The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-24 00:00:00

1863.

SPORT.

:GENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY.
WATERLOO COURSING CUP.
20 to 1 agst Mr Spinks's nomination (taken)
20 to 1 agst Lord Uffington's nomination (offered)
22 to I agst Mr Haywood's nomination (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mr Jardine's nomination (taken)
33 to 1 aget Mr Blanchard's nomination (taken)
33 to 1 agst Mr Bake's nomination (taken and offered)
33 to I aget Mr Dire Campbell's nomination (offered)
44 to 1 agst Mr Stocker's nomination taken and offered)
THE DERBY.
5 to 1 agat Liddington (offered)
500 to 50 aget Breadalbane (taken)
15 to 1 agst The Duke (nominal)
100 to 7 aget Chattanooga (offered)
22 to 1 agst Christmas Carol (offered)
25 to 1 ag3t Brother to Millie (taken)
33 to 1 agst Lorgdown (taken)
33 to 1 agst Ariel (offered)
40 to 1 agst Zacil ezi (taken)
66 to 1 agst Congress (taken)

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1865.
JANUARY.

Manchester

.. 2

FEBRUARY.
Lincoln Spring.... ~.. 21 I Nottingham Spring .... 28
MARCH.

Derby Spring 2
Liverpool Spring
Shrewsbury Spring

Doncaster Spring l4
Warwick Spring
Chelmsford Spring

Northampton 4
Croston Park 7
Durham l7
Newmarket Cruven

Catterick Bridge
Thirsk 2l
Epsom Spring . 25

Newmarket Ist Spring.. 1
Chester
York Spring

Salisbury .... lB
Bath 2 3
Epsom ,`,..`unarner 3O

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

Hampton
Newton
Newcastle
27
Summer
Worcester
SLY.

Newmarket July
Carlisle
Pontefract

Nottingham Summer .. 18
Chesterfield
Goodwood

AUG
Huntingdon
Reading
Egham
Oxford
York August 22

Plymouth .. 24
Lichfield
Devon and Exeter 29
Derby Summer .. 30
I Weymouth
:MEER.

SEPT.
Weymouth (continued), 1
Leicester 7
Doncaster
Brecon

Richmond .. 19
Monmouth 2l
Manchester Autumn
Newmarket let October 26
IBM?.

OCTC
Northallerton 5
I
Newmarket Second Oct. 9
NovE
Worcester Autumn

I Newmarket Houghton
Worcester Autumn
;MEER.
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Price one shilling; had from Sunday Times office, and all
the usual agents, or from E. Locket, Box L 2, Manchester.

FATAL COLLISION AT SEA.—& serious collision
has taken place this week nine miles south by east of the
Lizard. The smack Lemon, of Padstow, came into collision
wit h the schooner Catherine, of Barmouth. The latter vessel
sank almost immediately, and five seamen were drowned.
The captain was saved by clinging to a rope until he was
picked up by the Lemon. The lost vessel was laden with
slates, The cause of the accident has not yet been stated.
ARREST OF MR S. HARDINGE.—A few months
since we announced the marriage of Mr S. Hardinge, an
ex-lieutenant in the navy of the Northern States of Ame-
rica, to Miss Belle Boyd, a young lady whose patriotic
devotion to the South had induced her to take an active
part in the warfare raging between the two sections of the
American republic, and who, under circumstances which
gave proof of much courage and devotion, repeatedly pene-
trated into the Northern lines and returned to her friends
the bearers of important information. The marriage took
place under romantic circumstances, as the lie tenant,
smitten with the charms of Miss Boyd, connived at her
escape from the vessel in which she was being cony eyed a
prisoner; and afterwards, resigning his commission in the
Northern service, followed her to London, where they
were united at St. James's Church. Wp now learn that
Mr Hardinge has been captured, He had crossed the At-
lantic to visit his friends and relatives, and in the,hope that
he would be able to bring to Europe his wife's younger
sister, who, residing with her mother at Martinsburg, in
Virginia, was exposed to the brutality of the Northern
soldiery, and was daily in danger of meeting with the
grossest outrages at their hands. So far as is at present
known he was seized, while at Mrs Boyd's house, by
General Stephenson, commanding the post at Harper's
Ferry, and is now lodged in the very prison at Washington
in which his wife was confined during some portion of her
adventurous career, The danger which Miss Boyd ran may
be estimated when it is stated that the country around her
mother's house has been repeatedly the scene of desperate
engagements, that the estate itself has been laid waste by
the Northern troops, and that all the male members of
the fetidly are absent in the service of the South, the only
person left to protect the mother and daughter being an
old negro.
THE ROYAL " BARON OF BEEF."—On Thursday
the royal baron of beef was roasted before the great kitchen
fire at Windsor Castle, and forwarded yesterday to Osborne,
where, with the " boar's head" and "game pie," it will
deck the Christmas sideboard of her Majesty.
VOLTAIRE'S HEART.—The evening Moniteur gives
the following account of the translation of the heart of
Voltaire to the Bibliotbeque Imperiale, which event has pro-
voked commentaries of the most divers kinds :—" When
Voltaire died, his heart, after a post-mortem examination,
was extracted from his body on the 31st of May, 1778, by
order of the ,Marquis De Villette, in whose house he
stayed after his return to Paris, and wherein he died.
The friend, the admirer of the great writer, desired to
save this heart from the destruction which death occa-
sions, and it was placed in a metallic vessel and steeped
in a chemical preparation calculated to preserve it from
decay. When, in execution of the law of May 30, 1791,
which enacted that " the ashes of Voltaire should be trans •
erred to the church of St. Genevieve, where they should
receive the funereal honours due to great men," the
funeral procession of Voltaire passed through the streets
of Paris on July 11 of the same year, a halt was made
before the mansion ;of the Marquis De Villette, situated
at the corner of the Rue de Beaune and the Quai
Voltaire, and the Illoniteur of July 13 records the fact
that the reason for the pause was that Voltaire's
heart was there. Shortly afterwards the heart was re•
moved to the Chateau de Vilette, in the arrondissement of
Pont St Maxence(Oise) where it ever since remained, and

was kept with veneration. But the Marquis de Vilette, hie
widow, and his son are dead; and their heirs having con•
sidered it a duty to give up this relic to the State, M. Leon
Duval, a member of the order of Advocates of the Lupe.
rial Court of Paris, having taken the Emperor's plea-
sure, 415 Majesty desired that a national asylum should
be given in the Bibliotheque Imperiale to the heart of
Voltaire, to the end that it may henceforth belong to
France, pursuant to the intent of the law of nth May,
1791. In obedience to his Majesty's orders on Friday last,

the 16th of this montithM. Duruy, the minister of public in-
struction, :proceeded to the Bibliotheque Imperials, and
there in presence of the Administrator-General of the estab-
lishment, accompanied by members of the Consultative
Committee, he received from the hands of M. Leon Duval
the heart of Voltaire enclosed in a recipient of gilt metal, on
which is engraved these words :—" Le cur do Voltaire,
mort a Paris le XXX Moi MDCCLXXV III." The
Minister declared that he took possession of this pre-

cious deposit, and ordered that it should be provisionally
kept with all the respect due to the mortal remains of

this great man, in the best part of the Bibliotheque Itope-
riale—that is to say, the department of medals--until the
time when the new works shall be sufficiently advanced to
permit of its definitive installation between the departments
of manuscripts and prints, on the first floor of the Rotunda,
between the junction of the Rues do Richelieu and Neuve
des Petits Champs, where a room is destined to receive not
only the heart of ,Voltaire, but also the original statue by
Hendon, the medals struck in his honour, and the manu-
script correspondence and printed works of the immortal
writer. Proces verbal (1. e. a written record) was at once
drawn up of this delivery and reception."

The Official Gazette of B ivaria, in confirming the
statements made by several journals relative to an autograph
letter addressed by King Louis to the King of Hanover on
the question of the Duchies, announces that the reply
received from Hanover is conceived in the most friendly
terms. A communication from Berlin remarks that
to deceive oneself as to the views of the Hanoverian
Government would be unwise, as since the separation of
the Duchies from Denmark Hanover has not concealed her
antipathy for the cause of the Prince of Augustenburg, and
has supported in a visible manner the candidateship of the
Grand Duke of Oldenburg. If, however, the change an•
nounced on the part of Prussia is confirmed, there is no
doubt that Hanover will also modify her dispositions.
The Courrier du Bas•lßhin states that the cub,
tivation of hops has been greatly developed in that
department within the last seven years, but more
especially in the cantons of Birchwiller and Hague
usu. In the former, the area under this crop in 1857

was 743,0r2 perches (about 4,650 English acres),
but in 1864 it had increased to 1,509,182 perches,
or nearly double. The number of planters had also
risen in the same period from 900 to 1,602. It is
estimated that the cultivation of hops in the Bas
Rhin now produces at least 10,000,000 f. annually.