The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-30 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK..

TATTERSALL'S—This Evening,

CHESTER CUP.
6 to 1 agst Accident (offered)
7to 1 agst Gordian Knot (taken and offered)
7 to 1 agst Cbaoge (taken and offered)
9to 1 agst Hersey filly (taken)
10 to 1 agst Muezzin (offered)
20 to 1 agst Vazuna colt (ofiered)

7HE DERBY.
6to 1 agst General Peel (taken)
12 to 1 agst Birch Broom (taken)
12 to 1 agat Cambuscan (taken)
15 to 1 agat Blair Athol (taken)
15 to 1 agst Paris (taken)
911 to 1 agat Historian (taken)

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

CITY BETTING.—Tnis DAY.

CHESTER CUP.
sto 1 agst Accident (taken)
7to 1 agst Gordian Knot (taken)
15 to 2 agst Hersey filly (taken)
9to 1 apt Change (taken)
100 to 8 agst Lord Zetland (taken)
100 to 7 agst Little Stag (taken)
100 to 7 agst Oldminster (taken)
100 to 7 agst Muezzin (taken)
100 to 7 agst Bacchus (taken)
30 to 1 agst Welcome (taken)
30 to 1 agst Earl of Surrey (taken)
40 to 1 apt Rose (taken)

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.'

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. May 19.
via Marseilles .. May 13.
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet May 4.
Cage of Good Hope, ascension, and St. Helena May 22.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton May 2.
via Marseilles May 2.

Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton May 2.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton May 2.
via Marseilles May 13.
India (Bombay), via Southampton
via Marseilles May 6.
Portuga1....
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton May 2.
via Marseilles May 2.
Newfoundland
Oporto and Vigo ..
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... May 5.
by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet. May 10.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe May —.
Bahamas, via New York May 5.
Mexico
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 h 1
California. and British Columbia.. may —.

REPRESENTATION OF STOCKPORT.—Sir Joshua
`Nelmsley is spoken of as a candidate for the borough of
Stockport, rendered vacant by the death of Mr. Kershaw,
M.P. The number of electors is about 1,450, and at the
general election of 1859 the numbers stood as follows :

—Mr. Kershaw, 769; Mr. J. B. Smith, 641; Alr.
Gibb, 694.

COMMITTEE ON THE NEW METROPOLITAN RAIL 4
WAYS.—Yesterday in the committee on the metropolitan
railways the case of the London and South-Western Rail-
way Company's proposed extensions to Battersea, and for
other purposes, was further considered, Mr. Scott, the
traffic manager, being the principal witness examined.
Thereafter Mr. Carter, the solicitor, and Mr. Cawkwell,
the general manager of the London and North-Western
Railway, were examined for the West London Railway
Company's opposition, which relates principally to junction*
and agreements.

TilE YELVERTON CASE.—The case for the respon-
dent (the Hon. Mrs. Thersea Longworth or Yelver-
ton) was deposited on Thursday in the House of Lords. It
is understood that the case will be upon the paper for hear-
ing on Thursday, the sth of May. Tho counsel engaged
for the appellant (Major Yelverton) are—Sir Hugh Cairns,
Mr. Rolt, Mr. Anderson, QC., and Mr. John Millar, advo-
cate, Messrs. Sang and Adam, S.S.C„ of Edinburgh, and
Tippetts and Son, of London—solicitors. The counsel for
Mrs. Yelverton are—the Lord• Advocate of Scotland, the
Attorney-General of England (Sir Roundell Palmer), the
Judge-Advocate of England (Dr. Phillimore), Mr, White-
side, of the Irish Bar, and Mr. J. Campbell Smith, of tha
Scotch Bar; solicitors, Mr. James Somerville, of Edin-
burgh, and Meesrs. Simson, Trail, and Wakeford, of West-
minster.

THE MERSEY RAMS.-LIVERPOOL, April 29.
Messrs. Fletcher, Hull, and Stone, of Liverpool, have re-
ceived a telegram stating that the commission has been
executed in Egypt, and that the commissioners will reach
London on the 7th May. The trial will therefore certainly
take place on the 29th.

TIIE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.—We are sorry to
hear that the Duke of Newcastle was taken with alarming
symptoms on Thursday. His Grace passed a bad night,
and was no better yesterday.

ANOTHER PROFANITY.—Renan is busy with a
Life of St. Paul, "the founder of Christianity."—The
Reader.

WHAT IS A "MIDDLE-AGED MAN ?"—A friend
of Mr. Childers is quite angry with us for calling
him a middle-aged man. He is, he says, only thirty-six,
We thought he had been four years older, and readily ad-
mit that in the present HOllB6 of Commons, filled as it is
with old and middle-aged notabilities, a man of thirty-six
is really youthful. He is only thirteen years older than
Pitt when he became Premier. Mr. Childers wait returned
for Pontefract without opposition, and made a quiet, sensible
speech, in which he said that the Government till a very
little while ago did not know whom it had for friends on the
Continent, but he hoped "prospects were brightening," for
"we certainly knew that between this country and France
the same good feeling exists as heretofore."—Spetator,

THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND'S CARRIAGE, ill
which General Garibaldi entered London, is said to havo
been rendered on that occasion little better than a wreck.
The spokes are shattered, the sides loosened, the linings
torn and spoiled, the box nearly and the rumble quite
broken from the body. It is a wonder how it reached
Sutherland house.

Mr. FECIITER recently sent £lO3 to Mr. Jessop,
Mayor of Sheffield, for the sufferers by the Sheffield disas-
ter, the profits of the benefit given by him, in their behalf,
at the Lyceum Theatre.

A TALE OF THE SEA.—At the Sailors' Home,
Liverpool, the chairman of the Local Marine Board,
yesterday, on behalf of the Board of Trade, presented
telescope to Captain Thomas Eales, of the bark Our Queen,
as a recognition of his meritorious conduct in saving the
captain and 16 of the crew of the ship Meerschaum on the
20th November last in the Indian Ocean. It appears from
the written statement of the captain of the Meerschaum
that he was obliged to abandon his ship and take to the
boats, and had been at sea some days, when on the 20th
November, in let. 4.20 N., and lon. 107.28 E., they sighted
the bark Our Queen, but could not tall in what direction
she was bearing. At this time his boat, containing himself
and 16 of the crew, was only a plank and a half out of the
water, and the men were in a very exhausted state,
and their
scanty supply of provisions being gone, none of them could
have lived above a day or two longer had they not been
picked up. The bark at last saw them amid hove to. The
captain received them all very kindly, and landed them ten
days afterwards at Angoa. The chief officer and two men,
in another boat, were picked up by another vessel, and,
landed at Singapore. Captain, Bates, on receiving the gift,
expressed his thanas and the
gratification it gave him to
bo able to render assistance to his fellow creatures on suck
occasions.

THE CONFEDERATE NAVY.—The little Confe-
derate navy is
10, a new ironclad steamer'
growivg with a rapidity that begins
the Ashley, was launched at
to give serious alarm to the Northern papers. On March
Charleston, making seven in that single port ready to attack
the Federal fleet on the first favourable opportunity. The
Confederacy has 34 ironclad steamers, either finished or in
construction, between the James and Rod Rivers, and s.
larger number of other steamers and sailing vessels. The
time is not distant when a few of the more formidable of the
ironclads may be expected to leave the harbours and rivers
they now defend, and illustrate for the Yankees their
favourite apophthegm—" Some things can be done as well
as others."—lfickx.