The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1865.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER ' MEETING.-THtRSDAY.

The Trafford Park Stakes of 7 sovs each, 3 ft, with 100
added. Winners extra. One mile.
i Lord Bateman's Moulsey, 4 yrs, 9st (including 71b extra
(J. Grimshaw 1
Mr. W. Phillips's Persuasion, 4 yrs, Bst 21b ...(J. Doyle 2
Mr. R. M. Dela,mere's Breffni, 3. yrs, 6st 41b (Carroll 3
Mr. Backhouse's Barter, 5 yrs, Bst 21b (lloystead) 4
Betting-2 to lon Moulsey, 4to 1 agst Persuasion, sto
1 agst Breffni.

After going a dozen strides Moulsey assumed the lead,
and won in a canter by ten lengths. Breffni and Barter
did not persevere from the distance.
The Two-Year-Old Stakes of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, with 50
added ; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies, Bst 71b ; winners extra.
Half a mile. 19. subs.
Mr. J. Osborne's X I, Bst 101 b (J. Osborne 1
Mr. T S. Dawson's &knout, Bst 101 b (J. Doyle 2
Mr. R. Walker's The Oracle, Bst 101 b (J. Grimshaw 3
Mr. A. S. Briggs's Sleepy Eye, Bst 71b (J. Snowden) 4
Mr. Meron's Lightfoot (late Mr. Watts), Bst 101 b
(J. Merone, jun.) 5
Mr. H. Wilkinson's Birkgill, Bst 101 b (J. Marson) 6

Betting-5 to 4 agst X 1,6 to 1 agst The Oracle, 6to 1
agst Belmont, 20 to 1 agst Sleepy Eye.
Several breaks away preceded a somewhat straggling
start, in which Belmont and X I got best off. The latter
after going a couple of hundred yards, took up the running
and won by a length. The Oracle, who although third
away at the start, got badly off, was only beaten a neck
from the second. Sleepy Eye was a bad fourth, and the
other two finished together, three lengths in the rear of
Sleepy Eye.

The Tradesmen's Cup of 150 sovs in specie, added to a
Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft; winners
_ _

extra. Two miles. 38 subs., 22 of whom pay 5 sovs ft.
Mr. Hudson's Cathedral, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b (J. Osborne) 1
Mr. Barber's Helen, 4 yrs, 7st 91b (Ward) 2
Mr. Ambery's Nemo, 4 yrs,. 7st 121 b (Carroll) 3
Captain Hemmingway's Sluggard, 4 yrs, 7st (Hoystead) 4
Mr. H. Wilkinson's East Lynne, 3 yrs, 7st 21b
(J. Marson) 5
Betting-5 to 4 agst Helen, 6to 4 agst Cathedral, 7to 1
bar two.

They were well started at the first attempt, and for about
ICO yards Helen showed in front, but was then passed by
Nemo and Sluggard, Mr. Barber's mare going on third,
East Lynne fourth, and Cathedral last. They ran in this
order for three-quarters of a mile, when Nemo took a clear
lead (the race, however, for the first mile being indifferent),
followed by Sluggard, Helen, East Lynne, and Cathedral,
in the order named, in Indian file, to within three-quarters
of a mile from home, where Helen ran alongside Nemo to
the half-mile post, and Nemo was beaten, and Helen was
then left with a clear lead. At this time Cathedral was
quite 20 lengths in the rear, and the race appeared entirely
in the hands of Helen. In the straight Cathedral's long
stride enabled him to rapidly pass his horses, and though
he met with an obstacle when he reached Nemo about the
distance (where he had to come round), he soon disposed
of Mr. Ambery's horse, and catching Helen at every stride
headed her opposite the Stand, and won by a neck ; Nemo
was a bad third, and the others pulled up before reaching
the post.

The Selling Handicap of 3 soya each, with 40 added; for

all ages. One mile.

Mr. R. Walker's Sweetness, 3 yrs, 7st (Tomlinson 1
Mr. Dawson's Well Done, 3 yrs, Est 41b (Cameron)) 2
Mr. W. Saunders's Pleasure Boat, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (Ilulme) 3
Qui va. La and Midwife also ran.

Betting-2 to 1 agst Qui vaLa, sto 2 agst Sweetness, 4to
1 agst Well Done, 7 to 1 agst Midwife.
Won by a neck ; a bad third.

The winner was bought by Mr. Masterman for seventy
guineas.

The City Handicap of 60 sovs, for all ages; winners extra.

Three-quarters of a mile.

Mr. J. Barber's Lady Bohun, 4 yrs, Bst 61b...(J. Snowden 1
Mr. J. Osborne's Lady Abbess, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b (J. Osborne 2
Mr. Mills's Creme de Vanile, 3 yrs, 6st 51b ...(Eloystead 3
Crazy Jane, Innisfallen, and Silenus also ran.

Betting—Even on Lady Abbess, 6 to 4 agst Lady Bohun,
8 to 1 agst any other.
Won by a neck; a bad third.
Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas, weight for age. Three
miles and a distance.

Mr. Barber's Helen, 4 yrs, 9st 71b
Mr. Cliff's Sprite, 4 yrs, 9st 71b (Doyle 2
Mr. J. Smith's Dermot Asthore, 4 yrs, 9st 71b (Balby 3

King Arthur, Ross, and Orontes also ran.

Betting-5 to 4 agst Helen, 6to 4 agst King Arthur, 100
to 8 agst Sprite and Ross.

Won by a length ; five lengths between the second and
third.

CHELMSFORD SUMMER MEETING.
THURSDAY.

The second day of the meeting was again in point of
weather the pink of perfection. The assemblage, perhaps,
was greater than ou Wednesday, owing no doubt to many
who were at the Wye meeting on the previous day. The
sport which came off produced some very exciting races,
the chief item, the Essex Handicap, particularly being most
closely contested ; but the result proved in favour of
Dawdle, George Fordham's resolute riding just landing the
American's colours. The other events are fully described
below.

The Essex Handicap of 10 sovx each, 3 ft, with 50 added,
for all ages ; winners, 51b extra; the winner to be sold
for 200 sous. Three-quarters of a mile. 32 subs.
Mr. H. Ten Broeck's Dawdle 4 yrs, Bst 71b...(Fordham 1
Mr. S. Thellusson's Veluti 4 yrs, 7st 131 b (Deacon 2
Mr. T. Hughes' Dolphin, 5 years, 7st 91b (Loates 3
The following also ran:—Juliet, Kromeski, Erin-go
Bragh, and Bittern.

Betting-3 to 1 each agst Dawdle and Veluti, 7to 2 agst
Dolphin, 4 to 1 agst Kromeski, and 10 to 1 agst Erin-go-
Bragh.

Veluti made play with a slight lead, followed by Kro-
meski and Dolphin, at whose heels the others followed in a
cluster into the straight. Half-way up the hill Kromeski
dropped back, and Erin-go-Bragh joined Veluti and Dol-
phin, and at the Stand got on even terms with Veluti,
whom she defeated, after a most interesting struggle, by
a head ; the same separated the second and third, Erin-
go-Bragh was fourth, Kromeski fifth, Mr. Hughes's two
next, and Bittern last.

The Gentlemen Riders' Plate (Handicap) of 40 sous, for
three-yr-olds and upwards ; winners blb extra ; profes-
sional jockeys to carry 61b extra. One mile.
Mr. T. Hughes's Vigil, 6 yrs, list 21b ...(Mr. W. Bevill 1
Mr. Fleming's Camillus, 3 yrs, 10st 41b (inc. 61b extra
i
Mr. F. Barker's Freestone (Prnce
, 6 yrs, lOst 41b (Mr. P. Parker 2
3
The following also ran :—Sequence, Mary, and Target.
Betting-11 to Bon Vigil, 3to 1 agst Target, Bto 1 agst
Camillus, 10 to 1 agst any other.
Camillus jumped off with the lead, but in a few strides was
pulled back ; Freestone going on with a clear lead, was
followed by Vigil and Camillus till nearing the distance,
when Camillus, next the rails, again assumed the lead, but
at the Stand was challenged by Vigil, who won a fine race
by a head ; Freestone was beaten three lengths from the
second, Target was fourth, Sister Mary fifth, and
Sequence last.

The County Members' Plato (Handicap), of 50 sovs, for all
ages ; winners extra. Straight half mile.
Mr. G. Hodgman's The Gem, 3 yrs, Gst 71b (Heartfield) 1
Mr. John Dawson's Bella, 3 yrs, Est 71b (J. Smith) 2
Mr. Hartley's Eugenie, 3 yrs, gat (Holland) 3
also ran.
Walloon, Bittern, Lady Mary,,Veluti, and Queen Bee

Betting-2 to 1 agst Veluti, 3to 1 agst The Gem, Bto 1
agst Queen Bee.

After several failures, principally caused by Eugenie's
fractiousness, an equitable start was effected. The Gem,
with a slight advantage, was closely attended by Bella and
Veluti and the others in compact order to the distance,
where Eugenie took third place and Veluti dropped back.
Half way up The Gem and Bella drew clear away from the
others, but the latter, suddenly stopping opposite the
Stand, The Gem won very easily by three lengths ; the
same distance separated the second and third, Lady Mary
and Walloon last.
was fourth, Veluti fifth, Queen Bee sixth, Bittern seventh,

The Marden Two-Year-Old Plate of 50 sovs, for colts,
Bst 101 b; fillies, Bst 71b; with selling allowances. Half

a mile.
Mr. Hodgman's Catherine, Bst (.£5O) (Morris) 1
Mr. R. Porter's Master Strutt, Bst 31b (X5O)
..,(Hibberd) 2
Mr. Charles's Frileuse, Bst (450) (Loates) 3

Betting-5 to 4on Catherine, 7to 4 agst Master Strutt.
The three ran in close company to the distance, when
Frileuse dropped back, and the other two ran home a close
and exciting finish, Catherine winning on the post by a
short head, Frileuse was a bad third. Thero was no ad-
vance on the selling price of the winner.

The Nursery Handicap of 10 sous each, h ft, with 100
added, for two-yr-olds. Three-quarters of a mile. 15

subs.
Mr. Meredyth'sMother-o'-Pearl, 7st 71b (Payne) 1
Count Batthyany's Mdlle. Cleopatra, 7st 111 b (J Smith) 2
Mr. Henry's Arethusa, 7st 101 b (Deacon) 3

Betting-6 to 4 on Mdlle. Cleopatre, 2 to 1 agst Mother-
o'-Pearl, 4 to 1 (at first even) agst Arethusa.
Cleopatra, with Mother-o'-Pearl in attendance, made
play till nearing the Stand, when Mother-o'-Pearl came
out and won easily by two lengths ; Arethusa a bad third.
The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas, for three-yr-olds, 7st
101 b; four, 9st 71b; five, lOst; six and aged, lOst 21b.
Two miles and a half.
Mr. J. Wood's Sir Roger, 4 yrs, 9st 71b (Daley) 1
Mr. Naylor's Quarantine, 4 yrs, 9st 71b (Perry) 2
Betting-4 to 1 on Sir Roger, who waited on Quarantine
till within a quarter of a mile from home,wheu he drew UP

and ran in close company to the stand, where he got his
head in front, and won by half a length.

ASCOT RACES.—TUESDAY, June 13.

The weights for the Royal Hunt Cup, a piece of plate value
200 soya, added to a sweepstakes of 10 sous each, for
3-yr-olds and upwards ; winners extra. New mile.
Age st lb
Moulsey (in. 71b ex) 4 9 0
.Saccharometer ... 5 812
Union Jack ... 4 8 12
Master Richard ... 4 8 11
Donnybrook 5 8 10
Baragah ... 4 8 10
Hippolyta 4 8 8
Tomato ... 4 8 7
Lord Douglas ... 4 8 3
Prince Plausible ... a 8 3
Gem of the Sea ..-. 5 8 3
Flatterer ... ... 4 8 2
Eltham ... 3 8 0
Exchequer ... 6 8 0
Victorious... ... 3 8 0
Sandal. ...4 7 13
Blue Mantle 5 7 13
Borealis ... 5 713
Diomed ...4 7 13
Marigold 5 7 13
Windham ... ... 4 7 12
Ethelred ... 4 7 11
Brindisi 4 7 10
Peon ... 4 7 9
Harcourt ~. 4 7 9
Balham a 7 9
Historian ... ... 4 7 9
Muezzin 5 7 9
Gratitude ... 5 7 8
Zambesi ... 3 7 7
Wild Charley 3 7 7
Vabalathus 4 7 7
Sheridan 4 7 7
Black Rock ... 4 7 6
John Davis 4 7 6
Crytheia ... 4 7 4
Baldwin ... 5 7 2
Lord Zetland ~. 4 7 2
King Charming ... 3 7 2
Dean Swift ... 4 7 0
Merry Wife ... 4 7 0

Age st lb
Ariel 3 7 0
Finesse ... ... 4 7 0
Sister to the Drake 4 6 13
Outlaw 4 6 13
Farewell ... 3 6 12
Lucky Star 4 6 12
Filbert ... 3 6 12
Camball ... 3 6 12
Nuneaton ... ... 4 6 11
Miss Bowzer colt ... 3 6 10
.Swordsman 3 6 10
Edinburgh... 3 6 9
Nukuheva ... 3 6 9
Mcestissima filly ... 3 6 9
The Scheldt ... 3 6 8
Scarborough ... 3 6 .8
Madcap ... ... 4 6 7
Lady Valentine ... 3 6 7
Lady Williams ... 4 6 6
The Little Gentle-
man ... ... 4 6 6
Celerrima ... 3 6 5
Oaloyer ... 3 6 5
Lazaretto ... 3 6 4
Reginella ~. 3 6 4
Tibia ... 3 6 4
Lady Tredegar ... 3 6 4
St. Fagans... ... 3 6 4
Black Draught ... 3 6 3
Fair Melrose ... 3 6 3
Provisor ... 3 6 3
Sprite 4 6 2
Haarlam ... 4 6 0
Pilgrim ... 3 6 0
Arkansas ... ... 3 5 12
Victory ... 3 510
Pulsatilla ... 3 5 10
Amata c01t... ... 3 5 10
Kromeski 4 5 7
Frisky Matron 3 5 7

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOITRNALS:

TIMES.—It requires no extraordinary sagacity to
perceive that the proceedings in Parliament are " the
beginning of the end." The Lords, wearied, we must
presume, with their exertions in doing justice to Mr.
Edmunds, will not meet for .a few days longer, but
the House of Commons set to work last night with
a promptitude and rapidity of action which show
that the hearts of members are anywhere rather than
at Westminster. The votes in Supply were run
through in the same style as last week, and their
multifarious details hardly tempted the house into a
single debate. Even the National Gallery did not
call up the usual aesthetic and topographical contro-
versy, the house contenting itself with a very satis-
factory assurance from Mr. Cowper that the Gallery
is not to be removed from Trafalgar-square, and
that an estimate would be laid upon the table of the
house in a few days for the purchase of the ground
occupied by the parish workhouse and schools behind
it. On every item the house showed its confidence
in the wisdom and economy of Government by
voting whatever was asked for, and if there had been
ten Joseph Humes present they would probably have
been unable to stem this impatient liberality. The
fact is, the session is practically at an end. The Union
Chargeability Bill and two or three small legal and
administrative reforms will be its only marks in the
Statute-book. Now that Whitsuntide has come and
gone, and the third act or period of the session has
begun, the impatience of members is not to be re-
strained. The great event which is so soon to take
place occupies all their thoughts, and, as is always
the case when an important crisis has to be passed
through, there is an overmastering desire to hasten
it. Suspense is worse than the most terrible realisa-
tion of the thing feared. The gentlemen who have
to sit half the day in committee-rooms and a
great part of the night in the House, dis-
tracted at one time with engineering details and
the conflicting evidence of rival schemes, and at
another with all sorts of propositions for politi-
cal, legal, or social improvement, are for the most
part debating in their own minds the very import-
ant question of their own status this day three
months. This will be a sharply contested election.
Both sides have plenty of political spirit, and there
is also forthcoming plenty of another commodity
which the most stringent Acts of Parliament have
not yet deprived of its influence in the selection of
legislators. Probably there was never at any gene-
ral election so large an array of candidates. The
Conservatives, in spite of Mr. Disraeli's lukewarm
address, are preparing for the fight, as if resolved
that the result of it should be to place them at that
official banquet from which they have. been so long
excluded. Six years' abstinence produces a hunger
which makes the party daring to the highest degree.
Let no Liberal sleep tranquilly in the complacent
belief that his borough is one of steady Whig prin-
ciples, of long connexion with his family or himself.
He knows not what a day may bring forth. Any
post may inform him that a gentleman of Conservative
principles has made his appearance, and that his
claims have been admitted by a considerable section
of the constituency, who have discovered that their
present representation is a state of Radical thral-
dom. The wealth that has been accumulated dur-
ing the last six years has enabled a multitude of men
to aspire to that position which wealthy and edu-
cated Englishmen look upon as desirable above
every other. Whippers-in and Parliamentary agents
have no difficulty in finding gentlemen eager to do
battle fortheir respective parties anywhere, and with
almost the smallest chances of success. As men gene-
rally divide themselves into parties according to their
connexions and prepossessions rather than with the
view of political office, even the ill luck of the Con-
servatives does not prevent their cause from being
espoused by numbers of successful and wealthy men,
each of whom will do all in his power to win a seat
for his party and gain the social consideration
which such a service and such a position bring with
them. On the other hand, there is no deficiency of
Liberal candidates, the only fault of their tactics
being that instead of attacking the enemy they have
a strong tendency to attack each other. The Tories
are wiser in their generation than their more self-
willed and undisciplined opponents. Having natu-
rally less hold on the mass of the electors, they
make up for the defect by better organisation, and
the spectacle of two or three Conservative candi-
dates appearing where there is only room for one,
and thus dividing the Conservative vote, will pro -
bably not be beheld at any one of the coming elec-
tions. The conduct of the irregulars of Liberalism,
on the other hand, is one great cause of disquiet to
sitting members. The gentleman who " solicits the
suffrages of the independent Liberal," who " counts
upon the sympathies of the true friends of progress,"
is a terrible nightmare to the hardworking, steady-
voting, Minister-supporting Liberal member, who
knows that he will have to fight two resolute and
heavy-pursed Tories, and that the subtraction of
the Radical voters from his list will probably result
in seating both or one of them. On the other hand,
the Conservatives have their anxieties, being threat-
ened in most of their doubtful seats, and in real un-
certainty whether they will better their position in
the coming contest. The result of this universal
disquietude is that everybody wishes to get the ses-
sion over, to go to the country at the earliest pos-
sible time, and to be certain of his fate by the end
of July. In another fortnight it will be hardly pos-
sible to keep together members enough to perform
the business of Parliament. Whatever may be its
inconveniences to public affairs, the sudden death of
a Parliament through a Ministerial defeat and an
immediate appeal to the country is preferable to
such protracted agonies as the present. A strong
healthy man, who knows he is to be hanged next
Monday, has not a more terrible consciousness of
impending fate than a Parliament doomed to ine-
vitable dissolution within-a few weeks. The best
thing will be to pass with as much speed as possible
the measures with which some progress has been
made, and leave the rest to the new Parliament.
Not much will have been done, but not much is de-
manded. Even on the eve of an appeal to the con-
stituencies, members are content to further small but
useful administrative improvements, and for two or
three of these the closing session of this long Par-
liament will be favourably remembered.
HERALD.—The public will learn with considerable
surprise that the select committee appointed to in-
vestigate the Leeds bankruptcy scandals has decided
upon prosecuting its inquiry with closed doors. We
have nothing to say against the perfect right of the
committee to carry on their investigations in a
manner so totally opposed to the spirit in which our
ordinary judicial proceedings are conducted ; but we
cannot but characterise the present determination as
a serious blunder, and we fear it will seriously
weaken the confidence which the public entertained
in the committee, having regard to the very fair
selection of members composing it. Of course, there
will be no doubt of their perfect fairness and their
sincere desire to arrive at a just conclusion. But
secresy naturally begets suspicion. It will be argued
that there must be a strong necessity for this viola-
tion of one of the first principles of our ordinary
administration of justice ; and even in the event of
the Lord Chancellor clearing himself of every im-
putation, there will dill be found persons who will