The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-04 00:00:00

CESAREWITCH.

6to 1 agst Salpinctes (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Ostregor (taken freely)
100 to 6 agst Eleanor (offered)
20 to 1 agst Privateer (wanted)
20 to 1 agst Nuneaton (offered, take 22 to 1)
25 to 1 agst Alabama (taken)
25 to I.agst Farce (offered, take 28 to 1)
33 to 1 agst Lansdown (taken and offered)
33 to 1 agst Breeze (offered, take 40 to 1)
40 to 1 agst Nukuheva (taken)
40 to 1 agst John Davis (taken)
40 to 1 agst Union Jack (offered)
66 to 1 agst Calista g (offered)

CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
18 to 1 agst Custard Castle (taken)
20 to 1 agst The Duke (offered, take 22 to 1)
20 to 1 agst Gladiateur (offered)
33 to 1 agst Salpinctes (taken)
40 to 1 agst Catch'em Alive (taken)
50 to 1 agst Le Mandarin (taken)

SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE IRISH BANKER.-
DUBLIN, TUESDAY NIGHT.—The summons against Sir
Robert Peel was withdrawn, Sir Robert having apolo-
gised.

BREAKING OF A WIRE-ROPE.—An inquest was
held yesterday at Wombwell, near Sheffield, on the body
of a man named Banks, who met his death under rather
peculiar circumstances at the Wombwell Main Colliery.
It appeared that the shaft, which is 220 yards deep, is
worked by a wire-rope, and this rope had been tested to
stand a strain much more severe than would be imposed on
it in the ordinary work of the mine. The inspector of
mines for the district was at the mine on the morning of
the accident and examined the rope, and it appeared to be
perfectly sound. In the afternoon a load of corves was
attached to the end of the rope at the bottom of the shaft,
and the signal given to the deceased, who was banksman.
The load had not been drawn more than a few yards before
the rope snapped on the drum over the pit-mouth. The
broken end flew with great force across the top of the
shaft, struck the deceased on the back of the head, killing
him instantly, and dragged him after it down the shaft,
The sudden breakage was totally unaccounted for, but n.;
blame seemed to be attached to any one. The jury brought
in a verdict of accidental death.

DESERTIONS FROM THE BELGIAN ARMY. The
Gazette Belge gives the following account of deser-
tions of non-commissioned officers from the Belgian army
to enter the service of Mexico:--" At Tournai, a few nights
back, the colonel of the 20th Regiment of Chasseurs in
garrison there was informed that a number of his non-
commissioned officers intended to desert. Ile immediately
gave orders to Lieutenant Bdchet, of the gendarmerie, to
prevent the realisation of that project. Patrols were ac-
cordingly sent to watch all the roads leading to the French
frontier. This precaution did not prevent nine non-com-
missioned officers, three of whom were sergeant-majors,
and three corporals, from scaling the walls of the citadel
and escaping with their arms and equipment. On the table
of their room they left a paper, on which was written :
We have taken our muskets loaded with 20 ball cart-
ridges, intending to resist 'to the uttermost, if any attempt
be made to prevent us from passing into France. The
next day the colonel received a letter announcing that
his deserters had arrived safely at Lille. A day or ti::o
later eight more non-commissioned officers deserted via
England."
FIRING AT A RAILWAY TRAIN.—On Sunday
afternoon, as the 2 o'clock up train froin. Chatham
to the Victoria terminus of the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway was leaving the Rochester-bridge station,
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the balls passed through the compartment of the carriage
Major Kerr had shifted his seat from one side of the car-
riage to the other. Whether or not the pistol was dis-
charged designedly at Major Kerr cannot be positively
stated, as the police have not yet succeeded in apprehend-
ing the parties who committed the outrage, but from the
position of the train at the time, which at the moment had
just passed out of the station, there is little doubt the re-
volver was discharged, from one of the houses in Strood,
which at that part of the line come close up to the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway. The police are busily
exerting themselves to discover the guilty person, to whom,
it is believed, they possessed a clue.