The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-13 00:00:00

ANTICIPATIONS FOR THE WEEK.

Ascot races begins on Tuesday and extends over the
following Friday. For the Cup the Sportsman thinks
Trocadero has the best chance, but only on the
supposition that Sunshine will not run. On
Tuesday, the Gold Vase, will be won by Muster.
The Queen's Stand Plate has a very speedy lot
amongst the entries, the best of which are Perfume and
the Starlight filly. In the Sixteenth Ascot Triennial
Stakes Midsummer has only to go to the post to win. In
his absence Duke of Beaufort or Vestminster might carry
off the prize. In the Prince of Wales's Stakes there
appears to be nothing but to go for Mr.
Merry's selected. The best horses for the Hunt Cup
are Prince Henry, Lady of Lyons, Uncas, and Taber-
nacle, and one of this lot should win.
The Field selects Strathnairn and Brother to King Alfred
for the Ascot Stakes ; the Starlight filly, and Tullibar-
dine for the Stand Plate ; Formosa for the Gold Vase ;
Sunshine for the Prince of Wales's Stake ; Perth or the
Caller Ou filly, for the Thirteenth Biennial ;
Uncas and Blacklock for the Hunt Cup : Mac-
gregor, or in his absence Asterope, for the Twelfth
Biennial; Kingcraft for the Ascot Derby; and for the
Cup, Blue Gown, though Falkland will be a troublesome
antagonist.
The Sporting Life makes the following selections :—For
the Prince of Wales's Stakes, Kingcraft or Sunhine ; for
the Queen's Vase, Formosa ' • the Twelfth Biennial Mac-
gregor or Asterope ; the Ascot Derby, Kingcraft or
Mr. Merry's Champion; for the Hunt Cup, Typhceus,
Prince Henry, Tabernacle Uncas, or Blue Gown should
win the cup, or in his absence Sidewhite, and Midsummer
and Trocadero are coupled for the Alexandra Plate.

Mr. Merry has written a letter to his jockey stating
that he has the utmost confidence in Daley's integrity,
and the sole reason he took him off Macgregor in the
Derby was his weight. In addition to losing the Derby,
Mr. Merry was eased of his watch at Epsom on the
Derby day.
Owing to the hard state of the ground at Ascot, Blue
Gown is not likely to run for the Gold Cup, but will be
sent to Lyons, where he is entered for the Grand Prix de
Lyons, on Sunday week.

YACHTING.
NEW THAMES YACHT CLUB.

The concluding schooner race of the week took place
on Friday, with the advantage of a nice whole sail breeze.
The Albert Edward steamer accompanied with a large
party of members of the club and friends, and was as
usual excellently found in provisions. The following
yachts contended :
Yachts. Tons.
Cambria

Owners.

Egeria
Flying Cloud ... 100
The Gloriana, belonging to Mr A. 0. Wilkinson, though
entered, did not sail. The vessels rounded the Mouse in
the following order :

H. H. B.
Egeria
Flying Cloud 2 40 53
Cambria
In coming out of the Hope it was thought that the
Flying Cloud was certainly beyond her time allowance,
but on working up Gravesend Reach with short boards,
her turning powers were shewn to the utmost advantage,
and she came up so repidly as to win the first prize, value
2100, by nearly 2i min., the time, on the yachts' arrival
being as under :

H. H. s.
Egeria 6 52 52
Cambria
Flying Cloud 7 3 25
The Egeria took the second prize of £5O.
The certificates of the prizes were duly presented by the
commodore in the usual form.

AUSTRIAN ELECTIONS.—A calm pervades the dis-
tricts which are under the control of the Government in
Austria, but the Cisleithan provinces are engaged in an
election struggle of the most excited kind. It is believed
that the provincial Diets will be convoked towards the
end of July, and that they will at once proceed to the
election of the deputies for the Reichsrath, and to vote
the questions in connection with the budget, after which
their session will close. The Reichsrath will be convoked
at the end of August or the beginning of September.
The annual convocation of the clergy of the Isle
of Man was held at the Bishop's Palace on Thursday. A
large number of clergy were present, as it was expected
that the bishop would in his charge make some allusion
to the action for libel brought against him by Mr.
Laughton, advocate, the result of which action was that
his lordship was mulcted in damages to the amount of
£4OO and costs. The bishop, however, in a very brief address
said that the .effects of a long and sesious illness com-
pelled him, under medical advice, to abstain for a season
from all business, and to avoid as much as possible atten-
tion to any subjects calculated to cause anxiety and dis-
tress of mind. If he had not been thus advised, his
lordship added, he was precluded by the continuation of
legal proceedings from all reference to questions which
might yet furnish fresh matter for judicial investigation.
Under these circumstance he craved the indulgence of the
clergy in not requiring of him the delivery of a charge
such as they had been accustomed to at their annual con-
. vocations.