The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-30 00:00:00

THE HALFPENNY CARD POSTAGE.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF TEE SUN.

I hope I shall escape the charge of ostentation in
laying claim as I hereby do to be the originator of the card
system of postage, which has been partially adopted by the
Government. My system was publicly set forth two years
ago, especially in the Oak, a monthly periodical, and about
the close of 1868 I communicated my views to the Post--
master- General.

FOREIGN RACING INTELLIGENCE.
CHANTILLY RACES-SUNDAY,
PRIX DE DANGU.

Ouragan
FervaGques
PRIX DE L'OISE

Leopard
Nola

My system was considerably more amplified than that now
adopted, but it included all which has been adopted, viz.,
the issuing by the postal authorities of a card stamp of uni-
form size and light weight, on one side of which an address
might be written, and on the other traders' advertisements
or other announcements.

PRIX L E L'EMPERE UR.

Specifique
Bariolette
Contrebando
Prix du Rickey Clut., or French Derby, with 1,200 sous
added ; for three yr olds; entrance 40 soya each oacb, 24
ft, and 20 only if declared the 26th of May; the second
horso received 80 sovs ; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. One
mile and a half. Eighty-three subs.
Major Fridolin's Biggareau, by Ligbt—Bataglia, Bst 71b
(Pratt) 1
Duke of Hamilton's Monseigneur, Bst 71b (Custance) 2
Mr Fould's Miuotaure, Bst 71b
Prince A. D'Arenberg's Mars, Bst 7lb .... . . 4
Betting —5 to 2 agst Valois' 4 to 1 agst Bigarreau, 5 to 1
each agst Monseigneur and Minotaure. Won by a length;
a like distance divided second and third; two lengths
between third and fourth.
PRIX DES ETANGS.

If it can bo shown that any other person preceded me in
suggesting the card system, I must, of course, yield .my
claim. Meanwhile I regard myself as the inventor, and I
hope the time is not distant when my plan, in all its details,
will be carried out.—l am, sir, your obedient servant,
CHARLES E.OGElts, L.L.D.
Snowdoun Villa, Lewisham, S. E., May 28th, 1870.

Gourbi .
Amiral

TATTERSALIS-SATURDAY EVENING.

THE DERBY.
65 to 40 on Macgregor (taken)
15 to 2 agst Camel (offered)
1000 to 10 aget Prince of Wales (offered—take 15 to 1)
25 to 1 aget Sunshine (taken)
25 to 1 agst Kingcraft (offered)
25 to 1 agst Palmerston (taken)
25 to 1 agst Normanby (offered)
33 to 1 agst King o' Scots (taken)
45 to 1 agst Cymbal ( aken)
1000 to 12 agst Ely Appleton (offered)
1000 to 15 ag t Bonny Swell (offered)
1000 to 10 agst Astolfo (offered—take 1000 to 15)
1000 to 10 agst Nobleman (offered)
1000 to 5 agst Sarsfield (offered)
1000 to 4'agst Sunlight (taken)
1000 to 5 agst T. Dawson's lot (offered)
900 to 20 agst Camel, King o'Scots, and Normanby
mixed (offered-500 to 100 taken
twice)
SCRATCHED—Bridgwater, at 11 p.m. on Friday.

PLACE BETTING.
100 to 30 on Macgregor (taken)
2to 1 agst Camel (taken and offered)
5 to 2 agst Normanby (offered—take 3 to 1)
3io 1 agst Kingcraft (taken and offered)
100 to 30 agst Prince of Wales (offered)
7to 2 agst Palmerston (taken freely)
5 to 1 agst King o' Scots (offered)
6to 1 agst Cymbal (offered)
200 to 20 eget Bonny Swell (taken)
20 to • 1 agst Astolfo (offered)
100 to 50 on J. Dawson's three v. Palmerston
OAKS.
3 to 2 agst Hester (taxon and offered)
5 to 1 agst Sunshine (taken and offered)
sto 1 agst Pate (offered - take 6to 1)
•
to 1 agst Maltonia (take 6 to 1)
Even on Hester and Pate coupled (offered)

CITY BETTING—SATURDAY,
DERBY.
11 to Bon Macgregor (taken)
7to 1 agst Camel (taken and offered)
100 to 7 agst Sunshine (taken and offered)
15 to 1 agst Prince of Wales (taken)
20 to 1 agst Palmerston (offered—take 25 to 1)
25 to 1 agst Kingcraft (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Normanby (offered —5OO to-15 taken)
5000 to 15 agst Cymbal (offered)
100 to 3 agst King o' Scots (taken)
1000 to 10 ag,t Nobleman (offered)
1000 to 10 agst Bonny Swell (offered)
1000 to 10 agst Recorder (offered)
1000 to 5 agst Muster (offered)
1000 to 5 agst Hawthornden (offered)
sto 1 agst Joseph Dawson's lot (taken)
PLACE BETTI'-0.
5 to 2 on Macgregor (offered—tako 3to 1)
2to 1 aest Camel (taken)
3to 1 agst Kingcraft (taken and offered)
3to 1 agst Normanby (offered)
3to 1 agst Palmerston (offered-4 to 1 taken)
sto 1 agst King o' Scots (taken)
sto 1 agst Cymbal (offered)
sto 1 agst Sunshine (taken and offered)
THE OAKS.
Even Hester (offered--6 to 5 taken)
sto 1 agst Mahonia (offered—take 6to 1)

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1870.

Mahonia and an own sister to Tomato, which has
been doing well of late, and the first named
is pretty certain to run into a place. All the Epsom
division are sanguine as to the success of Path, a really
clever and improved filly, whose class is, nevertheless, we
take it, inferior to that of the three cracks. For the suc-
cess of one of these we look rather confidently, and either
Hester or Mabonia will be our final selection for the chief
fillies' race of the year.

The Field says it is possible that Sunshine may not run
in the Derby, as it may be considered wise to reserve the
mare specially for the fillies' race. Camel, Normanby,
and King o' Scots are the Bedford Lodge trio. Camel—
consideringhis best performances are winning the Eglinton
Stakes and Nursery Plate at Doncaster, after being five
times defeated in all kinds of company—occupies a false
position in the list of quotations. He is a coarse horse,
destitute of that fine quality generally seen in high-class
animals, and, in our opinion, Camel will, so far as winning
the Derby is concerned, prove an impostor as his stable
companion, King o' Scots, did in the Guineas. Normanby
is a good, sound horse, and the best place investment in
the race, as he is fitter to run now than when he got
second to Macgregor in the Two Thousand Guineas.
King o' Scots, though he has never won during his
racing career, still finds backers, who must have more
money than brains, as this son of King Tom, after
failing in minor events is scarcely likely to win the
Derby. Kingcraft ran fast in the Two Thousand race to
the Bushes, at which point he was done with, and we
cannot see how he is to reverse positions with Macgregor
and Normanby, though Lord Falmouth's handsome colt
is sure to beat all such second-raters as King o' Scots.
Macgregor, Sunshine, Normanby, and Kingcraft, are the
best public horses engaged in the Derby ; that Mr. Merry
will win the blue riband of the turf this year, however,
S
we have no doubt, as either Macgregor or unshine is
good enough to beat the horses that will
oppose them. Our confidence is in Macgregor,
and Belladrum will, we trust, be avenged by the
victory of the gallant son of Macaroni and Necklace.
The Field gives its plumper to Sunshine for the Oaks.
" Harkaway " in Land and Water is of opinion that in
the Derby struggle Macgregor and Bridgwater will finish
first and second. As for the Oaks, he will not desert
Hester, who carried him home with flying colours for the
One Thousand. Mahonia, he believes, will be her
most troublesome opponent. The Sporting Life
expects Macgregor to win the Derby " easily " and
will hope to see Normanby and Kingcraft fight
out the battle for second and third places. In the opinion
of "Augur," who writes for this journal, there is no
prospect of anything compelling Macgregor to succumb,
unless it be some animal whose pretensions there have
been no public opportunities for guaging. For the Oaks
there is no horse to beat Hester and Sunshine, between
whom he fancies an interesting race may be expected.
Pate may be enabled to secure a place. The prophet of
the Sportsman thinks that the first three animals in the
Derby will be Macgregor, Prince of Wales, and Camel.
Hester, he is confident, will be the winner of the Oaks.
Bridgwater was scratched on Saturday.
" Touchstone," in the Era, says :—" Mr. Merry was not
afraid to pull out Macgregor at Bath, and if he did so
to ascertain whether the colt could stay oa not, he may be
thoroughly satisfied on the point, as the Guineas hero had
scarcely turned a hair when he went by the winning-post at
the end of his mile and a half journey. His last performance
was almost as impressive as his first, and he has only to keep
well to be the warmest Derby favourite at the post that we
have had for years." He anticipates that Normanby will
be second, and Camel third.
" Censor," in the Sporting Gazette, will not deiert Mac-
gregor for the great race, and thinks that Normanby may
be placed.

Much difference of opinion exists as to the manner in
which the Derby of 1870 will be patronised by the public.
The Sporting Life thinks that nothing is wanting but a
continuance of the present superb weather to ensure one
of the largest attendances ever known.
Bell's Life, on the other hand, ventures to predict that
from one cause or other next Wednesday will be the dullest
Derby day that journalists have had to chroncicle for
years.

YACHTING.
THE SAPPHO AND CAMBRIA.

We, Bell's Life, understand that Mr. Ashbury has
declined to accept Mr. Douglas's challenge to sail two
matches sixty miles to windward and back, the Cambria
to receive time allowance in the first race according to
Thames measurement, and in the second according to New
York Yacht Club measurement • but we hear on good
authority that on his arrival in Few York the owner of
the Cambria will enter her for all club and sweepstake
races, and in all likelihood will entertain Mr. Douglas's
proposal for one or more races, twenty miles to windward
and back, subject to an equitable time allowance.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(RE UT ER'S TELEGRAMS.)
FALMOUTH, GIBRALTAR, AND MALTA
TELEGRAPH EXPEDITION.
The following telegram has been received :
Canning to Osborn.
29th noon, lat. 36 7, long. 6 57. Tests of Cable perfect.
All is well. Wind blowing strong from the east.