The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-27 00:00:00

MARK-LANE.

The country markets held on Saturday wore very scan-
tily supplied with wheat, for which there was rather more
inquiry, at extreme rates to a slight advance. In the value
of other produce very littlo change took place.

The continental markets have been inactive at about pre-
vious rates. American advices bring high quotations for
both wheat and Hour.

Th' principal imports of foreign and colonial produce
into London last week were 15,874 quarters of wheat, 300
barley, 15,047 oats, 806 beans, awl 2,081 sacks of flour.
Our market is still flat., and NYC on the spot is selling
at 433 3(1 per cwt. Town tallow is uls 9(1 net cash.
There was a very poor show of ErOish wheat hero to-
day as to quantity, but the quality of the samples was tole-
rably good. Although the attenilam7e of millers was by
no means numerous, factors refused to sell, except at an
advance in the quotations comp:trod with Monday last of
front is to 2 per quarter. The demand was, therefore,
inactive; neveitheless, in some instances, late rates were
rather exceeded.

Fine foreign wheats were in somewhat improved request,
and about is. per quarter dearer. Inferior parcels were
very dull, at late rater.

Floating cargoes of grain were a dull inquiry, at barely
last week's quotations.

Scarcely any barley was brought forward. Most of tbo
samples wore disposed of at extreme quotations.
M►lt was in moderate supply and sluggish request, at
about stationary prices. _

We were fairly supplied with oats, in which a steady
business was transacted at late rates.
Beans were quite as dear as last week. The supply was
very limited.

The few peas brought forward realised quite last week's
currency.

The flour trade was steady, at previous rates. Linseed
was steady in price ; but all other seeds, as well as cakes,
were very inactive.

CURRENCY I'ER IMP. MEAS-CRE
Twat— Essex and Kent, red, new, per qr. 59s to 71s
Do., old. 66s 723
Do., white, old 663 763
Do., new
Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old s7s 693
Do., nev.-
Tr alav e r a
Rye—
flarley—Grinding
Malting 3ss 503
Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk
Brown
Kingstown and Ware
Chevalier 73s 743
Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 25s 31s
Potato
Youghal and Cork, black 223 26.3
Cork, white 233 30s
Scotch, Feeding 23s 293
Beaus—Tick
Pigeons .... 4ls 46s
Peas—Grey,
Maple
' White
Boilers
Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b
Suffolk 44s 41s
Stockton and Norfolk
American, per barrel
French, per sack 46s 51s

SPORTING NOTES.

Never in the memory of " the oldest inhabitant" did
Epsom during the month of May show its visitors such
inhospitable weather as on the first three days of the meet-
ing last week, and it may very well be a subject of con-
gratulation for those parties who escaped without suffer-
ing from the inclemency thereof. The cold on Wednesday
beggared description, and, combined with snow, rain, and
hail, which paid us alternate visitations during the day,
made it, at any rate to those who were "dead" against
Hermit, a black letter day, which will not be forgotten for
some time to come.

Tuesday's racing commenced with the Craven Stakes,
in which, although Oitreg3r started first favourite,
Moulsey made short work of him, and won in a cantor by
three lengths. Although .1 did not spot the winner, the
judge's verdict agreed with the place which I assigned to
Marksman. Marksman astonished many of his detractors
by running straight as an arrow and beating the Duke of
Beaufort's horse thereby reversing the result of the
Two Tboiqand Guineas Stakes —with the greatest ease;
indeed, if Daley, whose riding is worthy of all praise, had
not been lucky enough to get inside the rails, Mr. Merry
and his friends would certainly have been entitled to
ho c tngratulations whioli Mr. Chaplin received on all
sides, because there is no doubt in my mind he would
atherwise have won the race. Later on in the season Van
Amburgh and Owain Glendwyr, the latter of whom was
not persevered with in the race, are likely to give a
good account of themselves. The Burgh Stakes was
won very cleverly by Alberta, who attracted the at-
tention of one of our best "amateur" judges on the turf
(Mr. J. Wood of Miss Havelock notoriety), and that gen-
tleman bought her for 180 guineas. The next day she
ran and won the Walton Stakes in Mr. Wood's colours,
who got back nearly all the money he gave for her in the
ralue of that event, and, better still, was plucky enough
to back her for a " monkey." She was then dis-
posed of to Capt. Machell for 315 guineas. The Epsom
Town Plate was won by Liddington, although my solitary
selection, Ammunition, was only beat a length from Mr.
Merry's horse in a field of twenty runners. The Two-
years-old Stakes verified my opinion, in favour of Lady
Elizabeth beating Grimston again, to the letter.
Friday's racing only requires me to allude to the Epsom
Two-year-old Plate, in which King Alfred, a great "pot"
was bowled over very easily by Orion, who is worth fol-
lowing throughout his engagements. The Oaks dwindled
down to eight runners at the finish, such a certainty,
doubtless, it was thought for Colonel Pearson, by many
of the owners who did not start their fillies in consequence.
Odds of 3 to 1 were freely laid on Achievement, but to the
horror and astonishment of the gentlemen who "went in"
to retrieve their previous losses, she was easily beaten at
tho finish by Hippia, whose success was welcomed with
an amount of enthusiasm which must have been parti-
cularly gratifying' to Baron Rothschild, who is an im-
mense favourite with the sporting public from the fact of
his horses always going " straight," and never being struck
out under the false pretence of being forestalled in the
market. -

Mr. Sutton was finmensely disgusted with the performance
of the One Thousand Guineas winner, so much so that on
the impulse of the moment he told Dover not to consider
himself any longer in his employ. It is to be hoped, how-
ever, on giving the matter proper consideration ho will
see the injustice of such a proceeding, as there can be no
dispute concerning the ability and honesty with which ho
has been served by the party in question, whose character
under such circumstances ought to be protected, being
quite as valuable to hie; and to my humble thinking, as
irreproachable as Mr. Sutton's is.

The racing for the present week commences on Wed-
nesday, when, independent of a day's sport at Wye, there
are three days' each at Newton and Croydon. Wye, situate
some 70 miles distant from town on the South-Eastern
lino, will attract most of the pleasure seekers, as a more
charming spot for a picnic party cannot well Le conceived.
There aro only two of the events there ready for analysis
—the Wye Handicap, which ORNE cannot lose, and the
Olanteigh Tower Stakes, which will go to the Marquis of
Hastings's representative, probably T.RAVIATA.
At Newton there are six races on the first day, all of
which aro complete in the programme. The Trial Stakes
FITZROY ought to win. The Golb rue Park Stakes I ex-
pect will go to PER). There are 26 subscribers for the
Groat Newton Cup, but after carefully analysing the
weights, I can see nothing to beat lIONESTISII. In the
Makerfield Handicap TORTUGA looks best in, and I think
MENDICANT will win the Maiden Plate.

EPSOM REMINISCENCES.

(FROM OUR SPECIAL SPORTING CORRESPONDENT.)

The recent summer carnival on the famed Surrey
Downs was, despite the unsettled state of the weather,
the most interesting and the most successful turf
writers have ever recorded. The great " pots" for
the Derby and Oaks boiled over in a most disagree-
able way, and " the gentlemen" will, we fear, he
found wanting on "the settling days" this week.
The meeting at Epsom twelve months ago was
lucked upon as a very good one but when we come
to compare the numerical strength of last year's
competitors with that of the gathering just en-
tombed we find a wonderful difference, as there
were only 197 ranuers for the twenty-eight
races in 1866 (including two matches and
two walks over) against 279 starters for a
like number of stakes in 1867 (including four walks
over and two matches), showing an increase this
year of 82 runners, which latter bevy alone would
make a tolerable good two days' trystiug at some of
our provincial courses. In proof of the above
assertion we append the results of the four days
racing, during the two campaigns alluded to :

1867. 1866.
Tuesday... 6 races 75 starters ... 7 races 61 starters
Wednesday 5 „ 80 „ „ 52 ~ 2
Thursday 9 „ 65 7 29 ~
Friday ... 8 „ 59 ,7 9 „ 52 ~

Total... 28 279

Count Batthyany won three of last week's prizes ;
the Marquis of Hastings, Lord Westmoreland, Mr.
F. Pryor, and Mr. Beadman, two each ; and the
Duke of Newcastle, Lord Bateman, Count Ll
Grange, Baron Rothschild, Sir Fred. Johnstone,
Capt. llawksley, Mr. Chaplin, Mr. J. Merry, Mr.
Biggs, Mr. Hartley, Mr. Brayley, Mr. J.
Wood, Mr. J. B. Morris, Mr. C. Rayner,
Mr. Ten Brock, Mr. Montgomery, and Mr.
Porter one each.

Of the seventy-five jockies who rode during the
four days only fourteen had winning mounts, G.
Fordham scoring six victories, Butler four, Kenyon
three, and John C. Daley (Derby and Oaks),
Jemmy Grimshaw, T. French, Loates (walks over),
and Mordan (one walk over) two each. Single
wins . only were achieved by Hibberd, Payne,
Cannon, Pepler, Clement, and Covey. The fol-
lowing table of the respective mounts, with their
results, will be studied wit
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