The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-30 00:00:00

Seven ran.

IPSWICH RACES.-THIS DAY.
BOROUGH MEMBERS PLATE.
Roseneath .
Sissiphus
Overcast
RENDLESHAM STAKES.

Radcliffe
Brother to Algarsifc
Jezabel
WELTER STAKES.
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Fanfreluche , ....
Corroborator ......
QUEEN'S PLATE.
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Hippclyta ..
Lady Hylda
Weatherspy
CHAUNTRY STARES.

Tailor
Xurullo
Measure for Measure
Six ran.

NEWCASTLE RACES—This DAY.

TYNE HANDICAP.

Miss Armstrong
Weather wise
•
Sundeelah
•;

Four ran.
HUNT PLATE.

Vandal
9
Fly-by-Night
Yellow Diamond
Six ran. Won in a canter.
GOLD CUP.

Windham _ - -
1
National Guard
Skylark

Six ran.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market steady. The demand for American for
export to America is very great, at advancing
prices. Sales probably 10,000 biles or more.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

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LONDON, June (:).—Wind this day at noon—South.
West; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

FALMOUTH, June 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Sophie,
from London for Rio Janeiro.

CLYDE, June 29.-IVind W.S.W.—AtriTed—Ailsa,
from Quebec.

NEwro4T, June 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Conrad,
from Jersey for Brazils. Sailed—Marie Araalia, for lia-
vannah.

DARTMOUTH, June 29,—Wind \V.—Arrived—Ramsey,
from New Zealand.

Hula., June 29.—Wind \.W.—Arrived—Lady Emma
Bruce, from :.4uebec.
PORTSMOUTH, June 29.—Wind W.—Sailed—Tier Ma-
jesty's ship Irresistible, I'Jr a cruise.

(Br MAGNETIC TELEGRAM)
y Morning;
Arrived, June 29 GRAVESEND,
Crawtord, fromThursda Colomba—Perse.
verance, from Medemblik—John and Mary, from Monte.
video.
Arrived, June 30—Volant, from Egersund —Vickenger,
from Quebec—Zuma, from Riga—Elizabeth, from St.
Petersburg—Mai nhill, from Gurnsey--2E.ilus and Lancet,
from Dantsic—Vanquisher and Skeene, from Cronstadt ;
Albion, and Crosach, from Colombo—Hines, from New
Carleby—llannah, from Trinidad—Jeseie and Witch of the
Wave, from St. Vincent—Dolphin, from Wismar—Fides,
from Helsinborg ; Brodrene, from Nanisas—Eagle, from
Memel. DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed—Psyche, from London, for Brahma.

MADAME DE LA POMMERAIS, under the title of
Sister Clothilde, has joined the Ursuline Convent in Paris.
THE CONFEDERATE LOAN.—We have the plead
sure of being able to state, with posit've certainty, that the
semi-annual interest and dividend of sinking fund due on
September 1, and which by the terms of the contract
with the Confederate Government, must be deposited
with the contractors 60 days in advance, is ready for de-
posit. This fact, coupled with the continued absorption of
large quantities of the bonds by conversion into cotton cer-
tificates for blockade-running purposes will no doubt give a
vigorous stimulus to transactions in this stock.—The Index.
BLOCKADE RUNNING.—The Index publishes a
list of the vessels entering and leaving the Ports of Wil-
mington and Charleston, during the period from Jan. 1,
1863, to April, 18E4. From this list it results, that during
151 months, out of five hundred and ninety attempted trips,
four hundred and ninety eight were successful—in other
words, as nearly as possible, of every six vessels that dared
the blockade five went through, or that only one-sixth of
the Confederate marine has been disturbed, speaking of car-
goes and not of bottoms."
THE FIRST TURNFIKE.—Seeing that to-night all
the metropolitan turnpikes are swept out of view
for ever, the following paragraph from the new number of
the " Comhill," may be read with interest :—Exactly five
hundred years have elapsed since a hermit, weary of the
labour of having nothing to do, and tired of sitting the dull
day through, by the side of the stone which supported the
Highgate-
hill—that frontsinteh
wofLti. Anthony's Chapel, on Highgate-
subsequently became known as
Whittington's—resolved to mend the ways between the
summit of the hill and the low part of the vale ending in
Islington. This hermit was a man of some means, and he
devoted them to bringing gravel from the top of the hill
and laying it all along the unclean track which then, as
now, bore the name of " Hollow Way." By digging out
gravel, he gave a pond to the folk on the hill, where it was
greatly needed, and he contributed cleanliness and security
to the vale, where neither had hitherto been known. Tra-
vellers blessed the hermit who had turned constructor of
highways the, pilgrims to St. Anthony's found their
access to the shrine of the saint made easy and pleasant by
him ; and as for the beneficent hermit himself, his only
regret was that in accomplishing this meritorious act for
the good of his fellowmen, he had entirely exhausted all
his fortune. The King, however, came to the rescue. Ho
set up a toll-bar, and published a decree addressed to "our
well. beloved William Phelippe the hermit," that he and
the public might know wherefore. The King declared he
highly appreciated the motive which had induced the
hermit to benefit " our people passing through the high-
way between Heghgate and Smethfelde, in many places
notoriously miry and deep." And in order that the new
way might be maintained and kept in repair, the King
licensed the hermit to take toll, and keep the road in order
and himself in comfort and dignity. This was the first
road-bar erected in England, and William Phelippe, the
hermit, was the father of that race of turnpike keepers
whose sovereignty of the roads within 50 miles of London
came to an end, after a reign of five centuries, on the
first day of the month of July of this present year, 1561.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Col3nial
Office from the Governors of the Cap: of Good Hope, Natal,
St. Helena and the Bahamas.

DEATH BY FIRE,—On Tuesday Mrs. Beckett, 30
years of age, residing in the Borough,
was burnt to death
in her own house in consequence of her dress catching fire.
She NVA; alone at the tirne4ind it conjectured that she had
placed the candle on the floor while engaged in some house-
hold duties, and set herself on fire by incautiously approach-
ing it. When discovered by her neighbours she was en-
veloped in flames from head to foot.

PRESERVATION OF SILKWORAIS.—M. Onesci has
found that wood-soot, if sprinkled oter sY.kworms
attacked with "Arlin', (fleets an almost certain cure, or, at
ail events, prolongs their lives until the cocoons are finished.
The French Minister of Agriculture has addressed a circular
to thep; efets of the sericultural departments of France, and
has requested that a commission be formed to report on the
value of M. Oncsti's diecuvery,—Quarter/y Jounial Of
Science.

" UNABASIILD DEFOE!" ( Vide Pope).—lt is very
unpleasant to discover that men whose works have
been the solace of our leisure hours were villains and
Castards. We have been de'sillusionne somewhat roughly
of late respecting Sterne ; it is now Defoe's turn. The
_London I:eriew has disinterred from the State Paper-ellice
a mass of documents which show that the writer of
"Robinson Crusoe" was the hired spy and the venal doer
of all sorts of literary dirty work for the Wit'g, Gsv4rement
cf George I.—Guardian.