The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-25 00:00:00

SPORTING I:

M This Da,

EPSOM RACES.—Tars DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

TOWN PLATE.

Pixie
Vabalathus
Nucleus • 3

Six ran,

LATEST BETTING.
DERBY.
11 to 2 agst General Peel (taken)
11 to 2 agst Cambascan (taken)
11 to 2 agst Scottish Chief (taken)
Sto 1 agst Birch Broom (taken)
12 to 1 agst Paris (taken)
100 to 7 agst Blair Athol (taken)
100 to 6 agst Coast Guard (taken)
20 to 1 agst Baragah (taken)
20 to 1 agst Ely (taken)
25 to 1 agst Valiant (taken)
100 to 3 agst Strafford (taken)
40 to 1 agst Prince Arthur (taken)
50 to 1 agst Copenhagen
66 to 1 agst Hollyfox (offered)
100 to 3 agst Ackworth (taken)

THIRD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

EPSOM RACES—'This DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

THE DERBY•
W. I'Anson's Blair Athol (Snowden) 1
Lord Glasgow's General Pee,
Mr Merry's Scottish Chief (J. Adams) 3
Captain A Cowper's Knight of Snowdon (F. Adams) 4
Mr Bowes' Baragah (Ashman) 0
Mr T. Valentine's Hollyfox (r. French) 0
Lord Glasgow's Strafford (Doyle) 0
Mr J. Day's Master Richard —
Captain Christie's Warrior (J. Grimsha\s) 0
Mr W. Hudson's Cathedral (Whiteley) 0
Mr Eastwood's Surat (Buck) 0
Mr W. G. Craven's Planet

Mr Ten Broeck's Paris (G. Fordham) 0
Mr H. Hill's Copenhagen
Mr H. Hill's Ackworth

Mr E. Brayley's Outlaw (Cowley) 0
Mr Cartwright's Ely
Lord Westmoreland's Signalman (S. Adams) 0
Lord Westmoreland's Birch Broom (J. Water) 0
Mr W. Stewart's Major (H. Grimshaw) 0
Captain White's Cambuscan (J. Mann) 0
Sir J. Hawley's Washington
Mr Naylor's Appenine (A. French) 0
Mr Naylor's Coastguard.. (Challoner) 0
Mr Savile's Privateer

Sir F. Johnstone's Historian (Daley) 0
3lr Cathcart's Prince Arthur (J. Osborne) 0
Mr T. Robinson's Dormouse (W. Boyce) 0
Mr Hodgman's Valiant
Mr J. B. Starky's Sir lzaak Walton (H. Sopp) 0

Thirty ran,

Won by two lengths ; three lengths between second and,
,hird ; half a length off Knight of Snowdon was fourth.

MANOR PLATE.

Oberon .. 1
Diomed 2
Lcafer

Eight ran.
BENTINCK PLATE.

Com de Lion
Hawkshaw ...

Eight ran.
BOROUGH STAKES.'

Poland 1
Dead heat between Duke of Cambridge and Virginia fo;,
second place.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

LONDON, May 25.—Wind this day at noon—West;
moderate breeze and cloudy weather.
PORTSMOUTH, May 24.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Her
Majesty's ship Victoria and Albert, for Antwerp.

PLYMOUTH, May 24.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Sophia
Joackim, from Sunderland for Calcutta, with maintopmaat
sprung.

CLYDE, May 23.—Wins N.W.—Arrived—Burtrato:
rotia Mauritius—Shaftesbury, from Calcutta.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, May 2l—Salvadore' from Terceira—Palmyra,
horn Guernsey—Amici, from Lagos—Jarlen, from Ha-
vannah.

Sailed, May 25—Lord J. Russell, steamer, for Dunkirk.:
DEAL, Wednesday Morning,
Passed.—Mary Spicer, for Tobago—City of Norwich,
screw steamer, for Corunna—both from London.

THE ROYAL VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE.—CAMBKIDGE
May 24.—The following is a list of those upon
whom honorary degrees will be conferred during the ensuing
royal visit:—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his Royal High-
ness the Prince Louis of Hesse, Earl Granville, the Duke
of Manchester, Earl Stanhope, Earl Spencer, the Earl of
Carnarvon, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Eversley, Lord
Alfred Hervey, Lord Leigh, Lord Harris, Sir Edward
Lytton Bulwer Lytton, Sir William Page Wood, Sir Chas.
Wood, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, General William Thos.
Knollys, the Rev. the Dean of Westminster, A. J. B.
Hope, Esq., M.P., Dr. Watson (President of the College
of Physicians), M. Charles Gabriel Cobet, Dr. A. W. Hoff-
man, Professor Wheatstone. All the above-mentioned will
be created Honorary Doctors of Law by special grace. At
a meeting of the corporation this morning, the presentation
of an address to their Royal Highnesses was agreed to, and
also that the same should take place near the old conduit
head, near the old London entrance into the town, and also
that the electric light be fitted up on the top of the great
tower of St. Mary's Church, and used during the nights of
the 2d and 3d of June, From the Senate House down-
wards, the busy hum of preparation is going on, and all
tells of anticipation of approaching festivity.
The Spanish Cortes have just passed s law em-
powering the Government to make arrangements
with the municipality of Madrid for the erection of a colossal
bronze statue of Christopher Columbus in one of the public
places of the city. It is proposed to inscribe on the pedes-
tal the device of the Dukes d 3 Veraguas, the great disco..
verer's descendants, of which the following is a translation :
—"To Castilla and Leon Columbus gave the New World:'
A Florence letter of 19th says :—"The corn•
mitten charged with the erection of a statue to Dante
having heard that there is now at Verona a family of that
name, the present head of which is Count Sarego Alighieri
have addressed to King Victor Emmanuel an application
praying him to confer the Florentine patriciate, with ex
emption from tans, on all the members of that illustrious
family, and their male descendants. At the same time the
municipality of Florence have, at a general meeting, decided
ou applying to the authorities of Ravenna, where the mortal
remains of the great poet have been deposited since his
death, to have them removed to his native city. The
interest now shown by the good people of Florence for
everything concerning Dante forms a remarkable contrast
to the oblivion in which his memory has been so long
allowed to remain.
THE POPE AND HIS KINDRED.—The Semaine
Liturgique of Poitiers gives the foPowing details
respecting the family of the Pope ; —Pius IX., now 72. is
the youngest surviving son of his family. He has still two
brothers, Counts Gabriel and Gaetan, who are 84 and SO
years of age. His sister, the Countess Benigni, is 77. His
father, Count Jerome, died at 81, and his mother at 82.
His grandfather, Count Hercules, lived to the age of 96.
The Mastai family is very numerous. The Pope's eldest
brother, Count Gabriel, has two ono, one of whom is mar-
ried to the Princess del Drage, the other to the niece of
Cardinal Cadolini, Count Gaetan is a widower, and has
no children. His deceased brother, Count Joseph, who
was a captain in the gendarmery on e , died without issue ; but
his four sisters, of whom only dves, have left a nu-
merous progeny of sons and gran sons. It must be said to
the honour of the Pontiff that his brothers, sisters, and
their descendants have not cost the State a single penny.
None of them has ever been in office, or employed in any
mission, so that it cannot be said that the elevation of Car-
has made wry addition
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burial ceremonies. They emit a terrible odour, and when
the mass of straw bundles almost reach the top of th
tower, it is emptied, the contents are burnt, and the ashes
spread as manure over the fields. Such a mode of dispos-
ing of the bodies of infants struck us as a great incentive
to infanticide, a clime which is so very common in China.
—A Lady's Visit to Manilla and Japan.
THE CASE OF CAPTAIN MlLLER.—Yesterday, at
the Liverpool Police-court, Captain Robert Boyle
Miller, late master of the ship Charles Ryland?, charged
with having embezzled upwards of £l,OOO, the property of
the owners of the vessel, underwent a long examination
before Mr Reifies. The evidence having been perfected
against him, the prisoner was ordered for trial. A legal
argument then took place as to where the offence lay. It
was held that it took place respectively in the counties of
Durham and Middlesex, and Mr M'Cullock, barrister, for
the prosecution, selected that the prisoner should be tried
at the Central Criminal Court. Captain Miller will, there-
tore, be reconveyed to London,