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

RAILWAY BILLS.

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.

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. Frere 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 aro 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 Alcibiado (taken)
11 to 1 agst L'Africain (taken)
100 to 8 agst Creole (taken)
100 to 6 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)
66 to 1 agst Lightfoot (taken)

WARWICK SPRING lIEEI
Weights for the Great We]

TING.—TUESDAY, March 13.
rwicksliiro Handicap. Two

Age st lb
Cambnscan 5 9 0
Moulsey 5 8 10
Archimedes
Pearl Diver
Kangaroo
Dr. Syntax 6 7 9
The Clown 5 7 9
Buckfoot 5 7 7
Attache
Redcap 5 7 5
Filbert 4 7 2
Auditor
Aline
Pirate 4 7 2
Wildman
Welbeck 5 6 12
B radamite
Lima f 4 6 13
Weights for the Grand An:

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
Endsleigh
Convent 4 6 4
Helen 5 6 2
Forester 4 6 0
Life Guardsman 3 5 12
S taglimmd 3 5 10
Tina 3 5 10
Jezebel

nual Steeple Chase. About
miles.

four

Age st lb
Effenberg
Alciblade
Emblematic
Penarth a 12 2
Laura 5 11. 7
Curt ol vin: a 11 7
Mistake 6 11 6
Lightheart
Dick Turpin 6 11. 2
Church Militant
Old Oswestry
Knave of Trumps 6 11 0
Accident
Joe Maley a 10 12
Merrimac
Cabin Roy a 10 10
Blood Roy el a 10 10
Portland
Creole a 10 9
Meanwood a 10 9
T ureos
Rhodomontado 5 10 8
Ace of Hearts

Age st lb
Globule
Sinking Fund
L. S. D
Glasgow
Marengo
Ibex
Jack o' Newbury 6 10 6
Manchester
Balder
Cloister alo 5
Apethorpo a 10 4
Gamecock a 10 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 5 10 0

NORTHAMPTON MEETING.
TUESDAY, MARCH 20.
Weights for the Sulby Handi
added One mi
Ago st lb
Merry Hart
Juliet a 8 6
Echo
Fisherman's Daugh 5 8 4
Bigots
Scheldt
Idler
Double Stout

[cap of 10 sous each, with 50
le and a quarter.

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

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

:tiny bo under Bst 101 b, it will
the others in proportion.

SCRATCHINGS.

Feb. 29, 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.ll. 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-
clff Paddocks, Mr. Pock'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 be made. The Stewards, therefore, warn Messrs.
Frail and Verrall not to republish engagements without
due authority from the horse owners.
CROYDON GREAT METROPOLITAN STEEPLECIIASE, 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, tho horse that came in second, whose owner
claimed the stakes on the ground that Old Oswestry was
in the forfeit list.

THE 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 horse
in the race, owners up, at next Warwick Spring Meet-
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 tho next general meeting of the Jockey Club the
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 bepaid 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 deduetious 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 £100; 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
raco fund or the expenses of a meeting.
And that Rule 40 of the Jockey Club on the subject of
hauidearvem receive presents, B:c., be trauderred ti? the

rules concerning horse racing in general, which was in-
tended when the rule was passed.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866.

MARCH.
Liverpool Spring
Warwick Spring
Doncaster
Lewes Spring
APRIL.
Thirsk lO
Epsom Spring
Newmarket Ist Spring l6
Liverpool Hunt Cup 2U
Chester
Curragh 2l

Ne wmarket Craven 2
Durham
Blackheath & Woolwich 2
Catterick Bridge
Abergavenny 5
Lichfield Spring
Chelmsford Spring

Ascot Spring 1
Salisbury
Bath 8
Harpenden lO
York Spring

Windsor Summer 5
Newton
Hampton 7
Odiham
Bibury l3
Stockbridge
Chelmsford l9

Can-lisle
Newmarket July
Pontefract
Abingdon
Reading
Nottingham
Down Royal Corp lB

Epsom Summer l5
Uxbridge 2l
Manchester
Ascot Summer 29

AUG
Brighton 7
Brighton Club
Lewes lO
E'ham~
Wolverhampton l4
Stockton l5
Oxford l6
Hastings 2l

SEPT]
Warwick September 4
Curragh
Leicester 6
Doncaster
Brecon l7
Canterbury lB

Liverpool
Beverley 2O
Ipswich
Hungerford
Newcastle on-Tyne 26
Curragh 26
Worcester
,Y.
Stamford l9
Radcliffe 23
Winchester 24
Southampton 25
Huntingdon
Goodwood 3l

OCT(
Northampton 2
Newmarket 2d October 8
Curragh

NOVE.
Lincoln
Liverpool

York August 2l
Plymouth 22
Lichfield
Devon and Exeter 23
Tunbridge 2B
Derby Summer 29
Weymouth 3O

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