The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-29 00:00:00

SPORTING.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SZIN.

Sm,—Last week I gave a list of the St. Leger illustrious
obscures--,to-day I will proceed to the analyzation of the
" third-rates." First on the list stands dr. Bowe,s's fildes
Mowerina and Ukraine, both good animals, went well for the
Oaks, especially the former, who finished fifth, her owner
expecting to win with her • but as she could not manage
that, I cannot think she stands any chance of being A 1 for
the St. Leger; in fact, I am inclined to believe that neither
of Mr. Bowes's fillies will start for that race.

Arkwright—His understandings tc.o bad for anything above
a plate race.
Free Lance—This colt possesses good blood, and now and
then, when least expected, wins, proving that there is some-
thing ici him, but not much.
Colt by Don John, out of Game Lass—A to!erable nag, btt
not in regular training.
Sotades—An incorrigible brute, who will onlygo when he
pleases.
Innis FAuus—A deceptive light, leading to no good.
itchfield—Splendid blood circulates in this animal, but
to no purpose.
The Druid—A goodly-looking nag to the eye, and with a
light weight on his back may do something. but cannot pass
muster as a St. L2gerite; he will probably help to swell the
field.
Danceaway—An Irish filly by Harkaway ; will not do at
any price.
Fair Helen—Half-sister to Alice 'Hawthorn ; is a disgrace
to her parentage.
Tom Tullock—The 2,000 guineas and Derby crack has
gone off like a squib, with great noise and little profit.
Cuckoo—Will never pipe a " triumphant march"
St. Leger course; neither will she start.
Malt—May be as go, but if she does, it will not over the
the pro-
perty of William Scott.

VOYnton—At one time was in considerable force as an out•
skier for the Derby, but his pretensions on the Downs were
soon disposed of; his Doncaster pretensions may be sent to
the " right-about" in the same manner.

Shars'ion—A two-year-old flyer; but as a three- year-old, I
worse than Arkwright.
Traveller, by Sambo—May start, but will never win.
Froth, a colt of Mr. Preston's by Ishmael—A very myste-
rious nag, which I know but little about; it is at present in
Ireland, but may probably start for the great northern event;
about it I am unable to advise, being in the dark myself.
With this animal closes the batch of third-rates. I think
anybody may satisfactorily assert that the winner is not
among them. The second class I will bring under my con-
sideration next week.
The racing at Newcastle has let out nothing whatever ; the
ground was in such a wretched condition after the storm on
Monday, that fair racing was entirely out of the question.
Fancy Boy would have won the Nora; Derby Stakes had he
not fell twice. Many good judges on the course, immediately
preceding the race, confidently asserted that it was an im-
possibility for Sir Tattoo to lose. Many think so still, but I
am not of the number. I verily believe that if Fancy Boy
had not fell a second time, he would, in spite of his first fall,
have gone in an easy winner.
My fancy nag for the Northumberland Plate was a very
good third, and had he not kept so long in the rear might
have won ' • for when he did leave his horses he came out well
enough, but too late. Dolo winning this race, as well as the
North Derby, made him third favourite in the betting for the
St. Leger. Grimston's running for the Lottery Stakes nearly
raised hint to a level with Dolo; but his backers were not so
confident. The St. Leger bids fair to be a profitable race for
the book-makers, there being no less than a dozen nags in
the betting, at the present moment, under 20 to 1; and,
moreover, it is a very open race, much more so than the
Derby.
The Carlisle meeting 'has three days of moderate sport.
On Wednesday the Peri colt and Cmnbrook will between
them win the Claret Stakes. On Thursday the Maid of
Motherwell or Susannah will win the Corby Castle Stakes,
Belted Will being near the mark. The Cumberland Plate
will have some half-dozen starters, with Telemachus or
Glossy for winner, Dolo, I presume, not starting. On Friday
the Lottery Stakes to the Peri colt or Philip.
The Winchester meeting commences on Wednesday, with
the Great Produce Stakes, which Mr. Wreford will most
assuredly win with Wilderness or Wits-end, whichever he
may please to start. The Original Hampshire Stakes will
probably have Petitioner or Leaconfield for winner.
On Thursday the Foal Stakes will go to Mr. Gully with
Pyrrhus ; the Two-year-old Stakes to the Phoebe colt,
SO-Nice, or Cobweb filly, and the Winchester Stakes to
Adele colt or Rosa —I am, Sir, &c.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

THE PORTARLINGTON AND GAL-

WAY LINE.
(From the Railway Times.)
The Portarlington and Galway line, rejected by a Com-
mittee of the House of Commons, is another verification of
our judgment in Irish railways. From the first day that pro-
ject was ushered into existence, in 1844, we hesitated not to
express our conviction that it was a scheme undeserving
either of public support or legislative sanction. The chapter
of accidents was, however, completely in its favour. Repu-
diated by most of the leading men who were announced as
its' promoters, it still found folks simple enough to enrol
themselves as shareholders. Thrown out by the Standing
Orders' Committee of the House of Commons, dexterous ma-
nagement succeeded in obtaining leave from the House to
proceed. A temporary and timely truce with its rival saved
it from opposition in Committee, secured the passing of its
preamble and entrance to the Upper House; once there, its
demerits met more just appreciation, and the Bill was thrown
out. Thus ended the session of 1845.
The Portarlington and Galway scheme was not, however,
thus easily to be defeated. The Great Southern and Western
(Cashel) Company coveted a monopoly of traffic from the
province of Connaught equally as from their own proper dis-
trict. The Portarlington line, if carried out to the exclusion
of a line from Mullingar to Athlone, would have secured
' that monopoly. True, the country from Portarlington
to Athlone was a barren bog; a line by that route would
have increased the distance of Galway. from Dublin by eight
miles, as compared with a line by Mullingar; the traffic was
utterly insufficient to support a railway ; even that traffic,
insignificant as it was, would have been shared with the
Grand Canal, closely parallel with which the line proposed
to run ; altogether the prospect of remuneration to the share-
holders was most hopeless. What mattered-all this to the
Cashel directors! They were determined that the cont•
munication between Dublin and the western counties should
be solely carried on over their line. The Portarlington
scheme (if successful) would accomplish for them this ob-
ject, and therefore it continued to be pressed forward under
their auspices and with their support.
The Portarlington and Galway line, too, in the session of
1846, seemed on the high road to success. A Committee of
the House of Lords declared its preamble proVed. True,
there was the drawback of the line from Mullingar to

lone being also granted, thereby cutting off all holm of traffic
from the portion lying between Athlone and Portarlington.
Still they had their line from Poi tarlington to Galway, and
the promoters were highly elated. Not so the shareholders.
They had learned something of how matters really stood—
they had found out the bleak prospect of remuneration for
them—they had discovered that the scheme was projected
and persevered in merely in the hope of bolstering up the
monopoly sought to be established by the Cashel Company,
and they very naturally said, " If the Cashel shareholders
are to derive all the benefit from the construction of this
line, they, not we, should bear the risk." They propose, as
the fair course, that the Cashel Company should lease the
line. The directors of that Company decline the proffer of a
lease, but profess their readiness to buy and repay the ori-
ginal deposit to the shareholders, without any deduction for
expenses, on an Act being obtained. The promoters accept
those terms, agree to the introduction of a clause into their
Bill authorising this sale and purchase, but singularly enough
proposing to enact, that on the bargain being completed,
the Portarlington Company should be dissolved, and the
shareholders released from all further liability, thus leaving
the Cashel purchasers without a subscription contract from
which to derive funds for the formation of the line. This
clause, if enacted by Parliament, would have rendered the
making of a railway to Galway rather a difficult task. The
difficulty, however, has been overcome in a way the parties
least wished for. The line went before a Committee of the
House of Commons, had full and patient investigation on
the merits, and was most justly thrown out.
The Portarlington and Galway line having thus ceased to
live, we should not have once alluded to its past existence,
did we not understand that active endeavours are being made
to induce the House, on the bringing up the report on the
Midland Great Western (Mullingar) line, on Tuesday, to re-
verse the decision of the Committee. Those efforts, we feel
satisfied, must prove futile. Members before voting should
acquaint themselves with the evidence given before the
Committee. They should knew that the Mullingar is an
established trunk line, the natural extension of which is
westward to Athlone and Galway ; that it would be unjust to
impoverish this line by inverting the western traffic which
naturally would flow over it, and send it out of its way over
the southern trunk line. They should know, too,
_that this_
Cashel Company, which withsuch unsatiable cupidity seeks
to get the whole country into its own hands, has already, in
two former sessions, obtained powers to make 240 miles of
railway, not one mile of which is yet opened ; that they
have already more on their hands than they can reasontlay
be expected to accomplish for years. Having :Anointed
themselves with these facts, they must be cvnvinced that the
true way to do justice in this case—;Ma speedy way to secure
for Galway railway communicAiion with Dublin—is by con-
firming the decision of the Committee, and giving the western
traffic to the Mullingar line.

ERRATIIM.—In our leading article of Saturday evening,
" the protectionist party" should have been " the proliberalist
party under the Marquis of Lansdowne."
BRIDGWATER, JUNE 27.—0 n the information being
received that the royal assent had been given to the Corn
Bill, the cannons were immediately prepared, and firing was
kept up on the quay during the day, the vessels hoisted their
colours, the church bells ran. merry peals, and there was
general rejoicing that the people's voice had triumphed, and
that the great principle of free-trade had been confirmed by
the Legislature. An idea prevails that it would be well to
celebrate the event by a general holiday. Nothing could be
more appropriate at this season of the year. Let the Council
of the League propose a day in the early part of a week, and
we have no doubt the proposition would be adopted in most
"u
Yesterday
was the eighth anniversary of her Majesty's
coronation. In honour of the day the royal standard was
hoisted in the usual places, and at one o'clock salutes were
fired from the Park and Tower guns, at Woolwich, Tilbury
Fort, &c. The vessels inn in colours. the river were also gaily dressed

ARMING AANc
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that
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the express train which left this station for Birmingham at
30 minutes past fouro...m. The accident occurred at aedfebw
miles beyond the Wickwar station, and w
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and was thrown off while the
d by the train, that the engine is said literally to
taruasitnaiNtiveas proceeding at full speed. So violent was the shock
have jumped a distance of twenty yards, doing great injury
to itself and tender, and breaking the first carriage almost to
pieces. The other carriages were injured, but not to the
same extent. The wheel, on coming off, ran across to the
down rail, which it struck with such force as to cut its way
into the embankment to the depth of more than a foot. The
engine-driver and stoker were thrown off, but luckily not
with such force as to kill them. One of them received a
severe cut on the left leg, and both were much bruised.
Some of the passengers were also bruised, by being thrown
violently into collision with each other, and all were terribly
alarmed. As soon as intelligence could be conveyed to the
company's superintendent at Bristol, that officer sent off a
special train to carry on the passengers. The up-rail was
got clear as soon as possible, and as it is now being used both
ways, but little delay is occasioned in the working of the
trains.

ADDRESS TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.—We understand
that a preliminary meeting of some of our merchants and
principal manufacturers was held immediately on the receipt
of the intelligence announcing the divisions on Thursday
e vening, when the propriety of addressing Sir Robert Peel,
calling upon him to retain dike until the reform of our com-
mercial code is completed, waa diecuased and agreed upon.—
, ganchester..&xaminer.