The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-16 00:00:00

WEIGHTS FOR 111

(Calculated
Age at lb
Lord Clifden 4 9 7
Stradella
Limosina
Blithfield
Dollar
The hanger 4 9 0
East Lancashire
S-,i King
La Toucques 4 8 10
Queen Bertha
Scottish Chiet 3 8 0I

WORCESTER SUMMER MEETING—JUNE 30.
The Worcester Stakes. One mile and three furlongs.
Age st lb
Burgess
'lrs Somerville
Manchester
Moulsey
Vacuna
Lord Z atland 3 6 3
Outlaw
Fisherman's
Daughter .. 3 6 0
Olivia
Farnhifba
Under the Cloud 3 5 9
Wildman 3 5 7
The Tyke .• • • .... 3 5 7
Queen of Trumps 3 5 7

Age at lb
Fairwater
Umpire
The Monk a 8 12
Johnny Armstrong 5 8 9
Dollar 4 8
General Hess
Twilight
Exchequer
King of Utopia
Loiterer
Beverley
Fantail . ,
Myrtle
Fontenoy
Chaff 4 7 0
Canzonette

RACING FIAT

'RES FOR 1864.

Bibury
Beverley 22
Stockbridge
Chelmsford 2B

Newcastle-on-Tyne .... 28
New Forest Hunt ...... 2S
Ipswich 3O
Worcester (Summer) .. 30

RUMOURED UNION IN HIGH LIFE.—The follow.
jog preposterous paragraph appears in the Owl of
yesterday : --It is confidently asserted in well-informed
circles that an alliance will shortly take piece between the
Right Hon. E. Horsman, M.P., and the lovely and accom-
plished Benjamina Disraeli. The ceremony, including a
full choral service, will be conducted by Sir John Paking-
ton, who will preside at an organ outside Westminister
Abbey. General Peel has consented to act as best man.
Since writing the above, we regret to learn that, at a meet-
ing of the bride's friends, held at Lord Derby's house on
11Ionday, the contemplated union has been postponed.

A ROYAL BOTELY.—rrectous to her departure
from Balmoral last autumn her Majesty, feeling the
want of a shelter house from rain showers in Lochnagar,
gave orders for the erection of a small dwelling, or simply
a bothy, having a "but and a ben." The bothy is about
finished, and stands a few hundred yards from the " white
pole," known to Lochnagar tourists, and nearly throe miles
from Altnaguisac. The building is oblong, having a two-
stalled stable in the same line with the Royal apartments.
The two entrance doors are in front, the one leading to tht)
but and beu, while the other opens into the stable. The
difficulties of building on such a site may be understood
when the fact is known that for nearly two miles the build-
ing material had to be "carted" without any carts, the
building was under the superintendence of Mr. Beaton,
architect at Balmoral.—Aberdeen .Tournal,
MONUMENTS AT WOOLWICH.--A fine Portland
stone statue of the puke of Wellington, 6ic. bin, in
height, which has lain for some years in the Tower among
yesterdb.) raised on a pedestal in the
hfaro leading from the Military Sore
tphreinoclidp%sitotrro,roug
Department offices to the pier in Woolwich Arsenal, T•
site selected by Captain Catlin, C. 13,, Royal Navy, Director
General of Stores, is highly appropriate. the statue,
o,riarne. erected A gr
at
theauite
obreolise
k n off,a which
which is a work of some merit, has been somewhat da-
ad
ien, ad
a ana the sword and one of the fingers have been
k
north-eaet entrance to the review grouLd on Woulwich-
common, find intended as a anonurnental memorial to the
bpec i a w t
drinking rouesill be of
t.uiata p
memory of Major Little, a staff officer of the garrison
who died in 1851, was yesterday formally opened for the
use of the public. The work has been executed with much
taste by the Government contractor, Mr. Tongue, of
Pluuastead.

SPURIOUS HALF-CtOWNS.-A writer in a con•
temporary
says :—I think it my duty to caution
your readers against a recent issue of spurious 1T:1f-crowns,
so constructed as almost to defy detection. I had one re-
turned to me last week, which, after closely examining and
testing in various ways, I still believed genuine, but not
satisfied with my own decision, I submitted it to a silver-
smith, who, after applying the usual methods of detection
and weighing, also pronounced it genuine. Upon a still
closer examination, however, I noticed a very slight ine-
quality in the outer rim, which induced me to place the
coin in an upr7ght position in a press, and the result was
that the outer rim came off in a circle and split the piece
down the middle, showing it to have been made of an upper
and under surface of stout silver, enclosing with the ring
(also of silver) a body of what appears to be zinc: I should
think, however, that the quantity of silver used in its cor-
Etruction would be very nearly a third of its entire bulk. I
will only add that its weight exceeded a genuine half-cloy
by abAit four grains,