The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-27 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION,

The court left Buckingham Palace on Thursday, for
Osborne. Her Majesty is expected to return to-day.
The Earl of Denbigh, and Viscount and the Ladies
Fielding, have left the metropolis for the Continent.
HER MAJESTY'S STATE BALL.—The Queen on Mon-
day gave a State Ball at .Buckingham Palace to a most
brilliant Court, the invitations exceeding 2,100. The
Queen wore a blonde dress over white silk, with coloured
flowers of various kinds worked on it, ornamented with
bunches of flowers to correspond, and diamonds. Her
Majesty's bead-dreso was formed of a wreath of flowers of
various kinds to correspond with the dress, ornamented
with diamonds. A state supper was served with regal
magnificence, soon after twelve o'clock, in the principal
dinner-room, on long ranges of tables, the splendour of
the service being heightened by the consummate taste of
the decoration.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
4,
EPSOM RACES.

For " the Derby," on Wednesday, the running was very
exciting. The horses, 33 in number, one more than ever started
for. Derby, Oaks, or St, Leger, returned to the paddock, were
conducted from it to the post, and got off without the slightest
failure at ten minutes past three.

THE DERBY STAKES

Sir J. Hawley's Teddington
Mr. J. Clark's Marlborough Buck
Mr. Wilkinson's Neasham
Lord Enfield's Hernandez

(J. Manion 1
(G. Whitehouse) 2
(J. Holmes) 3
(S. Mann) 4

The others were not placed.
Betting.-3 to 1 agst Teddington, 7 to 2 agat Marlborough
Buck, 7 to 1 agst Hernandez, 7 to 1 agst Prime Minister, 15 to
1 agst Constellation, la to I agst Theseus, 11 to 1 agst Neasham,
22 to 1 agst Black Doctor, 30 to 1 agst Lamartine, 30 to 1 agst
Hippolytus, 40 to 1 agat Bonnie Dundee, 50 to 1 agst Ariosto,
and 1000 to 15 wet nny

The race may-be deicribed in a very few words. Teddington
waited in front to the turn, was never after headed, and won in
a canter. The Marlborough Buck beat Neasham by a
length, and the latter defeated Hernandez for the third place
by a neck. Sir Joseph Hawley has now won both Derby
and Oaks—and his party win an immense stake, and most of
the gentlemen are on the right side. On the other hand, the
" Ring" loses almost to a man; and Mr. Davis (who had some-
thing like an £80,009 book), admits that the winner and the
Marlborough Buck were the worst horses he had in the race;
his loss is very heavy. Job 11Iarson won this race last year on
Voltigeur ; and it is somewhat remarkable that the five leading
favourites were the first past the winning chair.
On Friday. the Oaks Stakes were won by Lord Stanley's
Iris ; Miserrima, 2 ; Hesse Homburg, 3; Payment, 4. The
following also started, but were not placed—Breba. Merry
Peal, Terpsichore, Catalpa, Prestige, Laura Middleton, For-
tuna, ch by Birdcatcher, lanthe, Anspach, and b f by Tory-
boy- Betting-6 to 4 agst Breba, 4to 1 agst Iris, 6to 1 agst
Ilesse Homburg, 7 to 1 agst Payment, 8 to 1 agst lanthe 10 to
1 agst Anspach, 100 to 6 agst Mamsel Otz filly, 15 to '1
agst
Miserrima, and 40 to I agst Pergita filly. The moment the
flag was lowered Catalpa rushed to the front, but was imme-
diately passed by a ruck of horses, Merry Peal taking up the
running, followed by the Mamsel Otz filly, the Pergita filly,
Anspach, and Miserrima, Breba heading the second division.
On nearing the mile-post, Miserrima and Breba joined the
leading horses, and the former immediately took her place
next Merry Peal, but the favourite was very soon in trouble,
and at the turn was out of the race. Miserrima now took the
lead, and at the same time Hesse Homburg. Payment, and
Iris quitted the centre, following. Merry Peal to the distance,
where she gave way, leaving Hesse Homburg next Miserrima,
Iris third, and Payment fourth. About half-way up Iris chal-
lenged and defeated the Goodwood mare, and reaching Miser-
rima opposite the centre of the stand, defeated her after a well-
contested race by three parts of a length; two lengths between
Miserrima and Hesse Homburg, Payment a length behind the
latter, and Prestige a bad fifth. Run in 2 min. 52 secs.

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CRICKET.—The eleven of All England have beaten
fifteen of the Stockton-on-Tees Club by 104 runs, in two
innings.

John Howard, the pedestrian, is about leaving En-
gland for Denmark, to go into training for his great leap-
ing
watch of nine yards, a gentleman having backed him
for £l2O to £lOO to leap nine yards across water in Den-
mark, on the Ist of September next.