The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-02 00:00:00

THE S UN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1870.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES—(THis DAY).

A fire, attended with au immense loss of property, took
place this morning on the premises of Mr. Bartrop, corn
merchant, Vine-street, Bloomsbury, close to Tanquarey's
distillery and Ryder's tobacco manufactory. Fortunately
the fire was confined to the corn stores, but it was not
extinguished until several of the floors and roof had been
destroyed.
Another fire, attended with still greater loss of property
than the above, occurred at an ostrich feather factory in
Cross-street, Finsbury. The upper part of the extensive
premises were completely destroyed.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

THE DERBY DAY, 1870.

Although the morning was ushered in ominously, with
fog, and murky clouds, the weather for the Derby
could not in the early part of Wednesday have been more
satisfactory. There was no blinding sun, or, indeed,
sun of any kind, and the thousands of veils on
the men's hats, and blue dimity curtains to the
hansoms, were useless as far as the brightness of
the heavens, and its effects on human beings
was concerned. Certainly they kept off the dust, but a
strong breeze made them rather more tantalising
than pleasant in another way. The Derby stakes last
year were run for on a splendid summer afternoon. At an
early hour, omnibuses, carts, and drags began to leave town
in large numbers, only to be followed at a later one by
myriads of cabs and stately carriages. A great dis-
appointment was experienced last year by the absence of
what was then comparatively a new conveyance—the
velocipede—on the road. This year the machines were
largely used, and indeed the greatest possible inconvenience
was caused by them, not only to the other travellers, but
also to the riders themselves. At London Bridge, Vic-
toria, and Waterloo Stations cheap trains, well filled, ran
repeatedly from 8 o'clock, and at 10 o'clock " special
fast trains" began to run, the fares for a return
journey being 7s. 6d. any class. The roads, usually taken
advantage of, with the exception of that through Ken-
nington (it being blocked up by the local authorities),
seemed hardly less crowded thali ever between the hours
of nine and twelve o'clock. Groups of respectable men
and boys, chatting warmly As they went along,
itinerant retailers of oranges, and racing cards ; ostlers,
cardsharpers, and roughs—all were hastening
to the course as fast as their legs would carry them, or the
" c'reckt cards" and " cigar light " youngsters would
allow them. The streams of waggons, omnibuses, pony
chaises, and dog-carts, in the centre of the road were also
as thick as ever. The Prince and Princess
of Wales, accompanied by the King of the
Belgians, with their retinue, drove down to
Epsom about noon, and were much cheered by the
observers, whom the royal party passed on the road.
The balconies along the route from the Elephant and
Castle, the Camberwell New-road, the Kennington Park
and Clapham-roads were filled with ladies and children,
and many were the regrets expressed by the crowd passing
below that they were being left behind in quiet London,
and " quiet " London was all day, if it is ever so. On
the roads faces looked as bright, colours as gay, and what
passes on a Derby Day for fun was as boisterous as ever.
Looking at the dense crowd of spectators between the
intervals of the races swarming over the Downs, or
pacing the Course, and during the time of running formed
in a solid phalanx on either side of the ropes, it seemed
difficult to believe that there were fewer visitors at the
Derby this year than in many former years, from sheer
incapacity to understand where, on the occasions when
they were more numerous, they could all have
been stowed with the remotest chance of seeing anything.
Yet that there was a thinner attendance was
an opinion generally expressed by the habitués of the
meeting, the correctness of which it would probably be
difficult to challenge. The reason was not far to seek.
Everyone—the sporting prophets included (though,
they, especially after the result of their vatici-
nations ought hardly to count for much) thought
the great race of the year was a foregone conclusion.
The winner of the 2,000 Guineas, and the winner, too, in
such a style, no other horse being able to come near
him, was held to be such a safe card, that to
doubt his chance of success was looked upon simply
as heresy of the grossest and most unpardonable kind.
Never since the year of West Australian has any horse
within ten days of pulling off the Derby been intrusted
with such heavy odds. The rush to get on him the night
before the race was tremendous, and when on Wednesday he
was seen cantering past the Standthe enthusiasm was still
greater. Macgregor must win--such, heavily backed, was
the opinion of the public. Nothing else was
to be heard of, and any other horse suggested as likely
to snatch the honour from him was dismissed with
ignominy. This confidence in Mr Merry's selection—
a confidence which the scratching of his other
horses proved to have been as strong in his own
mind as it was in that of the public robbed
the Derby of 1870 of so much of excitement
as would have tended to attract towards it a
gathering of more than ordinary dimensions. The un-
certainty of the weather, for the morning, "got up," if
such an expression may be allowed, with more
than a suspicion of moisture attaching to it,
had also a somewhat slightly deterrent influence.
But though thus partially contracted in its pro-
portions, from the causes stated above, the chief
race of the season was pulled off in the presence of a vast
crowd—a crowd composed of the same elements of intense
business and pure jollity which have always characterised
it, and which have been reproduced in print ad nauseam.
Frith's picture of "The Derby Day " is not for one year
but for all time, for its incidents have been incidents of every
Epsom Meeting for years past as they will be for years
to come. The day as far as weather went was hardly
worthy of the Ist of June, but then, as everybody
knows, the seasons at present are sadly out of
course. The wind got round to the North
though it did not do much when it got there, which was
a fortunate item, for blowing where it listeth, according
to precedent, it has a special penchant for the Downs, and
it does not require a memory very long to recall when the
Derby was run in a breeze admirably adapted for
yachting, but not for a horse-race. On Wednesday,
if there had been much sun the slight wind that
prevailed would have received a heartier welcome than it
did. As it was, it made the atmosphere a little cool, and
prevented the dust from remaining in that con-
dition of repose, so much to be admired in
pulverised chalk and young children. Rain fell at
Epsom early in the morning, as was discovered by the
visitors who reached the place a little after noon. This
first instalment was followed by a second a little later on,
and just as the course was being cleared for the race of the
day, a smart shower fell whichdidthe work of the police in
double quick time, and caused the top ofthe Grand Stand to
break out with umbrellas, which, held closely in the hands
of the occupants, as they crouched down gave
it the appearance of a bed of highly discoloured fungi.
The shower was only transitory, and the sky was
clear when the horses were saddled and paraded in
the paddock. The little excitement caused by the first
race, the Epsom Town Plate—the horses again and
again breaking away, some of them getting half way down
the half-mile before they could be pulled np—contested
gamely and cleverly won by Lord Rendlesham's
La Rose—served only to whet the appetite
of the visitors present for the grand coup
which was to follow. His Majesty the King of the Bel-
gians, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the
Princess of Wales arrived just as the horses for the first
contest, headed by the scarlet-coated official whose
presence on his white charger is as familiar as the
Derby dog (by-the-bye, there were three to-day, and they
did the mile and a half from the corner in
splendid style)—passed slowly up the course.
The Royal party were, loudly cheered as they drove
in a carriage and four up to the Grand Stand. The
process of stripping and saddling the Derby horses is done,
unless in exceptional oases, in the paddock, within the
mysterious precincts of which theyceg naresepatiratdeedtake a lastfortheir
owners, their friends, and the cem
fond and critical look before they are sent'away walking
dis-
tance, and k
gravely by
ttehee
a brisk a
Stand to
etuger back. T
at the quarter-mile
n rtiretre-emile
horsesshewed in all their glossy beauty within the paddock, upon
the palings of which those not permitted to enter the sacred
pasture swarmed like so many bees. From every ele-
vated point whence the meadow could be over-
looked, lorgnettes were levelled to scan the
horses recognised by the colours of their jockeys.
Slowly and at regular intervals they paraded
in a narrow circle, every point carefully scruti-
nised, every defect noted, every virtue—horses must have
virtues, for we constantly hear of their vices—extolled.
But where, oh where, was the Highland laddie gone !
Everyone wanted to see Macgregor, yet no one
could catch sight of him. Had they only known the ter-
rible dilemma in which he was about to place his
ardent supporters, they would probably have been
ready to tear him In plooco rather than to await the
moment when his owner saw fit to produce min, bo saaet
him with ringing cheers. But ignorance for the moment
was bliss—the awakening must have been experienced and
bitterly cursed by this time—and so when it was an-
nounced that the favourite was being saddled else-
where, as also was Kingcraft, his backers were content
to exercise patience, a patience soon to be rewarded
when the field of 15 came down the course in front
of the Grand Stand in their preliminary canter. By then
Macgregor was to the fore, with Fordham for his mount,
and occupying a position on the opposite side of the
course to the Stand ; he came along at a pace much
slower than several of his competitors, being evidently
held well in hand by his jockey. His fore legs were ban-
daged, and the thought occurred, no doubt, to some of
those who had heavy odds upon him whether or not there
was any truth in the rumour that, exceptionally good
horse as he was believed to be, the descent from
the corner—the crucial point of the course—
would prove too much for those upright legs of his. Of
all the string which came cantering down towards the
winning post, not in the race, but in the preliminary
canter, it was thought that Mr. Merry, having
scratched Sunshine, daughter of a Derby and St.
Leger winner, and said to inherit all the sterling
qualities of old Alice Hawthorn on the one side and of
Chanticleer on the other, and elected to win, if win he could
by Macgregor. There was no very dangerous rival to fear,
though Prince of Wales and Camel were by some sport-
ing authorities held to be horses who Would
require the favourite to do about all that he
knew. Many idols of the public , have been followed
with loving eyes on their way to the starting-point,
but it is questionable if any was ever sped thither
with glances more admiring or c mfident than Macgregor.
whose owner just ten yeas since won the Derby with
Thormanby. As events turned out, it is rather curiousto
note that one of the horses about which the least
was said, as the string swept by, was the hove
which was to snatch the laurels from the New-
market winner, and lead the black jacket with
white sleeves to victory.

right away up to the furze bushes with one or two excep-
tions—notably one in which the horse Cockney Boy
stumbled and fell—the whole body of competitors kept in
close proximity ; the pace was fast, and when 'Patten-
ham Corner was turned a scarlet jacket, that of Palmer-
ston's rider was seen rather too much to the front to be
pleasing to the backers of the yellow, who nevertheless stuck
to their choice manfully, and vowed that getting into the
level Mr. Merry's horse was gaining the foremost place.
One thing was clear, that Fordham Meant winning if the
horse had it in him to do it. Macgregor was
ridden to all appearance judiciously, and seemed
to answer gamely the calls that his jockey, sparing
neither whip nor spur, made upon him. But the race
was not his—a fact which began to impress itself unwil-
lingly, but with some considerable degree of certainty,
upoL his backers as the field drew near the
distance. At this time French, on King-
craft, was lifting his horse along in first-rate
style, and the scarlet of Challoner, Palmerston's
rider, and the mazarine blue of Kenyon, Muster's mount,
were too much in front of the yellow and black to please
the backers of the favourite. Fordham, calling
upon Macgregor, lessened the distance between them, and
the favourite shot slightly ahead, but as he did so, and was
getting to the front, he was checked by the horse on his
near side, which was steered so closely to him that a
cannon seemed inevitable. For an instant shut
out of the field, but only an instant, Mac-
gregor was induced to make one more desperate effort
for retrieving his honours, but it was too late. The judge's
box was at hand, and French, on the far side of the course
from the Stand, 'with a vigorous handling of his whip, car-
ried Lord Falmouth's colours past in triumph, Palmerston
being close behind, and Muster next. The race finished
amidst an ominous silence, as it might well do when such a
firm favourite as Macgregor did not even secure a place,
but was at the tail of three horses supposed to be infinitely
his inferiors.

The Epsom Town Plate of 100 sovs (Handicap) for all
ages. Half a mile.
Lord Rendlesham's La Rose, by Claret—lnverness, 4
yrs 7st 71b . (Maidment) 1
Mr Crawley's Sphynx, 5 yrs, 7st 41b (Hunt) 2
Mr Foy's Patrician, 5 yrs, 7st 51b (Wyatt) 3
The following also ran :—Chanoinesse, Flyaway Jack,
Squib, Masaniello, Mimus, Nightingall, Derby Day, Hen-
riette, and King's Bench.
Won by a head.

The DERBY STAKES of 50 sovs each, h.ft., for three-yr-
olds ; colts, Bst 101 b; fillies, Bst 51b; the second to receive
800 sovs and the third 150 sovs out of the Stakes. The
last mile and a half, to be run on the New Course. 252
subs.
Lord Falmouth's Kingcraft
Mr. Craufurd's Palmerston (Chalocer) 2
Lord Wilton's Muster...

The following also started :
Mr. J. Barnard's Temple (Marsh) 0
Mr. J. Dawson's King o' Scots (Covey) 0
Mr. Jos. Dawson's Camel_ (Cnstance) 0

Captain Machell's Bonny Swell (Jeffery) 0
Mr. Merry's Macgregor
Mr. Rogers' Cockney Boy (Robertson) 0
Prince of Wales J.
Mr. B. Morris's ..............(Cannon) 0

Lord Stamford's Normanby (Grimshaw) 0
Mr. J. J. Ellis's Cymbal
Mr. F. Murphy's Sarsfield ...
Mr. Brayley's Recorder (H Day) 0
Mr. Cartwright's Ely Appleton (Adams) 0
Time as taken by Benson's Chronograph : —Duration of
race, 2 min. 45 sec. In 1869, 2 min. 52 sec. ; in 1868, 2 min.
44 sec.; in 1867, 2 rain. 52 sec. ; in 1866, 2 min. 49 see.

EPSOM SUMMER MEET.NG—Tars DAY.
(13Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
EBrnsHAM STAKES.

Pericles
Retty
Alma Mater.
Ten ran.
GLASGOW PLATE.

Rattlepate
Tit Bit
Flyaway Jack
Ten ran.
TWO-YR-OLD STAKES.

Starlight f
Torquoise
Balquidder
Nine ran. Starlight I walked over and divided
HIGH LEVEL HANDICAP.

Paganini
Thor
Border Knight
Six ran.
QUEEN'S PLATE.

Cauldron
Lady Blanche f
Four ran.
TAD WORT H STAKES.

Tamara f
Star Thistle
Ferouia

Ten ran.

ARRIVED - Gamos Manifesto, Lizzie Cowl, Hester, Lady
Blanche filly (3 yrs), Viper, ChiHingham, Gladness, and
Squib.

N EWCASTLE-UPO/
Acceptances for the Northui

• TYNE MEETING.
iberland Plate. Two miles.

Age st lb
Kidderminster
Argyle 4 8 8
Lord Hawthorn 4 8 6
Myosotis 4 8 3
Mysotis
Fleets 4 7 8
Apemantus 4 7 4
Cap-a-pie...... .
Wild Flower .. .....
The Bobby 3 7 2
Hawkhead 3 7 1
Kennington

Age at lb
Exciseman 3 6 10
Fuzee 3 (pd)
Jarnac 3 6 8
Newsman....
Halnaby
Geoffery ...
Five per Cent.
Lingerer... ....
Silverband 3 6 1
Lackland 3 6 1
Irregularity

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE-
MENTS.
May 27, at 9 a.m., Oratava and Cottenham, out of all
engagements.
May 27, at 9 a.m., The Little Drum, out of the Epsom
Derby, Ascot Triennial, North of England Biennial, and
Great Yorkshire Stakes at York, and the Doncaster St
Leger.
May 27, at 0 30 p.m., shilling a Dozen, out of the Ben-
tinck Plate, Epsom.
May 27, at 1 23 p.m., Thesaurus out of the Stanley
Stakes at Epsom.
May 27, at 2 40 p.m., Fiz, out of the Stanley Stakes at
Epsom.
May 27, after 11 p.m., Bridgwater, out of Epsom Derby.
May 28, at 3 p.m., Baroness, out of Epsom engagements.
May 30, at 9 a.m., Talavera, Albuera, Westley, Hawkhead,
Sea Captain, Glengarry, Exciseman, Timote, Eskadale,
Painkiller, Barford, and Moorlands, out of the Epsom
Derby.
May 39, at 9 a.m., Fragrance, out of the Epsom Oaks and
Ascot engagements, 1870.
May 30, at 9 a.m., Lady Studley, Caradoc, King Offs., Miss
Ellis, Oxygen, Medora, and Miss Barrington, out of Epsom
ugagements, 1870.
May 30, at 9 a.m., S orter, Absolution, Hebe, Greta filly,
Hop-picker filly, Lady Mary, Harebell filly, Two by
Honors, Rosalie, and Invicta, out of the Epsom Oaks.
May 30, at 9 am., Lady Heron, out of the Woodcote,
Acorn, and Stanley Stakes at Epsom.
May 30, at 1112 Baron Rothschild's horses, out of
the Epsom Derby.
May 30, at 11 12 a.m., Mahonia, out of the Epsom Oaks.
31ay30, at 1112 a.m., Norfolk, out of the Woodcote Stakes
at Epsom.
May 30, at 11 30 a.m., Constable, Theodoros, Alaric,
Ohancellier, Annexion, Arziane, Bellone, and Fille de TOrne,
out of Epsom engagements, 1870.
May 30, at 0 12 p.m., Golden Horn, Fearlfinder, Thor-
nettle, Gnome King and Milo, out of the Epsom Derby.
May 30, at 012 p.m., 0 Sapienta, out of the Epsom
Oaks.
May 30, at 0 40 p.m., Sir Robert, out of High Level
Handicap, at Epsom.
May 30, at 040 p.m., Tourist, out of the High Level
Handicap, and the Derby, at Epsom.
May 30,•at 1 8 p.m., Gaylass colt, St George, and Catgut
(dead), out of the Epsom Derby.
May 30, at 1 g p.m., Slippers, out of the Epsom Oaks.
May 30, at 1 8 p.m., Sylva and Mont Blanc, out of the
High Level Handicap, at Epsom.
May 30, at 1 8 p.m., all Lord Wilton's Two yrs old, out
of Epsom engagements.
May 30, at 2 35 p m., Colonel Ryan, Marquis of Steyne,
Lady Atholstone, and "Linton, out of Epsom engagements.
May 30, at 2 35 p.m., All horses in Mr G Jono3's name,
and Braemar, out of te Epsom Derby.
May 30, at 2 35 p.m. Stockhausen, Cestus, and Philos, out
of the Epsom Oaks.
May 30, at 3 45 p.m., The Boy and Five per Cent., out of
Epsom Derby.
May 30, at 3 45 p.m., Fast Day and Forget-me-Not, out
of Fpsom Oaks.
May 30, at 345 p.m., The Boy out of the High Level
Handicap at Epsom.
May 30, at 3 45 p.m., Forget-me Not, out of the Grand
Prize at Paris.
May 30, at 3 56 p.m., South Hatch, out of the Epsom
Oaks.
May 30, at 3 56 p.m., Laird of Scotland and Anarchy, out
of the Town and Bentinck Plates at Epsom.
May 3 at 356 p m., Althorp, out of Woodcote Stakes at
Epsom.
May 30, at 4 20 p.m., all Mr 0. Hilton's horses, out of the
Epsom Derby and Oaks.
May 80, at 5 45 p.m , c by Oxford, out of Miss Living-
stone, and f by Rapparee, out of Annie, out of Epsom en-
gagements, 1870.
May 31, at 9 a.m., Play and Stanley, out of the Epsom
Derby.
Way 31, at 9 a.m., Thundercloud, out of the High Level
Handicap at Epsom.
May 31, at 9 a.m., Sweet Sound, out of the Epsom Oaks.
May 31, at 11 15 a.m., all Mr Ray's horses, out of their
Epsom engagements.
May 31, at 11 15 a.m., Green Riband, out of the Grand
Prize at Paris.
May 31, at 2 20 p.m., Astolfo, out of the Epsom Derby.
May 31, at 2 33 p.m.. Fuzee, out of the Epsom Derby, and
Northumberland Plate at Newcastle.
May 31, at 4 18 p.m., Disfranchise, out of Two Yrs Old
Stakes at Epsom.
May 31, at 433 p.m., Ptarmigan, out of the Epsom
Derby.
May 31, at 4 39 p.m, Sunshine at(' Sunlight, out of the
Epsom Derby.
June 1, at 9 a.m., Tuneane and La Calonne, out of the
Epsom Oaks.
June 1, at 9 a.m., Baron Cavendish, out of the Epsom
Derby.

COLOURS or RIDERS.—Mr Bingham, blue and white dia-
monds; Mr H. May (altered to), Orange, black belt.
The following name has been giYeia : —Mr W. Fletcher's
b f by Lord of the Isles Rigolboche, 3 yrs, Lady Hilda.
A veterinary certificate, signed by Mr. o,,arles Turner,
of Croydon, M.R.0.V.5., of the age of the chestnut mare
Astrolabe, by Allez-y-gaiement, aged, has been lodged at
Messrs. Weatherby's.

THE MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTEL LI GEN CE.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The Stock Markets generally have presented a firm
appearance, notwithstanding that business has not been
brisk. Consols have been quiet, at 92f to 98 ex div.for
delivery, and 93f to 93f ex div. for July. Reduced
and New Three per Cents., 92/ to 92f. Exchequer Bills
par to ss. prem. Bank Stock, 234 to 236. India 5 per Cents.,
113 f to 114.
In the market for Foreign Bonds the transactions have
not been extensive. Spanish Securities have beeu in re-
quest at an advance of }—the 1867 Bonds being quoted at
31 15-16 to 32 1-16 ; and the 1869 at 31f to 31*; Turkish 5
per Cents. also show en improvement of fully f per cent.
The demand for Egyptian has been firm.
The following are the actualquotations : Argentine, 941;
Brazilian, 1865, 92 to ; Danubian, 1864, >9f to soi ; Mexi-
can, 15 ; Peruvian, 1865, 891 to 1; Russian, 1862, 85t to ;
Spanish, 1869, 80f to 11,-; Turkish, 1862, 731 to 4; Vene-
zuela, 1862, 21; Egyptian, 1864, 901; Honduras Gov. Rail-
way Loan, 86* ; rartuguese, 1869, 34 ; Sardinian, 70 ; San
Domingo, 671; United States 5-20 Bonds, 891.
The general tone of the Railway Share Market is good,
and the movements have been of a favourable character.
Metropolitan shares advanced 1f per cent,, quotations being
691 to 691, while Metropolitan Distriot are about 1 per cent.
better, at 311 to 321. North Eastern Consols have risen
the last price being 146} to 1461; but Great Western A stock
is rather lower, at 1351 to 135.
Transactions have taken place to-day as follows : Cale-
donian, 7411; East London, 31 41; Great Northern A,
136 51; Great Western Consolidated Ordinary, 741 1.
Metropolitan, 68} 9} ; Metropolitan District, 311 21; and
North Eastern Consols, 1451 61.

Great Luxemburg shares are quoted at 341 to 141; and
Lombardo-Venetian, at 151 to 151.

Erie shares have been done at 181 to 18 and JUinoia
Central at 1091 to 110.

Bank shares have been quiet but firm. Vnion of London
have marked 401.

In Telegraph shares very little business has been doing,
but prices have been maintained. Telegraph Construction
Shares, however, have fallen 1, the quotaLiou being 821 to
321.

Miscellaneous Securities have been dealt in quietly, and
prices have been without material chap e.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(RE UTE R'S TELEGRAMS.)
MANIFESTO IN SPAIN.
MADRID, June 1 (E vening. )
The partisans of Marshal Espartero have published a
manifesto calling on the country to elect him King, and
strongly opposing the maintenance of the present
Regency.
In to-day's sitting of the Cortes an animated de-
bate took place on the subject of establishing civil

registers.

THE DISTURBANCES IN ITALY.

FLORENCE, June 1 (Evening).

In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, the
debate on the Army Estimates and the proposed reduc-
tions commenced. The House rejected, by 181 against
124 votes, a proposal of Senor Cavroli of the Left, which
was opposed by the Government and by the General
Financial Committee, to suspend the discussion of the 3d
clause of the Ministerial bill.

OUTBREAK OF CHOLERA IN INDIA.
ALLAHABAD, June 1.
The Pioneer reports an alarming outbreak of cholera at
Rewah.

[The following news appeared in our First Edition pub-
lished at Eight o'clock this morning :--]
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, June 1.

The Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne is recovering from
his attack of smallpox. It is thought that he will be the
successor of the Duke de Grammont at Vienna.

The chief points of the new Press Law will be some
present reduction in the stamp tax, and its abolition
eventually.
The plan of reducing the salary of the Senators is not
likely to be put into effect.
The Bourse closed at 74f. 67c.