The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-05 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES.

The Australian papers devote several columns to the
report of Randwick Spring Meeting in September last.
The Derby was won by Mr. J. Tait's Florence, by
Boiardo, out of Rose of Denmark, beating nine others.
Florence was a great favourite, 2 to 1 being laid on her at
starting. The Australian Derby was established in 1865,
and has now been won three times by Mr. Tait. On the
following day, Florence, with 10 to 1 laid on her, was
beaten by Lady Clifden in the Spring Metropolitan Maiden
Plate, "amidst," says the Sydney journal, "the screams
and yells of the excited spectators." Lady Clifden had
started second favourite for the Australian Derby, and
only managed to get fourth. H.R.H. Prince Arthur has
intimated his intention to hunt regularly with Mr. Coffin's
hounds so long as he is stationed at Woolwich. The
Prince will, as a matter of course, become a subscriber.—
The flat racing season is presumed to have terminated at
Warwick, but it will be apparently reopened at Kings-
bury on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday next. There
are no fewer than forty subscribers to the Kingsbury
Grand Hurdle Race, which will probably fall to Ample-
forth.--,Sporting Life.
The Telegraph relates a touching incident as having
occurred at Croydon races. Fifteen horses contested the
Handicap Hurdle Race, for which Grand Falconer was in
great request, 7to 4 being booked about him. "It will
be seen," says the account, " that the race resulted in a
perfect turn up, as Charon, who started at 100 to 6, won
in a walk from another rank outsider, Dog Fox and
Capitaliste. The winner belongs to a gentle -
man named Bennett, who is at the present
moment one of . the suffering residents shut
up in Paris, and some sympathy was aroused when his
wife, a French lady, was seen in the paddock attending
upon the horse, and rubbing him down with a pocket
handkerchief." If Mr. Bennett, who probably was at the
moment engaged in eating omnibus-horse cutlets, could
nave known that his own horse Charon was winning the
Handicap Hurdle Race at Croydon, what a consolation
it would have been to him amid the scenes of
suffering of which he must be a witness. The
display of kindly sympathy shewn by the turf
will surprise no one who remembers the noble
manner in which that body stepped forth like one man
to replenish the failing funds of .St. George's Hospital
two years ago. Some unjust aspersions having been cast
on the turf owing to the box for contributions to the
hospital at Tattersall's having been found empty one
year when it was opened, the next year a sum amounting
to no less than half-a-crown was, it is commonly reported,
found in the box, an anonymous and stinging reproof to
those who had cast doubts on the benevolence of betting
men.—Pall Mall Gazette.

The I.sth instant is the day of the first meeting of
the new London Education Board. A quorum is to be
fixed upon by the board, and in the metropolis is to con-
sist of not less than nine members ; a chairman and vice-
chairman are to be appointed for three years.
PRUSSIAN MILITARY JUSTICE.—The statements
which have been made in our papers as coming from an
officer with Ricciotti Garibaldi at Chatillon, to the effect
that the inhabitants there, being mindful, no doubt, of the
fate of Ablis, actually resisted the attack, and did their
best to save the Prussians, are remarkably con-
, firmed by the German narratives published. We
have read three of these, and it clearly appears
from them that several of the soldiers of the
garrison who escaped were secreted by their hosts as
though they had been hiding countrymen from enemies,
and not enemies from countrymen. In one case the
master of the house actually put two hussars into his
daughter's bedroom, and thus preserved them from dis-
covery by the Garibaldians, who searched all the
rest of his house. It is noteworthy that in the
narrative from which this was taken it is expressly
added that these instancess of devotion would lessen
the penalty which would certainly be inflicted
on the town for its complicity. Of this com-
plicity there is no proof whatever cited except that a
party of two or three soldiers who came into the town
very late that evening saw a railway official cooking a
large supper, and upon asking him jocosely whom the
pot was for, he rephed, " For my comrades." On the
other hand, the Garibaldians themselves have stated that
the whole surprise was 'an inspiration of Ricciotti's, and
that in the course of its execution some of the townspeople
were shot for their open resistance to his irregulars. May
heaven preserve our countrymen from tasting Prussian
military justice !—Pati Mall Gazette.