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

ANTICIPATIONS FOR BATH.

The Bath meeting takes place on Tuesday and Wednes-
day. The bill of fare for both days is excellent, andthe 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 Beaufort
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 victorious. Mr. Merry has Belladrum (Bst 121 b)
and the Seamstress filly (6st 61b) engaged in the half mile
Badminton Stakes ;• one of the two or Daylight, may
prove the winner. Robespierre and Lady of Lyons should
run well for the Lansdown Stakes. and Not Out reads
like the winner of the County Members' Plate. Mac-
gregor takes a 31b allowance for the Eighteenth Biennial
and if sent to the post must, 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 Lcetitia 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 71b).
Any opinion relative to the result of the Weston
Stakes must be reserved until Wednesday next,
" Augur." in the Sporting Life, says : "As Mr. Merry
has determined to run Macgregor for the Eighteenth
Biennial, the meeting will not 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 flag 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 the Eighteenth Bienial 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 Badminston Stakes I shall
award to the Seamstress filly or Daylight. In the Lane-
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 Fuze e. To the Eighteenth Biennial Stakes (1.-i 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 BETTING—SATURDAY,
120 to 100 agst Macgregor (offered-1000 to 800 taken)
100 to 12 agst 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 Normanby (offered-2000 to 9 taken)
1000 to 40 aget Palmerston (offered)
1000 to 30 aget Cymbal (offered)
100 to 2 aget 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 agst Ely Appleton (offered)
1000 to 8 agst Ptarmigan (offered)

GRAND PRIZE OF PARIS.
1000 to 200 agst Lornette (taken twice)
600 to 100 agst Recorder (offered)
800 to 100 agst Ooutts (offered)
DOUBLE EVENT.
600 to 400 agst Macgregor for Bath Biennial and The
Derby -

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 Custance are also " specially re-
tained."

Mr. Edmond Beales, 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 ict,
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.
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.