The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-26 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CITY BETTING.—SATURDAY.
GREAT EASTERN HANDICAP.
10 to 1 agst Leila colt (taken and offered)
100 to 8 agst Alice (taken and offered)
100 to 8 agst Vandenhoff (offered)
100 to 6 agst Lady Sophie (offered)
20 to 1 agst Sornette (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Shilling-a-Dozen (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Blue Bell (offered)
25 to 1 agst Fugitive (taken)
33 to 1 agst Carfax (taken)
28 to 1 agst Tim Weaver (taken)
40 to 1 agst Oxonian (taken)
CESAREWITCH.
11 to 1 agst Wheatear (offered—take 12 to 1)
15 to 1 agst Hawthornden (offered)
20 to 4 agst Falkland (taken and wanted)
20 to 1 agst Make Haste (offered—take 25 to 1)
1000 to 40 agst Pax (taken and offered)
1000 to 20 (offered-1000 to 30 laid previously)
25 to 1 agst Royal Rake (taken and offered)
1000 to 20 agst Leila
2000 to 25 agst Douglas
1000 to 10 agst Monseiguer
1000 to 40 agst Bonny Swell (taken 1000 to 30)
1000 to 40 agst Mont Blanc (taken and offered)
30 to 1 agst Tabernacle (offered)
500 to 15 agst Mars (taken and offered, after 1000
to 45 taken)
500 to 15 agst Rattlepate (offered)
40 to 1 agst Tabouret (offered)
1000 to 20 agst Sis to Cherie (taken and offered)
1000 to 20 agst Cherie (offered)
1000 to 15 agst Sweet Sound (offered)
500 to 15 agst Miss Sheppard (offered)
1000 to 70 asst T. Dawson's lot (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Typhoeus, with a start (taken and
wanted)
30 to 1 agst Cherie and Sister to Cherie coupled
(taken) ,
100 to 10 agst Tabernacle, 1,2, 3 (taken)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

1000 to 60 agst Fichu (offered)
1000 to 60 agst Queen of Hearts (offered)
1000 to 60 agst Podesta (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Frivolity (offered-25 to 1 taken and
wanted)
20 to 1 agst Fanfare (offered-30 to 1 taken and
wanted)

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

ITALY AND ROME.

The Saturday Review says that the Italian troops have
entered Rome without serious opposition. The Italian
Government had previously published, in justification of
the proposed occupation, a long history of the negotia-
tions which have been intermittently carried on during
ten years by Italy, France, and the Papal Government.
An unexpected apology for Italian intervention at Rome
has been furnished by the professed intention of the Com-
mander of the Papal forces to resist aggression on his own
behalf, without regard even to the orders of the Pope. A
petty potentate employing a mercenary. army which he can-
not.even control has no ground of complaint if a neighbouring
Government disperses an in egular and irresponsible force.
The defence of Rome, if it had been attempted, would
have been a violation of the laws of war, because it was
hopeless ; and it would have been a crime, because it was
not justified by the authority of a regular Government.
The final collapse of a Power venerable for its antiquity
and for its former character is proved not to be premature by
the almost universal indifference of a generation absorbed
in the contemplation of more important events. The
members of the Council of the Vatican who fancied that
the attention of the world was fixed on their futile delibe-
rations never imagined that European journals would
scarcely devote an occasional paragraph to the fall of
Rome.