The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-05 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES.
No. 19.
"KING Jniiw—Thou idle dreamer, wherefore say'st thou so?
" PETER —Foreknowing that the truth will fall out so."
King John, Act iv., sc. 2.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—I very much fear I have been, by the non-appear-
ance of the usual Note on the Nursery Stakes, on Thurs-
day last, the unintentional cause of some disappointmsint
to the numerous sporting readers of The Sun. This oc-
curred in consequence of my entrusting the delivery of
the Note to that miserable apology for a courier, a
friend, who, of course, as is usually the case in instances
of this kind, took great care of it by carrying it home,
and benevolently giving it a night's lodging in his
coat pocket, instead of leaving it at your office,
where it should have arrived about noon, and,
through the columns of The Sun, in the ordinary course
of things have met the eyes of those who take " The
Spirit" for their sporting counsellor, in London the same
evening, and in the provinces early the following morn-
ing. What makes it the more provoking is the fact that
I had selected Midas and Hesse Homburg (the first and
second) as the most likely nags to win, giving, however,
the preference to Hesse Homburg, who I fancied at
7st. 71b. had the best of Midas, Bst. 21b.; but the result
capsized my judgment on this point, Mdas (by the bye
not mentioned in the ring, and backed only by
your humble servant and a few others at 10 to
I),:admirably ridden by Norman, making all the
running, and winning cleverly by a head! The
Brother to Drakelow, 7st. 131 b.—ridden off his legs the
day before in the dead -and deciding heats with
Ariosto and Hernandez for the Glasgow Stakes—ob-
tained the third place; Paquetta, 7st. 131 b., was fourth,
the rest including Phlegra, Bst. 71b.; Miserrima, Bst.
31b.; The Ban, Bst. 11b.; and Harpsichord, 7st 131 b.,
were beaten off!—the pace good; time, 1 min. 46 secs.;
the distance, 7 furlongs 178 yards.
The Criterion Stakes running furnished but little
criteria to judge by in future struggles; the winner, a
good-looking colt by Touchstone, out of Mountain
Sylph (belonging to the Squire, who has for the present
entirely given up his idea of retiring from the turf),
cleverly disposed of Confessor (2d), Ariosto (3d), and
nine others, including Coticula, Confidence, Buck-
hound, and Miserrima; after which performance he was
supported in the betting for the Derby at 14, 13, and 12
to 1, the Squire taking 13,0001. to 1,0001 of Davies.
My estimate of the pretensions of the favourites for
the Cambridgeshire was realized by the running, in every
particular, more especially so with regard to Landgrave
and The Italian; I remarked in my last Note that Land-
grave " could have won the Cesarewitch, and HE CAN win
the Cambridgeshire," and that " The Italian may run
fourth or fifth, I cannot award him a nearer place to
Fortune's temple;" the former, as is well known all over
England by this time, won a fast run race in 2 min. 4
sec+. very cleverly, and the latter ran home an unplaced
fifth. B ,rdeaux, on the strength of having won the 50/.
Plate on Monday from end to end, became a favourite at
the last moment, and ran Landgrave to a neck by suffer-
ance; Loadstone was beaten into fits, and so was the King
of Oude; in fact, thAre was nothing in the race with the
exception of Bordeaux and California, that had the most
remote chance of giving the "go-by" to the son of Sir
Hercules and Landgravine. My cockboat, California,
was wrecked at the very outset by the fall of Adminis-
trator, or she would have been very close up, perchance
the winner!

In. past years the racing season closed with the
Newmarket Houghton Meeting; this year the curtain
will fall on the Downs of Epsom, name to cockneys dear.
Tne programme of the Epsom Autumn Meeting speaks
volumes for Hr. Dowling's energy, perseverance, and
management; all the stakes having filled, and well, too;
the Beddington and Autumn Handicap Stakes having,
respectively, twenty- eight and thirty-one nominations.
The sport commences to-morrow at one o'clock with
the Normanton Stakes, whoa the Handsome Doe will
essay th task of beating CElipus and Co. A large field
(probably fifteen) will start for the Beddington Stakes,
including Theseus, Sit. 21b., Truth, 7.. t. 111 b., Britannia,
7st. 101b.,1•Vbisper, 81b., Empress colt, 7st. Sib., Man-
chester 73t. 6th., Terpsichore, 73t. 5113., The Incurable,
63t. 121 b., and filly by Epirus out of Dark Susan, 6st.
121 b.; the list named five and Britannia being the lot
which, in my opinion, will form the front rank at the
finish; The Incurable will justify his appellation if at
6st. 121 b. he cannot manage to pop his nose in front;
and the filly out of Dark Susan had better remain
" dark" if, with the father on her back, she cannot ob-
tain a place.
The Empress colt and Britannia are dangerous and
will run well, but for the absolute winner commend me to
the progeny of Epirus and Celeste, placing it and the
otheq. thus :
TERPSICHORE ... 1

MANCHESTER 2
The Empr2?.s colt, Britannia, and the two light weights
in close attendance.

At the pre3eat moment it i 3 very difficult to say what
will or what will not go for the Epsom Autumn Han-
dicap, but I presume Flag-Marshal Hibburd will start
some fifteen' or sixteen to be selected from the fol-

lowing:-
Cossack, 6 yrs., Bst. 71b.-Fagleman, 5 yrs., 73t. 71b.-
(d.) Snowstorm, 4 yrs., 73t. 11b.-(d ) Kissaway, 4 yrs.,
63t. 121 b. -(d.) Glen Saddel, 5 yrs., 6st. 111b.-Chantrey,
4 yrs., 63t 81b.-Sauter le Coupe, 4 yrs., 6st. 81b.-Ad-
mirsistrator, 6 pre., 63t. 61b.-(d.) Landseer. 4 yrs., 6st.
61b., or Little Jack, 3 yrs., 6st. 41b.-(d.) Mark Tapley,
3 yrs., 6st. 41b.-(d.) Eva, 4 yrs., 6st. 31b.-Docility, 4
yrs., 6st.-Melody, 4 yrs, 6st.-King of Conde, 3 yrs.,
sst. 121 b. -(d.) Minimum. 4 yrs., sst. 121b.-Wansdyke,
3 Yrs., sst. 816.-Maria Monti 6 yrs, sst. 81b.-Chief
Justice, 3 yrs., 53t. 51b.-Dark Susan c., 3 yr.., sst. 31b.
-Cora, 3 yrs., sst. 11b.-Brington, 3 yrs., 4st. 111 b-
. 3 yrs., 4st. 91b.
The division likely to show to most advantage will
be composed of Cossack, Fugleman, Chantrey, Melody,
Dark Susan colt, Chief Justice, and Cora. Putting
these through the sieve of judgment, it leaves Chantrey,
Cora, Cossack, and Melody to struggle for the Olympic
laurels; but whoever wins to-morrow, the victorious
melody, I take it, will be pitched in the key of C, and if
it resound not through the chantrey, I must e'en bring
the Peruvian heroine or the follower of Hetman Platoff
to the rescue of my prophetic reputation. In plainer
phraseology, I place them thus:-
CHANTREY or MELODY ... ... 1
COSSACK or CORA ... ... 2

The remaining stakes being of but little importance,l
shall not touch upon; but before taking my conge for
the season, advise those who would make money on

next year's Derby to back my Derby team, viz.:—The
Prime Miniiter, Newminster, Lamartine, and Storm;
those who do so will not regret it; all will see very short
price; before the day, thus giving good hedging, if not an
absolute win.
On the first Monday in 1851 it is my intention to take
the first general survey of the spring's racing prospects.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.
Nov. 4, 1850.

PRINCE ALBERT AT YORK.
TO TEE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sist,—To every intelligent and patriotic individual,
every right-thinking mind, every generous and noble
heart, few circumstances, of recent occurrence, have
afforded purer or more unmingled pleasure, than the
late splendid gathering in the city of York, the re-
ciprocation of kindly and fraternal feeling expressed,
and the truly valuable and important sentiments
which were embodied by the various speakers ; and it
is delightful to observe this manifestation of almost
boundless hospitality on the part of our most distin-
guished magistrates and public officers towards each
other, and especially in connexion with the approach-
ing Exhibition of 1851. Such gatherings, such
comminglings of sentiment and feeling, must be be-
neficial, and tend to diffuse a kindly and healthy
spirit through the entire community. It was a most
auspicious circumstance, in connexion with the recent
banquet at York, that his Royal Highness Prince
Albert was present, and that he delivered that address
which must have afforded so much satisfaction and
pleasure to the whole empire. His speech was
obviously the gem of the meeting, brilliant as it was.
A finer spirit was never manifested by any Prince—
so b'and, so condescending, so generous, so dignified,
and yet so fraternal.
The intelligence of the address of his Royal High-
ness is most conspicuous. It bears strong marks of
a cultivated and superior mind. The correctness and
discrimination of his views are very apparent, and the
manliness and honesty with which his sentiments are
advanced must interest every person of sound
thought and feeling.
Tile principles which his address embodies, and the
spirit which it discovers, do his Royal Highness
great honour. The most touching and beautiful
passage in his speech, in our judgment, was the refe-
rence to the late Sir Robert Peel—a reference so
tender, so heartfelt, so impressive, and one as just as
sagacious, as kindly as well-merited. The subjoined
sentences form a part of the finest eulogium on the
distinguished statesman which has ever been pro-
nounced, and coming from such a quarter it is pecu-
liarly beautiful :
" You must have been struck, as every body
has been who has had the benefit of his advice upon
practical points, with the attention, care, and sagacity
with which he treated the minutest details, proving
that, to a great mind, nothing is little—from the
knowledge that, in the moral and intellectual as in the
physical world, the smallest point is only a link iu
tnat great chain, and holds it appointed place in that
great whole which is governed by the Divine wisdom.
" The constitution of Sir Robert Peel's mind was
peculiarly that of a statesman, and of an English
statesman. He was liberal from feeling, but con-
servative upon principle ; while his impulse drove him
to foster progress his sagacious mind and great ex-
perience showed him how easily the whole machinery
of a state, and of society, is deranged, and how im-
portant, but !aw difficult also, it is
to direct s
further development in accordance with its funda-
mental principles, like organic growth in nature.
" It, was also peculiar to him that, in great things
as in small, all the difficulties and objections occurred
to him first. He would anxiously consider them,
pause, and warn against rash resolutions; but, having
convinced himself, after long and careful investiga-
tion, that a step was not only right to be taken, but
of the practical mode also of safely taking it, it be-
came to him a necessity and a duty to take it. All
his caution and apparent timidity changed into
courage and power of action, and at the same time
readiness to make any personal sacrifice which its
execution might demand."
How graceful is this eulogy—how naturally and
sweetly expressed! How honourable is the testi-