The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-17 00:00:00

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE..
Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. May 19.
Marseilles May 13,
Brazil and Cape Verds, byvia British packet. June 5.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena May 29.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton May 19.
via Marseilles May 27.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton May 19.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton May 19.
via Marseilles May 27.
India (Bombay), via Southampton .. May 27.
via Marseilles May 21,
Portugal., June 5.
lalta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton May 19,
Newfoundland via Marseilles May 21. Oporto and Vigo ..May 25.
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... May 19.
by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet. May —.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneride .. June 10.
Bahamas, via New York June 2
Mexico
.... May 30
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I may 14
California. and British Columbia

EARTHQUAKE AMONG THE GOLDFIELDS.—The
Brztish Colunzhian says :—" We have received the
following from a rural correspondent :—' The shock of an
earthquake was felt on Thorne's Creek, three miles east of
Fort Langley, Fraser River, on Sunday, February 28, at
half-past 7in the evening, It was accompanied by a hoarse,
thundering rumble, and lasted for about 30 seconds. The
sky was at the time clear and brilliant, and the atmosphere
calm and mild. So frightful was the commotion of the
quick and awful rockings as to make it a moment of great
suspense as to whether the beholder would be buried with
the log shanty, which cracked, rolled, and tottered around
him, in a conglomerated mass of hetreogeneous ruins. Its
course was across the Creek from nor th to south.
FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last
sitting a paper was received from M. Valz, the
astronomer of Marseilles, on the deviation of the tails of the
4th and sth comets of 1863, from the planes of their orbits.
From calculations founded upon the results of observation,
he shows that the tail of the 4th deviated from the plane of
its orbit by an angle of 1 deg 29 min; while that of the
sth presented a deviation of 33 min. Hence the only four
comets for which data exist sufficient to determine this
circumstance, have their tails outside the planes of their
orbits; from which it may be presumed, until observa-
tion shall have proved the contrary, that this is the case
with ail comets.—M. Guerin Meneville produced some liv-
ing specimens of two different species of Chinese silkworms
feeding on the leaves of the oak tree. One of these species,
the Bombyx Pernii, is reared in various cold and moun-
tainous provincA in China, that of Kooy-Cheoo espe-
cially, which exports upwards of 40,000 bales of silk
from this insect per annum. The other species, the Dom-
byx Yama-mai, is reared in Japan, where the expo! ta-
lion of its eggs is prohibi'ed on pain of death, cause
tho silk derived from it is a Government monopoly.
These specimens were peculiarly interesting, from the ch.-
cumstances that they had been hatched long before the oak
had put forth its leaves, so that M. Meneville had been
obliged to feed them with the leaves of the Photinia-
alabra, a Chinese shrub, which puts forth leaves from
the beginning of March. This experiment had succeeded
perfectly.—MM. Douche de Vitray and Destnartis sent
in a paper on the possibility of transmitting the odium
Tuckeri from plants to man. They have observed
that, since 1852, the first year in which that parasite
appeared, the number of cases of croup and diphtheria of
every kind, which they considered to be produced by a
variety of the oidium albicans, a parasite ackaowledged to
cause the thrush, has increased considerably. This singular
coincidence is, in their opinion, owing to a sort of relation-
ship existing between the two parasites. They foresee the
objection that might he made, viz., that the two cryptoga-
mous plants are not of the same species; to which they
reply that they are of the same genus, and that the oidium
Tuckeri may be susceptible of proteism.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

RADCLIFFE RNC E
The Stand Plate (Handicap) of 50 Sovs, for all agss ; win-
ners extra. About three-quarters of a mile.
Mr T. Cliff's Ross, 5 yrs, Sst Sib .......... (IL Taylor) 1
Mr T. T. Drake's Worthless, 3 yrs, Gat 101 b
mlinson
Mr Martinson's Lisette, 4 yrs, 7st Gib .. (To
...... (Carroll) 2
)
Mr 1-Int's Mantalini, 3 yrs, 6st
4
Mr Wood's Captain Knight, aged, Sst 101 b (Lameas) 5
Mr A. Scott's Fidelity, 4 yrs, 7st 61b f,J. H. Harrison) 6
Betting-5 to 2 each agst Lisette and Werthless, 4to 1
each agst Ross and Captain Knight.
Won by half a length; a length between second and
third ; a bad feurth.

A Handicap Plate of 5 sous each, with 30 added. Abou

one mile and a quarter.

. -
Mr Lincoln's Rifle, 3 yrs, Get 715 (Kenyon) w.o
The Wilton Cup (Handicap) of £lOO, added to a Sweep-
stakes of 5 soya each, 3 ft; second to save his stake;
winners extra. About one mile and a half.
Mr Rich's East Lancashire, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b (inc, 101 b ex.)
(car. 7st 111 b)
Mr Ambery's Lady de Trafford, 3 yrs, sst 91b
(J. Ghaw 2
Lord Wilton's Lady Evelyn, 3 yrs, sst 81b (Jamrimsieson)) 3
Mr G. W. Morris's Siva, 3 yrs, Gst 31b (Carroll) 4
Betting-13 to Bon East Lancashire, 3to I agst Lady de
Trafford, 5 to 1 agst Siva, 8 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn filly.
Won by three-quarters of a length; a bad third.
The Heaton Park Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 30 added ;
winners extra. One mile.
Mr Ambery's Lady de Trafford, 3 yrs, 7st lib

(J. Gritnshaw) 1
Mr Barber's Jack's Alive, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b.. (J. Snowden) 2
Mr T. Cliff's Rifle, 5 yrs, Bst 10Ib .......... (Kenyon) 3
Betting—Even on Lady de Trafford; 7 to 4 agst Jack's
Alive, 3 to 1 agst Rifle.

Won by a length; five lengths between the second and
;bird.

SOMERSETSHIRE STAKEs,--Accident and Greenland were
struck out of the Samersetshire Stakes this (Monday) after-
noon at Tattersall's.

THE CHANTILLY RACES.—SUNDAY, May 15.
THE OAKS.
The Prix de Diane, of 10,000 f, for 3-yr-old fillies. Entry,
400 f ; forfeit, 250 f, or 200 f only if declared.' The second
to receive I,ooof. 'Weight, 1081bs. Distance about 2,100
metres, Thirty subs.
Count de Lagrange's Fille de l'Air
M. Sehickler's Poudriere (T. Watkins) 2
M. Lund's Fantasia
The foilowing also ran :—Mile, de Ilosay, Civility, Gueule
de Loup, Somo Sierra, and Perle.
Betting-7 to 4on Fille de l'Air, sto 1 agst Poudriere, 6
to 1 agst Perle, and 8 to 1 agst Gueule de Loup.
Mlle. de ItAay and Somo Sierra, who had been started
to make the running for their stable companions, went
away at a dashing pace, with Gueule de Loup and the
favourite following, Fantasia coming last of all. No change
took place until after passing the stables, when the two
leading horses, who had been running a long distance in
advance, fell back, and Fille de l'Aic and Poudriere who
had passed Sorupule and had been running fourth, placed
themselves in the van. From this moment the race was re-
duced to a match between those two. They ran alongside
of each other as far as the distance post, when Fille de l'Air
went away and won in a canter by half a dczsn lengths.
The same interval separated Poudriere and Fantasia;
Civility was fou'eth, Set upule fifth, Perle next, while Mlle.
de ltosay ar.a Some Sierra tailed off and did not pass the
post.

A Scotch Romance,
-0-

SECOND EDITION.

bUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

BATH RACES-THIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELT:GRATH.)
TRIAL STAKES.

Suburban ..
Black Rock
Nebuchadnezzar 2
3
Five ran.

LATEST BETTING.
DERBY.
6to 1 agst General Peel (taken)
11 to 2 agst Cambascan (taken)
7to 1 agst Scottish Chief (taken)
Bto 1 agst Birchbroom (take 9to 1)
15 to I agst Paris (taken)
30 to 1 agat Historian (taken)
6000 to GO agst Idler (taken)