The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-31 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.
Sunday Afternoon.

The list of the ensuing meeting contains the Criterion and
five other sweepstakes, six matches, five plates, and ten stakes,
which will close in the usual way. The only stake bearing
a subsequent event is the Criterion, which from the length
and severity of the course, is considered the best for eliciting
Derby-like qualities. It will furnish a large bad field, the
public runners being composed of the following :—Corban,
Chapeau d'Espagne, Edgar, Darioletta colt, Madeira, King
of Clubs, f. out of Lady Slipper, Creusa, and sister to Wa-
resti, than which it would be difficult to pick out a worse lot.
The only dark horses likely to show are Cordova (purchased
of Lord Verulam for four or five hundred pounds), Nelson,
and Chersedamas, and we do not observe that their owners
show any great fondness for them. There has not been any
betting on it to justify a quotation. The match of 300, h. ft.,
D. M., between Bay Middleton and Muezzin, the latter re-
ceiving 131 b., is down for Wednesday, and is expected to come
off, as Lord Exeter rarely pays if his horse is fit to run. Bay
Middleton gave the same horse 71b. at Ascot and a 71b. beat-
ing, so that the result is looked upon as a certainty.
At the end of the Meetinc, the following Stakes closed for
the several Newmarket Meetings :—The Oatland and the
Prendergast, 1837 ; the Two Thousandb and One Thousand
Guinea Stakes, 1838; the Buckenham Stakes; a Sweepstake s
of 50 soya. each, for three years old, Craven Meeting, and the
Vaccillation Stakes of 150 sovs. each, for three years old;
(the subscribers to the latter Stake to name two foals of 1836,
with the option of changing them in the Craven Meeting 1837,
on paying a bonus of 101. extra, to go to the owner of the
second horse, one to the post) ; for 1839, the Column Stakes
1840, and the mares for the two Riddlesworths of 1841 ; also
for the Drawing Room, Levant, Moleeomb. and 300 soya.
Stake at Goodwood.
No arrivals yet, our regular visitors being at Euston, Buck-
enham, or Downham.
A fall of snow took place yesterday morning at four o'clock,
and continued several hours so heavily that by middle day it
laid nearly a foot deep ; the course was covered,;but not so as
to prevent the horses going out. At present it is thawing
rapidly, but it is clear that the racing will be short and the
company thin. An opinion seems to prevail that there will
be a sort of bye-meeting after the one about to come off,
should the weather change for the better.

The Liverpool Steeple Chaves are fixed to take place on
first Wednesday in March. The first race willoe for a Sweep-
stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 100 akle-,",; four years, list. ;
five
years,
.2st. ; over a country not
The see.;md will bo for five sovs. each,
exceeding
with 20 added, over a country not to exceed three miles ; the
filvlest m. ; six and aged,
weights the same as last ; the winner to be sold for 100 sovs.
To make make up
a good day's sport, the third will be a Hurdle
Race, heats, once round the course, &e. The stakes close on
the Ist of February, and there is every reason to expect a very
numerous entry. The Steeple chases will be so settled as to
permit a view of them throughout from the Grand Stand.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
The Atherstone Hounds on Tuesday at Bosworth ; Thursday, at
garbage Wood; Saturday, at Willesley—quarter to 11.
The Holderness Fox Hounds on Tuesday at Bainton New Inn ;
Thursday, at Eyringham ; Saturday, at Bradesburtcn Moor-11.
The Wynnstay hounds on Tuesday at Overton Cross—hf.-p.lO.
Mr
• F 0 jambe' s Hounds on Tuesday at Barnaby Moor; Wednes-
nay, at Kennel ; Friday, at Clayworth ; Saturday, at Osberton-10.
The Norfolk Hounds on Tuesday at Melton Constable ; Thurs-
day at Hempstead, near Holt ; Saturday, at Billingford Bridge—
half-past 10.
The Brighton Harriers on Mondays at Patcham ; 'Wednesdays,
at the Race Course • Fridays, at the Dyke.
The Brookside Harriers on Mondays at Newmarket Hill ; Fri-
days, at Telscombe Tye—half-past 10.
Ale. Candler's Hounds on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at Birlingbam ; Fri-
day, at Bransford Bridge ; Monday, at Croome Perry Wood ; Wed-
nesday, at Shrawley Wood; Friday, at Crowle—half-past 10.

OLDENBURG, OCT. 20.—(From the Hanoverian Ga-
zette.)—The little Lorship of Kniphausen has lately been
the theatre of some events that are not uninteresting. It
is well known, that after the death of the last reigning
Count, Bentinck Lord of Kniphausan, Count Gustavus
Adolphus Bentinck took possestion of the Lordship, while
the nearest collateral relation, Count William Frederic
Christian Bentinck, asserted to be the legal successor in
this Lordship, entered on the government by proclamation
on the 2'2d January this year, but could not proceed to the
actual exercise of his rights of sovereignty, in consequence
of the occupation of the country by Count Adolphus. On
the 2d of October this year, Count William Frederic
Christian ceded the government to his brother, Count
Charles Anthony Ferdinand Bentinck, and the latter af-
firming to be the lawful sovereign, repaired on the 16th
October this year to the Palace at Kniphausen, to an-
nounce to the authorities there, his accession to the go-
vernment. The first Civil Officer of the Chancery had al-
ready delivered up the keys to him on his demand, when
other officers and private persons interfered, and he had
then lost them in the throng. Finding opposition
(whether it should be called rebellious, or whether legal,
we do not pretend to decide), he left the palace. On the
18th October he repaired to a residence which he had in
Sengwarden, a place belonging to Kniphausen, where the
above mentioned Chief of the Chancery soon came, at the
head of an armed band, and caused the tocsin to be
sounded. The Count being summoned immediately to
leave the Lordship, he caused his legal adviser, Dr. Tubor,
of Frankfort, designated on this occasion as Cabinet Coun-
sellor, to proclaim in his presence and in his name, and in
the presence of the above mentioned Chief of the Chancery
and his attendants, as well as his servants, his accession to
the Government, declaring all opposition to it as rebellious
resistance to the lawful Sovereign. This declaration was
repeated in the open air to the assembled inhabitants, and
a proclamation, signed by the Count, issued ; at the same
time it was announced that all means that he could command
as Sovereign would be employed to enforce his rights ; after
which, the Count left the Lordship.
There are very different opinions of this affair. A memo-
rial is in the press, which is to discuss in a legal point of
view these proceedings."