The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-05 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES.

The Epsom Meeting commences on Thursday. The
first great event to be decided is the City and Suburban
Handicap. A great many horses have been backed for
this race. Liston held the premiership in the betting
for the last two or three weeks, but has now received the
coup de grace by having the pen drawn through his name.
Jarnicoton very nearly met a similar fate, having retro-
graded in the betting from 15 to 50 to 1,, but has now
returned to even a shorter figure. The French division
are now in great form, and if not the actual winner, he
is sure to finish in the first flight. Gordian Knot and
Veterinarian are the most formidable of the light divi-
sion, Brindisi, a cast - off from Lord Stamford's
stable, will represent the Duke of St. Albans. There
is only one f)ol in the race, viz, Tom Fool, and as the
month of April is said to be rather propitious to that class
of animals, it is just possible he may share her favours and
those of the judge on the present occasion by his being re-
corded the winner. He has been banked to win a large sum
of money by his spirited owner.: If I was certain he would
only ran kindly, I should prefer him to anything. He has
a bad temper, and there is no dependence to be placed on
him. I shall give my final selection both for the City and
Suburban and the Metropolitan to-morrow. The winner
for the City and Suburban I expect will turn up in either
VETERINARIAN, GORDIAN KNOT, BRINDISI, JARNI-
COTON, or Tom FooL. The Metropolitan ought to be won
by LORD ZETLAND, but I would advise him to be let alone
at present, as it is quite possible he may not put in an ap-
pearance.
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A FRESHIMAN.

TATTERSALLS'.—LAST EVENING.
CITY AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP.
6to 1 agst Gordian Knot (taken and offered)
7to 1 agst Veterinarian (taken)
11 to 1 agst Jarnicoton (taken)
14 to 1 agst Brindisi (offered)
20 to 1 agst Flying Fish (taken)
20 to 1 agst Voluptas (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Lord Burleigh (offered)
25 to 1 agst Stockinger (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Marigold (taken)
30 to 1 agst Mail Train (offered)
66 to 1 agst Vivid (offered)

METROPOLITAN STARES.
sto 1 agst Lord Zetland (taken)
20 to 1 agst Joco (taken)

THE DERBY.
15 to 2 agat Scottish Chief (taken)
14 to 1 agst Coast Guard (taken)
16 to 1 agst Forager (taken)
18 to 1 agat Birch Broom (taken)
22 to 1 agst Blair Athol (taken)
25 to 1 agst First Flight (taken)
25 to 1 agst Historian (taken)
100 to 1 agst Laomedan (taken)
100 to 1 agst Veterinarian (taken)

EPSOM SPRING SCRATCRINGS.—ApriI 4, at 150 p.m.:—
Liston, Blarney, and Lucky Star, out of the City and
Suburban ; Cachuca, out of the Metropolitan ; and Gunner
and all Mr. Bryan's horses out of their Epsom Spring
engagements.
THE GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE, MELTON MOW-
BRAY.—WO are authorised to state that Mr. Behrens, the
owner of Game Chicken, objected to Cooksborough, the
horse that came in first, on the ground that Mr. Lotan, who
rodo him, was neither a farmer nor gentleman jockey, as
required by the conditions of the race. The stewards will
investigate the case on Thursday at Epsom.
THE LATE CHERTSEY MEETlNG.—Alcibiades, who came
in first for the Hunters' Stakes on the second day, has been
objected to as not being qualified to run, and the matter will
be investigated by the stewards as soon as possible, and
notice of their decision given in due course.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864.

APRIL.

Epsom Spring
Newmarket Craven
Llanboldy . 12
Newcastle and Gateshead 14
Knighton
DI
Chester .. 3
York Spring
Salisbury l2
Blaydon
Radcliffe

Liverpool Hunt Club, 15
Lewes Spring l9
Cardiff
Newmarket First Spring 25

Redditch l6
Bath
Manchester (Summer
Harpenden
Epsom
NE.

Wye
Maidstone 3
Ascot
Hampton
Newton
Odiham
Bibury

Beverley 22
Stockbridge
Chelmsford.. 2B
New Forest Hunt 2B
Ne tvcastle-on-Tyne ..
Worcestcr (Summer)
Ipswich .. 3O
LY.

Newmarket July
Carlisle
Pontefract
Abingdon
Cambridge
Liverpool July
Stamford

Nottingham
Winchester l9
Southampton .. 2O
Chesterfield
King's Lynn 2l
Goodwood

Au i
Bright on 2
Brighton Club
Lewes 5
Huntingdon . . 9
Wolverhampton
Reading
Egham
Oxford

SEPT]
Weymouth 1
Warwick September 6
Leicester 8
Bridgwater
Doncaster ..

Dover
York August 2E
Yarmouth
Plymouth
Lichfield 29
Stocktcn 3O
Devon and Exeter
Derby
2.113 ER.

Brecon .. 19
Richmond
Monmouth .. 22
Manchester Autumn .. 23
NewmarketFirst October 27

A NEW BAROMETER,

A new barometer, with a scale of long range, was
exhibited at the Society of Arts, on Wednesday
evening last, by Mr. Hicks, of Hatton-garden. The
barometer consists of a tube hermetically sealed at
the upper end, but open at the lower end, the upper
half of the tube being of smaller sectional area than
the lower one. A sufficient quantity of mercury
being poured in, and the tube reversed, the column
of mercury distributes itself in the two portions of
the tube, so as to assume a length corresponding to
the weight of the atmosphere at the time. It is
obvious that, if the tube was of one diameter from
the top to the bottom, the column of mercury which
would be supported at a given time would no
longer be supported when the pressure of the
air decreased, and the column could only be
shortened by a certain portion running out
of the bottom; but the difference of diameter
in the upper and lower portions of the tube
f'n the new barometer) enables the excess in
iengt::: instead of running out, to spread laterally.
If, for ins `ante, the preisure of the air diminishes
so that it is .'t pable of supporting only a column
C
shorter by one int:.
h than before, in the ordinary
barometer the mercury sinks one inch only, but in
Mr. Hick's barometer the fall, according to the re-
lative area of the two tubs, n:.ay be increased to
almost any extent. Thu 3, supposifog the sectional
areas of the upper and lower portioh..3 of the tube
to be such that one inch of mercury inl:..he upper
fills only nine-tenths of an inch in the lower.; it is
clear that, if ten inches be withdrawn from I:.he
upper tube, they will only fill nine inches of the
lower portion of the tube, and thus, while the whole
column is shortened one inch, the surface of the
mercury in the upper tube will be lowered ten
inches ; or, in other words, for every change of one
inch in the length of the barometric column a range
of ten inches is obtained. The smaller the diffe-
rence between the diameter of the tubes, the greater
will be the range obtained. The method by which
Mr. Hicks practically obtains the scale for each of
his barometers is the placing it and a standard
barometer in connection with the receiver of an air-
pump, and, observing the fall in each ease, he gra-
duates accordingly. Mr. Hicks also adopts an
ingenuous method of measuring the
ts length
ad of the
e
barometric column itself, and thus ge readily
standard barometer which is well adapted for moun-
tain measurement, inasmuch as the difficulties of the
cistern and its necessary corrections is got rid of.
This he effects by graduating from the centre both
ways. By means of two verniers reading to
1-1000th of an inch, he takes the two readings of
the distance from the central point, adds them
together, and the total is the correct length of the
barometric column at the time. Mr. Hicks also
exhibited a mercurial maximum thermometer of
novel and simple construction.

MISS BRADDON, the popular novelist, is busily
engaged upon a new sensation novel, which will appear
early in May. It is rumoured that the new work will sur-
pass " Lady Audley's Secret" in dramatic force and
atrongly developed interest.
SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUll.—Easter week.
free.—During the week ending April 2, 1864, the visitors
have been as follows :—On Monday, Tuesday, and Satur-
day, freo days, open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday, open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m,—
total, 27,518 from the opening of the ItiumUm, 4,542 ,771