The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-20 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S--MoNDAT,
THE DEILEY.
sto 1 agst Liddington (offered)
10 to 1 agst Breadalbane (taken and offered)
11 to 1 agst Duke (take 12 to 1)
22 to 1 aget Christmas Carol (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Brother to Minnie (offered)
33 to 1 agst Broomielaw (taken) •
33 to 1 agst Longdown (taken and offered)
1000 to 15 agst Friday (taken)
1000 to 15 agat Congress (taken)
1000 to 10 aget Grappler (taken)

EACING FIXTURES FOR 1865.
JANUARY.
Manchester • .. 2
FEBRUARY.
Lincoln spring Nottingham Spring .... 28

MARCH.
Derby Spring 2
Liverpool Springy
Shrewsbury Spring 9

Doncaster Spring .... • l4
Warwick Spring
Chelmsford Spring
IL.
Cattcrick Bridge
Thirsk
Epsom Spring

Ar.
Northampton 4
Croaton Park 7
Durham
Newmarket Cruven 17

Newmarket Ist Spring.. 1
Chester
York Spring

Salisbury ls
Bath 2 3
Epsom Summer .... 30.

Epsom Summer (con.).. 1
Manchester .. 7
Ascot ..
Alexandra Park 2O

Hampton .. 21
Newton
Newcastle
Worcester Summer
'LY.

Newmarket July
Carlisle
Pontefract

Nottingham Summer IS
Chesterfield
Goodwood

AUG
Huntingdon
Reading
Egham
Oxford l7
York August 22

Plymouth .. 93,
Liebfie:d
Devon and Exeter 29
Darby Summer . . 30
Weymouth
M13E11..

SEPTE
Weymouth (continued) 1
Leicester 7
Doncaster
Brecon is

Richmond
Monmouth
Manchester Autumn
Newmarket Ist October 2(3
OBER

OCT
Northallerton
Newmarket Second Oct 9
Novi

Newmarket Houghton.. 23
Worcester Autumn .... 31
IBER.

Worcester Autumn

(continued) 1

EALING STEI
Weights for the Middlesex I]

IPLECHASES.
andicap• Three miles and a

st lb
Serious Case . 12 7
Ironsides
Portland ll 10
Sly Fox ll 7
Globule
Dobbyn
Premier
Gorsehawk
Piggy Wiggy .. ll 2
Bravo
Fenton
.

st J:6
The Rogue
Yaller Gal
Shuttlecock
Agag
Old Squire lO 7
Bracknell
Little Dick .. 10 7
Attaman
Overton
Aggressor
Ned of the Mils

Now ready, G. SUELTON'S Derby Guide, la. Glenie,
Connaught-terrace, Hydirpark ; 6unday Times Oface,
Fleet-street; and all agents.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Dec. 20.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly; moderate breeze, axd fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 18.—Wind
from Hamburg for Rio Janeiro, Sailed—Her Majesty's
ship Geyser, for Plymouth:
FALMOUTH, Dec. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived--Henry
Reed, from Sulina.
MILFORD, Dec. M.—Wind W.—Arrived—Asia, from
Tarragona.

POOLE, Dec. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrivod—Stanclloy,
from Newfoundland.

PLYMOUTH, Dec. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Helena,
from Havannah.

CLYDE, Dec. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Kighlatd
Mary, from St. John's, N.B. Sailed—River Thames, fur
Valparaiso.
QVEENSTOWN, Dec. 19.—Wind S.E,—Arrived—Ra
Ga!antumo, from Salina.

BRISTOL, Dec. 19.—Wind S.W,—Arrived—Grelmo,
from New York.
SWANSEA, Dec. 19.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Dorsetshire,
for Coquimbo.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGIUPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Dee. 19—Queen of tha Chase, from St.
Michael's.

Sailed, Dec. 20—Lord J. Russell, steamer, for Dunkirk—
Triton, steamer, for Boulogne._ _ _

DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed Sparkler, of Glasgow, from Calcutta, for
London.

The Paris papers of yesterday evening publish a
despatch from Messina announcing that disturbances had
broken out in Zante from political causes, and that several
persons had been wounded.

THE WESTERN FISHERIES.—Herrings were very
plentiful during the past week. and the (large catches were
disposed of without much difficulty. The Cornish drift
boats, particularly those at St. Ive's, took several hogsheads
of fine mackerel, and a few hogsheads of pilchards. Two
other ;vessels, with cured pilchards, started for Mediter-
ranean ports.

TRACTABILITY OF GLASS.—Glassblowing, in its
simpler adaptations, is very easy of acquirement, and ca.,
pible of affording much recreation at a small expense;
while, if the experimenter be of a philosophical turn, he may
turn his skill to very useful account. Even cold glass may
be worked with a faoility known to few. It may be drilled
in holes very easily, the only implement needed being a
common watchmakers' drill. stock. A diamond point is not
at all necessary, as itinerant operators often assert ; a steel
drill of good quality, well hardened, will do the business
perfectly ; and even if the edge of the tool should give way
before the hole is pierced through, a little emery-powder
and oil will ramove every difficulty; or with the help of
these, the hole may be bored with a copper drill. Not only
so—glass may even be turned in a lathe, Strange as it
seems, this is literally true. No special tools even are
needed ; any amateur turner who has operated on either of
the metals, may chuck a piece of glass in his lathe, and turn
it with the same tools, and in the same way, as ho would
a piece of steel, only taking care to keep the chips from his
eyes. Thil strange discovery was made almost accidentally,
in the early part of 1860, by one of our most celebrated me-
chanical engineers, and might have been patented, but the
inventor contented himself with simply putting it on record,
and generously presented it to the nation. The consequence
was, that no one cared or thought about it, and the idea has
been suffered to lie nearly barren, though c:spable of being
turned to great account. Let any amateur mechanic make
the experiment, and he will be surprised at the ease with
which this seemingly intractable material may be cut and
fashioned according to his will.—Chambers's Journal.
FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last
sitting a paper was received from M. Gaeymard on
the question whether the leaves of trees are good for
manure ? which he answers in the affirmative, because
forest trees as well as copse-wood receive no other manure
but the leaves that fall and rot on the spot, and if those
leaves were removed every year vegetation would diminish
considerably in the forest. To ascertain what may be the
proportion of active elements for manure in the leaves of
trees and vegetables in general M. Gueyniard took 100 gms.
of leaves in a dry state, and, after incineration, ascertained
by Emily sis the composition of the residne,arranging the num.'
bera thus found in a table. From his researches it appears
that the dead leaves of the potato plant, if spread out in suc-
cessive layers, alternating with stable manure, and left to
ferment so, will make a very powerful manure. Leaves of
any kind should never be incinerated fur the 1 urposo of
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roots of the plant grow and spread with ease, and even the
when
worst soil improves. For corn of all kinds those residues
of plants should be selected as yield the largest quantity
of phosphates. Captain Laussedat sent in a paper on
a survey of Grenoble and its environs, executed by
means of photography. The country surveyed comprises
a surface of 20 square kilometres ; the objects
glasses used were f.O centimetres focus fur large distances,
and 27 for smaller ones, the latter not being under 940
metres; the generality of distances ranging between 1,500
, and 4,500 metres. M. Luther, the celebrated amateur
astronomer of Bilk, near Dusseldorf, wrote to announce the
discovery of a new telescopic
vlanet, the 82d in order, on
the 27th ult., to which he has given the name of Alcuaen a
at the suggestion of MM., de Littrow, Weiss, and Oppola,r,
of Vienna, M. Tissot sent in an account of a fireball
observed by him at 9 p.m. on the 9th ii.st. He was in the
Rue des Fosses St. Jacques at the time. The altitude of its
path was 8 deg, its azimuth 61 deg, and its tangent at that
point appeared to make an angle of about 30 deg with the
horizon. The motion was from north to south. The phe-
nomenon was unaccompanied by any noise.
ENGLAND AND SANTO DOMINGO.—The Corre •
spondence de Espana of the 15th says :—" We know
positively that the English Minister in Madrid has received
instructions to communicate to the Spanish Government
the resolution of the English Cabinet to recognise the
rebels of Santo Domingo as belligerents. The English
11Iinister yesterday requested a conference with the
Minister for Foreign Affairs, but it is said Senor Benavides
considered that, having already presented his resignation
he could not meanwhile enter into this grave question,l!