The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-23 00:00:00

ANTICIPATIONS FOR BATE.

The lath meeting takes place on Tuesday and Wednes-
day. The bill of fare for both days is excellent, and the two-
year old races are especially likely to help the meeting to
success. Bell's Life says, of the seven races set for the
first day one of the most interesting will be the Beaufoi
Cup. The ever victorious Fusee is amongst the number,
and in all probability the chief struggle will be between
Sabinus and this filly, and the first of this pair is almost
certain to be victorione. Mr. Merry has Belladrum (Bstl2lb)
and the Seamstress filly (6.4 61b) engaged in the half mile
Badminton Stakes; one of the two or Daylight, may
prove the winner. Robespierre and Lady of Lyons should
tun well for the Lansdown Stakes. and Not Out reads
like the winner of the County Members' Plate. Mw.r-
gregor takes a 'Ab allowance for the Eighteenth Biennial!
and if sent to the post mnst, in defiance of the Speculum
and Ryshworth precedents, prove to be a " certainty!'
If Mr. Merry judiciously elects to keap him home, Gamos
ought to be victorious. Danebnry shows a most formid-
able front for the Nineteenth Biennial. Our choice must
be for Loetitia and Mr. Graham's best. The Dyrham
Park Handicap will probably be won by Not Out or one:
of Mr. Merry's lot, and for the Bath Handicap
we fancy the chances of the Seamstress filly and Daylight-
The field for the once highly popular Somersetshire Stakes
does not promise to be at all large? and so far as present
appearances go nothing seems capable of beating
Threatener (6st) and Miss Sheppard (6st 7lb).
Ally opinion relative to the result of the 'Weston
Stakes must be reserved until Wednesday next,
" Augur-" in the tiportinv Life, says : "As Mr. Merry
has determined to run Macgregor for the Eighteenth
Biennial, the meeting will no:, pass over without some
excitement, and if the Derby favourite should run
and get bowled over, we shall not want for a
fruitful topic of conversation until the descent of
the f1...g on the Derby day. The Lansdown Stakes
(Handicap, one mile) will be won by Robespierre or Lady
of Lyons and the Badminton Stakes (half a mile) by
Sophie or Seamstress filly. The County Members' Plate
I shall award to Not Out or Barcelona. The Beaufort
Cup will produce a very limited field. I shall look for
the success of Fusee or Sabinus. Fifty-three subscribers
are down for ;,he Eighteenth kienial Stakes, for
three year olds. Mr. Merry has only to run
Macgregor in this company and he will win, but in
the absence of the Derby crack I shall trust to Gamos
of whom I have capital accounts. The Nineteenth Bien-
nial I shall assign to Steppe. The Somersetshire Stakes
will be won by Threatener or Osprey, the Weston Stakes
by Steppe, and the Juvenile Stakes by the colt by
Scottish Chief out of Necklace. The Dyrham Park
Stakes I shall award to the Seamstress filly or Mr.
Brayley's best, and the Welter Stakes to Robespierre or
Fitz-Ivan. The Bath Handicap reads well for Bonnie
Katie and Dentelle.
The prophet of the Sportsman. says :---`• The Beaufort
Cup does not promise to attract such an excellent field to
the post as it has done in former years. I think the race
will fall to Sabinus. The Badminton Stakes I shall
award to the Seamstress filly or Daylight. In the Lans-
down Stakes and Lady of Lyons have the best chances.
County Members' Plate I shall award to the Symmetry
colt or Not Out. In the Eighteenth Biennial I have no
hesitation plumping for Macgregor.
The Field thinks the issue in the contest for the Beau-
fort Cup will lie with Sabinus, Cock of the Walk, Fuzee,
and Free Trade, and that the best of these are Sabinus
and Fuzee. To the Eighteenth Biennial Stakes miles)
there are fifty-three nominations. Mr. Merry, it is under-
stood, has decided to run Macgregor, and should the Two
Thousand winner be sent to Bath, this stake is at his
mercy.

CITY 13ETTING-SATURDAY:
120 to 100 agst Macgregor (offered-1000 to 800 taken)
100 to 12 ac,st Camel (offered 9 to 1 taken and

wanted)
12 to 1 agst Sunshine (taken and offered)
100 to 6 agst Bridgwater (offered—take 20 to 1)
20 to 1 agst Kingcraft (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Normauby (offered-2000 to 9 taken)
1000 to 40 agst Palmerston (offered)
000 to 30 aget Cymbal (offered)
100 to 2 agst Prince of Wales (offered)
1000 to 20 eget Recorder (offered-1000 to 25 taken and
offered)
1000 to 10 agst Sarsfield (offered)
1000 to 9 eget Ely Appleton (offered)
1000 to 8 eget Ptarmigan (offered)

GRAND PRIZE OF PARIS.
1000 to 200 agst Lornetto (taken twice)
00 to 100 agst Recorder (offered)
800 to 100 agst Coutts (offered)

DOUBLE EVENT
GOO to 400 agst Macgregor for Bath Biennial and T
Derby

BEITING AT MANCHESTER-SATURDAY.

SOMERSETSHIRE STAKES.
9to 4 agst Threatener (taken)
5 to 2 agst Miss Sheppard Capered)

THE DEM3Y.
Even on Macgregor (offered)
9 to 1 agst Camel (taken freely)
10 to 1 agst Sunshine (offered)
20 to 1 agst Normanby (offered)
20 to 1 agst Kingcrait (offered)
20 to 1 agst Prince of Wales (taken and offered)
22 to t agst Bridgwater (taken)
25 to 1 agst Palmerston (offered)

PLACE BETTING.
sto 2 ngst Camel (taken)
3to l agst Kingeraft (taken)
8 to 1 agst Sunshine (offered)
5 to 1 agst Normanby (taken)

OAKS.
to 4 agst Hester (taken)

The Sporting Gazette says that T. French is engaged to
ride M. E. Fould's Minotaure in the French Derby ; and M.
Schickler's Valois will be ridden by Maidment. Ford-
ham, J. Osborne, and Custince are also " specially re-
tained."

The Dutch House of Commons has passed a bill
abolishing capital punishment by 48 votes to 30.
Several cottages in the village of Knowl, near
Barnstaple, were destroyed by fire on Thursday evening.

Lady Amberley is going to give a public lecture at
Stroud next Wednesday evening on " The Claims of
Women."

Lord Henry G. Lennox, M.P., has been suffering
for nearly ten weeks from the effects of an attack of in-
fluenza.

An idea has been for some time prevalent in mili-
tary circles that arrangements were being made for raising
a force in this country for the service of the colony of New
Zealand.

Mr. Edmond Beaks, M.A., has been elected to the
position and responsibilities of a vestryman, in place of
one of the former constituent members of the parochial
parliament at Kensington.

The lines of tramway now being laid down in
South London are to be boxed up on the Derby day to
prevent injury from the thousands of vehicles making use
of the roads in that neighbourhood.
Mr. Candlish's bill to amend the Vaccination 'pct,
1867, was published on Saturday. Clause 3 provides that
no more than two orders shall be made under the 31st
section of the Vaccination Act, 1867, for the vaccination
of any one child.

MR. D'ARcy InvlNE.—On Saturday afternoon
Mr. D'Arcy ine was conveyed to Dublin, where, it is
believed, he will be placed in an asylum. A large crowd
assembled at the station at Irvinestown to see him off,
but the train was backed to the ticket platform where he
got in unobserved by the people.

A. meeting of the Standards Commission was held
on Saturday at 7, Old Palace-yard. Present—The As-
tronomer Royal, Lord Colchester, the Right Hon. S.
Cave, M.P., Professor W. Hallows Miller, F.R.S., Mr.
H. W. Chisholm, and the secretary, Mr. H. J. Chaney.
The John Bull says the new work by the Bishop
of Gloucester and Bristol, on the revision of the Bible,
will appear in a few days. It contains a very full discus-
sion of the whole subject, and illustrates the question by
a revised translation of two portions of Scripture ; one,
where but a small amount of correction is needed (Our
Lord's Sermon on the Mount), and another portion
(Rom. where rather a large amount seems
necessary.

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