The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-08 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES.—No. 0000 VIII.

About the best day's racing ever seen at the Spring
Meeting on the Downs of Epsom came off yesterday.
The fields for the two principal races were unusually
large, and the results very close and peculiarly interest-
g.

The Trial Stakes afforded a surprise to the ring by the
Very easy defeat of the celebrated Hobbie Noble, who
finished an indifferent fourth. This was said not
ttoeboeahseis.
running, and I think that such must have been h
was out
The :winner, Lascelles, from John Day's stable,
occasion.
five times last year and was beaten on every
Nov;, by way of capsizing all judgment in theuumu attaenr,.
he defeats very cleverly the large-strided Ephesus
we. 7
Frantic, besides the great gun bef named. He I
bred, being by Touchstone, out of ore
Cara, and probably
Will do a few good things where the distance is short.
The City and Suburban Handicap afforded a splendid
race with three, and proved my judgment in this bout tod
be very correct, for I gave the race to Ethelbert, an
Placed Jouvence and Pancake very close up. Now these
three ran home together, Ethelbert, in the last stride,
Making a dead heat of it with Pancake, and Jouvence
not being beaten more than half a length. In the de-
tdiinag heat Ethelbert won very cleverly by a short neck.
estlub, performance of the winner is undoubtedly superior,
kegacovnecewdeedighhis year and eleven pounds to Pancake,
weight away to every horse of his own age
in the race.
.... too much of the " steel" has not been
taken out of him thefr severe races, he will be tole-
rably sure of carryin
week, for which rail: l'i the Newmarket Handicap next
must not be forgotten thy:ever'
three,
Contentment and Nerva
the race all to thernselv in my opinion, having
The Two-year-old Stakes resulted, rather unexpectedly,
in favour of Village L
markably well-bred daugh-
ter of Pyrrhus the F;asse, atirie strain on the dam's side
being through Provost andtoc
blood it would be difficult Martha Lynn. Much better
The stable did not
support the horse for a shillingnthat I am aware of, and
their want
ao of confidence led me to believe that she was
no count. At the present time she has not a soli-
ta.ry engagement.
The Great Metropolitan Stakes in its decision did not
prod.uce that contentment so much desired by a large
ilportion of the public. The great " pot, Contentment,
lte having been backed at 5 to 4 Pgot off very well in
._ e start, laid forward throughout the race, but when
'thee
imPltatit otnetarrived for the final struggle,
compounded, and was beaten about a length from Gad-
playabout, the winner, who disposed of Richmond (second)
with some difaeulty. Snowdon Dunhill made strong
the greater part of the distance, and nearly over-
powered his jockey several times. The result of the
Met" ;had the effect of sending the winner's stable
companion, gone of
p some four or five points in
the betting for the Derb uln one instance as little as 9
to
titl Was taken. It alsoya.dvanced Richmond to the rank
ond favourite for the Chester Cup, and sent Con-
ent right out of the market for the Derby. The
g is not particularly hard hit, and most of the lead
lag list men are winners. It is said that the principal
lead-
Winner is Captain Scott.
The other races require no remarks.
ulks the Ne rket Craven Meeting commences on
."4°llclaY, I may as well review the first day's lacing at
once.
The Craven Stakes will, as usual, open the perform-
ance, fo
an after which will be presented a Handicap, the
both of which stakes have not as yet closed.
ea The Thirty-ninth Riddlesworth Stakes of 200 sovs.
h, h ft, Lord Clifden's over the Ab. M., will fall to the lot of one of
nominations.
Won b
The 100 sovs. Sweepstakes over the D. M., will be
y Filbert, should he not be kept for more important
races later in the week ; in his absence, War Whoop
Will do the deed.
ha ve Na A Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, D. M., will probably
than as the winner.
The Produce Stakes of 300 sovs: each, h ft, R. M.,
Will be a walk over for the Duke of Bedford's Diomedia.
In the Matches, Frantic, Bst 121 b, is, I fancy, capable
of beating Caracara, Bst 71b, over the fiat ; and I shall
be rash enough to ake the Miss Sarah filly in preference
to Gossip over the D. M.

THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

THE FRENCH EMPIRE.

The Government proposes to augment the charge
for the education of day scholars in the colleges.
The price now charged is 100 f. per annum, which
by the new measure will be raised, it seems, to an
average of 166 f. 55c. In an article on this subject,
the Siecle has expressed a fear that this increase of
charge will operate prejudicially against the pro-
gress of education as regards the University system,
and necessarily throw the education of a large por-
tion of the youths of France into the hands of the
priesthood. The Constitutionnel of yesterday
notices the article of the Siecle chiefly, however,
with the view of showing that the present price
charged is unequal to the cost, and therefore it is
right to increase it. It says :
"We have made the calculation of what a day-pupil
and a boarder cost at each of the colleges of Paris.
Every one can verify its exactitude, as we have based it
on the printed account of 1851. We fearlessly submit
these results to the consideration of the Siecle. We are
persuaded that this information will prove to our con-
tradictor that the administration of Public Instruction
would have failed in its duty had it any longer tolerated
a system so disastrous to the establishments of the State.
The price of a boarder in the colleges of Paris is 1,0001.,
and that of a day-pupil 100 f. At Louis-le-Grand, in
1851, the boarder cost 1,013 f. 69c., or 131. 69c. more
than he paid ; the day-pupil cost 181 f. 67c., or 81f. 67c.
more than he paid. At the college Napoleon the boarder
cost 1,097 f. 25c., or 97f. 25c. more than he paid, and
the day-pupil 267 f. 91c., or 167 f. 91c. more than he
paid. At the College St. Louis the boarder cost
1,042 f. 40c., or 42f. 40c. more than he paid, and the
day-pupil 211 f. 84c., or 111 f. 84c. more than he paid.
At the Colleges Charlemagne and Bonaparte, which re-
ceive only day-pupils, each of them cost 190 f., or 90f.
more than he paid."
The Moniteur de l'Armee says :—" It appears
decided that the translation of the remains of the
Emperor Napoleon I. from the chapel Saint-
Jerome, where they are at present deposited, to
the monument now being terminated under the
dome of the church of Invalides, will take place on
the 4th of ,May. The sth of May being Ascension-
day, the Bth is fixed for the inauguration of the
tomb, and the ceremony will be celebrated with
great pomp. It is said that the various corps
d'armes will be represented there by deputations.
Workmen are to be immediately occupied in remov-
ing the wooden constructions and materials which
encumber the Court of Vauban, behind the church
of the Invalides, as it is there that will be the prin-
cipal entrance to the monument, the entrance by
the Court of Honour of the hotel being more espe-
cially appropriated to the church itself."
The members of the Legislative Body assembled
yesterday in their bureaux to continue the exami-
nation of the Budget for 1854, and to name a com-
mittee of 14 members, two from each bureau, to
prepare the report. The following were the mem-
bers nominated :-Ist bureau—Baron de Bussieres,
M. Gouin ; 2d bureau—M. Faure, Baron Paul de
Richemont; 3d bureau—M. Devinck, M. Randoing;
4th bureau—M. Lelut, M. Monnier dela Sizeranne;
sth bureau—M. Alfred Leroux, M. Bertrand
(Yonne); Gth bureau—no member yet appointed ;
7th bureau—M. Vernier, M. Schneider.
Lord Cowley, the English Ambassador, has just
sent a letter to M. L. Delarne, shipbroker, at
Dieppe, announcing to him that the English Go-
vernment had given orders to its Consul at Havre
to present 101 (250 f.) to Francois Terrier, com-
manding a fishing-boat of Dieppe, for his humane
conduct in saving the crew of the English sloop
Dolphin, who had abandoned their vessel in a sink-

ing state in the Channel.
The Senate met on the 6th, M. Troplong in the
chair. Cardinal Mathieu and Count Curial, who
were absent at the opening of the session, took the
oath. General Count Bonet and Viscount de
Suleau, admitted in the sitting of the 19th ult.,
also took the oath and their seats. Count de Casa-
bianca presented the report on the bill relating to
buying in the jouissance shares of the canal com-
panies ; and the Marquis d'Audifret a report on
the budget of the Senate for 1853. The Minister
of State, in conformity with Art. 8 of the Senatus-
Consulte of Dec. 25, 1852, and by order of the
Emperor, placed on the bureau the register con-
taining the civil acts of the Imperial Family, in
order that the Senate may have the act of the civil
marriage of the Emperor inscribed on its registers.
General the Marquis de Grouchy presented the
report of the committee charged to examine the
bill for calling out 80,000 men in 1854. The
Senate declared that it did not oppose the promul-
gation of the bill. The decision proposed by the
committee of accounts in the regulation of the
budget of 1852, was then agreed to. M. Bret pre-
sented several reports on local bills, and the Senate
declared that it did not oppose their promulgation.
The rest of the sitting was taken up with reports
on petitions.

We read in the Moniteur :—" A report has been
circulated that the Government has an idea of pro-
posing a change in the conditions of civil marriage.
This report is without any foundation. The expe-
rience of sixty years has proved the wisdom of our
civil laws on that important matter."
The Assemblee Nationale has received from the
Minister of Police a second warning on account of
an article published in its number of the sth, be-
ginning with the words, "M. le Comte de Cham-
bord," which tended, says the warning, to disavow
the national sovereignty. The article incriminated
gave an account of the movements of some of the
members of the ex-Royal family.
The Minister of Police has sent a second warning
to La Mode, that journal having disregarded the
first warning, and continued in the course which
led to it.

Mme. Pretti, aunt of M. Thiers, has just died at
Menton, in the Sardinian States, where she had

resided for many years. She was in her 90th year.
The journals of the departments continue to give
accounts of the shock of earthquake of the Ist. At
Dinan it was severe, and lasted nearly three
seconds ; two slighter shocks were afterwards felt
at intervals of half-an-hour. At Granville it lasted
about 15 seconds, and threw the inhabitants into
the greatest alarm ; alll the houses were shaken,
and the furniture deranged. The shock was pre-
ceded by a heavy rumbling noise. At Cherburg
two shocks were felt, one of which was strong
enough to crack the ceilings of several rooms and
the windows ; doors and furniture were violently
agitated. At Mayenne and the neighbourhood the
shocks lasted nearly 15 seconds, and were accmn-

panied by a noise like that of a heavily-laden wag-
gon passing over the pavement. At Nantes the
earthquake was principally felt in the western part
of the town, where the houses are built on a rocky
foundation. Several persons who were in bed and
asleep were awoke by the noise, and by the mo ve-
ment of the doors and windows. In all the places
mentioned the oscillation had a direction from the
N.E. to the S.W.

At the Bourse yesterday there was an active
market for Rentes and Bank Stock, with a general

rise in prices, which closed firmly, and with an up-
ward tendency. For cash the Three per Cents.
advanced 505., and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
30c. ; for the account the rise in the Three per
Cents. was 45c., and in the Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. 35c. Bank Stock advanced 15f. At the
conclusion of business the prices were—For money,
Three per Cents., 79f. 80c. ; Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., 103 f. 30c. For the end of the month,
Three per Cents. 79f. 85c ; Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. 103 f. 35c. Bank Stock, 2,715 f. Railway
Shares also participated in the general improve-
ment of business, the prices having advanced on
all the principal lines. Northerns closed at 903 f.
50c. ; Paris .and Strasbourg, 845 f. 50c • Orleans,
1,046 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 952 f. 50c ; Paris
Rouen, 1,050 f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean,
815 f. ; Western of France, 752 f.

ITALY.
Letters
thefr solomßemomnietiteos
of Easterthe3lst wereul snatauteehth.
im-
peded at
although -
peded by the continued rain, still a great crowd of
persons attended, from seven in the morning, the
services performed in the Sistine Chapel, and in
that of the Chapter at the Church of St. Peter's.
On Holy Thursday the Pope gave his solemn bene-
diction within St. Peter's, on account of the bad-
ness of the weather ; but on Easter Sunday, the
rain having ceased for a few hours, he gave it from
the top of the balcony of the façade to an immense
crowd. The rain in the evening prevented the
illumination of the cupola of St. Peter's, but it
took place on the Tuesday night with what is
called the change, that is, in the place of the gentle
and white light of the first illumination, which
lasts for about an hour, succeeds in a moment the
lighting-up of the whole building. Agents of M.
de Rothschild had been at Rome for some time,
and a rumour was in circulation of a new loan by
the pontifical Government. It appeared nearly
certain, these letters state, that this loan was
signed on the 30th ult. The conditions were not
known.