The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-03 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

Before Mr. Smith yesterday the only two bills for
hearing were the Andover, Radstock, and Bristol,
and the Somerset and Dorset and Bristol and North
Somerset, which were both adjourned until Monday.
Before Mr. Frcre the West Cork, Cork and-Ban-
don, Cork and Kinsale Junction, and Cork and
Macroom Direct was the only railway bill heard, in
which case the standing orders were complied with.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

STOCKBRIDGE—FRIDAY.
The races are postponed till the 17th March.

MANCHESTER BETTING.-YESTERDAY.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
100 to 12 agst Cortolvin (taken)
11 to 1 agst Laura (taken)
11 to 1 agst Alcibiade (taken)
11 to 1 agst L'Africain (taken)
100 to 8 agst Creole (taken)
100 to G agst Mistake (taken)
18 to 1 agst Merrimac (taken)
22 to 1 agst Real Jam (taken)
30 to 1 agst Garotter (taken)
100 to 3 agst Philosopher (taken)
40 to 1 agst Stella (taken)
40 to 1 agst Little Frank (taken)
40 to 1 agst Innellan (taken)
G 6 to 1 agst Lightfoot (taken)

WARWICK SPRING MEE.
Weights for the Great Wa:
mil
Age st lb/
Cambnscan 5 9 0'
Moulsey 5 8 10
Archimedes
Pearl Diver .. 6 8 4
Kangaroo
Dr. Syntax 6 7 9
The Clown 5 7 9
Buckfoot 5 7 7
Attache
Redcap
Filbert 4 7 2
Auditor
Aline
Pirate 4 7 2
ild man
Wel hock 5 6 12
Bradamite
Lima f 4 6 13
Weights for the Grand An:
four

TING.—TUESDAY, March 13.
rwickshiro Handicar. Two

Age st lb
[Signalman 5 6 12
'Nu
'
'Merry Hart 6 6 10
Pelios 5 6 9
Valiant
Sidewind
Voigtlander
Cedric 4 6 6
Storm gelding
Eudsleigli
Convent 4 6 4
Helen 5 6 2
Forester 4 6 0
Life Guardsman 3 5 12
Staghound 3 5 10
Tina 3 5 10
Jezebel

tnual Steeple Chaso. About
miles.

Age st.lb
Effenberg
Aleiblade
Emblematic
Penarth a 12 2
Laura 5 11 7
Cortolvin: a 11 7
Mistake 6 11 6
Lightheart
Dick Turpin 6 11 2
Church Militant
Old Oswestry
Knave of Trumps 6 11 0
Accident

Age st lb
Globule a, 10 8
Sinking Fund
L. S. D.
Glasgow
Marengo a. 10 6
Ibex.
Jack o' Newbury 6 10 6
Manchester
Balder
Cloister
Apethorpe a 10 4
Gamecock lO 4
Lord George a, 10 4
Acolyte
lnnellan a 10 3
Overton a 10 0
Overton a 10 0
Ivanhoff a 10 0
Salamander
St. Lawrence
Cutler a, 10 0
Sutton
Skiff

Joe 3laley a 10 12
3lenimae 1, 10 11
Cabin Roy a 10 10
Blood lloyel t 10 10
Portland
Creole % 10 9
Meanwood a 10 9
Turcos
Rhodomontade 5 10 8
Ace of Hearts

NORTHAMPTON MEETING.
TUESDAY, MARCH 20.
Weights for the Sulby Iran&
added Ono mi:
Age st lb
Merry Hart
Juliet ' 8 6
Echo • 5 8 6
Fisherman's Daugh 5 8 4
Bigot°
Scheldt
Idler
Double Stout

imp of 10 sovs each, with 50
le and a quarter.

Age st lb
Lady Lollo
Kingmaker
Polka 3 7 0
Loaf Sugar
Slender 3 6 8
Silenus 3 6 4
Belzoni 3 6 4

If the highest weight accej
be raised to that weight, and

;ting bo under Bst 101 b, it wit:
the others in proportion.

SCRATCHINGS.

Feb. 24, at 9 a.m. Church Militant and Overton, out of
Nottingham, Derby, and Liverpool engagements ; Wolf-
dog, out of all engagements.
Feb. 26, at 9 a.m. Lucy Long, out of the Flying Stakes
and Sefton Handicap, at Liverpool ; Slender and Miller's
Maid, out of Stobkbridge Spring engagements.
Feb. 27, at 9 a.m. Steamboat, out of the Flying Stakes
and Sefton Handicap, at Liverpool ; Queen of Trumps and
Dean Swift, out of Liverpool Spring engagements; Dean
Swift, out of. the Nottingham Handicap. After 8 p.m
Tancrede, out of the City and Suburban Handicap; Be-
douin, out of the Doncaster Spring Handicap.
Feb. 28, at 5 42 p.m. Agag (dead) out of all engagements

Virginia (own sister to Regalia) three years old, by
Stockwell—The Gem, has arrived at Mr. C. Peck's, Grove
House, Mallon, for training on Langton Wold.—At Raw-
cuff Paddock; Mr. Peck's bay mare, Heedless, has:dropped
a colt foal by Ben Webster, and will be sent to Claret•

Mr. J. Frail having advertised in the Racing Calendar of
Feb. 22, that the Windsor Spring Meeting would not take
place, and that unless the subscribers of the Spring en-
gagements intimated to Messrs. Weatherby to withdraw
their nominations, he would consider the said engagement
to stand good ; and, as in the same Calendar, Mr. Verrall,
in announcing the Lewes Spring Meeting to be adjourned
to the 22d March, states that all nominations received for
the former fixture will be retained unless specially ordered
to the contrary ; the Stewards of the Jockey Club remind
Messrs. Frail and Verrall that by racing law, when a meet-
ing is changed from one week to another, every engage-
ment becomes void. If the origin al subscribers decline to
re-invest, their :silence is sufficient ; and if they wish to
renew, it is legally necessary that a fresh nomination
should bo made. The Stewards, therefore, warn Messrs.
Frail and Verrall not to republish engagements without
due authority from the horse owners.

CROYDON GREAT METROPOLITAN STEEPLECHASE, Nov.
1865.—We are informed by the Clerk of the Course that a
majority of the Stewards have decided this race in favour
of Cortolvin, the horse that came in second, whose owner
claimed the stakes on the ground that Old Oswestry was
in the forfeit list.

TILE LATE MORTON-IN-THE MARSH STEEPLE CHASES.—
We hear that Mr. Rolt, feeling satisfied that The Swallow
could have won but forhis fall, offered to run any hors 3
in the race, owners up, at next Warwick Spring Moot-
ing, three miles over the Steeple Chase Course, for £5O
horses to carry as in the race 12st 71b each.

The Jockey Club.

(From the Racing Calendar.)

At the next general meeting of the Jockey Club tho
stewards will bring forward the following proposals:—

Whereas, it is enacted by the 65th Rule that in estimat-
ing the value of any prize no deductions shall be made
except by the winner's own-stake, and any sum or sums
required by the conditions to be paid out of the stakes to
the owners of any other horse or horses in the race ; and
a practice has been introduced of advertising prizes in
money with dedustious varying from 25 to 10 per cent. to
be returned by the winners, to their double injury, inas-
much as such subtractions cannot be recognised in esti-
mating the value of prizes, and a winner of a £lOO plate
with 20 deducted is obliged to carry the extra penalty of
weight imposed upon winners of £lOO ; we propose that
the Jockey Club should appeal to the stewards of country
races, the racing committees, and the lessees to discon-
tinue this obnoxious and unfair system, and to advertise
the real net addition only.
Also, that the Jockey Club should recommend that in
races to which no public money is added there should be
no condition requiring the winner to pay any sum to the
race fund or the expenses of a meeting.
And that Rule 40 of the Jockey Club on the subject of
hauidceppere receive presents, ecc., be transferred to the

In the Ways and Means Committee, held in the
members' tea-room of the House of Commons on
Thursday, the following bills were passed :—Beddge-
lert, Drayton Junction, Liverpool Station ( Railway) ;
Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay (Deviations) ;
Wrexham and Minera, and the Bradford, Eceleshill,
and Idle.