The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-30 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL SUMMER MEETING.

Weights for the Liverpool Cup ; two miles. 63 subs. If
the highest weight accepting is under Bst 121 b, it will be
raised to that, and the others in proportion ; forfeits to
be declared to the Clerk of the Course, at Chester only,
on or before Saturday, June 6, at 12 at noon.
Yrs st lb
Fairwater .. 5 9 2
Caller Oa
Ad venturer
Ivanhoff 5 8 10
Brown Duchess
Haddington
Joey Jones
Capo Flyaway
Rising Sun
Oldminster
llartington
Johnny Armstrong 4 8 0
Brilliant .. 5 7 13
Carisbrook 4 7 13
Costa 4 7 11
The Monk .. 6 7 9
Cowley • 5 7 9
The Knavo ...... 4 7 8
Dulcibolla ..... 67 8
*Balham .. 5 7 6
Imperatrice
Camerino ....... 5 7 6
Tommy Jones 4 7 5
Lioness
*Berkeley
Lady Ripon .. 5 7 3
Tolurno 4 7 3
Welcome
Charles Fox 4 7 0
Killigrew
*Lady Evelyn colt 4 6 6
*Victor
Those marked * will be str
unless specially ordered to r

Yrs st lb
*Flytrap
*Agag
Real Jam 4 6 3
Le Marechal 3 6 3
Chaff 3 6 3
Barbad oes 4 6 2
CatelfemAlive 3 6 2
Erin-go-Bragh 3 6 1
Royal Stag
Baldwin 3 6 0
Laura 3 6 0
The Plover
Bohemian 3 6 13
Black Deer
Early Morn .. 3 5 13
Fantail
Barchettina
Biithfiold
East Lancashire 3 5 11
Contralto
Mountain Maid filly 3 5 10
Dr. Syntax
Lady Maria
Mamred .. 3 5 8
*0 akapple .. 3 5 8
Middlewatch .... 3 5 8
Jack o' Newbury.. 3 5 7
Harlestone
Almack 3 5 7
Laertes
Luna

ick out by the time proscribed
mmin in.

TRAINING TARTAR SOLDIERS.—The only active
exercise we ever saw in China was in a court in the
Tartar portion of Peking, where four men were going
through a course of arm-strengthening play, for the purpose
of passing their examinations as soldiers. They were naked
to the waist, and though young, possessed chests and arms

the very models of sound health and muscular strength,
while their legs were anything but feeble, to judge by the
liberties they took with them. Their training consisted in
throwing the Suay tau, or Ta shih, a nearly square stone—
weighing about 561 b., with a handle cut in its substance
like one of our heavy metal weights at home— from one to
another, as they stood at the co, ners of a square marked in
lines on the ground, without allowing it to fall or touch the
earth. And cleverly the game was gone through. Each
man as he caught the block by the handle, which always
came down with the cavity uppermost, and was made to
receive the hand easily, swinging round once or twice as if
he were tossing the caber. He then launched it, like a
catapault or balista, high into the air, and it descended into
the hand of the next athlete with a hurl sufficient to shake
the nerves and astonish the eyes of a good many mauscular
Christians, allowing them very little chance of catching it.
But the ground was never indented; the stone passed
quietly from corner to corner with' tho smooth re-
gularity of a machine so long as we remained—a, period of
about 10 minutes ; and the performers thought no more of
the feat than we should have done had the ball been a
cricket-ball.—Fleming's Travels on Horseback in Mantchu
lartary.

EX. fRAORDINARY DIAMONDS !—The Dnka of
Brunswick, now residing in Paris, has an extraor-
dinary collection of diamonds, valued at £450,000. A
catalogue of his gems which he has published contains 268
quarto pages, and he gives in it the history of each indivi-
dual stone. A black diamond, obtained from the treasury
of a Nabob, served for centuries in India as the eye of an
idol. A wondrously fine pink brilliant once belonged to the
jewels of the Emperor Baber, at Agra, and is said to be in-
valuable. A solitaire of 12 studs was once worn by the
Emperor Palro of Brazil as waistcoat buttons. A diamond
ring of the purest water belonged to Marie Stuart, as her
arms and "MS." engraved on it prove. A pair of diamond
earrings were once the property of the unfortunate Marie
Antoinette. In this way one curiosity follows the other.
The Duke has any quantity of diamonds at £3,000, £4,000,
and £6,000, two at £9,000, three at £10,500, and another at
£12,000. But, in spite of this, he is at present bargaining
for two gems— one estimated at £35,500, the other £97,500.
The millionaire, however, according to the Court Journal,
is the slave of his treasure.
:THE ALABAMA.--A telegram has just been re-
ceived in Liverpool. via Lisbon, from the Brazil mail
steamer, which states that the Confederate steamer Alabama
has taken the following four ships, viz :—The Dorcas Prince
and the Union Jack, from New York for Shanghai; the
Sea Lark, from Doston for California; and the Nye) a