Year: 1868

Elizabeth Case-The Winnings ON the Derby
Events on Hand and In Prospect.


LONDON June 9, 1868.
The operation Of making "bricks without straw" is
at once thankess and Improbable; but fear that in
the present ul IN sporting affairs it is all can turn
my hand or pen to. The storm is always succeeded
by calm, and the sporting storm which last week
burst over EPSON Downs was no exception to the
rule. The settling on the Derby, which described
in recent letter, the last straw which broke the
back OF the unfortunate racing man; and at present
he Is, as rule, recruiting exhausted nature at the
seaside or treating himself with counter irritant In
the shape OF the tOsome gayetes Of the French capt.
tai. II your readers will consider for moment the
vast amount OF work, physical and mental which
for months the regular sportsman has gone through
In connection with the great event decided
last week, and hundreds Of others Of less impor-
tance; his constant hurrying through the country in
every direction, and its attendant fatigue and worry;
the unrelieved mental strain which "bg book"
with its vast and complicated state Of accounts en-
tals the chagrn at losing perhaps the earnings Of
years over one disastrous race, and the real hard
work Of the two days. settlement, they wi perhaps,
allow there is for the brief repose of the pres
ent week and excuse for indulging in it to the
hearts content


The Lady Elizabeth rdsco is now nearly pumped
out" and people Of every class heartily sick OF
the jade's-or unfortunates- disasters Her running
still excites little interest and discussion; but
they are about equally languid. You may still hear
persons wondering show the devil" like the ny in
AMBER ''she got there;" but they are instantly met
by expressions OF disgust and, as the reporters Of
the gallery have 1t, 'the subject then drops" The
parting" in fact has taken pace the money has
been lost and won and paid and received, and
'there's end ont" Bygones, most believe, ought
ha hynn and uha fha
of so "shady" q character as those Of Lady Eliza
beth, perhaps the least said is the soonest
mended. ! need scarcely say that there are two
sides among the public in regard to the mystery


one ha s,a6e are 30 eyervtno ia ar ana
square, and that the only explanation OF the mares
horrible running Is neither more nor less than that
she has hopelessly fallen away from her splendid
two year old form and that her owner and his party
were aware OF the fact; while the other asserts
roundly that she has been 'got at" and that her
drowsy demeanor her languid action and her posi-
ton In Derby and Oaks were due to nothing but
theory il afforded by remark asserted to have been
made by Admiral Rous, the veteran Handicapped and
undoubted father pro TEN. OF the turf to the effect
that he would be 'sorry to have as much poison i'm
his stomach as the mare had in hers.n l should be
rather chary Of believing In such a speech unless
heard IL myself but undoubtedly 1t Is the fact that
many persons do not hesitate to confirm it on oath,
and good many OF them and very strong ones too.
| am very much inclined to take the advice Of the
discerning Mr.. Pickwick, and 'shout with the
| largest party;' but 1 conceive / better fulfil my
| functions 10y recording other peoples opinions
than by expressing my own II Is perfectly possible
that, Marquis OF Hastings is as innocent the pro-
verbal "babe unborn' OF anything like ''fOu play:''
| but his hands have not been particularly cleanV OF
| late and an uncharitable world is apt to imagine


him dirty all over Even the father oflics, however,
| Is not so black as he Is painted, and perhaps the


safest position to take Is the middle one, always re-
| membering the cautious Horaan maxim medic
| t,ttissinus i0is


The most contradictory rumors are anoat as TO the
| amount he won, or, as some have IT, lost over the
| race. one section maintain that he has netted


good stake by the result though, Of course, not nearly


much he would have pocketed by the victory OF


Lady Elizabeth; another that though he won on the
| event he actually lost on the week-a statement
which Is hardly consistent with the retrenchment
| and abandonment OF bctting-like Fastaff's 'givng
up such aud living cleany," that were expected Of


Sir Joseph Hawley's name has been good deal BAN
died about during the week, and sometimes not to


his advantage. There are always several people who
can considerably further through n milestone
| than their neiEhbors and not few OF them have


been Of late winkng In knowing manner,
| shaking their heads mysteriously buttonhong
| you in a corner and there communicating divers


dark sayings to the effect that they may say what


they like, my boy but Sir Joseph's deep 'un,n or


fabulous amount OF money by the victory OF his gal
| liant son OF Bas Bleu. Well, some folks viii cover


the sun all over with spots, and mud Is cheap mis-
se and easily thrown 1t Is enough to say that It is
generally believed Sir Joseph has won nothing but
the stakes by the result and his conduct in starting
the horse for the public s loudly praised an act OF
self-denia which Is but another proof Of his being
| true and honorable sportsman.





OF The Earl by the Marquis of Hastings Just before
the Derby after thousands OF people had been in
duced TO back him, is reprobated still as an act
which is disgrace to the turf The Danebury party
have not as yet condescended TO give the slightest
explanation OF their conduct, and on the principle
that "sience gives consent" people believe their
structures cannot be challenged. Even apart from
the Lady Elizabeth mystery, with all the suspicion
which attaches to It, his conduct in regard to The
Earl would OF itself rretrievaby inure his reputa-
ton.


As to the settling" have already spoken Of it at
unrflf tn al n
that have heard on all hands nothing but express
sion OF the utmost conentment, and that the credit
OF the ring has through the ery tralr utterly
unslaken and with new and hopeful lease N life.
And this In face OF the gioomicst predictions that
"the bank was smashed and the layer of the odds
gone TO almighty squash"


EVENTS on HAND.


There has been some racing during the week-what
week during the season IL without it but the
whole, 1t has been OF so "tinpoty" character that
need scarcely trouble your readers with more than
the brleest notice OF IT, We have had meetings at
Manchester West Drayton and Croydon. The first