The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-24 00:00:00

MISTLETOE,

upon whom, as upon pretty Umbriel the day before, will sit
Templeman, who has all that can be wanted in a jockey. To all
the Manus, Normans, aye, and even Flatmans, 1 prefer Temple-
man, whom I depute to win both.—Respectfully yours,
BEESWING.

Mr. Morris's Timid Fawn died on Sunday week.
Lord John Scott has purchased Young England.
Massaroni has been sold to Mr. B. Land, for 200 sore.

M. H. Elwes's Witticism, the dam of Joe:Miller, died a short

;ime ago.
Mr. Stebbing's brood mare Datura died last week. She was
:wenty-four years old.

Captain Douglas Lane has bought Light of the Harem from
Mr. Copperthwaite.
Mr. Sargent has sold Henrietta, by Harkaway, to Mr. T.
Shrimpton, and she has gone to Rice's stables.

A sale of twelve yearlings, bred by Her Majesty, at Hampton
Court Palace, is announced for next month.
Lincoln races have been altered from the 30th and 31st Au-
gust to the Ist and 2d of September, to avoid clashing with
Chelmsford.

Mr. Wauchope has announced his determination not to dis-
pose of Catherine Hayes, until alter she has run in the Oaks.
Mr. Greville made an offer of three thousand guineas for her,
which was refused.
Mr. Palmer, the owner of Goldfinder, gave a splendid dinner,
at the Cross Keys Inn, Hednesford, yesterday week, to all the
trainers, jockeys, and other inhabitants of the place, to com-
memorate his horse's victory for the Chester Cup.
Lord H. G. Lennox's Beehunter, by Gladiator, was sold at
Tattersall's, last week, for 71 guineas. Beehunter, when three
years old ran a match for 590 sovs. with Lord Airlie's Clincher,
which resulted in a dead heat, on which larger sums were betted
than on any other match during the last twenty years.
In selecting the Duke of Richmond's Pharos, as the probable
winner of the Epsom Derby, " Pegasus," the turf correspon-
dent of Bell's Life, remarks, " Pharos has, by his public run-
ning, as great a pretension to Derby honours as West Austra-
lian, seeing that he.defeated Sittingbourne at Goodwood last
year quite as easily as the latter was beaten by West Australian
in the Two Thousand Guineas. Pharos has run three times,
without a defeat, and, although it is alleged that the Duke of
Bedford's horse was not up to the mark when Pharos beat him
last year, yet Sittingbourne was then backed by his stable, and
was second favourite to the Goodwood champion. Pharos has
had a mast satisfactory trial, which the recent favour the horse
has found confirms, and I am prepared to see Pharos difficult
to beat for this great event."
On Thursday evening last, a large party assembled at the
Postoffice Hotel, Manchester, to present au elegant silver tea
service, &c., to Mr. Thomas Lye, the veteran jockey. The
whole was valued at £62, and subscribed for principally by the
sportsmen of Manchester. The chair was occupied by Mr.
Bake, supported by Mr. Lye on his right, Thomas Winder,
with whom, in conjunction with Mr. 8., the testimonial origi-
nated, on his left. The chairman made the presentation in a
very appropriate and feeling speech, eulogistic of the ability
and private character of Mr. Lye, and of his principal suc-
cesses on the turf. Mr. Lye was born at Manchester, in 1795.
His first mount was in 1811, at Bogside, near Irvine, when in
the service of the late Lord Eglinton, at whose death, in 1819,
he was engaged to Sir William Maxwell. His first appearance
at Manchester was in 1820, when he won the Maiden Plate for
Mr. Ferguson. The present was acknowledged by Mr. Lye in
a brief speech ; and the evening was spent in the most harmo-
nious and convivial manner.