The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-22 00:00:00

BETTING AT MANCIIESTER.-FRIDAY.

Notwithstanding that the handicap for the Chester Cup
is cot sidered to be ridiculously light, it gives every pros-
pect of becoming an excellent betting race, as will be seen
from the lengthy list of quotations we have given upon it.
At the commencement of business about £lOO each was in-
vested upon Drogheda and Royal. Sovereign, at 25 to 1.
At the close, however, 28 to 1 vas their taking price, and
these odds would have been taken to money. 1,000 to 30
would have been taken about Polestar. Less odds than 40
to 1 were refused about either Physician, Wilton, or Pen-
sioner. 40 to 1 was offered either against Wrestler, Under-
hand, or Herne ; that figure, however, was taken to a little
money about Queenstown. Raspberry was in great force
at 50 to 1. The same remarks apply to Bankrupt. Black-
thorn and Arsenal were both much out of favour. For the
2,000 Guineas 5 to 1 was currently offered on the field, and
8 to 1 agst Phantom ; 375 to 25 was taken about Lord of
the Manor. For the Derby Re and was backed to win
about £3,000 at 100 to 3. No other horse was named for
this event, nor was anything done upon the Liverpool
Chase.

CLOSING PRICES.
TWO TIIOUSAND GUINEAS.
6to 1 agst Promised Land (offered)
Bto 1 asst Phantom (offered)
15 to 1 agst Lord of the Manor (taken freely)
DERBY.
100 to 3 asst Reynard (taken freely)

CHESTER, CUP.
25 to 1 agst Drogheda (take 28 to 1 freely)
25 to 1 agst Royal Sovereign (take 28 to 1 freely)
25 to 1 agst Polestar (take 100 to 3)
100 to 3 agst Wilton (take 40 to 1)
100 to 3 agst Pensioner (take 40 to 1)
3.5 to 1 agst Phygician (take 40 to 1)
40 to 1 agst Ravenstondale (offered)
40 to 1 agst Satinstone (take 50 to 1)
40 to 1 agst Hems (tciken and offered)
40 to 1 agst Wrestler (offered)
40 to 1 agst Underhand (offered)
40 to 1 agst Queenstown (taken)
50 to 1 agst Raspberry (taken freely)
50 to 1 agst Bankrupt (taken freely)
50 to 1 agst Sam Spode (offered)
50 to 1 agst Tunstall Maid (offered)
66 to 1 agst Blackthorn (offered)
100. to 1 agst Arsenal (offered)

SCRATCHINGS FOR THE SPRING HANDICAPS
Chester Cup—Harry Stanley, Sohersides, and Fright.
Northamptonshire Stakes.—Laodarnia, Sobersides, Accu-
rate, Adamas, Tame Deer, and Fright.

THE LATE BARON ALDERSON AT

WHITEWALL.

We have no doubt it has often fallen to the lo
of many of our readers to have the pleasure of
visiting John Scott's establishment at Whitewall,
and of witnessing the horses he has in training
gallop on the Wold. To such the truthfulness of
Baron Alderson's description will at once present
itself, whilst those who have not been so fortunate,
will, we are certain, be pleased with the learned
baron's faithful portraiture of the first traininc,
establishment in the world; and his remarks upon
the state of siege in which the whole house is kept
ought to go far to subdue the prejudice which
parties who lose their money are apt to
hilt at
entertainstowards the trainers of race horses. " l
York," Baron Alderson writes to one ofhisr
daugh-
ters, "we went over to Mr. Scott's, at Mallon,
where we haw the most exquisite horses, in
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ing him, like a young nobleman with his tutor.
Most of them appeared very gentle. I was desired
to feel how hard the muscles of their crests were,
and the particular meritorious points of each
were noted, with names arid pedigrees, &c.,
I saw three which are to win, or be near winning,
the nett Derby, and many others, whose names,
I am ashamed to say, I have forgotten ; but
which, but for that, would live in my recollection.
I was really much delighted with so much equine
beauty and blood. After this inspection, which, as
there were fifty at least, took some time, we
adjourned to breakfast, where I was introduced to
Mr. Butler, the celebrated jockey, with whom I
conversed on the secrets of sweating down to a
riding weight, and was surprised to learn what
blankets and fasting will do. Before Lent is over
I will, perhaps, illuminate your mind on these
sublimer mysteries of the art. Our breakfast, lam
sorry to, say, was not an exemplification of the rule.
I presume the Pope of jockeys had on this day
* * * * After
granted him a dispensation.
breakfast we started to see the inspected horses
gallop on the Wold, a most charming turf, n
, elasti
and
c
and soft, with a good deal of undulatio
commanding a most extensive prospect—in one
direction sixty miles of valley. When we got to
the top, we took our station, and presently came
I by, in cantering and galloping succession, our fifty
horses—a, most beautiful sight. Our host, acting
as nomenclator, called out the name of each as it

passed in review. Then we went to another part
and walked to a knoll 'of furze, and shortly after
came by our friends again in full gallop, like
a race, in a cluster of ten or twelve, then four
or five, and so on—a sort of succession of races.
Mr. Butler did us the honour to get en.
one and lead the race. What struck me much
was the tenderness with which the horses are
treated, and their consequent gentleness. After this
we went to see the yearlings in a paddock—one, a
year old, cost £450. Beforeleaving, our host showed
us all the interior arrangements of the establish-
ment. The boys live like collegians at a common
table, and are locked up at night like schoolboys,
and a man sits up all night to watch, lest rogues
should break in and poison the horses in training.
This is the bad part of the thing. It is obvious the
establishment is in a state of continual siege and
fear of internal treachery. On the Vold we saw
in various points men lounging about. ' Who is
that 9' Oh ! that's Manchester Bill touting for
somebody.' So these loungers' were all watching
,the training in connection with batters in London
and Liverpool, &c. Each of them writes daily to
his employers, such a horse does well, such a horse
is lame, such a horse coughs, and the like—and
then the rogues go and bet with people who don't
know it, and so aro sure to win. Indeed our Mends
and entertainers seem to do so too, by certain
avowals they made, I mean availing themselves of
what they fairly knew, but as I think unfairly
used. Such is jockey morality—to me similar to
obtaining money by cheating • but it is obvious all
do it—and it is called fair."—Bell's L.

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Six o' Clock.

SPAIN.

The following telegram has been received :
" MADRID, JAN. 20.

" Last evening M. Barrot presented to the Queen
his credentials as French Ambassador at the Court
of Madrid.

"It is said that General Zapatero, Captain-
General of Andalusia, has resigned, and that he is

replaced by General Villalongai"
The Madrid journals of the 17th state that the
new Bill on the press drawn up by the Government
is conceived in a liberal spirit. A committee of the
Chamber of Deputies had declared iu favour of the
Government project foi setting apart the large sum
of 2,000,000,000 reals for public works. In the
Chamber, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in reply
to a question as to whether the Government was in
favour of free trade or protection, said that he could
not answer the question, inasmuch as the matter
was one of such importance that even England and
France, the most advanced nations, had not yet
settled it ; but he could assure the Chamber that in
any measures the Government might adopt it would
conciliate the interests of agriculture, commerce and
manufactures. A recent statistical return shows
that as many as 1,004,974 children are now receiv-
ing instruction in public and private schools, and
468,050 of them gratuitously.