The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-21 00:00:00

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t'ItIt;rIGUII;NCE bitAILEt,
;rest orthern, 5 per cent., Ito'
Great Western, 4 per cent irred. 70
FOREJGN R.AILWAYb
ntwerp and Rotterdam, 9f
Great Luxembourg, 122'
;,nth Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, lti
West Flanders, 5i per cent. pf., 9}

FOREIGN MINV.R.
Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, 21
Fortuna (iWL), 2
St..lohn del Key, lint, 52f 2
TudAn anutana of South Australia, ii n.,11
BAN lib

107 k

Aliiance, lim.. 1 -
Aultralasfa, 65
Bank of Egypt, 31
Bank of New Zealand, 181
Chartered ,tier. of India, London, and China, 331
City,
Consolidated Bank, lim.,'s lE
English and Swedish, Um. 121
London Chartered Banat of Australia, 221
London and Couuty, 67}
London Joint Stock, 4*l
London and 1% estminster. 98
Provincial Banking Corporation, lira.,
Union of London, 44 5

MISCELLANEOUS.
Anglo-American Telegraph, 152
Atlantic Telegraph,
Dit.o, 8 per cent., 681 70
Berlin Water Works, lim., 12k
Ditto, new. 5i
City of Moscow Gas, lim., 181
Company of African Merchants, lim., 3
Credit Fonder of England. lim., 3 I
Crystal Palace, 30k
East India Irrigation and Canal. 12
Egyptian Corn. and Trading, 1im.,51
Fore-street Warehouse, Urn., 13k
Gen. Credit and Discount, lim.. s I
Hudson's Bay, Pi
Imperial Land Company of Marseilles. Bra., 2
International Financial ,oeiety, lim., 21
International Land Credit. Rm.. 4 I
Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour),
Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds. redem. 1870, issued 90, 521
AI .dras Irrigation and Canal (guaranteed 5 per cent. by In.
dian Government), 191
Nt,tional Discount Lompany, 141
Oce,tn arine Insurant:), 21
Peninsula and Orenial steam. 701 70
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance, lim.,
Ditto (.M), 12
VicerDy of Egypt, Mortgage, Loan. 70

A Fox CALTCHIT ALIVE IN ITS DEN.--011 Tues-
day morning, the 15th inst., Mr. Isaac Rothery, of the
Threo Tuns Inn, Orton, and Mr. R. Shepherd, two noted
sportsmen, proceeded to Asby-scar in order to look for
foxes. They wore not long in tracing one to a small cave
amongst the rocks. On approaching the spot sly rey-
nard looked out, and seeing what was coming darted back
into his don. Our sportsmen got some stones to the
mouth of the cave, and getting hold of roynard's brush
through one of the apertures, succeeded in tying his hind
legs, and throwing a coat or rug over it; the wily animal's
mouth was in the next place firmly secured with a
strong cord. R3ynard was thus brought a prisoner to
Orton. It is a full grown dog fox, weighing 171 b., and
can be seen alive at the Three Tuns Inn.—Westmoreland
Gazette.

ErLE SUN, LOTSI:

SPORTING NOTES.

Of the two hundred and sixty-seven nominations for the
present Derby more than three-fourths of them are hors de
combat, some from the chapters of accidents, others from
disqualification, and the remainder from being troubled
with the " slows," which is a prevailing epidemic with
most of our pseudo race-horses of the present day. It is
no envious task to select a winner where such enormous
amounts aro being continually invested, and as there will
doubtless be a variety of changes between now and the
eventful hour of starting, I shall content myself on the
present occasion with discussing the chances of those
animals from which lot I think the winner is likely to
spring, unless one of the dark outsiders should be destined
to make himself a world-wide reputation by winning this
glorious prize. The following list includes all those, in my
humble estimation, likely to be hoard of on that eventful
day, at any rate with a probability of distinguishing them-
selves :

Avron ...
Blinkhoolio

PUBLIC PERFORMERS.

RAn. Won

... 1 1
... 9 2

Captain 5 1
D'E st ournel ... 8 2
Dragon ... ... 8 4
Freemason ... 8 4

Land Tax
Marksman
Newland
Palmer ...
Pericles ...
Rake _
Taraban...
Trocadero
Vauban

Golden Bloom ... 4 1
Grand Cross 2 1
Hermit ... 6 2
Julius ... ... 5 2

NON-PERFORMERS.

Rtn. Won.

. 13
.. 13
9

. 4
~ 10
. 2
.. 1
.. 5
~ 15

Master Butterfly, by Kettledrum, out of Butterfly.
Sir Oliver, by Stockwell—Maria.
Stockmar, by Stockwell, out of Kettledrum's dam.
Stradbroke, by Thormauby, out of Virago.
Thornapple, by Thormauby, out of Citron.

Of the non-starters, from whom I have only selected
five, my opinion at this time of writing is decidedly in
avour of Master Butterfly, about whose qualifications the
most satisfactory reports roach me. His breed, by Kettle-
drum, from Butterfly, winners of the Derby and Oaks, is
undeniable, and he belongs to a gentleman of the old
school, whose character is unimpeachable, and whose
horses are better worth backing by the public than three-
fourths of those gentleruens' of the present day, who, after
instructing their " commissioners" to get the last guinea
out of their horses, scratch them on the day, or an hour,
before the race, as the case may be. Sir Oliver is a well-
bred swell of another breed, about whom 1 have a very
good opinion ; and furthermore, 1 am led to believe his
noble owner fancies him sufficiently well to have backed
him to win a good stake. Stradbroko is also of undeniable
pedigree, and presents the appearance of a race-horse good
enough to win five Derbys out of six ; besides the fact that
he is sure to run for his owner's and friends' book. Stock-
mar, although he has a particularly good private reputation,
is not, according to my notion, trustworthy on this occa-
sion, and I do not know sufficient of Thornapple to give
an opinion, except that he is not the less likely to run for-
ward from the fact of his owner taking the trouble to
ignore the horse's chance amongst the principal portion of
his acquaintance.
Of the public performers Avron has certainly an outside
chance, as he has only been out once, when he started first
favourite, and won easily, beating eight others, amongst
whom were Bounceaway, Prodigal, and Charles 11. Blink-
hoolie is a groat favourite of mine, and that he will im-
prove on his last year's form, I feel fully persuaded ; still
his running is too mediocre to give him a chance with
the best horses of his year. Captain Kidd has performed
very respectably, but is bound to give way to Sir Joseph
Hawley's horse, about whom more anon. D'Estournel is
backed for large sums of money, but his chance, according
to my estimation, is a very remote one in comparison with
half-a-dozen other candidates whom I have in my mind's
eye. Dragon is the most likely representative of the
French division, and although I cannot read him into the
winner, he is one of the most likely horses in the race to
attract the judge's notice. An investment upon him at the
quoted odds most assuredly will not be thrown away.
Freemason, Golden Bloom, and Grand Cross are just good
enough for their owners, if they feel inclined, to lose a small
estate upon, but I sincerely hope none of your subscribers
will be induced to invest on them this journey. The Hermit
is doing well, and his public form is of the best class.
Still I must confess to a prejudice against any horse who
shirks the most valuable engagements, which Mr. Chap-
lin's did at the latter part of last summer. Julius,
Land Tax, Newland, Pericles, and Trocadero have all
shown more or less good form, but I cannot stand them in
this company. The Palmer is backed for lumps of money,
and not only his price, but the style in which ho won his
first race, stamp him as the genuine article, and if he does
not give satisfactory evidence to that effect on the Derby
day I shall be much mistaken. The Rake, presuming he
can get the distance, is certainly the best performed horse
in the race, and under the care of Joseph Dawson is sure
to come to the post as fit as hands can make him ; still his
present price is not a tempting one. Taraban cut up
wretchedly in his solitary engagement, but I look upon
him as a coming outsider who is surd to be backed for heaps
of money before the day. Vauban is a sound, good horse,
and will, I hope, do his grace more service than his last
year's representative, who, I always insisted throughout
the year vi as an errant impostor. It will be seen from the
foregoing remarks that I have a great fancy for Master
Butterfly, of the dark division ; and I also think The Pal-
mer, Taraban, Dragon, and Vauban will see a much shorter
price ; at the same time well at the post I think the
absolute winner will turn up in Tux RAKE.
A FRESH MAN.

TRAINING NOTES.

NEWMARKET.

There has boon so little doing on the Heath for the last
three weeks, likely to be of any service to your readers,
that I have not thought it worth while to forward you any
communications, especially whilst your sporting contem-
poraries have been writing a great deal about nothing,
and gratifying themselves (for I presume it is a gratifica-
tion) by finding fault with each other. They say the New-
market people are bad judges—that The Rake is a little
dandy ; D'Estournel can't stay ; The Hermit has a leg, &c.;
whereas the first-named ought only to be described as the
thorough race horse he has always proved himself to be,
and you may rest assured his beating the flying Achieve-
ment was no fluke, as Joseph Dawson, having put him
through the mill with Volunteer, was sanguine about
lowering her colours for the Middle Park Plate previous to
the filly's defeat by Plaudit. D'Estournel is growing into
a Derby horse all over, and the market speaks volumes in
his favour. As regards Mr. Chaplin's horse, ho has
grown and thickened into a very nice horse. There cer-
tainly was something the matter ,with his hock last
summer which required rest and blistering. He, how-
ever, goes free and well at the present time ; and I should
bo sorry to recommend your subscribers to take any
liberty with him, my opinion being in favour of his
standing the necessary preparation for the Derby.
It would be very strange if the metaphysicians and cow
doctors who have been here lately, writing about our
horses, should have missed the winner of the Two
Thousand Guineas, but they have had very little to say
about the horse in question—l allude to the Star of India,
who has made more improvement than any other horse at
head-quarters, and who is unfortunately disqualified by
the death of the Marquis of Exeter from fulfilling his
Derby engagement. He belongs, moreover, to a noble-
man who never bets, is a certain runner, and will have
the assistance of T. French, one of the best jockies in
England, although some people were uncharitable enough
to find fault with the way ho rode Savernake in the
Derby. Challoner could not got Lord Ailesbury's
horse any nearer for the St. Leger, and, as Wells justly
remarked after the race, they aro ono and the same
jockey. The Star was not half prepared when he ran at
Doncaster, but his performance there was more- than
respectable, as he boat Grand Cross and a lot of good
horses over the same course on which Lord Clifdeu so
distinguished himself as a two-year-old. To account for
his running so badly afterwards, my impression is that
his severe race at Doncaster, when as fat as a pig, probably
upset him for the remainder of the year. French was told
that the horse was not fit, and instructed not to punish
him, but he found himself in front at the distance, and the
animal running so gamely that he let him have his head
and won cleverly. There has been " much ado about
nothing" concerning the French stable, and much jea-
lousy about who is allowed to see the horses. One
writer even says neither an Englishman nor an Irishman
would be admitted ; but if the latter were allowed to
inspect the lot they have in training at present, he would
doubtless pronounce them a lot of garrons, and, in my
opinion, they won't trouble the judge's eye much this
year. The two sporting papers now at variance with each
other were unanimous in their opinion last summer that
Gladiateur was going in his old form, and that it was
finally settled he would run for the Goodwood Cup, which
must have been of considerable assistance to certain book-
makers in their milking operations. They now tell us his
logs aro gone, and that there is a great deal of merit due
to Mr. Jennings for the manner he brought the horse to the
post for the Ascot Cup—why did they not add, and to the
milking pail for the Goodwood Cup. The weather con-
tinues very severe. Most of the horses are confined to
their straw beds ; but there are several to be seen canter-
ing on the snow every morning. Goodwin's team has
seldom missed a day from the race-course side, and it is
good going, as the frost keeps the snow from balling, and
will keep the horses in form for their spring engage-
ments.