stakes, Two tulles and a half. 82 subs, 51
of whom pay only 5 sous each.
Mr T. Parr's Blondin, 4 yrs, 7st (Heslop) 1
Mr Saville's Guerilla, 3 yrs, Gat 71b
Lord Coventry's Thalestris, 4 vrs, Gst 41b (J. Grimshaw) 3
Mr Schickler's Guillaume le Taciturne, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b
(Mortimer) 4
Mr Joseph Dawson's Limosina, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b
Mr Aspinall's Stanton, 6 yrs, Bst r (Custance) 5
Mr T. Stevens's Fishef man's Dau ds) 6
ghter, 3 yrs, sst (Edwards)
101 b

(11. Sharp) 7
Betting-6 to son Thalestris, 7to 1 agst Guillaume le
Taciturne, 10 to 1 each agst Blondin and Guerilla, and 100
to 7 agst any other.
Immediately the flag was lowered the favourite went to
the front, having a slight lead of Stanton, who was followed
by Guerilla and Blondin, in whose wake were Limosina,
Fisherman's Daughter, and Guillaume le Taciturne. In
these positionsthoy ran to the turn out of the straight, where
Stanton ran up to the favourite, the pair descending the hill
side by side, each racing for the lead. On reappearing from
behind the clump, the leading pair were seen in the wake
of Guerilla, who, as they commenced the hill, took a de-
cided lead, Blondin, with Mr Stevens's filly at his girths,
lying next, with the French representative and Limosina
closing up. As they neared the brow of the hill the pace
slackened considerably, which enabled the rear division to
close up, and as they rounded the turn for home a sheet
would have covered the seven; but shortly after Thalestris
once again brought her colours to the front, to the no little
satisfaction of her patrons, Who were uproarious in their
exclamations of the probable success of their favourite, but
which hopes were doomed to defeat as they fairly entered
the bottom, where Lord Coventry's favourite gave evi-
dence of being in difficulties, and was shortly after
headed by Guerilla, close in whose track were Blondin,
Guillaume le Taciturne, and Limosina, to which lot the
race was now confined. At the distance Mr Saville's colt
was headed by Blondin, who, ridden with great patience
by Heslop, had bided his time, and
who, when asked,
quitted his horses without an effort, and won with great
ease by half a length ; the favourite finished a bad third.
The others were beaten off.

A Handicap Plate of 100 sow., for 3-yr•olds and upwards.
Craven Course.

riCto, Lanellan, Greenland,
Mr Payne's Olivia, 3 yrs, 6st 1011) ..... Grirnahaw) 2
Mr Wodson's Deerfoot, 4 yrs, Bst
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Betting-7 to 4 agst Olivia, sto 1 agst Innellan, 11 to 2
agat Deerfoot, 6 to 1 agat Oberon, 7 to 1 agst Greenland,
and 8 to 1 agst Manrico.

Orphene was the first away, and made play at a strong
pace, followed by Greenland and Olivia for a quarter of a
mile, when the latter obtained the second place, and followed
the leader into the straight, when Orphene was beaten, and
Deerfoot joined Mr Payne's filly. From this point a close
race ensued between the pair, Deerfoot securing the judge's
fiat in the last stride by a head ; a bad third ; Innellan
fourth, and Greenland next.

The Cowdray Stakes of 10 sovs each, 11 ft, with 50
added; for 2-yr-olds and upwards; weight for age. The
winner to be sold for 150 Eova if demanded, &c. T.Y,C.

8 subs.
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Mr J. Stephenson's Goram (late Enone), 2 yrs, 6st 111 b

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(Morris) 3
Lord Uxbridge's Tring, 2 yrs, 7st (J. Grimshaw) 4
Mr Treen's Le Papillon, 2 yrs, 6at 11113 ...... (C. Page) 5
Betting-7 to 4 agat Tring, 9to 4 agst Gomm, and 100
to 15 agst Sister Mary.
G3ram, in company with Sister Mary and Antidote,
made play to the Stand, where Sister 'Mary came out and
WOD, cleverly by a length; twice that distance between the
second and third. The winner was claimed.
The Findon Stakes of 10 sovs each, for 2-yr-olds ; colts
Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. Winners extra. T.Y.C. 62
subs.
Mr G. Bryan's Ostregor, Bst 71b (Custance) 1
Duke of Beaufort's Kconig, Bst 71b (Fordh am) 2
Mr Merry's Zambesi, Bst 1216 (inc 5113 ex).. (Challoner) 3
Lord St. Vincent's Bunch, Bst 41b., (Parker) 4
Mr a Melville's Wild Boy, Bat 71b .. (Goater) 5
Betting-7 to 4 agst Ostregor, sto 2 agst Zambesi, and
3 to 1 agat Kconig.

Kcenig, on the extreme right, made the running, Ostregor
lying second, with Zambezi and Bunch in close attendance.
On reaching the half distance the Duke's colt was in trouble,
and was shortly after joined by the favourite and Zambesi,
but the latter, tiring under the weight, dropped back on
reaching the Stand, leaving the race with the two. Ostre-
gor, running with great gameness, got up in the last stride
and won a fine race by a head ; two lengths between the
second and third; Bunch was a bad fourth, and Wild Boy
beaten off,

Railway and other Companies.

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE.

The directors of this company have decided on recom-
mending the proprietors at their next meeting to declare a
dividend for the half year ending June 30 out of the net
revenue at the rate of 51 per cent. per annum, less income
tax.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN-

SHIRE.
The half yearly meeting was held in Manchester yester-
day, Mr Watkin, M.P., in the chair.
The report was taken as read.

The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption
e on,
and,
a t th of
w theng report. ta.
enelile.
a
congratulated the shareholders that
increasetroea
traffice i
was general, was still going
rated rate of increase of passenger
fuller train loads for merchandise, the greatly improved
traffic, coupled with
receipts had been attended with but slight augmentation of
thet
expenses. (Cheers.)
While
prospects of the under-
taking were so generally encouraging, he must warn the
proprietors not to expect too soon those returns from the
new lines and extensions which
the outlay of capital upon
them would ultimately produce. The most productive lines
had bean originally attended with
in g the Parliamentary business temporary loss. In notic-
ing
one of the most important bills ofthe company, he said
that they had opposed
was the Great Eastern Northern Junction, for an indepen-
dent railway from Peterborough to
Doncaster. He had al-
ways regarded an exchange of traffic with the Great Eastern
as of very great importance, but that was a different thing
from the promotion of a new trunk
line. From the begin-
ning he thought it an unwise proceeding on the part of the
Great Eastern Company to propose to make nearly 100
miles of railway at an enormous
outlay, parallel to some
extent with the Sheffield line, and.
to a great extent parallel
with the Great Northern. Parliament had thrown out this
bill. The Sheffield Company would have afforded facilities
for exchanging traffic at Lincoln, but they opposed this
scheme as alike wasteful and
i_ dangerous. If the London
and North-Western, alone or
n company, considered that
it was possible to have a monopoly
f the district between
Liverpool and Manchester, they were much mistaken. The
railway accommodation of this district was exceptional;
there was nothing like it in the kingdom. Manchester and
Salford possess a population of 600,00 u who were within 31
miles of 500,060 more, in Liverpool, the
trade of which place
doubled every 16 years. Well, these two vast cities and
centres of trade had, in
his
Opinion, and
considering their
importance, the very worst communication
by railway that
existed in any part of the country. The
re was nothing like
it anywhere. Why a man could not
igo to Liverpool and
dine with a friend and get back the earns
regard to the nature of the communication,nigh4lllltdd with
especially on
Liverpool Sundays, those who travelled between and Man
was -
cheater knew what it was. The reason that the three
, railwayabetweenMancheater andLiverpoolhad
beenmanaged
upon such principles that the public had never maximised
the accommodation as they ought to have
done. (Hear.)
The Liverpool Central Railway Station Bill had received
the Royal assent, and it extended their la
arston line right
the into the heart of Liverpool ;in fact, for development of
the passenger traffic, which had never been
thoroughly de-
veloped between the two towns, their line
went through the
very best part for maximising the traffic accommodatingand
the public in the most efficient manner.
(Cheers.) With
the
the continued support and confidence of shareholders
they hoped to preserve and complete their hold of that por-
tion of Liverpool to which legislation had given them access.
They were now in close alliance with the
Great Northern;
character they had agreements of an important with the
traffic Midland ; they were ready to exchange at Lincoln,
if necessary, with the Great Eastern, and they
slider that the most important outlets of
traffic had to con-
upon the
west were at the ports of Liverpool and Birkenhead. Hear.)
He must say a word about their steamboats Bill,
passed the House of Lords. The shareholders knew whienhad
that
they had laid out a million of money at Grimsby,c and some
millions east of Retford, and it had never paid anything.
Their dividends had been earned between Retford and Man-
chester, the other part of the system having
mere l y paid its
working expenses and a portion of the debenture interest.
They had been trying for years to make Grimsby
pay. They
tried in 1855 to get power to do that which was
necessary to
narrow make it pay—namely, to bridge over the seas with
there
their own steamboats. On the Continent were many
thousands of miles of railways connecting every
e owners
important
town. Their customers were upon those railways,
of which had recently done a very sensible
thing,
having
formed a railway union, similar to their customs' and tele-
graph union, for through rates with every plaeHow was
canse they
it they could not get to their customers ? BA
had had the persistent and constant opposition of
the old
standing shipping interests, which, whenever they put on
a steamer, " ran it off," as opposition b omniuses did
in London. After fighting for existence andgiving
drawbacks and bounties and advanced capital
they
had illegal
drawbacks
only four steamboats running to Grimsby. The steamboat
bill would enable them to bridge these narrow seas and