The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-23 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES.

The scratching of Buccaneer, and the retrograde
of The Wizard for the Two Thousand Guineas, has
been looked upon with great suspicion ; and, when
such public performers as Traducer, Tom Bowline,
Lupulus, Brother to Rainbow, and Nicholas are
made the favourites I cannot but regard the race
as a most open one. The public will not have an
opportunity of witnessing on this occasion the
much vaunted Yankee clipper, Umpire, as he
was scratched this day at 11 a.m. The run-
ners, I expect, will comprise the following :
Lupslus, The Rap, Richmond, Aurora, King of
Diamonds, Brother to Rainbow, The Wizard, St.
James, Nicholas, Traducer, Tom Bowline, and
Bivouac. John Scott is so celebrated for his Two
Thousand preparation, and Torn Bowline has
wintered so well, that, unless a frightful mistake
has been made in the trial, which took place
last Wednesday, he ought to get his head first,
brit I do not expect he ss ill turn out the real" Simon
Pure'' for the Derby. Traducer we saw fit as a
fiddle at Northampton, and the speed he showed in
the Spencer's Plate makes him out a racehorse.
Since then he has been put with Promised Land,
and done all that was required. There is no animal
in training at the present moment so fit or so well
as the Land, and the style in which he cut down
such horses as Eskdale and Red Eagle on Friday
proves beyond doubt he is the best horse of his
year. -However, Traducer's performances as a two
year old were of such mediocre quality that I must
hold my allegiance from him. Lupulus, as feu• as
public running goes, is the best horse in
the race, as witness his beating Thormanby,
Buccaneer, Madame Eglantine, Restes, and
a host of others too numerous to mention.
With Fordham on his back he ought to take his
place at the finish before the others, and the only
reason I don't trust him in preference to the rest is that
he has been so unhealthy is the betting. Whether
people lay because they don't think he can stay, or
from other cause, I cannot state ; but certainly his
chance is far greater on his merits than the ring
estimate, and if he were to come again I should be
very sweet uT)on him. Brother to Rainbow will
improve upon his performance at the last Newmar-
ket meeting, and I will be much disappointed if he
does not get a "situation." The King of Diamonds,
as a Champagne winner, has pretensions that must
not be overlooked ; and although his being behind
Brother to Rainbow last week looks fatal to him, I
am satisfied he will run better this time. Richmond
is daily improving, but I have seen nothing yet to
justify my belief in his winning. St. James ought
to perform in a superior style to his last exhibition,
for they said then it was like Cynricus' running.
And if the Saint was to come up to that pitch the
race would be virtually over; but I despair of such
a revolution being effected in him. Lord Zetland's
team are all so backward they can have no chance,
and the Rap is to run untried, so he will have no-
thing but his good looks to recommend him. It
would be difficult to find a better public performer
among the " certain" starters than Aurora, who was
always there or thereabouts" last season in the
best of company, and were Thormanby to partici-
pate in this encounter he would not have 71b. the
best of her. The Daneburyites are said to be very
fond this time, and as her defeat of Contadina,
Thormanby, King of Diamonds, Trovatore, &c., fur
the Clearwell, which race betrayed her thorougli
gameness, cannot be overlooked, I am inclined to
suppose her pretensions equal to those of the
favourites, no matter what figure she stands at in
the market. As John Scott is always so formidable
in this race I will not desert him on this occasion,
and will anticipate seeing the horses placed by the
judge in the following order :

TOM BOWLINE
KING OF DIAMONDS
BROTHER TO RAINBOW

Luff managed to finish at Antonio's head Across
the Flat last autumn, from the latter not being
capable of travelling a distance, and he ought, conse-
quently, to gallop her down for the 300 Soya Sweep-
stakes over the four-mile Beacon Course. Comforter
is in such a form that he may be entrusted to carry
9st 111 b for the Free Handicap on the T.Y.C. I
may also safely charge the Coffee Boom Stakes to
Petruchio, and the 25 Sovs Sweepstakes to Little
Lady, while the juvenile Glenluce need be only
moderate to beat his elder brother on the T.Y.C. at
two stone for the year.

Pandora appeared to mend a little last autumn,
and is worth standing against Tight Fit with 111 b
in the R.M., it being a near thing between them, as
is also the D. M. Handicap, with Harry Stanley,
and the best of the Americans—probably Cock-a-
Hoop, who must be made the favourite against
Harry, at a stone for the year ; but the half-mile
and A. F. Sweepstakes have every appearance of
proving certainties for Actaeon and Thunderbolt,
as Thormanby is not likely to oppose the latter
before the Derby day.
For the One Thousand on Thursday I prefer the
chances of SAGITTA and CONTADINA.
April 23. A FRESH MAN.

POLICE INTELLIGENUE.—( This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

HIGHWAY ROBBURY BY A WELL-KNOWN THIEF.—
Catherine Dawson, a notorious thief, and well known as an
associate of thieves, was charged, before Mr. Beadon, with
stealing a silver hunting watch, of the value of £4, the pro-.
perty of William Smith, an elderly man, a coach painter,
under the following daring circumstances :
The prosecutor said ho was going up Upper St. Martin's-
lane on Saturday night, a little after twelve o'clock, when
the prisoner and a companion came in front of him, upon
which he stepped aside and tried his utmost to get away
from them. The prisoner then made a snatch at his watch,
which was in his waistcoat pocket, and he had no doubt
handed it to the other woman, who immediately started off
in a different direction. The prosecutor managed to seize
the prisoner, who commenced a severe struggle, in which
his thumb was nearly wrenched from the socket. lie could
swear positively to the prisoner being the one who took the
watch. _ _ _ _

A 'constable said the watch had not been found.
Sergeant Cole, 9 C, said he knew tho prisoner as a noto-
rious thief. lie had seen her at Bow-street, and at this
court for robberies, and she was considered a " clever
woman in her profession."

Sergeant Silverton said she was well known to him as an
associate of thieves.

Mr. Beadon said she would be remanded for a week for
further inquiries to be made.

THE GREAT EASTERN.—The directors have ap-
pointed Captain Vine Hall to the command of the great
ship. A more fitting successor to the late Capt. Harrition
could not well have born selected, i,nd he is an officer who
possesses many of those qualities which gained for the late
commander the high position which he occupied in the naval
profession rapt.llall hae had a large amount of expericnce
in thz command of shins of the first class in the Mediter-
ranean, South AmeriA Australia, and India. His con-
duct in connection with the Crcesus, of 2,700 tons, which
upon arrival at Sydney was found to be frightfully leaky,
many of the plates Navin e- started, gained him the approba-
tion and friendship of the late Mr. Brunel. There was no
dock into which he could put his ship, and with gloat per-
severance he succeeded in forming a basin, by driving two
rows of piles round the vessel, filling up the space between,
then pumping the water out, and by this means he was en-
abled to repair and bring home the ship with a most valu-
able cargo. 'When the Cro'ms: with troops and stores for
the Crimea, was destroyed by fire off Genoa, his conduct
received the highest approbation from the Admiralty. As
captain of the Golden Fleece, with troops fur India, he
made the quickest voyage on record between England and
Calcutta. In 1857 Captain Hall was elected a P.R.A.S.,
and was the first, officer in the merchant service who took
a first-class certificate in steam examination under the Mer-
cantile Marine Act.