The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-28 00:00:00

LINCOLN SPRING MEETING.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25.
The Lincolnshire Handicap. One mile.

Age st lb.l
Suburban 6 8 12'
Joey Jones
Libellous
The Monk 6 8 2
Maggiore
Lord Stanley 4 7 12
Michel Grove
Charles Fox 4 7 11
Knight of the Bath 4 7 10 ,
Miss Livingstone 4 7 10
Lopcatcher
Churchman
Henham Lass
Peignor 4 7 6
Flash in the Pen a 7 5
Ethel 4 7 5
NI. Philippe
Everlasting
Conundrum_ 5 7 3
Gleam
Prologue .••••• 4 7 2
Hubert
Weatherwise
Squire Percy ... • 5 7 0
Misfortune .. , 4 7 0
The Norman
Tithonius
Court Martial
Adventurer
The Grand Steeplechai
Age at lb
Jealousy
Maritana
Romeo
Yaller Gal a 10 12
Jerusalem .....
The Dane a 10 10
Sinking Fund
i 'oubtful
Avalanche a 10 4
Satellite ....
Ravenstonedale
Northern Light
Heads or Tails
Light of other Days a 10 2
Lincoln
Cockatoo
Cuirassier

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Age st lb
Rupture
Remunerator une
5 6 13
ri
Manrico 4 6 12
Drumstick
4 6 10
Paresseuse
Engineer, by Volti-
geur
Golden Drop 3 6 8
Honest Tom 3 6 6
Comet
Alcibiades 3 6 5
Oakapple
Revolver
Souveraine
Sea Nymph 3 6 0
Safeguard 3 5 13
Fontenoy
Antar 3 5 12
Invasion
Dualla
Refuge
Mrs. Somerville
Lady Maria
Dinah filly .. 3 5 10
Jenny Wren 3 5 9
True Heart
Douche
Westrvinster 3 5 7
Hypermnestra
Lee. About four miles.

Age st lb
Chester
Mary Ann a 10 0
Muhum in Pervo a 10 0
Remedium
Pineapple
Countess
Wilful ....
Mutineer
Magician
Broomstick .. a 9 2
Climax
Discrepancy .. a 9 2
Cherokee I a 9 2
Cheery Chap a 9 2
Birdbolt a 9 2
Canteen a 9 0
Confidence 6 9 0

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-TUESDAY.

The only investment we saw made on Chester Cup was
on Anfield, about whom 500 to 15 was taken. For Liver-
pool Steeple Chase, 100 to 6 each was taken about Master
Bagot and Avalanche; but at the close 100 to 6 was the
current offer on the field. For the Derby there was an
evident wish to lay against Saccharometer, although no
higher offer was made than 100 to 9. Carnival appeared
friendless. 2,000 to 60 was taken about King of Utopia.
Very little was done on Waterloo Cup: 100 to 8 was
offered against Mr. Spinks' and 100 to 7 against Mr. Wor-
rail's nominations, but those figures did not suit the backers.
Closing prioes :

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LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE.
100 to 6 agat Avalanche (taken and offered)
100 to 6 agst Master Bagot (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Anatis (offered)
20 to 1 agat Tho Dane (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Jealousy (offered)
CILESTDIL CUP.
20 to 1 on the field—offered
25 to 1 bar one—offered
33 to 1 agst Anfield (taken)
THE DERBY.
11 to 2 agst Lord Clifden (offered)
11 to 1 agat Saccharometer (offered)
100 to 8 agst Hospodar (offered)
25 to 1 agst Carnival (offered)
30 to 1 agst Jarniooton (offered)
33 to 1 agst King of Utopia (taken)
50 to 1 agst Cairncastle (taken)
50 to 1 agst Glenochty colt (taken)
50 to 1 agst Avenger (offered)
100 to 1 agst Bright Cloud (taken)
100 to 1 agst Trojanus (taken)
100 to 1 agst Baldwin (taken)
There is no change in the betting on the Two Thousand
Guineas Stakes.

WATERLOO CUE.
100 to 7 agst Mr. Spinks' nomination—wanted
100 to 6 agst Mr. Worrall's nomination—wanted
100 to 6 agst Mr. Blackstock's nomination—offered
25 to 1 agst Mr. Gibson's nomination—tk and offrd
100 to 3 agst Mr. Knowles' nomination—offered
100 to 3 agst Mr. Hammond's nomination—offered
40 to 1 agst Mr. Hayward's nomination—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Lawton's nomination—taken,

CITY BETTING—YESTERDAY•
TWO THOUSAND.
100 to 30 on the field (offered)
300 to 15 agst Pratique (taken)
CHESTER CUE.
500 to 200 agst the 3-yr-olds (taken)
THE DERBY.
2500 to 50 agst Glenochty colt (taken)

GUNPOWDER v. RAIN•

The Geographische Mittheilungen of Petermann
contains several curious communications concern-
ing the influence of the concussion produced
in the atmosphere by discharges of artillery and
musketry upon the weather. Among them is one
from Mr. Lewis, one of the editors of Silliman's
Journal, who distinctly rejects the popular idea
that clouds are dispersed by the roar of artillery,
and contends that a brisk cannonade is often fol-
lowed by a pelting shower. Thus, in October, 1825,
the salvos which were fired on the occasion of the
inauguration of the Eris canal were followed by
torrents of rain; and several other instances are
adduced, in which discharges of artillery caused the
condensation of equeous vapour in the atmosphere,
and a subsequent violent shower either on the same
day or en the day after. It is well known that the
battle of Solferino was interrupted for a while by a
most copious fall of rain. In July, 1861, M'Clellan's
army had to fight for four successive days, and every
evening closed with a heavy shower. The first
battle of Bull's Run was fought on the 21st June of
that year, and the 22d turned out to be a rainy
day. Another correspondent, M. S chropter, of Buda,
states that on the 4th May, 1849, the citadel of that
place, defended by 84 guns of heavy calibre, was
attacked by a suitable power of artillery. The
weather, which had been extremely fine for several
weeks past on that day became cloudy, and a driz-
zling rain fell, which lasted from midnight until
morning. TLe sky then remained clear until the
17th, when a violent storm broke out, that nearly
coincided with a bombardment which lasted six
hours. But after this storm the weather became
fair again, and not even the storming of the fortress
was followed by a drop of rain. This single nega-
tive result, however, does not entirely, as a third
correspondent rightly observes, disprove the opinion
that rain may be called forth at will by a loud can-
nonade; and if this were true, the effects of a pro-
longed drought might be considerably mitigated.

FRENCH MEDIATION IN AMERICA.—The Nord
of yesterday says that M. Drouyn de Lhuys has
addressed a note to the French Ministers at St. Petersburg,
London, Vienna, and Berlin, instructing them to sound
these Courts upon the fitness, not of mediation, but of
simple counsels which might be given to the belligerent
parties at Washington and Richmond, advising them to
name commissioners charged to examine, with or without
an armistice, upon what bases an arrangement might be
made with the YiOV of putting an end to the calamitous
war.