The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-01 00:00:00

NATIONAL SPORTS.

Backers hid an extraordinary time of it on the One Thou-
sand day. For the Ono Thousand itself the favourites were
beaten ; the fourth on the list in popular esteem carried off
the prize. But all the other events fell to favourites. ^he
Maiden Picto was won by the King of Trumps filly,
on even terms; the Handicap Sweepstakes by Lady
Beaconsfield, at 5 to 4 ; another Sweepstakes by
Stork, at 7 to 4 on ; the Handicap Plato by Acaster, at
2 to 1, and the remaining two races were also secured by
the favourites Du*. the One Thousand would amply re;.Tm-
pence the fieldsmen, for S(wtish Queen was backed but
very slightly. This is the fifth time that Fordham has won
this race since 1859. The recent betting movements for the
Chester Cup have been important. Ygeau has risen to 5 to
1, it having been found that there is nothing the matter
with him. Knight of the Garter is at the same
figure, and at Newmarket there was no disposition evinced
to make an advance beyond 7 to 1 against Romping Girl,
and 10 to 1 agst Fairwind. The latter odds were taken to
a hundred pounds about St. Mungo, and Vansittart came to
15 to 1, the only other of the middle division mentioned
being Dalby, who was supported for a small amount at 20
to 1. The most significant transactions were with regard
to Paul Jones, about whom 3 to 1 was booked to all that
could bo obtained.

It is believed by some good judges that the One Thousand
running will bo reversed in the Oaks. Morna ran well on
Thursday, and is a better stayer than Scottish Queen, who
is a notorious "roarer." This defect did not prevent her
winning the One Thousand, but the case will be very diffe-
rent on the Epsom course. The Newmarket Ditch mile,
is a very easy course ; the Epsom hill very diffi-
cult. As to the Derby, it is pretty certain that
Belladrum will rise very highly in the market before the
race is run. The bookmakers who laid against him are in a
terrible fright, and aro anxious to "hedge" on almost any
terms. "Hotspur," of the Telegraph, who formerly opposed
the horse, now believes that ho will win. lie says :—" There
is scarcely a dissentient from the opinion that Balladrum
ought to have won the Two Thousand; for, bad Kenyon
waited with him at tho girths of Pretender, and then
gone up with one run, he would have certainly
cut down his adversary. Nearly every jockey who
rode in the race is of this opinion ; and, bearing in mind that
Belladrum was absolutely leading three lengths at the
Bushes, the best stayer in the world might have got beaten
under the circumstances. I am certainly of opinion that
Belladrum was quite 71b below condition compared to what
he can bo made by the Derby day, and with his fine stride
there is nothing with any prospect of beating him, if he only
continues woll, unless it be Pretender."

The late Mrs. Cavendish, a daughter of the Lord
Chief Justice, was a Roman Catholic, and her husband,
who was formerly an English clergyman, seceded to Rome
several years ago.

The miners locked out at Tborncliffe have been
conducting themselves in a disgraceful manner. On Thurs-
day an attack was made upon the dwellings of the non-
unionists, and also upon the houses of people who were sup-
posed to be hostile to their cause.
The Langdale Memorial Fund exceeds £3OOO ; the
Lund raised to compnsato the poorer Roman Catholics of
Ashton who suffere.l from the Murphy riots of last year is
over 200 guineas. The subscriptions to the Pope's Jubilee
Fund reach £2,000.

The Cork corrcspon(lent of a contemporary
telegraphs that the Mayor, in a letter to a local paper repu-
diates the construction placed on his speech. He says:—"l
would be tholast man iu Ireland to justify the taking of thelife
of either prince or peasant. I called O'Farrell noble,' not be-
cause of what ho Lut because I considered him to bo
Einccro in his love for Ireland. That is, in my mind, a great
♦irtue, and ono that should endear his memory to his
countrymen."

A Mr. Aronsom, a jeweller, of Bangor, forwarded
.LCOO worth of watches and other jewellery for Australian
exportation in March last. The Lox containing the entire
stock was stolen from the North-Western train at Bangor.
A large portion of the stolen articles and a quantity of goods
carried off in two former robberies have been found under
the hearthstone in the house of a respectable Bangor citizen
named Hughes. Wilson, a Scotelman, and Parcel, a rail-
way porter, alleged rccomplices in the robbery, hay() been

THE MAYOR OF CORE.

The weeki-St. meeting of the Improvement' Department
of the Cork Town Council, on Friday, was largelyattended.
The Mayor was interrogated by Alderman Thomas Lyons
as to the words he made use of in bis speech at the banquet
given to 'Warren and Costelloe on Tuesday last, with
reference to O'Farrell, who fired at the Duke of Edinburgh.
The MAYOR replied that while denying the right of any
public body, except the Government, to call him to
account, and while asserting that his letter in the Cork
Examiner, denying that he intended to instigate to the
assassination of Prince Arthur, ought to satisfy every
honest Irishman, he explained that what he meant to
convey was that O'Farrell may have been actuated
by pure, high-minded, and honourable motives.
He did not know, but he dared say he was. He strongly
repudiated the allegation that he sympathised with
assassination, and declared that the construction put
upon his words-on that point was utterly false. He depre-
cated the taking of any man's life under any circum-
stances, and if he saw a weapon aimed at a prince or a
peasant he would be the first to turn it aside, even if it
came upon himself. lie would not deny to any country-
men of his—he would not deny to the men who had been
hanged at Manchester, or to Barrett, who was supposed
to have blown up Clerkenwell prison—the possession of
honourable motives, or that they were sincere lovers of
their country. That was his answer to my Lord Lifford
in the House of Lords, to Mr. Peel Dawson in the House of
Commons, to Mr. Lyons, to all the Orangemen of Ireland,
and to the traitors to the Liberal party in the country. He
asked what right had Lord Lifford or Mr. P. Dawson to
question any words of his ? He would ask Lord Lifford.
who was one of the same party in Ireland, as he sat in the
House of Lords to-night, if he did not hold his lands in
this country under the Act of Spoliation of 1714, and
through that violated Treaty of Limerick, through which
the Irish nation was robbed by the Orange party of Ire-
land ?

Mr. LYONS said if the mayor did not repudiate in toto,
in every possible way, the sentiments attributed to him
in the Examiner's report, he (Mr. Lyons) could not con-
scientiously, with his political and religious convictions,
continue to sit at that or any other board presided over
by a gentleman who could hold such opinions, and left it
to the council to say whether the explanation was satis-
tory or not.

After a warm discussion, in which several members
took part, the meeting broke up, it being considered that
as the matter of the mayor's conduct was under the con-
sideration of the law officers of the Crown, it would be
improper now to place the mayor on his trial, as it were.

TEL CAS.E or MR, DELI7+I2I7, 271:0-.-'.

InThe Court of Arches, yesterday, this case ;re:, accidA
on an application by Mr. Sheppard, as promoter of the
office of the Judge, that the Court of Arches should
ccpt letters of request from they-Bishop of Bath and W°ll6'
in order that certain charges of alleged heresy by Mr.
nett, of Frome, should be heard and determined. v"
the former occasion Mr. A. J. Stephens, Q..C., and Vt.
Tristram urged that the court was bond to accept the letters
of request from the Bishop - that they were letters of con?
mand.
His Lordship now gave judgment, and lucidly reviewed
the whole ecclesiastical law on the subject of letters of re-
quest. He cited several cases, and discussed the state 01
the law both before and after the it troduction of the
Church Discipline Act, under which the present ar
plication v..as made. No reason was assigned ill
the letters of request why they were seat to the
Appeal Court of the Province, instead of to the 13.1'
shop's Court. The charges were as to heresy on 60311:
of the awful mysteries of our religion, and in his opinion
was of all others a case for the bishop to hear in his esil
Court. His Lordship therefore declined to accept the letters
of request until sonic rczuon was stated why he should do s°'
Judgment accordingly.