The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-27 00:00:00

THE SUN,

I weather, we may reasonably expect to have one of the t
mist brilliant meetings on record. The ball opens with
the Craven .takes, to name the day before running,
which is generally won by the Goodwood stable; and
they seem inclined to repeat the doss this year, which
they have so often been successful in before.
The Li vent Stakes, of 50 sovs. 30 ft, has 25 subs, and
the following may be expected to show ; viz.:—Black-
cock, or Jollity, Van Tromp, Galata filly, Joyful filly,
out of Cobweb, Conyngham, Halo, or Vampere, and
perhaps Hornet and Golightly ; of these I shall expect
to a e the Duke of Richmond's starter (most probably
Halo), and the Derby crack (Van Tromp), pass the post
first, and should not be at all surprised to see the former
beat the latter.
The Ham Stakes, of 100 sovs. each, h ft, has 40 subs,
and about eleven will start, viz. :—Crozier, or Gabble,
Epirote, Corona, Amima filly, or Mecca colt, Chain
Bearer, Apricot, Tantivy, Little Nell, The Positive
Young Man, The King of Naples, and Red Hart. The
Goodwood Stable is in considerable force, both for this
and the Levant Stakes, and I shall anticipate its success
on this occasion, by naming Red Heart or Crozier for
winner.
About ten may be expected to go for the Gratwicke
Stakes. viz. :—Binnacle, Mowerina, Joinville, A,Draco,
Lady Cecilia, Eclat, filly out of Antler's dam ; Vanish,
Cuckoo, and one of Mr. Wreford's, probably Wilderness.
I select the latter and Joinville to pull me through,
which I have no doubt they will.
The Drawing Room Stakes will have but a very small
field. Paragone, St. Demetri, King Charles, Humdrum,
and Sting being the most likely starters. The two first
go for a dead certainty ; the other three are on the
doubtful list. Should Sting go, which I hardly think he
will, he ought to win ; otherwise Paragone will be first,
and St. Demetri second.
The 300 sovs. Stakes for four year olds, look well for
one or Day's lot—Wea.therbit or Worthless—whichever
you please ; the former tot; my money.
The Goodwood Club Stakes will be decided by the
merits of the jockeys, not of the nags, this stake being
fur members of the Goodwood Club. I fancy Naworth,
Coal Black Rose, and Petit Mcrceau, with their riders,
will manage it between them.
The Welter Stakes. Red Deer or Old England will, or
ought to win, but it is in this stake as in the last, gentle-
man jocks up, consequently it is not safe to speculate on
these events until you know the mounts. The first day's
sport concludes with the Innkeeper's Plate ; ttemorrow,
Monday.
The bill of fare for Wednesday commences with the
" crack race" of the meeting— the Good wood Stakes, of
25 sovs. each, 15 ft., which has sixty acceptances, and
twenty-five, or thereabouts, will be brought forth, to
show their qualities—such as they are—for a more
Wretched lot of trash, with a very few exceptions, cannot
'be found. As this is the case, so much greater is the diffi-
culty of selecting the winner, that I very much doubt
whether there is in existence a " prophet" so au fait at
his work as to be able to name the much-envied (though
now most probably obscure) nag.
At their weights, the best in are—Giantess, bat 71b. ;
Marquis of Conyngham, 6st. ; St. Demetri, 6st. ;. Pleni•
tude, sst. 131 h ; Jenny Wren, sst. 121 b. ; Brother to Sir
Henry, sst. 121 b. ; and Petitioner, sst. 81b. clad the
filly b; Tomboy, out of Lapwing, not started for the
Cup and St. Leger at Newton, she would have won the
Goodwood Stakes in a canter. Her blood and condition
are undeniably first-rate, and, like her sire, she is game
to the back bone. She may yet, at her favourable weight
(sst 7ib), do something prodigious in the forthcoming
meeting. In the batch above named, lam inclined to
think I have included the winner, and I consider the filly
by Tomboy out of Lapwing, Plenitude, Jenny Wren,
and St. Demetri, to be as good as any. At any rate I
will take them " for better for worse," as my choice for
this fashionable betting race.
By the bye, as this is considered such a fashionable
race, I think they might as well enter something above
the grade of plates for it.
The following is as correct a list of the starters as
can at present be obtained .—*Alamode, Newcourt,
Satyr, Orion, *Colleen Bawn, *Marquis of Conyngham,
Footstool, The Druid, Lapwing filly, Red Robin,
Jonathan Wild, Maynooth, *Polish, The Conjuror, Con-
naught Ranger, Teetotaller, St. Demetri, Jenny Wren,
*Jack Cade, The Hero, Morella filly, Sister to Pergula-
ria, Glossy, *The Pacha, Mongrel, Giantess, Humdrum,
Plenitude, Brother to Sir Henry, *Petitioner, Bold
Archer, and Camera Obscure. Those marked with an
asterisk are very doubtful.
The Orange Prize given by the King of the Nether-
lands, added to a Sweepstakes of ten sovs. each, has
torty-seven subscribers, and from eight to ten may be
expected to show, including Wolfdog, Refraction.
Jericho, Alarm, Burgundy, and perhaps Grimston.
Should the latter make his Goodwood debut for this
stake instead of the cup, I should not hesitate in de-
claring him the winner, hut as he is not likely to go for
this prize, Alarm and Jericho will do his work for him.
Of the two I consider Jericho the best, and should
Alarm win, Mr. Greville may thank Nat, not his horse.
Between the two the race will lay, and a close affair it
will most assuredly be.
The Steward's Cup, Queen's Plate, Stand Plate,
County Member's Plate, Cowdray Stakes, and Selling
Stakes, clo-e and name on Monday evening.
The match between Lord G. Bentinck's Growl and
Mr. Herbert's So-Nice will be won easily by the former.
On Thursday the Goodwood Cup, with a field of a
dozen or thereabouts, will furnish about the best piece
of racing in the meeting. For this stake Grimston and
Mendicant will run, and to them I leave the race ; Bur-
gundy, if starting, being close up.
The 200 Sovs. Stakes to one of Kent's lot.
The 100 Sovs. Stakes to Binnacle or Wilderness.
The 200 Sovs. Stakes to the Maid of Saragossa or
Wild Doe.
The Racing Stakes_ will have a very small field, with
lago for winner.
For the Molecombe Stakes a good geld, perhaps a
dozen, will put in an appearance. Among others Van
Tromp, Vampire (Halo not starting), Galata filly, and
either Slander or Glentilt, four out of the five goodly
animals, as their late racing has proved ; consequently,
this will be the most interesting two-year-old race at
Goodwood this year. It is not the easiest task imagin
able to pick out the winner, but I presume that either
Lord G. Bentinck or the Earl of Eglinton will pocket
the stakes, their nominations being decidedly the beet.
The 50 Sovs. Stakes for three-year-olds to Blackbird.
The Sussex Stakes to the Goodwood lot.
The Anglesea Stakes to Muscatel or St. George.
The Duke of Richmond's Plate, to name the day be-
fore running.
On Friday, the Nassau Stakes to the Princess Alice.
The Chesterfield Stakes to Ides, Tour de Force, or
Auricula.
The Maidstone, Bentiack, and March Stakes, close
his truly plethoric meeting.
I am, Sir, &c.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.
Saturday.

LATEST BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S.
GOODWOOD STAKIS.
11 to 2 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Camera Obscura
9 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's Jonathan Wild—taken
9 to 1 agst Mr. J. Day's The Hero—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin 's Connaught Ranger—taken
12 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Red Robin—taken
15 to 1 agst Mr. Legh's Maid of Lyme (Lapwing filly)— t
25 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Alamode
25 to 1 agst Mr. S. Herbert's Petitioner—taken
30 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Sister to Pergularia—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnston's Brother to Sir Henry.

1,000 to 30 agst Lord Chesterfield's Free Lance—taken.
5,000 to 1,000 was taken on Friday evening about Grim-
ston for the Orange Prize.

INTOLERABLE BIGOTRY.—The following form of a
petition, about to be presented to the House of Commons, is
a lamentable instance of the folly into which fanaticism
sometimes drives its votaries :—" We, the undersigned, being
clergymen of the Church of England, humbly petition
your Honourable House, and beg to state, that in the National
Gallery there are three pictures, representing the First
I'erson of the Holy Trinity under the image of an old man ;
mid that two of these representations are so grotesque and
uncouth that they cannot but shock the feelings of any reli-
gious per-on. That your petitioners consider such repre
sensations blasphemous, and an insult to their holy religion.
They are the very representations of the Deity which have
been adopted by the most benighted and demoralized hea-
thens. Your petitioners do not deny that the pictures in
question may have great merit as paintings, but this forms
no excuse for the great moral evil which arises from such ex-
hibitions. Your petitioners believe that there has been no
previous instance of such pictures being publicly exhibited
in this country; and they look upon this circumstance as
an indication of the sentiments of the nation at large on
this matter; since it must have been from deference to
them, and not from mere accident, that a class of pictures,
so numerous abroad, have been so long excluded front
England. Your petitioners, feeling assured that your
Honourable House is desirous of checking the growth as
well of superstition, on the one hand, as of infidelity, on
the other, look with great confidence for a favourable
a.iswer to their prayer. They hope and trust that your
Honourable House will interpose your authority and sup-
press that which publicly dishonours God and violates the
religious feelings of the whole country. Although your
petitioners have based their prayer on the ground of the
insult offered to the Christian faith by grotesque representa-
tions of its holiest mystery, they would not have it for-
gotten that the grievance they complain of is a direct breach
of the second commandment."
Russie.—THE BETROTHAL OF THE GRAND DUCHESS
OLGA.—(From an eye-witness.)—The betrothal of the
Grand Duchess Olga of Russia with the Prince of Wurtein-
berg, took place on the 7th instant, in the royal chapel of the
palace of Peterhoff, which is situated about four miles from
St. Petersburgh, and commands a view of the gulf and plains
of Finland. At half past twelve the corps diplomatique, the
synod, consisting of the high dignitaries of the church, the
ministers, and all the high functionaries, entered the chapel.
General Field-Marshal Prince of Warsaw, Count Paskewitch
d'Erivan, were also present. The Imperial Family entered
shoftly after, surrounded by the Court, and preceded by the
Grand Master of the Ceremonies the Gentlemen of the Chain-
ber, &c., &c., all bearine. the insignia of t heir respective offices.
The Emperor, followed by an Aide-de-Camp, led the Empress.
The Prince of Wurtemberg followed the Grand Duke Czare-
witch and the Grand Duchess Czsrewna. The Grand Duchess
Olga did not enter till the other members were seated; she
was followed by Prince Peter of Oldenburg, the Princess, his
consort, and Prince Oscar of Sweden. The Prince Royal of
Prussia had not yet arrived. The ladies of the Court in full
Court dress, and officers of every grade and distirction, the
whole forming a most magnificent coup d'ceil. The wedding
rings were blessed by the officiating prelate, and interchanged
by the Empress. A rocket sent up announced this first step
to the fleet and the army ; a salute of fifty-one guns was
fired, which was repeated by the Russian fleet of the Baltic
stationed and gaily decorated, between Cronstadt and Peter-
hoff, and by the artillery of the camp of 60,000 men sta•
boned in the neighbourhood. After reading a portion of
the scriptures, prayers were offered up for the Prince of
Wurtemberg, the promised husband of her Imperial High-
ness, the Grand Duchess Olga. Prayers for the Imperial
Family are one of the main features of the Russian liturgy,
and are constantly repeated. On the conclusion of the
ceremony a salute of 31 guns was fired, and the usual con-
gratulations took place. ATe Deem was chanted. In the
evening there was a grand ball and illuminations at Peter'noff
and St. Petersburgh. The marriage ceremony was to take
place in the ensuing week.