The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-21 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864.

FEBRUARY.
Lincoln Spring 23
MARCH.
Nottingham Spring .• • . 1 Chelmsford Spring .... 16
Derby Spring .••••••••• 28
3 York Spring
Liverpool ............ 8 Durham
Shrewsbury .......... 10 Northampton 29
APRIL. I
Croxton-park .......... 1 Newmarket Craven
Epsom Spring ........ 7 Newmarket First Spring 25
MAY. •

Chester .............. 3
Salisbury ............. . 12
Bath ................ 17
Ju:

Manchester .......... 18
Harpenden
Epsom .... 24
'NE
I Negcastle-on-Tyne .... 29
Woroestvr (Summer) .. 30

Ascot ................ 7
Che1m5f0rd............ 28
JULY.
Newmarket July ...... 5 I Nottingham ..... ~... 19
AUGUST.
Reading .............. 11 Oxford .. 25
23 Derby
Egham ...... . .......
York ................ 23 Lichfield
30
SEPTEMBER.
6 Richmond
Warwick .....•••••••••
Leicester .............. 8 Monmouth
13 OctoberNewmarketFirst 20
Doncaster .. 2227
19
Brecon ................
OCT,
Newmarket Second Oct. 10
Gloucester ............ 18
NOVEMBER.

,BER.

Newmarket Houghton.. 24

Worcester Autumn
STEEPLECHASING FIXTURES FOR 1864.
JANUARY.

Manchester .............

FEBRUARY.

Lincoln .........•••••....

M ARCH.

Liverpool a

" The Catholic mission in China," says the 21Ioni-
tear, " has suffered a severe loss by the death at Hankeou,
on the 3d Oct., of Father Delamarre. This venerable pries
had resided in China for 28 years, and had acquired great
influence with the viceroy of the province. He was a learned
Chinese scholar, and aided in the drawing up of the Treaty
of Tien-Tsin."
A NEW PLAY BY M. JULES SANDEAU, "La
Maison de Penarvon," was the other evening promoted to
the honours of a first appearance at the Imperial Private
Theatre in the Palace of Compiegne.
THE RIDDELL PAPERS.—IIe late Mr. Riddell,
Advocate and antiquarian, directed that his papers,
consisting of many rare ancient MSS., should be sold to the
Faiculty of Advocates for " a moderate sum." if they wished
the.st. Lord Lindsay has offered to give £5OO for them, and
to bequeath them to theAdvocates'Library by will ; so that
the Vacuity of Advocates, who at the meeting on Friday ac-
cepted his lordship's offer with thanks, will ultimately re-
ceive those valuable documents for nothing.—Scotsman.
THE .ACCIDENT ON THE HUN STANTON RAILWAY.
—An act ion was to have been tried in the metro-
polis on Thursday, in which the father of Miss 11. Billing,
of Lynn, sued the Great Eastern Railway Company for
damages tor injury occasioned to her health through the
alarming accident on the Lynn and Hunstantcn Railway
(which is w orked by the Great Eastern) in August lased A
compromise was, however, effected, £7OO being accepted by
the friends of the plaintiff. This lamentable accident has
s
involved the Groat Eastern in compensation expenses to t
extent of £10,00&.
FEARFUL A.,ND FATAL PIT ACCIDENT NEAR
BlTTON.—Yestet day morning an appalling
tent occurred at ill e Golden Valley Colliery, neatr Bitten.
It seems that the min al relays of men etnhewneig_ehntafrb,ahoeutamatesoncetawnhdk-eo
place—the day men ascending
ing the pit for that pin pose. Amon
were about to ascend d the engine was ac-
These men signalled to b ()drawn up,
the
engineer, who,
cordingly put in motion.
we hear, is a very steady m aina,kpd.pp.eaernsds for warning on a piece
depends
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of machinery similar to a CI 9L
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disarranged, and the engiitc err hisbeiiinuaigNovuotthfftem
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two poor fellows were drawinly.tootell;
out any warning. Gradna
abyss.. froms which they em
above the yawning
ate leap as
the
and when they had nearly read Lod what is known er-ed'
sheave wheel, Fudge made a del Ter, for life, and
succeeded in reaching the side of t.he pit, but with a fearful
rebound he fell into the depths bei wait, a distance of 150
fathoms, being dashed to pieces. ,Bush, as he gradually
neared the wheel, grasped for a holdfa st, and succeeded for
a moment in doing so, ‘nit he too fell, and was dashed to
pieces at the bottom. In his descent the deceased man
struck some scaffolding at the bottom of the pit and shivered
it like matchwood.— Western Daily Press.

The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 166 to 1661 per cent., and the premium ou
gold is:about sli per cent. At these rates there is scarcely
any profit on the importation of gold from the IJulted
Staten.