The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-24 00:00:00

tHE SUN, LONDON, TULSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24.

SHARE LlST.—This Day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREE P.

A BAD RECOLLECTION.—John Whitson, a rough-
looking fellow, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt
as follows :

Mr. James Gray, licensed victualler, 18, Wind.
mill-street, said that on the previous evening the
prisoner came into his house and immediately set to
insulting his daughter, making most offensive re-
marks to her. He told the prisoner, who had fre-
quently annoyed him, but was never served in his
house, to leave, when he refused to do so, and dared
him to put him out. At last he put the prisoner
out, when he tried to pull one or two letters off the
doors, to break the plate-glass, and then to kick the
doors in, and made several attempts to strike him i❑
the face. Some constables then came up, and he
gave the prisoner into custody.
The prisoner said he had a bad recollection. He
only just remembered going into the house, and
that the landlord struck him and put him out.
Mr. Gray denied striking the prisoner.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said the prisoner had insulted the
complainant's daughter, and was one of the danger-
ous men licensed victuallers had to contend with
from time to time. He would have to pay 40s.

1867.

EXECUTION OF FREDERICK I3AKI :7; f? AT

I VEV CHESTER.-(7HIS DAY.),

This unhappy wretch suffered the extreme' lenalty
of the law this morning at eight o'clock, i ur the
murder of Fanny Adams, at Alton, Hants, on the
24th of August last. The wretched riu n was
visited early this morning by the chaplair ti:e un-
der-sheriff, the surgeon of the Cott& y Prison,
and the officials, when they proceed: d to the
pinioning-room, and from thence ascended
the gallows, and, in a few minutes 4 he was
launched into eternity, after v, ry severe
struggling. It is satisfactory to st, ste that he
has made a confession. Various ruinous -were cur-
rent that the prisoner was reserved and. reused his
meals; and, again, that he was excite 3 a nd paced
the cell with rapid and restles steps. We in tve autho-
rity to state that all such reports are unfot :tided, and
that, on the contrary, he was respectful ani 1 attentive
to all who were engaged in attending i tpon him,
and that in no instance had he manifeste 1 any un-
becoming conduct. We might say that Sir John
Mellor, the judge, in passing sentence :in another
case since the time of Baker, has sp 'ken very
strongly of the plea of " homicidal manit. " which
has been got up of late years, and warms jurors
against being unduly influenced by it.

THE BRITISH DRAMA.


The principles of the British Drama are now
triumphant. No longer is Tragedy or Comedy
based on Grecian model, even in France. Voltaire,
who, not a century past, eulogised Home as the
founder of a pure dramatic literature in opposition
to the barbarism of the Elizabethan era in this
country, is now but rarely recalled to memory by
the representation of his once famous tragedies on
a French stage. Even Corneille and Racine, with
their studied beauty of language, and Moliere, with
his poignant wit, are losing their hold upon their
countrymen ; whilst Home is almost as much known
in this island for captivity in Doon Castle as for
authorship. "Douglas," with its notorious "My
name is Norval," is rapidly fading Tito oblivion,
and "the barbarism of the Elizabethan era" is the
basis of modern production.

To what is this success to be ascribed ? Is the
once yclept Barbarous superior to the Classic? We,
say not so, for they possess their beauties, their
realities, and their failings. The Greek stage was
but the means of declamation before au audience,
whose number could be told by thousands, and for
so vast an area the actor had to be artificially en-
larged and his voice strengthened. lie was elevated
on outrageous sandals, bore a manufactured heal
upon his own, his shoulders were padded upwards,
and he spoke through a trumpet concealed in his
unreal chest. The actor was a prisoner in such
outward covering ; in fact, for action, scarcely supe-
rior to a dummy. No contest, no struggle, was
possible between him and others. Their stuffed-out
arms could hardly have brandished a sword or
wielded a lance. They could not sink from the
thrust of poniard without endangering the loss
of a head, and thus, when they had to
expire, were compelled to retire and groan
away their lives out of sight of the au lieuce.
There could be no variation in the tenour of his dis-
course, for there could be no correspondent change
in his moulded countenance. All was light or
shade, still or fierce, in accordance with the charac-
ter of his features, and hence the plot was simple
(a unity if you will), in order to secure uniformity
of dialogue. The actor himself was unreal—the
sole reality was the scene, with regularly built
edifices in front, Nature's scenery at back, and
the heavens for cauopy—the uniformity of time
and place was absolute. To these all inconsis-
tencies had to give way, and these combine 1 with
uniformity of plot (coincident on the captivity o;
the a tots) formed the famous unities —which were
something more than beauties, for they were also
necessities.

The foundation of the British drama was far
different, for it was based on the reality of the
actor. He was neither king nor slave, neither hero
nor villain, beyond his garb and his own assertion.
de was an actor true, but ho was still a man—man
unshackled, free to delineate all the passions of his
uatur3, and hence our plots could be more complex,
and their language more varied. As we can but
envy the ancients listening enthralled by their
glorious poetry through such vehicles, and accept.
ing all inconsistencies incident on the reality of the
scene, so likewise must we envy the fervid senti-
ments of our forefathers, who, in the reality of their
actors as men, could accept their position midst
rocks, or woods, or palaces, void of their painted
representations; nay, even could discriminate be-
tween them and the favoured audience on the stage
itself, though Queen Elizabeth sat in state to view
a representation of Henry VIII.
The French, however, in a slavish adoration of
the classic, strove but at its imitation ; even at one
time only Greek or Roman plots were considered
legitimate. Their authors were bound down to uni-
formity of language to each character, to admit no
violence on the stage, although their actors were as
free as our own, and this before a painted scene,
confined to a small area, lit up by artificial light.
The marvel is not that our system should have
supplanted such slavish imitation, but that such
limitation should have remained so long extant.—
Racing Ttmes.

"LAWN MEET" AT BADMINTON.—The Duke of
Beaufort's hounds met on Friday at Badminton. The meet
was to have taken place at Worcester Lodge, which is
situated about three miles from Badminton, at the ex-
treme end of the noble avenue of elms that commences
immediately in front of the ducal mansion. There was a
very large "field," but the patience of the assembled
Nimrods was for a long period sorely tried on account of
the non-arrival of the Duke's party. Eleven o'clock was
the hour fixed for the gathering, but 12 o'clock came and
went, and about half an hour afterwards a general move
was made up the avenue to ascertain the reason of the
delay. It was then understood that in consequence of the
frost there would be no hunting that morning, and clouds
began to gather over the brows of the disappointed sports-
men. The meet was larger than usual on account of its
having got abroad that the Prince and Princess Christian
would join in the hunt. The rumour was, however, with-
out the slightest foundation. The Prince and Princess are
visitors at the seat of Earl Cowley, near Chippenham, but
there is no reason to believe that they intend paying a visit
to Badminton. At Badminton House it appeared to be well
understood that the state of the weather would preclude
the idea of a hunt, and accordingly the Marquis of Wor-
cester and party early in the morning went out shooting.
The duke, however, on being informed of the condition of
things, and being given to understand that great disap..
pointment would be occasioned if there was no meet,
readily agreed to reconsider his decision, and himself went
for a long ride in order to test the state of the ground. It
was indeed welcome news when ou his grace's return it
was announced that notwithstanding the weather there
was to be a run. The hunting party, among whom were
a large number of ladies, had by this time moved up to the
lawn, and ere long the hounds were brought up, and the
duke and his party, numbering between '2O and 30, made
their appearance. The duchess did not ride in the hunt,
but among his grace's party were the Duke and Duchess
d'Autnale, who reside near Worcester, but who have since
Monday been visitors at Badminton House. The Marquis
of Worcester and some of the younger sons of the duke
joined in the hunt. The "field" altogether numbered
about 200, including many Bristoliaus. On the ar-
rival of the ducal party the Centre Walk Wood was
tried, but unsuccessfully. The party then trotted down to
Evan's Wood, where a fox was found without difficulty,
and an excellent run was made across the Sheep State to
Little Badminton and back into the same cover, where
Royeard managed to evade the vigilance of his pursuers.
The clumps in the park were next tried again with
success, the direction being through Wick to Sopworth
and back into the park, up the hawhaw, and back to
Sopworth. The chase had then occupied about two hours,
and as darkness was now setting in the hounds were
whipped off. The hunt, though rather short, was consi-
dered to be good sport, though the area of ground over
which it extended was small. The foxes, instead cf running
straight described circles, and at no time were the
hounds at a greater distance from the mansion than about
three miles. The party that was• staying at Badminton
was an unusually large one. It included Emily Duchess
of Beaufort, the Duke and Duchess d'Aurnale, and Madlle.
Clinchamps, M. de Laugel, the Marquis of Worcester
Lord Henry Somerset, Lord Arthur Somerset, Lord
Edward Somerset, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Lady Blanche
Somerset, Mr. and Mrs. G. Somerset, Colonel and Mrs. P.
Somerset, Mr. and Mrs. Holford, Mr. and Mrs. Biddulph,
Sir R. Graham, Mr. Curzon, Mr. Percy Baker, Mr. Sted-
bnrii, Captain Little, Mr. Baldwin, and Mr. Boehm. The
Earl of Westmoreland left Badminton on Thursday.
Among the visitors during the week have been Lady
Georgiana Codrington and family, Sir John, Lady, and
Miss Neeld, and Colonel and Lady Emily Kingscote.—
Western Daily Press.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

On Friday last4he gunboats Fly and Flirt were
launched from Devonport dockyard by Mr. A.
Moore, the shipwright. The ceremony was per-
formed by Miss Spencer and Miss Matilda Spencer,
daughters of the Commander-in-Chief of the
Western District, Major-Gen. the Hon. Sir A. A.
Spencer, K.C.B. The Fly and Flirt are sister gun-
boats of 464 tons, built on lines supplied by Mr. E.
J. Reed, Constructor of the Navy. They will have
engines of 160 horse power, with double screws.
They are built on the composite principle of wood
and iron, and, although much stronger than
wooden ships of the .same dimensions, will, being
lighter, draw less water. The frames are of angle
i iron, which is at intervals doubled back to
back in connection with iron iutercostals, to
secure strength, which is also obtained by
longitudinal stringers. The frame work is
planked outside by two thicknesses of teak. The
inner skin is three inches thick, and is fastened ,with
metal screw bolts and nuts. The outer skin, two
inches thick, is fastened to the inner skin in those
parts of it which are unconnected with the ironwork
by small copper bolts, riveted inside on washers,
similar to the fastenings of boats built on the diago-
nal principle. It will be thus observed that great
precautions are taken to prevent cortact by copper
and iron in salt water, the effects of which have been
so detrimental. In laying down her after sections
an effort has been made to carry the body of the
ship further aft than heretofore, so as to counteract
or lessen the power of heavy waves at sea, which
in several of the double screws now afloat (when
rough weather prevails) lifts them up, through their
hollowness, aft, and thus plunges their bows into
the sea. The armament of the Flirt and Fly will
consist of one six-ton gun and one 64 pounder.
By the mail steamship Norseman, which arrived
at Plymouth on Sunday, we learn that the troops
quartered in Cape Town are remarkably healthy,
and that they have not suffered from the fever which
prevails in the town. The 86th Regiment is under
orders to proceed from Algoa Bay to the Mauritius,
and it is probable that the steam transport Edin-
burgh, which has been engaged by the Government
in place of the wrecked transport Bosphorus, will
convey the 86th from the colony to the island.
The hired screw steam transport Venetia, No. 18,
Capt. W. S. Way, from Malta Dec. 12th, and Gib-
raltar 15th, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday
(Monday) morning. She landed muleteers at Gib-
raltar, and brings 15 passengers and a cargo of re-
turned stores to England.
Four officers and 106 men belonging to the 20th.
Regiment, with their wives and families, left Devon-
port by the 10 40 a.m. train yesterday for ordinary
duty at Bristol.
Yesterday a general court-martial assembled at
Chatham, by order of his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, K.G., for the trial of Ptivates James
Molloy and Patrick Daly, two soldiers belonging
to the 2d battalion of the Ist King's Royals, on the
charge of having made use of seditious language.
The court was presided over by Colonel Robert
Boyle, C. 8., Royal Marines Light Infantry, and
Colonel J. li. Laye, the deputy-judge-advocate for
the district, conducted the trial ; Captain D. Reid,
Ist Depot Battalion, was the official prosecutor. The
charges on which the prisoners were arraigned was
for having, on the evening of the 13th iust., in the
public streets at Brompton, Chatham, made use of
the following seditious language against her Majes-
ty's person :—" The Queen may —, and the
colonel may —. lam an Irishman to the back-
bone, and I'll swing the same as Allen and Larkin
swung before. If there is any Irishman here, let
him fall to the rear," or words to that effect. The
prisoner Daly was further charged with' riking the
non-commissioned officer in charge of the troops
who conveyed him to the guard-room. The wit-
nesses in support of the charge were Sergeant
M'Qucen, Royal Engineers, Sergeant Latham, Bth
Regiment, Corporal Snelling, Ist Royals, Privates
O'Donnell, Bth Regiment, Hardwick, 14th Regi-
ment, and Johnston, 82d Regiment. The prisoners
since they have been in the regiment have each borne
a very bad character, and they have been pre-
viously tried by court-martial. The finding and
sentence of the court will not be known until con-
firmed by the authorities at the Horse Guards.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Commander W. H. Max-
well to Octavia ; Navigating Lieut. Tom B. Read,
additional, to the Indus, for the Defence ; Naviga-
ting Lieut, Henry D. Sarratt to the Megvera ; Wru.
B. Hutchinson, paymaster, to the Megaara ; Robert
G. Bird, assist.-surg., to the Megaara ; Reginald B.
Rigbye, assist. clerk, to the Megaara ; illiam
Donnison, engineer, to the Megaara ; George Foot,
engineer, to the Megaara ; Robert W. Allison and
John Watts, first-class assist.-engineers, to the
Megaara ; and Thomas Harrup, acting second-class
assist.-engineer, to the Meg2ra.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.

Railways.

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Mlles Opened. Itec,elple.
1867. A 186 G. 1807 1866

.E, L
Belfast and N. Counties gn sigt 1;581 2, W 1
Belfast and County Down 441 tit 677 581
Blyth and Tyne 36 b 6 2,26) 2,2 4
Brecon and Merthyr
Bristol and Exeter l3ll 1341 7,151 6,.92
Caledonian, Scottish Central 62J4 6111 33,181 34,09
Cambrian
Cockermouth K & Penrlth .. 311 311 4 1 318
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 331 421
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61 121 133
Cork and Limerick Ulrea
Cornwall
Deeside l7 17
Do Extension
Dublin & 13eitastJ unction .... 63 63 1,607 1.613
Dublip, and Drogheda 75 75 1,724 1,798
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO7 107 2,349 2,659
Forth and Clyde Junction
Farness, &a B5 83 5,302 4,1.6
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 487 422 41,261 42,472
Great North of Scotland 275 271 • ,914 3,0 5
Ut. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) B3l 831 663 629
eit.Southn.& Westn.(lrind.) 4191 .419/ 9.6 5 9,160
Great Weetcrn l3ll 1311 71,827 7,379

Irish-North-Western 145 145 1,868 2,153
Isle of Wight l2 12 187 170
Lancashire & Yorkshire 423 403 43,111 44.133
Limerick and Ennis..
Limerick and Foynes 261 26 137 157
Llanelly 464 461 702 664
Llynvi Valley ... sot 301 695 713
London & North-Western... 1326 1310 122,679 120,4,0
London & South-Western ... 503 103 21,786 22,060
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast... 335 3141 20,445 19,810
London, Chatham, & Dover; j 136 135 8,613 1,,448
M j
all etropolitan Extension 1 131 121 1,921 1.70
DJ. Kent Coast
L is., Tilbury, & Southend
Londonderry and Coleraine 361 361 291 3 6
llan.,hliellield, & Lincol Ilan .. 246 240 20,639 21,261
Ranch. S.J un.& A ltrincham.. 91 91 1,'z35 1.269
liaryport and Carlisle
Sletropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western)., 761 683 '61,0:7 47.•'.2
Midland (it.Westn. of hind 2Ol 2601 5,, 92 5,251
Pdonmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 c. 981 2,616
North British, Edin., Pertn
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1241 1231 66,891 08 76J
North London ll 11 5,808 5,463
North Staffordshire 273 267 7.678 8,734
Pembroke and Tenby 27 27 293 293
lthymney 221 221 926 I,' 98
Scottish North-Eastern 143 138 _
Somerset and Dorset 66 , 66 1,080 1,012
South Devon
South-Eastern 330 330 22,1313 21,94

„..,...... ....._. ______
Swat.sea Vale
23 20 489 149
rail Vale 63 83 6,651 6,216
Do , rcnarth 2 2 753 rOO
Ulster lO5l 10.5 i 2,815 2,0 S
Vale of Clwyd 10 10 131 125
Wateriordand Kilkenny
Waterford and Limerick. 77 77 1,623 1,657
West Cork _ _ . 1
171 7A
103 S 2

11'1'eillam ?Told, to . 11 14 -- -
W'haTen,Cleator,& Egrmnt.. 10 10 841 617
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian
Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eastern J unction 261 261 282 300
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306 306 - -
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 189 6,556 6,177
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern of France 1590 1566 79,919 70.110
Eastern Bengal
h:as t Indian
Grand Trunk 01 Canada 1377 1377 28,554 29,117
Great Central of Belgium 343 235 9,312 8,031
Great Indian Peninsula 852 774 20,8;9 15,635
Great Luxembourg 172 174 6,239 5,723
Great Southern of India
,heat Western of Canada 349 315 13,959 10,531
Madras 645 615 8,1:8 7,470
Madrid, Saragossa &Alloant BB3 778 18,6 6 18,938
Northern of Canada ... .....
Northern of France B7O -: 788 71,, 93 84,970
Norwegian Trunk
Ottomta
Faris, Lyonsolt 3.l.editteraL.ean 2160 2006 186,237 158,566
earis and Orleans .. 1852 1852 . 79,739 6,3713
Recife and San Francisco. &c... 771 771 801 936
Sc nde lO9 109 .. 2,1 u I,' 73
Smyrna and Cassaba
Southern of France lOl6 978 3 ,511 3f, 35
Victoria 254 251 0,,65 . 10.408
WeJand
West and N.- W( st. of France 1261 - 1150 56,657 54,947

MISSING VESSEL.—HORSENS, Dee. 18.— The Mi-
nerva (galeas), which sailed hence in October, bound for
England, and from a Norwegian port (where she had put
in) on the 15th of November, has not since been heard of;
but as, according to intelligence received here, seven casks
of butter, which bear the same mark as those shipped here,
have been picked up off Whitby, it is feared that the ship
and the crew are boat.

TAT TERSA.LL' S -LAS T EVENING

No betting.
The Rooms will be Closed on Monday next, the 30th
inst.

'SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

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(From the Newmarket Correspondent of the Racing Times.)
Sir Joseph Hawley may with truth be called the lucky
baronet, as he has already won three Derbys, whilst some
gentlemen much older than himself have laboured in vain
all their lives to achieve such an honour, and having much
larger studs of horses than Sir Joseph cannot even get a
situation. Nearly all the sporting writers during the past
week have thrust the T wo Thousand, Ono Thousand, and
Derby ou lain with Rosicrucian and Green Sleeve,
so that fortune is likely to best Sir Joseph again in
the year 1868, with both hands full—that is if we are to
believe all the prophets who have thrust such greatness
on his head. lam afraid it will be too much for one man
to bear all in one year—although a less excitable man, in
my opinion, does nut exist than Sir Joseph ; for it was
really astonishing to see how calmly he bore the disappoint-
ment of losing the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster, after
he had wou as he thought, and would have landed a large
stun in bats. He smoked his cigar, and looked as uncon-
cerned as if nothing had happened to disturb his temper,
when a lot of low follows that perhaps had a sovereign on
were making use of the most filthy language against poor
Wells, who felt the mistake he had made most keenly him-
self ; and although Wells had met with many a breeze
before he never had such a blow. I have seen him my-
self lay, as I thought, dead on four different racecourses.
The first time was at Walsall, about 17 years ago ; the next
was at Northampton, when he rode a mare of Mr. Payne's.
She fell and broke her neck, and nearly killed him ; then
at Hampton Court he met with a severe injury, when it
was reported he was dead. The next, and I hope the last,
accident he will ever meet with was at Chester, when ho
rode Summerside in the Deo Stakes. This, I believe, in
another sense, was the most severe shaking he ever had ;
but I am quite sure, from what I know of Wells, that if all
the misfortunes he has had through life were more
than three times doubled, they were nothing to
compare to what he felt after the unfortunate mis-
take he made at Doncaster. I should not have
alluded to this unpleasant subject here, only I see every
week ono or two sporting writers call the mistake a most
unpardonable offence, but I have no doubt Sir Joseph is
aware that nothing becomes a man with half so good a
grace as mercy does. Ho has forgiven him, and I hope
Wells will have the good fortune to win him another
Derby, which, I am sure, would be a consummation de-
voutly to be wished by that famous jockey. But however
I may respect the cherry and black cap myself, I must
differ in opinion with some of your contemporaries,
for, to take public running as my guide, I canno
see how Sir Joseph can beat Lady Alizalseth, for I
feel sure Blue Gown is not within 111 b. of the Marquis's filly ;
and suppose, for the sake of argument, that Lady Elizabeth
had been kept quiet all the year for the Middle Park
Plate, and had the maiden allowance the same as Green
Sleeve had, I wonder what she would have done with Sir
Joseph's two ? In my opinion, she would have cantered
in. It is admitted on all sides that she settled Grimetone,
as he never recovered his two severe races at Epsom, and
surely it. must have taken something out of the filly ; and
yet we are told she can't stay. But, in my opinion, we
never have seen such a filly as Lady Elizabeth, and
whenever I have differed in opinion from other sporting
writers I have always had the satisfaction of seeing my
predictions realised to the letter. It will be remembered
that a correspondent stated last winter that the Dragon
would come to sto 1, and The Rake go to 30. 1 stated
the following week that Tho Rake would see 4 to 1, and
the Dragon go to 40, which was verified, as they took 3 to
1 about The Rake at Bath, and I saw him backed against
Vauban for two thousand pounds ; and I am confident had
he not broken a blood vessel he would have won the Derby,
especially from what I saw him do with Friponnier ; and be-
yond doubt the latter is the best 3-year-old we have seen
out this year. Sir Joseph must have a great chance of
winning the Two Thousand Guineas, but, in my opinion,
he must pull out Rosicrucian to win, as I have not such a
high opinion of Green Sleeve as some people have,
as I am persuaded Rosicrucian would have beat her had
he uct stumbled in the race; and 1 am not sure she
can beat Formosa, as the latter was giving her 101bs.
the last time they met, and was not more than a length
from Sir Joseph's pair. I have a very high opinion of
Formosa, as 1 cannot forget how she cantered away from
Suffolk and Leonie in the Chesterfield Stakes at New-
market; and the latter was not within 101bs. of her best
form when she ran second to Rosicrucian in the Criterion,
as she had been dead amiss the week before, and
had only recovered the week before she ran at
Shrewsbury. In my opinion that was the second
best two-year-old pea formance that I saw last year,
when she cantered away from Knight of the Garter and
some other good old horses at a difference of only 91b.,
and I really think she would have beaten any two year old
in England that day bar Lady Elizabeth, as she wes fully
141 b. better than when she ran in the Criterion ; and
should she be all right and meet Green Sleeve in the
One Thousand Guineas, it will be seen who is correct,
for I don't think anything on four logs can
beat Leonie when she is well bar Lady Eliza-
beth. We are told Lady Coventry is as good,
but I doubt it; besides, they are not in the same interest,
as it will be remembered that the latter ran in Lord Jer-
sey's colours on her first and last appearance in public ;
but ono would suppose that Dawson has an interest in
Lady Coventry, as Lord Jersey has taken all his horses
from Newmarket, except this fine daughter of Dundee.
There are a lot of horses in the Two Thousand Guineas
that are written about every week as having a chance, not
good enough to win a handicap. I have no fancy for
'Typhoeus or Rabican, although 1 suppose the French stable
will have a Derby favourite some time this year, for the
public can't forget Gladiateur for another year or two.
Pace is ono of the grandest-looking horses at Newmarket,
and if Mat Dawson can only get him to stand a prepara-
tion he will beat all the horses at head-quarters, when
ever he moots them either for the Two Thousand or
Derby ; but I shall keep your readers well posted from
headquarters as soon as the horses get into strong work.
We can tell but very little about them at present, as they
are only cantering about to keep them in healthy exorcise.
It will be seen from the foregoing remarks that I fancy
Rosicrucian or Formosa for the Two Thousand, Lady
Elizabeth for the Derby, and if she is pulled out for the
One Thousand she will win ; if not, I shall stand Leonie.

RACING FIXT
FEBR

Lincoln lB
Harrow 2O
MA
Liverpool Spring M 3
Chelmsford Sp ing M lO
West Dray ton l2

AP
Durham
Hendon l3
Newmarket Craven
31/
Chester 5
Winchester
York Spring
Salisbury l4

URES FOR 1808.
,UARY.

I Nottingham Spring 25
Derby Spring
RCM

Epsom Spring Meeting 24
Northampton ....$ 3l.

West Drayton 1
Croydon 2d Summer
Ascot Summer 9
Windsor Summer
JU
Worcester Summer
Newmarket July
Reading
Liverpool l6

Lewes Spring
Newmarket Ist Spring. 27

Bath
Croydon Ist Summer
Harpenden
Epsom Summer
NE.
I Bibury Club 23
Stockbridge
Chelmsford Summer
I Alexandra Park 3O
LY.

Huntingdon 2l
Nottingham July
Goodwood

AUG
Brighton
746
Brighton Club
Lewes Summer
Wolverhampton ll
Stockton
Windsor
Egliam lB
Hastings

rUST.
1 York l9
Oxford
Cauterbury
Derby Summer
I Weymouth
Lichfield .. 27
I Tunbridge

SEPT]
Warwick 1
Abingdon 3
Leicester
Doncaster 8
Richmond

OCTC
Bedford 1
Newmarket 2d October 5
Cheltenham l3
NOVI,

Shrewsbury