The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-12-26 00:00:00

CIIESTER CUP

500 to 8 agst Mr. Worthington's Lady Palmerston—tk.
100 to 1 „ Mr. J. M. Stanley's Crusader—taken.
100 to 1 „ Lord Eglinton's Dirk Hatteraick—taken

THE DERBY.
12 to 1 ag,st Mr. Howard's St. Hubert—l
2000 to 30 „ Duke of Bedford's Pugnatol

taken.
w—taken

sto 1 „ Grwculus Esuriens &De Clare coupled
11 to 1 „ Mr. Merry's Lord of the Isles—taken.
1000 to 15 „ LordJolin Scott's Rambling Katie—taken

The trotting match for £lOO aside between Mr. Beb
bington's Charley and Mr. Elias Levy's Bobtail is off, Mr
Levy paying forfeit.

Mr.- D. Blyth has named his yearling colt by Annandale
out of Her Highness, The Bold Buccleugh.

Mr. Johu Scott has named his colt by Pyrrhus the
First out of Sister to Bay Mornus, Glautias.
Cheddar, 4 yrs, and Melissa, a yearling filly by Orlando
out of Clementina, have left Newmarket for Isaac Day's
stables, at Northleach.

The reported engagement of Hayhoe by Baron Paths-
child, as private trainer, mentioned by us' a fortnight

is confirmed

Th'eentire stud of the late Mr. Meiklam will be brought

to the hammer on the Ist of January, at York, by Messrs,
Tattersall ; it comprises ten lots, including Peggy, 5 -yrs;

Stiletto, 3 yrs, Sicily, 3 yrs, Gimcrack, 3 yrs, CON by ragO
out of Merry Lass, 2 yrs, filly by Birdcatcher out of In-
heritress, 2 yrs, yearling filly by Surplice out of Florence,
yearling filly by Birdcatcher out of Inheritress, and the
brood mares Florence and Inheritress.—On the 2nd of
January Mr. Robert Johnson will offer Arthur Wellesley,
Sister of Mercy, Igo, and Bona Vista.
The celebrated greyhound Border Chief did not die from
disease or illness, but was killed on his way home to Not-
tingham by a horse travelling in the same box with him.
CHESTER AUTUMN MEETING.—THE ALMA STAKES.—
A new stake has been established by Mr. Topham at
Chester, in commemoration of the glorious victory
achieved by the allied troops on the banks of the Alma—
a victory which will be ever memorable for the valour
which it produced from our countrymen, and the sacri-
fices which were made without any adequate result. The
Alma was a battle which, it would seem, was fought
merely to show what sterling stuff our army was com-
posed of, and nothing more. It was one of the many
grave mistakes of the campaign, and one for which the
home government alone is responsible. In looking over
the list of names in the new stake, we are sorry to find so
few nanies in accordance with the name and spirit of the
stake. There are but seven names in the whole list
which have any bearing upon the subject which has
originated the stakes—and they together number eighty-
one. It is true there are twenty without names, and we
trust that these will be named after some of the heroes of
the Crimea, especially of those belonging to the 23rd,
which regiment may be said to have had the post of
honour and of danger, as undoubtedly it had the lion's
share (or, more properly, perhaps, we should say, " the
bear's ") of the casualties of the bloody day. We trust
that similar stakes will be established at other meetings,
and that we shall have Inkerman Stakes, Balaklava Stakes,
and the Alliance Cup.—Racing Times.

THE MAR SLEBONE ELECTION terminated on Tuesday,
the—numbers-at-the close of the poll being—For Lord
Ebrington, 6,940 ; Jacob Bell, 4,167. Majority, 2,773.

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EA.ST GLOUCESTERSHIRE.--61 Tuesday, Mr. R. S.
Holford, of Westonbirt, a Conservative, was elected for
East Gloucestershire, without opposition, in the room of
Sir M. Beach, Bart.