The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-24 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES.

Now that the weather has cl-earod up there ap-
pears to be every chance of one of the greatest ga-
therings en Epsom Downs that has ever been seen
to witneEs the grand contest for the Blue Riband of
the turf. The changes that have taken place in
the yositions of Petry Down, the Drummer, Bor-
der Knight, Lades, Martyr loin, llaneit, De Vere,
Rysh worth, and Ethus within the I.,st week or
ten days, would have kept the game alive if
the three favourites had all remained firm.
But there are other items in the programme than
the Derby, and not tin lea:A significant is
the race set for Tues lay, arising out of the Epsom
difficulty, the Walton Manor Stakes, over the las
mile and a quarter. A. brilliant entry was attracted
by the 750 sovs added money, for the 37 nominated
comptised the two last Derby winners and the
favourite for the next, besides Knight of the Garter,
Vespas:an, King Victor, See Saw, Grimston, Troca-
dero, Thorwaldsen, Badsworth, Lumley, and Vaga-
bond. Take away all the penalties and allowances
so judiciously ordained by the c„inditions, and there
would be " only one in it," and that one Knight of
the Garter, but the Chester Cup winner has to
carry lOst 11b, in teal of the original 93t 51b, which
latter isall the impost Trocadero is afflicted with, and
Badsworth and Luin ley at Bst 31beach,Leoutes at 7st
101 b, Rupert at 7st 31b, and Vagabond and the
Young Melbourne fat 7st, are worth looking at now,
and the race, in my opinion, looks like a match be-
tween Vagabond and Knight of the Garter, the
former for choice. Perfume ought to secure the
Ileathcote Plate, and President Lincoln is not
badly dealt with in the Rous Handicap. The field
for the Derby will number about twenty-six, se-
lected from the following :

Pretender Mr J. Johnstone Dark blue, silver braid
Pero Gomez Sir Joseph Hawley... Cherry, black c4p
llelladrum Mr James Merry Yellow, black cap
Ladas Lord Roseberry Primrose and rose hoops,
rose cap
Bosworth Mr J. Astley Drab, blue cap
Martyrdom' Lord Calthorpe Blue, white cap
Duke of Beaufort..Mr E. Brayb.y Red, yellow cap
Tasman Sirß.W.Bitlkeley.....Brown, white seams,
sleeves aril cap
Royal Rake Lord llendlesham ...Orange
Tenedos Duke of Newcastle... Violet and write hoops,
violet cap
Perry Down Mr T. Jennings 'White, green belt, red
cap
The Drummer Mr W. Graham Green, black belt, green
cap
Ethus Mr Padwick Black, orange cap
Hermione c01t......8ar0n Rothschild Dark blue, yellow cap
Ryshworth Mr Savile Yellow, scarlet cap
Alpenstock.-- ...... Lord Royston White, gold braid, purple
cap
Rupert Lord Strafford White, purple sleeves,
velvet cap
The £gean Mr Norman Blue, gold braid
Brennus Lord Zetland...... ..... White, red spots, scarlet
cap
Strathnairn Mr Watt

Border Knight. Sir Charles Legard .. Blue
Consternation Mr Cornish Blue,white star, crimson
sleeves and capj
Mr Jost ph Dawson... White, rod cap

De Vero,

Pretender, since his easy victory over Belladrum
in the Two Thousand Guin2..ta, has kept his posi-
tion as firtt favourite, and d...sirvecily so, as no

horse can be doing better. Thorwaldscn, his stab!e
companion, is greatly fancied for a place and may
just manage to repeat the An lover and ILrtuit feat
by running first and third when the B .rou run
s cond with King Tom. Ilelladrnm will run a
nue') better horse than he did in the Two Thousand,
and may turn the ta'des on Pretender. Pero Gomez
has nightly declined in the betting owing to a
rumour that he was beaten in his trial, but those
who are treating with indifference Sir Joseph's
grand horse will have cause to repent it when they
take their preliminary canters. Vagabond is a
doubtful starter, and King Cophetut inn)* be sent to
make the running for " Pero." Perry Down will
be the hope of the Frenchmen, but I have no fancy
for him. He might secure a "shop." The Drummer
has been backed heavily for a place, and will like
the course better than the Two Thousand ; but,
good horse as I think he is, he will not accomplish
another Caractacus coup. Martyrdom will be ridden
by Fordham, and is ahnost certain of getting home
in the first three, as he is much improved. Rhys-
worth has no chance. Iztdas and Ethus have now
retired to the outside division. In summing up I can
come to no other conc7usion than that the judge
will plac3 them as follows :

PRETENDER 1
BELLADRUM 2
:MARTYRDOM 3
The Oaks will be won by Marna or Brigantine.
A FRESH MAN.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-0u Monday next, the
31st, Mr. T. E. Sande, the treasurer of this theatre, takes
his benefit, on which occasion a very attractive series of
entertainments will be given, supported by all the leading
talent of the day. The urbanity of Jfr. S male h 8 secured
for him the respect au I frhindship of a great number of
persons, and in return for his universal attention to the
patmns of this place of amusement, it is to be hoped on
the occasion of his benefit ho will receive that strong sup-
port which he so eminently deserves.
ALLEGED MURDER NEAR THE TEMPLE.—At the
inquest to-day into the circumstances attending the death
of Mr. W. Young, aged 32, who was supposed to have
been robbed of a considerable sum of money and then
thrown into the Thames, one orthe witnesses said deceased
had 'had a run of bad luck on the turf. The jury re-
-turned-a-rerdir.:t of found drowned.

THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY.—To-day is the fiftieth
anLiversary of the birth of her Majesty the Queen, and
the auspicious occasion was celebrated with joyous de-
monstrations in the Royal borough of Windsor.

The gelding by Weatherbit out of St. Agnes pulled up
lame while running in the Wheathanastead Stakes at
Harpenden.
We understand that Mr. Chaplin recently hired Rapid
Rhone aid Brother to Rapid Rhone, and that they are
stationed at Tathwell and Blankney.
The following assumed names have been registered :
Mr Black and Mr F. H. Hill.

Ligurian was struck out of the Somersetshire Stakes at
.15 on the day of the race.

Mr Hillman, the "little plunger," has lost during the
week between £6,000 and £7,000.
Mr Harry Sydney, the popular comic singer, is engaged
at Evans's for the Derby week.
Bouquetiere, after winning the Paddock St tkes at Croy-
don, was sold to Mr Ford for 155 guineas.
The two year old filly by Lacydes out of Fiction, after
winning the Juvenile Selling Stakes at Manchester, was
sold to Mr. G. W. Morris for 140 guineas.
The following horses, the property of Mr. Naylor, have
left Weever's stables for M. Dawson's, Newmarket :
Briar, Glenlyon, Chatsworth, Cherie, Poetry, Sister to
Wild Briar, and Lorelei filly.
Mr. Snowing has sent fifteen of his own mares to
Caractacus (sire of Captivator), which is half the number
to which the horse is limited. Mr. Snewing's yearlings
by Caractacus will be sold at East Acton on the Wednes-
day after the Derby.
Ilsley was claimed by Mr. C. Jarvis, after running in
the Botbamstead Stakes at Harpenden, and Plunger was
sold for 25 guineas to Mr. Fox, after the decision of the
Scurry Handicap at the sane meeting, in which race he
was nnplaced.

The Duke of Hamilton, it is understood, bought in se-
veral of the animals at the sale last Saturday in Paris, and
will continue to patronise the French Turf. W. Planner
has been engaged as trainer, while the Duke retains J.
Page's services as first jockey.

.1 el
There was a novelty at some sports near Leeds, in the
shape of a hurdle race, in which the horses were ridden
by the fair sex. One of them had a mishap by the slip-
ping of her horse's saddle girths, but the two others rode a
very vigorous finish, which was won by a head.
Mr Graham, who is extraordinarily confident of win-
ning the Derby with The Drummer, has expressed his
determination, in the event of success, to present £5,000
to his trainer, and £l,OOO " ready money" to whoever may
be the fortunate jockey, immediately after the race.
Several jockeys have been negotiated with, but Mr
Graham has resolved to keep the actual rider a secret until
the last moment.
THE PIGEON SHOOTING HANDICAP AT CROYDON.—The
silver cup offered by the committee to be shot for at
pigeons, on Thursday, having failed to produce a contest
with members of Tattersall's, the prize will be confined to
trainers and jockeys, and Will be Eliot for at the next meet-
ing. Mr. E. Smith will handicap the competitors.
HADIPTON.—The Surrey and Middlesex Stakes has
closed with 39 subs., the Wolsey Plate with 35, and the
Visitors' Plate with 30 entries.

WYE RACES.— Myrtle, who won the Military Stakes,
was objected to, uud subSeqcently disqualified, Master
Horatio, who came in second, being awarded the stakes.

The great display of fireworks and illumination
of fountains at the Crystal Palace will take place at nine
o'clock exactly this evening. As from the fineness of the
evening it is expected a large number of visitors will
thereby be attracted to this grand display, who have oniy
made up their minds at the last moment, it is announced
that reserved seats may be secured by telegram to the
ticket-office, Crystal Pa'ace. His Highness the Nawab of
Bengal and other distinguished visitors will be present.
DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest
holders of Whisky in the wend. Their Old Irish Whisky is re
commended by the medical profession in preference to French
Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports
Lion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunvillo and Co..
Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, Loudon, W.Q.—[A.d-
rtisement.

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SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

SPORTILG INTELLIGENCE—This Day

TAT FERSALUS—THis EVLNING.
DERBY.
100 to GO agst Pretender (taken and offered)
5 to 1 agst Belladrum (taken and offered)
sto 1 agst Pao Gomez (taken and offered)
13 to 1 agst Drutnruer (taken and offered)
13 to 1 agst Perri Down (offered)
1000 to 45 agst Border Knight (offered)
1000 to 00 agst DO Vere (taken and offered)
1000 to 30 agst Thorwaldeeu (taken and offered);
1000 to 30 agst Martyi dont (taken and offered),
10 to 1 agst Ladas (taken and offered)
7000 to 20 agst Rhysworth (taken and offered)
1000 to 13 agst Ethos (off •rod)
1000 to 15 agst Vagabond (offered)
1000 to 10 agat A penstock (taken and off red)
1000 to 10 eget Lord Hawthorn (taken and offal-id)
1000 to 10 agst Bosworth (offered)
1000 to 7 agst Breunus (taken and offered)
1000 to 5 agst King Cophetu t (offered)
• 1000 to 5 agat Herinione c (taken and offered)
1000 to 2 asst Rupert (taken)
THE OAKS.
sto 2 ngst Morna (offered-3 to It. end w.)
3to 1 agst Sottish Q.teen (taken and offered)
100 to 30 agst Biigantine (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Dryad (taken)
100 to 8 agst Martinique (offered)
20 to 1 agst Boundary (taken and offered)
200 to 100 on Morns, Scottish Queen, and Brigantine
(coupled—taken)

LONDON BETIING—THIs DAY.

DERBY.
7 to 2 agst Pretender (taken and offered)
sto 1 agst Pero Gomez (taken)
sto 1 agst Bellaerum (taken and offered)
100 to 6 agat Drummer(taken and offered)
100 to 6 agst Perry Down (offered-20 to 1 taken
and wanted)
20 to 1 agst Thorwaldsen (taken and offered)
30 to 1 agst Border Knight (taken)
30 to 1 agst Ilattyrdotn (taken)
5U to 1 apt Ethus (taken)
50 to 1 agst Do Vere (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Bosworth (offered)
100 Q to 10 agst Vagabond (taken)
1000 to 8 agst Egean (offered)
1000 to 2 agst Rupert (taken)
PLACE BETTING.
6to 4 agst Belladruni (taken)l
6, to 4 agst Pero Gomez (taken and offered)
7 to 2 agst Drummer (taken)
7to 2 agst Thnrwaldsen (taken)
4 to 1 agat Perry Down (taken and offered)
sto 1 agst Martyrdom (taken)
7to 1 agst Border Knight (taken)
100 to 6 agst De Vero (taker:)

OAKS.
3 to 1 ng•t Mona (taken)
100 to 30 aget Scottish Queen (taken)
7 to 2 agst ltrigautine (taken)
100 to 12 agst Dryad (tlken)
100 to 8 agst Martitliiue (taken and offered)

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The times cannot wonder at the further measures of

public safety which have been recently suggested to the
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland by the magistrates of the
county of Westmeath, called together after the murder of
Mr. Anketell, the station-master at Mullingar, and says:
We are not, indeed, of those who believe inthe existence of a
general conspiracy even in the disaffected districts, if by
conspiracy is meant an active plotting against the law by
large combinations of men. But it should be remembered
'that the State has a right to require from each of its mem-
bers, not only that he shall abstain from crime, but
that he shall discountenance it in others, and, if

necessary, co-operate in its suppression. Judged
by this standard, bow many of the inhabitants in
some parts of Westmeath or Tipperary can be said to be
quite innocent of these agrarian outrages? We fear very
many must be pronounced more or less guilty. We do
not speak of the numerous accomplices before the fact, of

the still more numerous accessaries after the fact, nor even
of the multitudes who know the murderer, his name,
appearance, or hiding place, and yet screen him from jus-

tice. But over and above these there are Fenians who
openly rejoice over the destruction of a Saxon ; tenants
who congratulate themselves that their own position has
been fortified by such an example having been made of
an offending landlord; priests who, however much they

abominate the offence, are not prevented by their religion
from secretly absolving the offender ; and the population
at large, which stands by looking on, or half sympathetic,
at all events unashamed and unresenting. The truth is

these crimes are not so much of individuals as of

society. But for society. which prompts and condones
them, and conceals the doers of them, they would be
rarely designed, still more rarely attempted, and, we may
say, could never pass undetected. We are quite conscious
how inadequate and even invidious are merely repressive
operations when unaccompanied by remedies which go to

the root of the evil, and we should deem it criminal neglect
on the part of the Government to postpone any longer
their endeavours to effect by legislation a complete and
equitable settlement of the land difficulties ; but we agree
with Archbishop Leahy, that nothing is more calculated

to hinder such a settlement than these frequent assassina-

tions.

At all events, with respect to these the general

policy of the State is clear.

The immediate and

paramount duty of the Government is the maintenance of

public order.

The Standard says that the deans have received a hint
to set their houses in order. They are informed, through
the friendly medium of the Primate, that the Government
are not prepared to take " any immediate action" in regard
to Cathedral Reform, but that " attention will be given to

any suggestions which the deans, from their practical
experience, may be enabled to offer." It is glad to
perceive, from the tone of the recent meeting at Lambeth

Palace, that the deans, as a body, seem disposed to respond
to this invitation. The cathedral system, in fact, is the
weak point of the Church of England, and we think
it a matter of congratulation that its spiritual heads
have drawn attention to the fact, and that the deans them-
selves have been so prompt in recognising the necessity
of considering in what direction it may be most
desirable to institute reforms. It agrees with Mr.

Beresford Hope, that cathedrals have never occupied that
place in the Church's system to which they are theoreti-
cally entitled. They should be the centre of the Church's
life and activity in each diocese, the rallying point of its

warfare, and the nucleus of its organisation. Their ser-
vices should be models to all surrounding churches both
as to their frequency, their heartiness, and their decent
and seemly ordering, It might be a question whether the
cathedral should be " parochialised," but if such a sys-
tem as Mr. Hope has sketched out should be adopted, all
the clerical staff should be resident and available either
for parochial work or for preaching wherever their aid
might be required. If, however, the aim in view is simply
to save money, and keep the system on its present footing,
there is very little to be said against the proposition of
the archbishops. It is the severest condemnation of that
system to say that if all the other dignitaries were swept
away a dean and two resident canons for each cathedral
would be quite sufficient to keep it going.
The Star observes that as it is evident Mr. Sumner did
not wish for war when he made his speech, it is difficult to
imagine at what he aimed. But the result has been, not,
indeed, to endanger the peace of the world, but to destroy
what was hardly less precious--the good understanding
between the United States and tha masses of the English
people, headed by those advanced Liberals whose opinions
they usually share ? Mr. Sumner was the last who should
have turned round upon us with injurious reproaches. He
should have remembered, what he probably well knows,
that there was a time when the friends of the North in
this country were more Northern than the Northerners,
more anxious for the suppression of Southern slavery
than the Northern Unionists appeared ; that the
alleged lukewarmness of the North as to slavery was,
even with those who felt least deeply on the subject in
England, an occasion of hostility towards the Union ; and
that even among those who seemed to care for little else
than the dismemberment of the United States a change of
feeling favourable to the North took place when Mr.
Lincoln ceased his blank declarations in favour of
Union, and proclaimed emancipation as essential to peace
and the restoration of the Republic. The Americans
might learn a lesson of modesty and moderation if they
were to reflect that even those who were unfriendly to the
North mitigated their hostility as soon as the North
chewed by their emancipation policy that they had
really risen to the height of the great occasion
that was upon them. The neutrality established by the
proclamation was not broken by anything that could be
construed into a national act except the escape of the
Alabama, and that, while we have offered to hear its con-
sequences, we have a. right to c,..teoa aa c-ne result of
misadventure, or, at worst, or local intrigue, in no way
countenanced by the Government. It is a curious fact
that, though society was almost entirely opposed to the
North, and though the feeling of Parliament was supposed
to be the same as that of society, no overt advantage was
ever gained in England for the South, even though the
Emperor of the French—who is strangely shielded from
Mr. Sumner's wrath—threw his influence into the adverse
scale.

The Telegraph is sanguine as to the results of the
inquiry into our military law. The commission has din-
gently prosecuted its task for about a year, with the
necessary interval of the time occupied by the general
election ; and it has every reaspn to expect that the
results soon to be announced will be found most satisfac-
tory to the country and beneficial to the army. Such a
hope appears the better founded when it looks at the com-
position of the body. As originally constituted, it was
obviously too full of the official element to be
thoroughly honest in its researches or effective in
its results. It was quite intelligible—but it was also
intolerable—that the wishes of the departments should
be so glaringly consulted in the choice of members ;
and great credit is due to Captain Vivian, the
present War Lord of the Treasury, for chal-
lenging, in the House of Commons, the exclu-
sive and inefficient composition of the commission.
Thanks to the independent element in the membership—
and also, it may fairly presume, to the encouragement
and support of the Minister who has presided over the
War Office during the last six months—theCourts-Martial
Commission will be further entitled to the high praise of
successfully withstanding powerful social pressure, brought
to bear in the interests of those who desired that no sub-
stantial reforms should be recommended. The difficulties
and the fruitlessness of previous inquiries into army affairs
bad passed into a proverb ; and the coming report may
mark the first instance in which a body of men has been
found too courageous and too conscientious tolhe baffled by
influences that had rendered the labour of many pre-
decessors little better than a mockery.
The Herald thinks that Mr. Forster's speech on the
Endowed Schools Bill was in every respect an admirable
one, and showed a more than ordinary grasp of a difficult
question. With many of his recommendations, and with
the general tone of his remarks, it cordially agrees. It is
impossible not to perceive the importance of what Mr.
Forster points out as the two ideas of the bill—the raising,
of our grammar schools to the highest possible level of
efficiency, by reforms to be recommended by a commis-
sion of inquiry, and by the institution of an
educational board to exert a constant supervision over
them. With just as much of the bill as tends to
the secularisation of school teaching it cannot, of
course, sympathise. It may be very desirable that these
• schools should be " great national institutions to which all
parties and all creeds have access." But when it was
clearly the intention of the founder that the boys should
Le reared in the faith of the Church of England that inten.
tion should be respected. When the formularies and
creed of that Church have for centuries formed a funda-
mental part of the teaching of a school, they are
eztablished in that position by prescriptive right. Mr.
Forster admits that he does not bold secular teaching
on a par with religious, but argues that " the greater
faculty you can give
,a boy the better he will be for
the clergyman to deal with." It is not quite sure
of this ; but let that pass. Suppose that the clergy-
man never deals with him at all, or, having ten thousand
parishioners, never comes near him. What then ? The
secular system is simply a relapse into heathenism. It is
essential, it thinks, that religious instruction be combined
with secular teaching in all schools for the young. It
is glad to know that this is admitted in nearly all
grammar schools, and, putting personal predilection aside,
. it thinks it a cause of general congratulation that the
form of Christianity mostly followed is that of the Church
of England, as that is of all the most moderate and most
tolerant of creeds, the best calculated to disarm opposi.
ceudltaitit xvaPeot An religion.

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OP

ENGL AND.

The half-yearly meeting of this society was held on
Saturday at the society's rooms, Hanover-square, Sir
Archibald Macdonald in the chair.

The report stated that the Duke of Devonshire had
been elected a vice-president in the room of the late Sir
J. V. B. Johnstone, and Sir Thomas Hesketh and Mr.
T. Slatter had been appointed on the council in the place
of Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., resigned. The funded capital of
the society still remains £16,027 19s. 7d. in the New
Three per Cents, and £3,000 lies on deposit with the
society's bankers, and the cash balance in their hands
on the Ist inst. was £4,235. The Pasha of
Egypt has been unanimously elected an honorary
member of the society, in recognition of his generous aid to
British agriculture, and his interest in its progress ; and
M. Drouyn de L'huys and M. Edouard Lecouteux, the
first president and secretary of the " Soci6t6 des Agricul-
teurs de Trance," have also been unanimously elected
honorary members of the society. The council announce
that the country meeting for 1870 will be held at Oxford.
The country meeting to be held at Manchester, under the
presidency of the Prince of Wales, from the 19th to the
24th of July, promises to be unusually attractive.
A schedule of prizes to the amount of £4,120 has been
issued for live stock and implements. The local
committee have also announced their intention of holding
a show of hounds and an exhibition of leaping of hunters;
and the Royal Horticultural Society will hold a.flower show
adjacent to the society's yard. After referring to im-
provements in the ✓ournal, the report goes on to say that
the examinations for the society's educational prizes and
certificates were held on the 13th of April and following
days, when eighteen candidates, out of twenty-one who
bad entered, presented themselves for examination in the
several subjects.
Colonel TowNLEv moved the adoption of the report, and
in seconding it, Mr. DENT, M.P., said that thecommittee
thought it would be well to give prizes for the
best essays on certain farms which shewed
the peculiarity of cultivation in different districts;
that commissioners should be sent to different districts in
England, Scotland, Ireland, and continental countries ;
and that the prize essays and reports should be published
in the Journal. With this proposal he agreed, as he
thought they would receive much good information and
practical knowledge. As to the election of the council,
he was a great advocate for the infusion of new blood, and
in his opinion one-half of the members should retire
annually.