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that she could not be so indicted according to the evidence
produced, but if it should appear to the ,:rand jury
that she was an accessory before the fact, they might
know what course they could pursue. Now, upon this
subject a most important statute had been passed—he
alluded to the 11th and 12 of Victoria—by which it was
enacted that an accessoty before the fact to any felony
ought to be tried and convicted, and punished in all
respects as if he was the principal felon. It would,
therefore, be for the grand jury to say whether there
was any contrivance to commit this murder, and whether
it appeared that the fema'e was a party in that
deed. Another important question that might arise was
the declaration of either party to the prejudice of the
other. On such a subject he could only say that the
husband and wife could not be witness for each other,
neither could they be witness against each other, and
the grand jury must not, therefore, take any such decla-
ration into their consideration. li' there was evidence
of having procured the committal of the felony, or the
committal of the felony by either or both parties, that
would be a sufficient ground for the grand jury finding a
true bill. If a party invited another to a given
spot in order that a murder might be committed, and
that murder was committed by other bands, that party
would be guilty of being an accessory before the fact,
and it would not be necessary to show that the party
was in sight while the deed was done; it would be suffi •
cient that the party was near enough to lead in any
manner to the committal of the offence, such as keeping
watch or so on. The grand jury would be greatly re-
lieved in their duties if they got the witnesses
in this case to detail the occurrences that
had taken place in the order of time.
It was not his purpose to enter into the facts disclosed
in the case; the crime of murder was generally com•
mitted in secret, and everything generally connected
with it dependent on circumstantial evidence. The
grand jury would carefully weigh all the circumstances
that were presented before them; it would be important
for them to inquire whether the deceased being on the
spot was devised or purely accidental. It would
be important also to consider what had been
done with his property;; how and by whom,
and under what circumstances the parties charged
left the place of their supposed crime, where they went
to, whether they both went together, or whether the
one went to one part, and the other to another; whether
they were going under their own or fictitious names,
and how they were ultimately discovered; it would in
short be for the grand jury to determine after the evi-
dence was brought before them whether the case did
not demand further and more full investigation. In
conclusion, he would say that the functions of a grand
jury had had seldom to be exercised in a more important
case; and, in the words of an eminent judge, he trusted
that they would conduct the inquiry with minds per-
fectly free from prejudice egainst the individuals charged;
that they would allow nothing they might have
heard or read against them, to mix itself up with and
colour their clear judgment; that, in short, they would
begin and close the inquiry with eyes and ears shut to
everything except the evidence before them. The
Learned Recorder then remitted the grad jury to the
discharge of their duties.
The Court then proceeded with the swearing in of the
petty jury.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY)
Ann B. ady, a determined vagrant, was brought be-
fore Mr. Bingham, charged with begging in the public
streets.
Jones, an cfficer belonging to the D division, stated
that he was on duty in Oxford-street on Saturday even-
ing, when he saw the prisoner go up to several persons
and importune them for money, stating that sho was in
a starving and destitute condition. Knowing her to be
a confirmed beggar, he took her into custody.
Horsford informed the magistrate that the prisoner
had been convicted no less than fifty times; in fact, nine
months out of the twelve she was in prison.
Mr. BINGHAM committed her for 10 days.
John Wilson, a well-known thief, was charged with
stealing from the shop of Mr. Wm. Needham, gunsmith,
26, Piccadilly, a gun-case and fittings, value 61.
Burnett, 20 E, deposed that about half-past six o'clock
on Saturday evening he saw the prisoner run out of com-
plainant's shop with the gun-case produced under his
arm. Suspecting the prisoner had stolen it, he went
into the shop, and, on making inquiry, found such to be
the fact.—The prisoner was fully committed for trial.

HEALTH OF HER MAJESTY THE
QUEEN DOWAGER.
STANMORE, MONDAY, 11 A.M.
Her Majesty, the Queen Dowager, we regret to
learn, continues in a very critical state, surrounded
by the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, and the Princes
Ed ward and Hermann, and the Princesses. The Earl
Howe, Sir David Davies, Sir Horace Seymour, and
Lady Clinton (Lady in Waiting), are among the
members of Queen Adelaide's household staying
at Bentley Priory.
The following bulletin was issued at ten o clock this
(Monday) morning, from which it will be perceived
there is no improvement in the distressing condition
of the illustrious invalid :
"Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has had a bad
night, and is not quite so well this morning."
The inquiries at her Majesty's temporary residence,
from the neighbouring nobility, clergy, and gentry
are exceedingly numerous, and much public anxiety
exists as regards that estimable lady's illness.

NEWMARKET RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
Plate of 501.

Defaulter
Wanota

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—As you have had the goodness to insert my
short letter, proposing the employment of clerks of
the Jewish persu%si m for the Suodavy duties in the
Post Office if it will be the means if liberating any
conscientious di:isenters from the faith given to
Christians, you will perhaps not be unwilling to add
some elucidations and corroborations on the subject.
Is it or is it not the creed of Christians in general,
and of the Church of England and most of the Dis-
senting sects in particular, that the Apostles are our
last and final authority for what is and is not the
Christian rule and law, so far as sincere though im-
perfect judgment can interpret their decisions?
Is it not, for instance, notorious and palpable; that
the great head and fountain of Christianity left many
points undetermined and untouched, which the
Apostles who succeeded him, undertook both to touch
and to determine ? For example, is it not plain that
Christ never forbade the observance of the Jewish
rites and ceremonies, circumcision included ; but on
the contrary submitted to them all himself ? And is
not the reason why we are not at this moment cir-
cumcised, and do not submit to the Jewish law in
matters of meats and drinks and other ob-ervance,
simply and nakedly because the Apostles, upon
authority they doubtless believed sufficient, undertook
afterwards to prohibit what their leader had not for-
bidden ?
Is it then, or is it not, a simple matter of record,
and to be settled by reference to documents in the
same manner as if the dispute were whether the read-
ing of "thou shalt" or "thou shalt not" commit
adultery was the right one—that the Apostle who is
sometimes called the Great Apostle, as having taken
the lead in settling all points relating to the part of
the church which was not of Jewish origin, has dis-
tinctly enumerated the keeping " the Sabbaths," or
as our version has it, " the Sabbath-days," along with
restrictions in " neat or in drink, or in respect of an
holiday, or of the new moon," as what the Christians
he addresses were not to allow man to enforce upon
them, and they refused to allow accordingly ?
But perhaps it was only a transfer. Perhaps the
Apostles have said, " What you are not to be judged
in on the last day of the week, allow yourselves to
be judged in on the next. Abstain from your
worldly callings on the first day of the week. Do no
manner of work, thou and thy son, and thy daughter;
and go no more than a Sabbath day's journey upon
it." If they did, where is it ? Every man knows in
bis heart that there is no such direction in any part
of the Apostolic writings; that though minute to the
utmost on almost every point of Christian doctrine
and deportment, they never attempted to instil this
modern great commandment ; that all which is to be
collected is, that they called the first day of the week
" the Lord's" or Christ's Day, in commemoration of
the Resurrection, and assembled and made charitable
collections on it ; and that all the rest is forgery.
I wait for a reply, from that dignitary of the
Church of England who has chosen to put himself
forward most prominently on the present occasion, to
tell us why and on what authority he undertakes to
abrogate the authority of St. Paul, and intimate that
Divine judgments will fall upon us unless we con-
sent to put the authority of James of London in its
place.

Does the Church, of which he professes to be a
member, acknowledge anything like his tenets P
Examine her Catechism and Articles, and see. The
Church of England in its Catechism gives the Ten
Commandments of Moses, and then proceeds to com-
ment upon and impress such of them as it conceived
to be binding on those under its instruction. No-
body can charge the composers of the Church Cate-
chism with being averse to impress anything which
tended to parochial discipline and rural order; and
their work was clearly executed under an enlightened
consciousness, that it would come to a great many
more apprentices than Princes of the blood. Yet the
Church of England in its Catechism as utterly ignores
the whole Fourth Commandment, as it does the pro-
hibition of the arts of statuary and design delivered in
the First. A man must be mad, who in his waking
moments would maintain that this is not a distinct
declaration that the Church of England denies the
obligation of Sabbatical observance. If it believed in
a transfer of the day, why did it never say
so ? Why did it so utterly omit and re-
fuse to utter, upon a point which a sec-
tion of its professing followers would persuade us
was at the root of all morality and civil discipline ?
In the Articles it is all the same. The only Article at
all bearing on the subject is the Seventh ; where it is
laid down that neither the Ceremonies and Rites nor
the Civil precepts of the Law given to Moses are
binding on Christian men, " yet notwithstanding no
Christian man whatsoever is free from the
obedience of the Commandments which are
called Moral." Which taken in conjunction with
the Church's refusal to impress the duty of
obedience to the Fourth Commandment in her
Catechism, is declaring as plainly as honest words
can do it, that she considers this Commandment as
making part of the " Ceremonies and Rights or Civil
precepts," and not of " the Commandments which are
called Moral." As I have not the Homilies before me,
I can only say that there is no Homily on Sabbath-
breaking in the list. Her Table of Feasts she heads
Inith " All the Sundays in the Year," which is
as decidedly hostile to the notion of ascetic restric-
tions on those days, as "All the Fridays in the Year,
except Christmas Day," in the Table of Feasts, is
indicative of something like the opposite.
And what said the early Protestant Reformers on
this point ? The men who drew up and signed
the Confession of Augsburg, the earliest declaration
of Protestanism in a public or political form, enume-
rates the attempt to enforce the observation of the
Sabbath on the first day of the week, among the
Anti-Christian corruptions they were prepared to resist
with their lives. If any doubt this, let him consult
the copy in the British Museum, printed at the period.
Luther, too, whose example would be brought
heavily to bear against us if it had been the other
way, made a point of purchasing some article or other
on the Sunday, to prove his Christian liberty, on the
same principle that the Spaniards and Portuguese to
this hour make a point of eating pork. Such at least
is the account given, but as I have not the means of
reference at the time of writing, I shall dwell on that
no further.

To descend from the Reformers and the Fathers of
the Church of England to our own times. It is noto-
rious that men of the highest character in the Church,
whose position placed them above the fear of mobbish
outcry, have given their undisguised adherence to the
Apostolic prohibition of Sabbatical observance, though
they readily admitted the uses which might be derived
from the examples of devotional and charitable exer-
cises on the first day of the week, bequeathed to us
by the early Christians. Paley, Arnold, 'Whately,
will occur to the recollection of your readers. While
on the other side will be found only a collection of
what it is no uncharity to call quibblers and time-
servers, who would have quibbled and time• served
just as well in support of the Pope's right to depose
kings, if it had been set before them.

should like to know what proportion of those
against whom the fulminations of the Anti. Christian
party in the Church of England have been directed—
Ministers of State and Members of Parliament in-
cluded—know or have any idea of these three facts :
" That the last and greatest Apostle of Christianity
prohibits the enforcement of Sabbatical observance.
"That the early Protestant Reformers included it
in their list of grievances.
" That the Church of England officially ignores
the existence of any such duty, and refuses so much as
to intimate to a parish-boy, that there is such a thing
as Sabbath-breaking in the list of juvenile temp-
cations."

And now for the motives which have operated to
produce the present storm against the Christian rule.
It is not etiquette to impute motives to individuals;
but no man with a touch of philosophy will give up
the right of saying that motives are in the world.
" First, then, the desire:of ecclesiastical domination,
and the never-to be neglected pleasure of enforcing
opinions on others.

" Secondly, the wish to embarrass a Ministry,
which has already earned the thanks of the honest
followers of Jesus of Nazareth, by refusing to recog-
nize those on whom the cholera fell, as sinners above
all the inhabitants of our Galilee.

" Thirdly, a desire to obstruct the system of im-
provement in the Post Office, and, if possible, to re
turn to the old ways of darkness, if that eye of the
public can be wholly or partially closed. And here I
happen to have knowledges which some have not;
but which many will be able and ready to confirm.
I happened to represent in Parliament a town of some
standing in a commercial view; and it came to light
that there had been great contests going on upon the
questions of cheap postage and acceleration of the
mails. The leading men were found saying, "Two
things we beg of the Government;—that our letters
may be dears and that they may be long in coming
to us." And how, on examination, did this aversion
solve itself ? The leading men, on the occurrence of
a sharp turn in the course of trade, the safe arrival of
a fleet which they might otherwise have been tempted
to insure, and other cases which may be conceived,
thought nothing of twenty pounds, which was the
cost of a chaise and four, with an
express from London, so long as it
gave them the advantage of the little men being kept
in ignorance. Another still more naked reason was
assigned for another quarter. Certain commercial
establishments had been in the habit of charging ten-
pence each for letters supposed to be written for their
numerous customers ; the substance of which they
finally communicated by perhaps making one letter
serve for all, and the difference of course went into
their pockets. Exactly the same feeling is at work
in London. To a leading house it is as nothing, to
have to pay for the transmission of an important
piece of news on the Sunday. The very fact of its
being withheld from the little men, pays for it over
and over at the year's end. There is no use in blus-
tering this is the reason why the great houses in

London, or so many of them, are found saying, " For
heaven and earth's sake let us have no information of
any kind upon the Sunday." And to this they have
the hardihood to add a request, that because they
cherish this source cf dishonest gain in London, the
honest trader in Liverpool may not be allowed to
stand on a better footing by not having his own Deal
or Dover letter stopped in its progress through the
metropolis. And so fatuous are the small men every
where, and so afraid of lifting up their voices for
Christ's Apostle against a sectarian Bishop, that they
submit in silence to his spoiling of their goods.
" Fourthly, which is perhaps the strongest of all,
there is the dread of what might come of the rational
employment of a First Day's leisure by the Working
Classes. And to this it is impossible to deny that the
Working Classes themselves have been partly accessory.
There can be no doubt that if the clergy in Spain or
Portugal were to set themselves to procure recla-
mations from the Working Classes for the maintenance
of a fish diet two days a week, or any other of the
restrictions which the majority of Protestants think
unchristian or needless, they would have no difficulty
in carrying their point to a certain extent.
It remains to be seen whether a Ministry to whom
these things can hardly be unknown, will damage the
cause of Christianity and general progress, by giving
way before the bubblyjock of a sacerdotal falsehood,
supported by so many other malevolent designs and
palpable after-blows. If they are to give way on
this question in the Post Office, they must make the
amende for their opposition on the cholera demand ; a
revenue from the Post Office, and a Fixed Duty on
Corn—things well known to go together in the House
of Commons—will be the next to which the adversary
will stretch his hand. It is impossible to deny to any
man the right to push his advantage, when his oppo-
nents have built a wall to run their own heads
against, as the Ministers will have done, if, after bring-
ing on this question by their own choice as to time,
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rebellion ever since the cheap postage was introduced
by Rowland Hill. A true-bred British clerk there,
cannot conceive, to this hour, how two sheets of
paper should be allowed to go for less than twenty-
pence. There is no saying to what pitch a meeting,
with so many supporters in broadcloth and lawn, may
go. The cry of "No Jews, no Wooden Shoesf' may
be raised again in St. Martin's-le-Grand. Perhaps,
if you could contrive to let the Ministers know that
there are Christians to back them, it might help to
make them keep up their courage to the quelling
point.
ONE WHO BELIEVES SABBATICAL OBSERV
ANCE PROHIBITED TO CHRISTIANS.

SPORTING NOTES.
No. XIV.
IH OF THE NEWMARKET
FIRST AND SECOND OCTOBER MEETINGS,
WILLI ANTICIPATIONS OF THE HOLTUIITON.

"Will you go see the order of the course?
Where the place?

Upon the heath."

SHA ESPERE.
" The heath, the heath—the upland heath,
With the pine ridge on the height;
And all beluw the purple wreath;
Gleaming in rich sunlight."
"'Tomas in October, when fine days are few,
And the far mountains wax a li!tle hoary,
And clap a white cape on their mantles blue;
And the sea dashes round the promontory,
And the loud breaker boils against the rock,
And sober suns must set at five o'clock."

BYRON,

" Well, come what will, I'll tempt my fortune once."
BEN JoNsow,

" He either fears his fate too much
Or his deserts are small,
Who dar( s not put it to the touch
To win or lose it all."

MONTROSE,

" 'Tis sweet to win, no matter how, one's laurels
By blood or ink, or judgment."
" I've got a deal of judgment,
Though heaven knows how it ever found a lodgment.'
BYRON.

" What should it be? that thus their faith can bind?
The power of Thought—the matic of tie Mind!"
The Corsair.

" Let Reason guide me with resistless ray,
And pour on misty doubt resistless day."
JOHNSON'S Vanity of Human 11' ishes.
" ' ris not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it."
ADDISoN's Cato, Act I. Scene 1.
" Oh ! heaven, oh ! Earth, bear witness to this sound,
And crown what I propose with kind event,
If I speak true; if hollowly, invert
What best is boded me, to mischief."
Tempest, Act 111. Scene 3.
" There's pen and ink for you, Sir, when you need—
Let everything be noted with precision.'

Don Juan, Canto I.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—The First October Meeting furnished a few
facts worth recording, to wit, the defeat of the once in-
vincible Tadmor, not able, I am afraid, to stand another
preparation, for
" Legs are not steel, and steel is bent,
Legs are not rock, and rock is rent ;"
the victory of Bolingbroke by John O'Gaunt out of
Spangle, over Penang, and Nutshell. for the Hopeful
Stakes ; the very clever win of the Knight• of Avenel
by the Doctor, out of Blue Bonnet, in the race for the
second Triennial Stakes, but mark ! not without the
strong inducements of whip and spur could the defeat
of the Epirus colt be accomplished, and then only by
half a length, the latter having but a neck the advantage
of William the Conqueror, who in turn only just beat
Hardinge. A few pounds would bring the lot together,
but neither among these, or those that contested the
Hopeful Stakes, can I discover the winner of the Derby;
and the bungling triumph of the Goodwood Derby nag
Ghillie Callum, who blundered before starting, and was
nearly down on his head at the finish of the race for the
Rutland Stakes, but however recovered himself, and won
easily by a length, beating Nutshell, Fernande, and the
Lover. The pretensions of the son of Gladiator and
Reel, to Derby honours, arc by no means despicable, for
notwithstanding his blundering performance in the race
for the Rutland Stakes,
"You takers of tobacco and strong waters,
Mark this!"

he is the flower of the Goodwood flock, and for speed, this
year's debutantes cannot produce his equal! whether he
can stay a distance or not has yet to be proved.
The running of the two years'-old in the Second
October Meeting, if anything, was more important than
that in the first ; the Clearweli Stakes brought out
Clincher, by Turcoman, out of Clinker's dam, another
candidate for Derby honours; he cut down his horses, in-
cluding Nutshell, in the first furlong, and won in a
canter by a length; but notwithstanding this rather good
performance, he did not find favour in the eyes of the
" knowing ones," who peppered him at 20 and 25 to 1 at
Newmarket, and in town was in such little force, that
as a specimen of many bets, I actually saw a florin taken
to lay 501. to 30s. against him, and offers to go on to an
indefinite amount at the same figure; he shall not run
the Derby course for my money.
The Bretby Stakes were remarkable only for the defeat
of Tingle by Lord Chesterfield's Satire, the former suc-
cumbing to the daughter of Don John and Lampoon by
a neck, beating however the Potentia filly and Kathleen.
For the Bedford Stakes 6 Co 5 was betted agst Sisy-
phus, Bst 101 b (3d), and 5 to 4 agst the filly by Nut-
with out of Agnes, Bst llb (2d); the majority of the sing
little dreaming that their field lay in a nutshell, went
cautiously to work, but a select few stood everything on
Lord Exeter's nag, who, carrying Bst 71b, won cleverly
by a length; this race, together with the other four that
Nutshell has run within three weeks, has made him
very stale; his chance for the Criterion must be " small,
demned small," and if he gets the third place in that
race, I think it will be as much as he can accomplish or
anybody expect. Mr. Henry's Pitsford, backed heavily
for the Derby, made a most inglorious debi2t in the Pren-
dergast Stakes, running ' absolutely third and last to
Bolingbroke (Gibs extra) and Nutshell (31bs extra); the
figure he eut in the race was too absurd to make me
believe it was his true running; the stable containing so
many cognoscenti in horse-flesh, could never make so
great a blunder—the Criterion will decide his fate and
pretensions. _ _

We have now arrived at the last post-house of the
racing season of 1849, the Houghton Meeting, which
commences this day under very favourable auspices, the
weather being fair, the attendance likely to be great,
and the number of quadrupeds arrived beyond all prece-
dent immense.

The only important stake to be run this day is the
Criterion, for which I presume The Nigger, Pitsford,
Nutshell, The Swindler, Hope, Sisyphus, Paul, Cali-
fornia, Windhound, and Tordesillrl will be found at the
post. William the Conqueror's appearance being very
dubious, I cannot see anything likely to interfere with
The Nigger's chance, perhaps with the exception of
Pitsford, who, if not first, will play second fiddle to The
Nigger only, Nutshell, The Swindler (a fine, large
horse), and Sisyphus heading the ruck.
To-morrow the game begins with a sweepstakes of
300 sous. each, &c., which the Duke of Bedford's
Sobraon ought to win; after which the comedy to some,
tragedy to others, of the Cambridgeshire Stakes, for
which there were 162 horses handicapped, 102 accepting,
and probably the tremendous field of forty will await
the starter's orders thirty hours hence, to be selected
from the following:—

yrs. st. lb.
Collingwood
Conyngham
*Diplomatist
Shylock
*Dulcet
*Glendower
The Moor
'Spithead
Fugleman

yrs. st. lb.
Ribaldry 4 6 10
*Joc-o'-Sot 5 6 10
Amazement
Ile Old Fox 3 6 8
Rathmines

St. Rosalie .... 3 6 7
Backbiter
Comet ...... 4 6 4
Vasacch
an alien B a
4 6 3
*'The Seraph
Glenalvon
*Kissaway 3 6 0
Crucible 3 5 12
*Quinine 3 5 12
Legerdemain
rc zodile

Prior of St. Mar-
garet's 6 7 10
*The Sheriff 4 7 10
Beauclerc

*Old Dan Tucker 3 7 7
•Dacia .... .... 4 7 7
Blucher

*Keleshea ..... 4 7 7

*ltadulphus

*.llalton

*Grasshopper 3 5 10
Over•fork Over
Qaby
* Lady Jersey ,... 3 5 8
Fitzpatrick 3 5 7
F by Harkaway 3 1 7
Rienzi 3 5 7
Cocktail

* rhringarth
*Miss Ann 3 7 2

Gleuca

a Telegraph 4 7 0
by
*Honecom
3 6 12
_ _ _

Woolwich

'Cockermouth ... 4 6 101

r*Minto • 4 5 0

*Whitstone 4 6 10
The Iron Duke

ICarthagenian 3 4 10
Minimum 3 4 10

Vanguard
Those marked with asterisks are the most uncertain
runners.

For this race

"I
Proclaim an open field, and there shall be,
I trow, no Lck of champions."
It would be too tedious to go through the merits of
every individual horse, therefore I'll take a batch against
the field, and endeavour to select the winner therefrom=
"Fortune! fair, but fickle goddess
Befriend me but a moment, but one little moment,
And I shall be the happiest of men."
Collingwood, Shylock, and The Prior of St. Margaret's,
shall represent the top-weights; Glauca, Vanguard,
Ribaldry, Amazement, and Rathmines, the middle
weights; and Legerdemain, Raby, and Rienzi, the light
weights.
Collingwood will run up, so will Shylock; Glauca has
Vanguard and Ribaldry safe; Amazement and Rath-
mines being let loose, cannot well help being in the front;
I am afraid we shall not be gratified by another trick of
legerdemain this year, but if Lord Stanley's filly looks
well at the post, I certainly would take her against any-
thing in the race.
Raby, I think, will be found too Flow for this course;
and Rienzi will not be first, although not the " last of
the Romans;" in conclusion, despite the favour shrown
to the R's, I must place tho first five in my opinion
thus;—

Giauca ... ... ... ... 1
Shylock ... ... ... 2
Collingwood ... ... ... ... 3
Rathmines ... ... ... ... 4
Raby ... ... ... ... ... 5
Amazement (my cock boat), Vanguard, Woolwich,
Ribaldry, The Prior of St. Margaret's, and Rienzi,
forming the first flight of the ruck. My opinion on the
remaining races I will give in the following tabular form:

50 sot's.
Match, 200. T.Y.C.

Pitsford.

Be, Hunter, Bst 71h, Ist ;
Clincher, Bst, 21
Match, 200. First half of Sergius, Est 71h, Ist; Sponge,
Ah. M. Bst 111 b, 21.

FRIDAY.

Match, 100. A.F.

Be',Tuir Stakes. D.I.

Ws.rehdog, Bst 71b,
iipus, gst, 2d.

SATURDAY.

Flying Dutchman, ht; Va..
ticau, 2d.
Surplice, Bst, Ist ; Culling.
wood, 9st 21b,

Match, 200. A.F.

My final observations this year, on the 2,000 Guineas,
Derby, &c., will appear with my comments on the Nur-
sery Stakes on Thursday next.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.
October 22, 1849.

SPORTIN G INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET HO LJG II TON MEETING.
NEWMARKET, SATURDAY A FTERNOON. —Although
there are fewer matches than usual in the list for the
ensuing meeting, the number of horses now congregated
in the town is so unprecedentedly great that nearly the
whole of the proposed handicaps, plates, and selling
stakes, are certain to fill, and, with the aid of the stand-
ing engagements, to make up a brilliant week's racing.
The asterisk prefixed to the Cambridgeshire warrants
the expectation of an immense field.
MONDAY.
Handicap Plate of 50/., for three years old and up-
wards, Cambridgeshire Course.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for two years old; colts,
Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 51b; the winner to be sold for 250
soya., if demanded, &c.; first half of Ab. M.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, for three years
old and upwards; D.M.
Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each; for three years old, 7st
Glb; four, Bst 41b; five, Bst 81h; six and aged, Bst 101 b;
the winner to be sold for 60 sovs. if demanded; D.M.
Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each; for three years old, 7st
71b; four, Bst 31b; five and upwards, Bst 81b; the winner
to be sold for 350 soya. if demanded, &c.; Criterion
Course.
The Criterion Stakes, of 30 SOTS. each, 20 ft, for 2 yrs
old; colts Bst 71b; fillies, Sat 51b; winners extra. From
the turn of the Lands in.—Col. Anson's c by Birdcatcher
dam by Dr. Syntax—*Mr. Barne's Daughter of the Sea
—*Mr. Bouverie's Hardingstone—*Mr. Bulkeley's
Hope—Lord Chesterfield's Garforth—Lord Chester-
field's f by Pantaloon, out of Industry—*Lord
Clifden's Sidus—*Lord Clifden's Narbonne—" Lord
Clifden's Le Beau—Mr. Douglas's St. Luke—*Lord
Exeter's Vieste—*Lord Exeter's Preslaw—•Lord Exe-
ter's Nutmeg—*Lord Exeter's Nutshell—*Mr. Ford's
Eunuch—Mr. Fuller's the Swindler—a Mr. Gordon's
William the Conqueror-411r. Gratwicke's The Nigger,
' Mr. Green's Cadger—Mr. B. Green's Witchcraft—Mr.
Greville's Brington—•4llr.llenry's Pitsford—*Col. Peel's I
Sea Serpent—*Col.Peel's Sisyphus—*Sir R. Pigot's Cali-
fornia—*Duke of Rutland's Paul—*Duke of Rutland's
Ondine—*Lord J. Scott's Windhound—*Sir S. Spry's
Bastilia—Lord Stanley's Flash—*Mr. Watt's Torde-
sillas—Dake of Bedford's Odin. paid—Duke ofßedford's
La Belle, paid—Mr. Greville's Ellen Middleton (dead),
paid—Mr.i Neville's Thackeray, paid—Mr. Neville's cby
Gladiator, out of Revival, paid.
Match, 100, h ft. T.Y.C.—"Lord Clifden's Sagacity,
Bst 101 b, agst *Duke of Bedford's Newport, Bst 41b.
Match, 200, h ft. Last mile and a half of T.M.M.—
*Lord Clifden's St. Antonio, Bst 71b, agst *Lord Strath-
more's (Edipus, 7st 131 b.
Match, 200, h ft. T.Y.C.—*Mr. Gregory's Damask,
Bst 71b, agst Lord Glasgow's f (dead), by Jerry, d by
Actmon, Bst 31b.
Match, 200, h ft. D.M.—Duke of Bedford's Rosalie,
Bst 71b, agst Mr. Pedley's Cockermouth, Bst 41b.
TUESDAY.

Handicap Plate of 1004 for three years old and up-
wards. D.I.
Fifty Pounds, for two yrs old, a feather; three, 7s t
5113; four, Bst 91b; five, 9st 31b; six and aged, 9st 71b.
The winner, with his engagements, to be sold for 300
gs, &c. Last three miles of B.C.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs., for three yrs old, 7st 101 b;
four, Bst 41b; five and upwards, Bst 81b. The winner to
be sold for 80 sovs., &c. Last half of Ab. M.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for two yrs olds, colts,
Bst 71b, fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold for 200,
&c. D.M.
Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, for two yrs old; colts,
Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold for 200,
&c. D.M.
Selling Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 soya, each, 10 ft,
for three yrs old and upwards. The winner to be sold
for 200 sovs, &e. D.M.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, for two
and three yrs old. T.Y.C.
The Cambridgeshire Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft,
and anly 5 if declared to Messrs. Weatherby, in London,
on or before the Tuesday in Doncaster race-week, with
100 added from the Town Race-fund ; the winner of
the Doncaster St. Leger to carry 121 b extra; the second
horse in the St. Leger, or the winner of the Doncaster
Cup, Great Yorkshire handicap, or Epsom Autumn
handicap, to carry 61b extra ; these extra weights not
to be accumulative, but the winner of the Cesarewitch to
carry 71b over and above any other extra weight to
which he may be liable ; Cambridgeshire Course ; the
owner of the second horse to receive 50 govs. out of the
stakes, and the winner to pay 30 sovs. to the judge.
Chanticleer, 6 yrs, 9st 71b-*Collingwood, 6 yrs, 9st
41b-Peep•'o-day Boy, 5 yrs, 9st-'Conyngham, 5 yrs,
9st-Surplice, 4 yrs, Sat 131b-tPlanet, 5 yrs, Bst 121b-
',Diplomatist, 5 yrs, Bst 81b-Horn of Chase, 5 yrs, Bst
71b-*Shylock, 4 yrs, Bst-**The Fiddler, 4 yrs, Bst-
*Dulcet, aged, Bst-'Glendower, 4 yrs, Bst-*Nunny-
kirk (including 61b extra), 3 yrs, 7st 131b-* The Moor,
4 yrs, 7st 121b-*;pithead, 6 yrs, 7st 111b-'Prior of
St. Margaret's, 6 yrs, 7st 1 11b-*Fugleman, 4 yrs, 7st
101b-'The Sheriff, 4 yrs, 7st 101b-*Beauclerc, 4 yrs,
7st 81b-*Old Dan Tucker, 3 yrs, 7st 71b-01:Mei°, 4 yrs,
7st 71b-New Forest Deer, aged, 7st 71b-*Blucher,
4 yrs, 7st 71b-*Chatterer, 3 yrs, 7st 71b-
elielesh ea, 5 yrs, 7st 71b-Saucy Dick, 3 yrs,
7st 71b-*Redulphus, 6 yrs, 7st 41b-'Melton, 4 yrs,
7st 21b-Volcano, 3 yrs, 7st 21b-*Thringarth, 3 yrs,
7st 21b-'Miss Ann, 3 yrs, 7st 21b-•Glauca, 3 yrs,
7st 11b-*Telegraph, 4 yrs, 7st-Gaffer Green, aged,
7st-*Sesostris, 4 yrs, 7st-olloneycomb, 3 yrs, Est 121 b
-*Woolwich, 3 yrs, Est 121b-*Coekermouth, 4 yrs,
6st 101b-*Whitstone. 4 yrs, 6st 101b-*Keraun, 4 yrs,
6st 101b-*The Iron Duke, 3 yrs, Est 101b-Chantrey, 3
yrs, Est 101b-*Vanguard, 3 yrs, 6st 101b-*Ribaldry,
4 yrs, 6st 101b-*Joc o' Sot, 5 yrs, 6st 131b-Sponge,
4 yrs, fist 81b-*Amazement, aged, 6st 81b-'The Old
Fox, 3 yrs, Est 81b-Lady Superior, 3 yrs, Est 71b-
Second Sight, 3 yrs, 6st 71b-'Rathmines, 5 yrs, 6st 71b
*St. Rosalia, 3 yrs, 6st 71b-*Backbiter, 4 yrs, Est 716
-Strychnine, 3 yrs Est 61b-*Comet, 4 yrs, 6st 41b-
Bingham, 5 yrs, Est 41b-* Vasa, 3 yrs, Est 41b-*Sid-
ney, 3 yrs, Est 41b-'lndus, 3 yrs, Est 41b-Bacchanalian,
4 yrs, Est 31b-Maid of Team Valley, 3 yrs, Est 31b-
'Thornhill, 3 yrs, Est 31b-'The Seraph, 3 yrs,
6st 21b-*Glenalvon, 3 yrs, 6st-c by Verulam,
out of The Bridle, 3 yrs, 6st-General Sale,
3 yrs, 6st-*Kissaway (including 61 b extra), 3
yrs,fist-*Rosslyn, 4 yrs, sst 121b-Present,
3 yrs, sst 121b-*Crucible, 3 yrs, sst 121b-
*Slashing Alice, 3 yrs, sst 121b-*Quinine, 3 yrs, sst 121 b
-Susan Lovell, 3 yrs, sst 121b-Wensleydale, 3 yrs, sst
121b-*Legerdemain, (including 71b extra), 3 yrs, sst
121b-*Grasshopper, 3 yrs,-sst 101b-*Trap, 4 yrs, sst
101b-*Crocodile (h b), aged, sst 101b-Alp, 3 yrs, sst
1016-Robert de Bruce, 3 yrs, sst 101b-*Sylvia, 3 yrs,
sst 101b-*Over-fork -over, 3 yrs, sst 101b-*Rhesus, 3
yrs, sst 101b-*Baby, 3 yrs, sst 101b-Lady Jersey, 3
yrs, sst 81b-Coronet, 3 yrs, sst 71b-*Fitzpatrick, 3
yrs, sst 71b-f by Harkaway, out of Coranna's dam, 3
yrs, sst 71b-*Rienzi, 3 yrs, sst 71b-*lone, 3 yrs, sstslb
-• Whitley, 3 yrs, sst 51b-*Cocktail, 3 yrs, sst-*Minto,
4 yrs, sst-°Carthaginian, 3 yrs, 4st 101b-*Minimum, 3
yrs, 4st 101b-*Conde, 3 yrs, 4st 101 - Borneo, 3 yrs,
7st 101 b, paid-Bon-mot, 3 yrs, 7st 41b, paid-Highland
Fling, 3 yrs, 6st 51b, paid-c by Don John, 4 yrs, 6st
11b, paid-Aldgate, 3 yrs, sst 121 b, paid-Sir Launcelot,
3 yrs, sst 10:b, paid-f by the Provost, 3 yrs, sst, paid.
Sweepstakes of 300 soya. each, h ft, one to the post.
A.F.-Lofd Exeter's brother to Weodpigeon (dead)-
'Lord Exeter's c by Voltaire, Marmora-*Lord Exeter's
c Macaw-Lord Exeter's c Turban-Lord Chesterfield's
Ferule-Lord Chesterfield's c by Don John, Meal-
Lord Chesterfield's Desdichada-Lord Chesterfield's
Chicot-*Duke of Bedford's Sobraon-Duke of Bed-
ford's Quasimodo-Duke of Bedford's Mahratta, paid-
Duke of Bedford's Narva, paid.
Post Match; colts, Bst 716; fillies, Bst 31b. R.M. 300
h ft.-'Duke of Bedford's Sobraon agst *Mr. Greville's
Clarissa-'Duke of Bedford's Quasimudo agst *Mr. Gre-
ville's Paquita-Duke of Bedford's Mahratta agst Mr.
Greville's Damson.

Match, 200, h ft. D.M.--Lord Stanley's Escalade,
Sst 71b, asst Lord Glasgow's Canada f, 76t 121 b.

WEDNESDAY.
Handicap Plate of 50t, for three years old and up-
wards. A.F.

Subscription Plate of 50/., for two years old, 6st 71b;
and three years, Bst 101 b. The winner to be sold for 350
sovs. if demanded. T.Y.C.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each; for three yrs old, 7st
71b; four, ist 21b; five and upwards, Bst 71b. The win-
ner to be sold for 150, if demanded, &c. T.Y.C.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 30 soya. each, 10 ft, if de-
clared. &c., for three yrs old. Last mile and a distance
of B.C.

Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for two yrs old; colts,
Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold for 70
sovs. First:half of Ab. M.
Selling Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft,
for three yrs old and upwards. The winner to bo sold
for 100 sovs., if demanded, &c. D.M.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each; for three yrs old, 7st
71b; four, Bst 41b; five and upwards, Bst 81b. The win-
ner to be sold for 40 sovs., if demanded, &c. T.Y.C.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs, each; for two yrs old, 6,t 91b;
three, Bst 71b; four, Bst 121 b; five and upwards. 9st 11b.
The winner to be sold for 250 sovs., if demanded, &c.
Last half of Ab. M.
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft; for two years old
colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 51b; not engaged in the July
Chesterfield, Rutland, Clearwell, or Prendergast Stakes.
A winner of 200 soy's. or upwards to carry 51b extra..
D.M.:—Duke of Bedford's Bordeaux—*Mr. Combe's
t; by the Nob, out of Sister to Canada—*Lord
Lennox's Beehunter—*Mr. Greatwicke's The Nigger—
Lord Orford's c, by Arundel, out of Memitna-4Lord
Exetet's Preslaw—*Lord Clifden's Sicyon.
Match-300 D.M.:—Mr, Payne's Glauca, Bst 71b,
against *Duke of Bedford's St. Rosana, Bst 41b.

THURSDAY.
Subscription Handicap Ylate of 501., for three years
old and upwards. D. I.
Sweepstakes of 10 sem each; for three years old, 7st
41b ; four, Bst 41b; five and upwards, Bst llb; mares
and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for
2501., &c. A. F.

Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each for two years old, 7st;
and threes, Bst 121 b; fillies allowed 21b. The winner to
be 1391c1 for 80 SOTS., eie. T. Y. C.