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

THE HORSE SHOW.

The seventh annual metropolitan horse show at the Agri-
cultural Hall, Islington, opened on Saturday; all the animals
intended for exhibition being in their respective stalls by
the prescribed hour on Friday. The judges for the present
year's show were the Earls of Coventry and Portsmouth,
and Mr Henry Chaplin, M.P., for hunters and thoroughbred
stallions ; and Colonel Maude, C. 8., Deputy Master of the
Horse, and Mr James Baillie, of Allatun Grange, Leicester-
shire, for backs and trotting and pony stallions and other
breeds. The judges commenced their labours with the
hunters park horses and backs. The entries run up in
the catalogue to 390, but of this number more than
50 horses are entered twice, and some in three classes.
Tho stalls of the backs and cobs having been enlarged,
the hall now holds about 340 horses and t',e ponies,
and is quite full. The hunters amount to 129, of which
40 are weight-carriers and 24 four year-olds. They are
d Yided into four clasaes, and, in addition to the large value
of the prizes awarded, it is from these four classes that the
gold medal horse must be selected. To this may be attri-
buted the large amount of competition. In Class 5, for
riding horses, exceeding 154 hands, there are 17 entries, in-
cluding among the specimens some said to be remarkable
for action and quality. There are 90 of other descriptions
of hacks, ladies' horses, and high-stepping cobs for saddle.
The harness classes aro unusually strong, and in the class
of phaeton horses for single harness there are 17 entries; of
horses and ponies not over 144 hands, 15 entries ; and of
ponies not over 14 hands, about 40. Out of these single
harness classes have been formed 12 pairs and two tandems.
There are 12 thoroughbred and 24 miscellaneous stallions,
including two greys, one black, and one bay Arab. One
of these belongs to the celebrated stud of Prince Alexis
Orloff, and another, Abd-el-Kader, bred by the Emperor
of Morocco. The Duke of Wellington exhibits in the
class for park cobs a very curious looking skewbald, upon
which his grace sets a value of 150 guineas, while the
Earl of Shannon, in the same class, shows a cob called
Silvertail, which he values at 200 guineas. Baron
Rothschild and Mr. Bleukiron exhibit some thoroughbred
stallions ; and Mr. J. B. Angell, well known as the promo-
ter and driver of the Brighton Coach, sends Alcibiades,
on e a winner of the Liverpool Steeplechas ; the Earl of
Roselyn, Loid Cardross, Major Quentin, Colonel Burnaby,
Mr. H. W. Peek, M.P., Mr. C. Hambro, M.P., Sir Joseph
Bailey, Mr. Harvey Farquhar, &c., are among the comps
titors, and Captain Anstruther Thomson sends several

horses, among them lois, the hunter on which he is so
admirably depicted by Sir Francis Grant in the Royal
Academy. Sir Watkin Wynne contributes one of his
weight-carriers, but it is considered possible that it
is perhaps in harness high steppers that the present
is looked upon as likely to excel all previous shows.
To-day the judging will be resumed with the harness
horses and at the conclusion there will be a parade of all
the prize horses, and some jumping, including the new
water leap of some 15 or 16 feet. On the foil wing days
the usual programme will be followed, but the improve-
ments in reference to the hurdle jumping and water leap
are s great that it is expected more than ordinary in-
terest will be attached to that part of the programme.

The following prizes have been awarded :
Class 1. Hunters'-weight carriers.
First Prize, £Bo—Sir Watkin W. Wynn, Bart., M.P.,
Wynnatay Park, Ruabon ; "Expectation," chestnut, aged.
Second Prize, £4o—John 'Anstruther Thomson, Esq.,
Charleton, Colinsburgh. Fife, "Iris," bay, 10 years old.
Third Prize, £2o—Mr. Henry Sander:, Brompton Hill,
Northampton, " Ironmaster," grey, 6 years old.
Class 2. Hunters' without condition as to weight.
First Prize, £5O —Henry Spencer Lucy, Eq., ell:tricot
Park, Warwick, " Heroine," bay, 7 years.
Second Prize, £2s—Henry Spencer Lucy, Esq., ChArl-
cote Park, "Golden Hue," chesnut, 8 years.
Third Prize £ls—Samuel James Weida, Esq., " Loiterer,"

bay, 8 years.
Class 3. Hunters without condition as to weight and
not exceeding 15-2 hands high.
First Prize, £4o—Major Quentin Woodleigh, Chelten
ham, "Coxcombe," bay gelding, 7 years.
Second Prize, £2o.—Mr. Francis Barker,
Wing," black, 7 years.
"Tiny Tom," the property of Robert Brown, Esq., was
highly r(-commended.

" Bird on the

Class 4. Hunters, 4 years.
First Prize, 50—Mr. Thomas Sutton, Middleton One
Row, Darlington, " Comerade," dark chestnut.
Second Prize, £2s—John B. Booth, Esq., " Borderer,"
chestnut.

Class 5. Riding Horses of fine action and quality.
First Prize, .00—Captain George Crookes, 6, Princes-
gate, London, " Sobraon," grey, 8 yrs.
Second Priz., £lO The Earl of Rosalyn, Elston Lodge,
Dunmow, Essex, "Angela," black.
Third Prize, £ 10—Mr. William Morley, " Conn tt ss," bay
aged.

Class 6. Cover Hacks and Roadsters.

" Daisy," 7 yrs,

First Prize, £ls—Henry Frisby, Esq.,
grey •
Second Prize, 2,lo—Mr. John Savory, jun., Sparham
Norwich, " Old Tom," 6 yrs.
Third prize. 25, M. Francis Parker, " Bird on the Wing,'
seven years.

•
Class 7, Park Hacks and Ladies Horses.
First prize, Mr. 0. Coxcombe, 7 years.
Second prize, £lO, Mr. Robert G. Peart, Master Stig
gins, black, 4 years.
Third prize, £s—Mr. Thoma Cook, " Beauty," 5 years.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

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FRANCE

PARIS, Jurie 4.

The Left Centre has held a meeting, at which it was
decided to support the Ministry from the attacks of the
Right. M. Buffet spoke in favour of so doing.
Fifty persons accused of taking part in the conspiracy
have been sent for trial before the High Court of the
Chamber of Indictments.

M. Bethmont's motion on public meetings during the elec-
toral period of the Conseils Generaux was discussed in the
Chamber of Deputies. M. 011ivier said the law of 1868 did
not permit the Government to grant permission for such
meetings though he was not unwilling to do so. He com-
plained of the distrust exhibited towards the Cabinet,
which had not changed its principles, but would accomplish
its whole programme if the Chamber supported it. The
vote of yesterday had shaken the confidence of the Cabinet
in that support and they must know how they stand. He
was glad M. Bethmont had furnished an opportunity of
doing so.
Baron Jerome David accused M. 011ivier of endea-
vouring to intimidate them, and said that a
forced vote of confidence would be worthless. M. 011ivier
said he hoped Baron David would not vote against the
Ministry, but M. Bethmont withdrew his amendment.
Some other deputies took up the amendment to test the
opinion of the majority on the question of confidence. The
order of the day was voted by 188 votes, unanimously
setting aside M. Bethmont's motion. A bill for the aboli-
tion of the newspaper stamp duty was presented by
Government.

THE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL.
ROME, June 4.

At the sitting of the Council on the third of June it
was proposed that the general discussion of the Schema on
the Infallibility should be closed. This was vigorously
contested by the minority, but after a scene of great con-
fusion the proposal was carried. The discussion of the
paragraphs of the Schema will take place on the sixth of
June. .

Rusten Bey has not effected his object with regard to
the Armenian separatists. He has left Rome.
The Citilta Cattolica is very indignant with the pamphlet,
Le qui se passe au Concite, and thinks the moderate
Catholics aro the greatest enemies of the Church.
AUGSBURG, June 4.

According to a statement ,of the Augsburger Allgemeine
Zeitung, Bishop Maret was interrupted at the Council by
the Pontifical legates, and forty Fathers, who had put their
names down, were not allowed to speak.
PARIS, June 4.

The Univers has published a telegram from Rome, de-
claring that a large majority of the Council decreed the
close of the discussion on the Schema on Infallibility.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 6, 1870.

Works hale resigned. Count Adlerkrewz has been ap-
pointed Minister of Justice, and Herr Bergstroem, Assis-
tant Judge to the High Court of Justice, has been ap-
pointed Minister of the Interior. Herr Wernersberg is
to be Minister of Public Worship. There is no difficulty
with the Reichstag.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
ISLE OF WIGHT ELECTION.

On Saturday night the working men's committee met
Mr. Moffatt at the Town-hall, Ryde. Mr. Barrow, J.P.,
occupied the chair, and a conversation took place on the
various political topics of the day. Among other things the
propriety of giving votes to single ladies and widows was
discussed. Mr. Moffatt declined to pledge himself on the
subject, as it was at present in a very unsettled state. If
widows and single ladies, he said, had votes on account of
their possessing property, why should not married ladies
who had property independently of their husbands possess
the franchise; and if they had it, why should other married
ladies be deprived of it ?

NEW THAMES YACHT CLUB.
CHANNEL MATCH TO HARWICH.

On Saturday the second Channel match of this club
took place from the Lower Hope to Harwich, and was
distinguishable by the paucity of wind, the magnificent
sailing of the Egeria and Fiona, and manifest falling off
in the qualities of the Cambria, which two years ago was
reckoned the finest yacht afloat, but which appears to
have sadly deteriorated this season, from what cause—
whether padding in the bows, shifting of ballast, or
lengthening of spars—we are at a loss to imagine. The
Gloriana made an inglorious exhibition, and the commo-
dore's (Mr. J. D. Lee) yacht, the Nettle, was completely
out of the hunt after the Mouse Light-ship. The race

occupied 17 hours.
The morning was beautifully fine, and all the vessels
entered were at their stations just below the Ovens Buoy

and Walhouse Point, as under :
Yacht Rig. Tons. Owner.
1. Queen Cutter
2. Fiona
3. Gloriana Schooner 133 ...... A. O. Wilkinson
4. Cambria
5. Egeria
6. Anita
7. Nettle
It was a subscription match—first prize, £6o—to the rig
first arriving, although she might not have her time of the
sacond of hsr class ; aeoond prize, £4O. Course, Lower J
Hope to Harwich, leaving the Mouse and 'Middle Light
of the Swin Channel on the starboard hand, the buoy of
the West Rocks, buoy of the Rough, and Corklight
vessel on the starboard hand into Harwich, leaving the
winning boat out starboard hand, but should wind and
tide not enable the vessels to reach the harbour a steamer
outside left in the starboard hand should be considered the
goal. Vessels to be in ordinary cruising trim, carrying
boats, anchors, cables, &c. A pilot, but no extra hands
allowed ; to start from and weigh their own anchors, and
all lower canvass set.
It was understood that the vessels should cant to the
northward, but as there was a calm and they lay close
together, they cast as they pleased, and at a little after
seven the signal was given,the wind which then was coining
principlly from N.W. by W.; all but the Anita were very
smart, and piled upballoon canvass, Cambria setting main
topmast stay sail and Anita square sail. The latter soon
had the square sail in, and substituted, like the others,
jib topsail. The sails hung lazily from the mast of the
larger vessels; while the Queen, from her light draft and
easily-filled canvass, got off with a powerful lead, fol-
lowed by the Fiona, and off Mucking Light the Queen
led, Fiona second, Cambria third, Egeria fourth. Be-
tween this point and Thames Haven, as they drifted down
on the ebb, the Egeria forereached the Cambria
to leeward, and with the leaders held the reach
to starboard, Cambria going about on starboard
tack, • heading for the Chapman. Wind died out
again at eight o'clock, and off the Light the Queen
was about on the same tack, the Fiona on weather bow
of the Gloriana, which had slipped through the lee of the
sternmost, and occupied the third position. Cambria was
off Leigh Middle at 10.52, Anita, five minutes later, and
for five consecutive boards, neither the Gloriana, Egeria,
nor Cambria made any headway, so that the kedge of the
latter was ready to lay her under Southend pier,
and the hot sun, which was now quite oppressive,
eating up all the wind, left a bad prospect before the
fleet ; the ebb had run out, and the young flood presented
fresh difficulties, which, to the credit of the crews be it

said, were overcome, for as a few stray puffs came from
N.W. they stood for the Nore, and at length cleared the
pier at Southend and the Worcester moored abreast.
Now the sun had gone in, and there was a prospect of
wind. Slight rain falling, and a gentle three or four knot
breeze springing up, they passed the Nore, the
Gloriana having a man out on the jib to keep
the sheet down; the wind died out also, and then shifted
suddenly to east with alittle south,andFiona weathered the
little Queen, who now became second, the Egeria getting
on the weather of the Gloriania, and breasting the Nore
ahead of her : they passed the mouth of the Medway thus :
Fiona, Queen, Egeria, Gloriana, and Cambria, the Anita
next, and Nettle, who had been keeping company with
the new schooner Gwendoline (Major Ewing) hopelessly
out of the race about Leigh Middle buoy. After several

long tacks to starboard to cheat the tide and start to
port the Cambria weathered the Gloriana, and stood
after the Egeria to Whitstable, heaving the lead under
the lower part of the Nore Sand; Fiona was about
before the others, and made for the Mouse on the
starboard tack, which she left as directed at 4.23,
Egeria 4.30, Cambria 4h. 41m. 305., Gloriana and
Queen together at 4.50, under the lee of the Cambria.
The Egeria was now about three-quarters of a mile
astern of the Fiona, and the Cambria a mile astern of the
Egeria. The race after this was left virtually to the
three leaders, and although the wind was reaching the
Fiona could not get further away than a couple of miles
from the Egeria. The Queen was soon left last, and we
understand worked the Wattle and Spitway into the:
harbour. All were now close hauled for the Shears, and
the Fiona was three miles ahead under the lee bow of the
Cambria, and the Egeria equidistant. Time—Fiona .
' 4.15, Egeria 4.38, Cambria at 5 o'clock ; and the Mid
Swin thus—Fiona 5.10, Egeria sh. 23m. 305., Cambria'
sh. 32m. 305., Gloriana at 6. The Egeria had thus
, gained on the Fiona ,in the Reach from the Shears, and
the Cambria on the Egeria ; but as the wind died out
again up Channel the two leaders again got away, and
the Fiona was hull down in the haze at a quarter to nine
o'clock. From this point to the Rough the strong tide
was very difficult to contend against ; but, after a suc-
cession of puffs and cats'-paws, the Fiona and Egeria
arrived under the Rough Buoy close together, and com-
menced to run to the Corks. Here they did get a breeze,
but at ten o'clock the race was shortened by the steamer,
which brought up, and the finish was timed thus :
H. M. s.
Fiona lO 0 0
Egeria
The Cambria, unable to find the Rough, born up and let
go her anchor, fetching it three times before five on Sun-
day morning, when she again dropped it, and at six
o'clock a sail breeze took her into the harbour. The
Queen arrived shortly after, as also the Anita, and the
Gloriana,got in at dead of night. The Fiona thus won
the £6O prize, having won a race the similar course last
Saturday, and the Egeria the second.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

ST. ALBANS MEETING.
ST. ALBANS, Sunday Night.

A RRIVED —Acorn, Adjutant, Aeronaut, Aintree, Atalanta,
Ajax, Aldershot, Billy Pedder, Cantharides, Goprolite, Ring,
Defender, Diadem, Disturbance, Figleaf, First Fiddle, War
Queen, Goldhanger, Honesty, King Theodore, Indigestion,
Lady Xliddletou, Lord of the Manor, My Uncle, Limerick,
Rho, Roquefort, Sapling, Townsend, Una, and Wamba.
Expected—Flying Scud, Aversion, Robert Laundrio, and
Several others.