The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-25 00:00:00

ST. LEGER.

55
toto agst
Lmor. rdTS.
vt.
aTeinntcilienet,s 's
QnLuoeredCßleifrdthena
(taken(taken)and
offered)
sto 1 agst Mr. Savile's Ranger (offered, take 6to 1)
10 to 1 agst Mr. Owen's Golden Pledge (taken)
10 to 1 agst Lord Stamford's Avenger (offered)
20 to 1 agst Lord Strathmore's Saccharometer (taken,
and offered)
30 to 1 agst Mr. I'Anson's Borealis (taken)
30 to 1 agst Lord Stamford's Ouesander (taken)
40 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's National Guard (taken freely)
40 to 1 agst Captain Lane's Blue Mantle (taken)
50 to 1 agst Mr. R. C. Naylor's Pratique (taken)
60 to 1 rgst Baron Rothschild's Magador (Brother to
Morocco (taken)
50 to 1 agst Mr. Harrison's Dr. Syntax (taken)
50 to 1 agst Colonel Westenra's Duubl - (t
50 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Light P
5000 to. 75 agst Mr. T. Parr's Blondin ,
1000 to 10 agst Mr. I'Anson's Bonny Bell (taken)
60 to 40 agst Lord Clifden being one of the first three
(taken)
150 to 50 agst Avenger being ono of the first three (taken)
DERBY.

15 to 1 agst Mr. Ten Broeck's Paris (taken)
15 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Scottish Chief (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mr, I'Anson's Blair Athol (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Hobson's Durham (taken)
9to 1 agst Mr. Ten Broeck's lot (taken)

CITY BET rING— _ V ESTERDAY.
STOCKTON HANDICAP.
3to 1 agst Change (offered)
7to 2 agst Flytrap (taken freely)
sto 1 agst Tourist (taken)
sto 1 agst Comet (effeted)
8 to 1 agst Lothian's Bing (takeD)
73 to 1 agst Joey Jones (taken)
ST. LEGER.
9 to 2 agst Lord Clifden (offered)
sto 1 agst Queen Bertha (taken freely)
6to 1 agst Ranger (taken)
10 to 1 agst Avenger (taken)
20 to 1 agst Saccharometer (taken)
20 to 1 agst Onesander (offers to take 25 to 1)
25 to 1 agst Borealis (offered)
RACING FIXTURES FOR 1863.

'UST.

Egham 25
Stockton 25

Oxford
Lichfield .... .. al
iBER.

SEPT:

Devon and Exeter 1
Derby Summer
Weymouth
Kings Lynn
Warwick ..
Leicester lO
Doncaster 15

OCTI

Coventry
Bedford
Caledonian Hunt
Newmarket S. etc 12

NovE

Wordsley gl
Brecon 2l
Richmond 22
Monmouth ..24
Manchester Autumn ....25
Newmarket let Oct. ....29
Edinburgh, &c. C1ub....30

:11113ER.

Worcester 3

SEPTEMBER.

Curragh
Carlow . 9 I Jenkinstown Park 23
Listowel
OCT

Curragh

IBRD.

20
•••

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, Aug. 25.—Wind this day at noon—South.
Easterly ; fresh breeze, and fine weather, but a little
showery.
COWES, Aug. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Neptune,
from Valparaiso for Bremen.
TORBAY, July 23. Wind N.W.—Sailed—Akbar, fcr
Kurrachee.
BRIDGEWATER, Aug. 21.—Wind
Louisa, from Richibucto.
PLYMOUTH, Aug. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Briton,
screw steamer, from the Cape of Good Hope; left on the
21st July.
FALMOUTH, Aug. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Jane
Lowden, from Quebec.
KINGROAD, Aug. 23.—Arrived—Florist, from Montreal
for Gloucester.
ABERDEEN, Aug. 24.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Clarinda,
for Quebec.
CARDIFF, Aug. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Chester,
screw steamer, and Edith, screw steamer, from Bilboa.
Sailed—Endora, for St- Thomas; Mafia Merton, for Ja •
maica; Marquis of Bute, and Justice, for Quebec; Erndte,
for St. Thomas•
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 21.--Arrived—Heinrich, from
Belize.

HULL, Aug. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Jermond, from
Montreal.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAFH)
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived—Germania (steamer), from Hamburg; Euro-
clydon, from Sunderlana ; Alliance (steamer), from Havre.
Sailed—John Watson, Edward, and Dido, for Sunder-
land ; Anne Jane, for Poole ; Fortuna, for Sonnesund.

(BY UAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, August 24 roy kje, from Konigsberg; Jose-
phine, !row Nykjobing; Pansey, from Memel ; Unitition,
from Guernsey ; Famiiier, from Landscrona ; Vixen, from
swain ; Marianne, from Riga; Haabet, from .IsTuv
Vialix.
Arrived, August 25.—Bounevento, from Dram ; Clinthy,
from Alexandria ; lutonia, from Alexandria; Nina, from
Gergenti ; Heinrich, from Dant.io ; Dorothea, from
Archangel.

DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed.—Little Nell, of CoWhetter, from West, for
North; Laura, of Southampton, from West, for North;
Nimrod, from Porto Rico, for London; Gembe, from Pug-
wash, for London.
Anchored.—John, from London, for Quebec.

The Moniteur publishes an Imperial decree pro.
mulgating the convention concluded on the Ist ult, between
France and Belgium for the establishment of a direct rail-
way between Lisle and Teurnay.
FRENCH MINISTER OF MARINE. —The
Minister of Marine has made a further distribu-
tion of ono second-class gold medal, and three first-class
and sixteen second-class silver, for acts of courage and
devotedness in saving lives from drowning in cases of ship-
wreck and otherwise. Sixteen official certificates of appro.
bation have been also awarded.

The French Minister of Public Instruction has
addressed a circular to the Prefects, recommeuding
them, as far as they are concerned, to adopt the necessary
measures for abridging, as much as possible, the exami-
nation of projects drawn up by the local authorities
for the construction of schools. A great number
of communes having applied for assistance, the Minister at
the same time rt quests the Prefects to point out to him the
applications of that kind which have not yet been decided
on, in order that those in arrear may be immediately
attended to. _ _ _

Rear-Admiral Lafon de Ladebat has been ap-
pointed to the command-in-chief of the French
naval station, on the west coast of Africa, in place of Rear-
Admiral Didelot, whose term of service has nearly expirfid.
Rear-Admiral Lafon de Ladebat will hoist his fag on board
the Armorique, now preparing for sea at Lorient.
EXTINCTION OF A REIGNING GERMAN HOUSE,
Duke Alexander Charles of Anhalt Bernburg died
on the 19th inst. at Floyrn, a town in tho duchy. With
him the ducal line of Bernburg is extinguished, and the
dukedom of Anhalt, separated into four divisions in 1306,
is now reunited under the eldest branch, that of Dessau.
Of the house of Bernburg only one member now lives, the
recently widowed Princess Fredric of Prussia, who is a
sister of the deceased duke Alexander. His highness was
born on March 2, 1605, succeeded
,his father, the Duke
Aloxius on March 24, 1834, and on October SO, of the same
year, was married to Princess Frederic Caroline Juliano,
of Schleswig-Holstein-Smdcrsburg-Glucksburg, who, on
account of the growing infirmity of mind on the part of the
duke, was appointed co-regent by clued patent 1855. Thar©
was no of the marriage.