The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-19 00:00:00

UMPIRE,

with THE WIZARD as hii bottle-holder. For a
cockboat I select RESTES."

And another correspondent, signing himself
" Yorkshireman," says :—" Buccaneer I won't
stand, solely on account of the dark operations in
the Guineas. The Wizard is unsuited to this up-
hill course, and his day is not yet come. Umpire
and St. Albans I discard entirely, in the face of the
great talk of their friends. ' Well,' say your
readers, what is it, when all the favourites are
thrown out ?' Here it is then. THORMANBY for

the winner of the great prize; and for second and
third I take Nutbourne and Lupellus, who will be
found a better horse than he has ever shown."

" Linkboy," of the Sunday Times, fell asleep,
but he does not say where, and dreamt the follow-
ing :—" Amidst the cold wind and cutting rain of
Friday our Derby day-dream was somewhat
troubled. We dreamt of Linkboy,' and all that
he said, and we could see nothing in our mind's-
eye to startle us from our propriety. Amongst the
starters we thought we saw the following :
The Wizard. French. .
Tom Bowline
The Rap
Cape Flyaway
Umpire
Thormanby
Brother to Rainbow
Nutbourne Cresswell.
Buccaneer (doubtful)... J. Charlton.
High Treason
Horror
Sutton
Restes
Cramond
Sir William ..
Upperhand
Traducer
Confectioner
Wallace

Lanehester...
Thunderbolt .
Richmond ...

Cotton.
W. Boyce.

That the best of John Scott's will win, we are
6(11.m-1810y prepared to see, hut that best might be
something else than The Wizard—perhaps Tom
Bowline. If High Treason and Confectioner do
not get a place, we shall be much disappointed.

" Brevity" of the Ifri,ekly Times sums up his
remarks as follows :—" The Wizard has done such
good work since the Two Thousand that, although
he beat nothing like a Derby horse, J. Scott must
be set down as very dangerous with him, for I must
confess he has never been extended whenever he
won, and it being an undoubted fact be is the Simon
Pure of the Whitewall stable, such a beautiful
specimen of horseflesh shall not find me against him,
especially while Buccaneer is so very " fishy" in
the market, as we lose one of the best public per-
formers in the race if he cannot come up to time.

'here is still one, however, The Wizard will have
all his work to do to live with, in Umpire, who is
my sole representative, now that the market will
not admit of my sticking to the Buccaneer, and in
standing upon one horse only it is to be hoped your
readers will not find me far out."

" Scrutineer" of the 'Sporting Telegraph writes:
—The Malimit folks consider it a certainty for one
of their horses to win, and I am inclined to think
they will not be far out in their expectations. Hav-
ing expressed my ideas on the principle horses en-
gaged for this valuable stake, I come to the follow-
ing conclusion, viz., that the winner will be The
Wizard or Nutbourne, and for outsiders, commend
me to poor Tom Bowline and Horror. If your
readers back the latter two for places, as well as to
win, I think they will prove profitable investments,
and they will not regret taking your humble ser-
Y ant's advice.

" Sentinel," of the Sporting Life, says their will
be about 26 starters, and he concludes his prophecy
by stating that he has every confidence in
NUTBOURNE,
who is a strong-built horse, has never been "sick
or sorry" for a day, and who, I believe, taken alto-
gether, is a horse exactly suited for a severe race,
and fur choice I should certainly prefer his chance
in heavy ground. If he should be beaten I think
it will be by UMPIRE or the BEST OF JOHN ►SCOTT'S
LOT.

The prophecies of the morning papers will not
be given till Monday; but there is no doubt what
" Argus" of the 211orning Post will give. He is
mad about Umpire and the Wizard, and if we couple
them with Thormanby, we will not be far out.
" Meteor," of the Daily News, has always spoken
favourably of the above three, but his first fancy
was The Wizard and Buccaneer. " Augur," of the
Morning Advertiser, is almost certain to go for the
Wizard and Umpire.

THE GARIBALDI EXPEDITION.—MR. WYLD.—
From the speeches of some of the Irish members in the
house of Commons last night a stranger might have come
to the conclusion that England—the land of the brave, the
land of the free—was to be made to suit their theories, the
extinguisher of all liberty elsewhere. According to the
arguments of the hon. gentlemen, it must bo perfectly
illegal for us to aid a brave and noble patriot who is
struggling for his rights and liberties, or for those
of the land that gave him birth, but that any despot
whose cruelties and enormities cry aloud to the skies
for justice may, as a friendly Power, oontract loans of
English capitalists, and grind their down-trodden and
miserable subjects to the dust to repay them—nay, actually
send agents into this country and equip expeditions to en-
force their tyrannical rule, and shoot like dogs all who dare
to resist their intolerable tyranny. The only thoroughly
English speech of the debate was that of Mr. Wyld, whose
utterances were truly refreshing to all who detest tyranny
and slavery wherever they tmay be found.—Advertiser.
AN UNHEALTHY APRIL.—The Registrar-General
for Scotland, who issues a monthly report in respect of the
eight principal Scotch towns, has already published his
report for April, but the chief thing he has to say of it is
unfavourable. He registered the deaths of 2,537 persons
out of a Population estimated at 908,146—the largest num-
ber of deaths he ever registered in April, and 612 more
than in April, 1859. He attributes this to the low mean
temperature (42.1 deg.), the very high daily range, amount-
ing on the mean to 16 deg. ; the dryness of the air, the
prevalence of the keen arid east wind, and the small fall of
rain, which was only about a third of the usual amount.
It was his lot in the month to record in his death-book the
name of a person whom, with characteristic caution or
national pride, he only designates as " perhaps " the oldest
inhabitant of Scotland—an old soldier, for some years re-
ceiving parochial aid, who was born in Lairg, Sutherland,
and died at Perth, at the extreme age of 107.
The accounts with regard to the coming silk crop
in Europe continue favourable, but it is yet too early to
form any strong opinion.