The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-02 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

The following appeared in our Late Edition of las
evening
WEIGHTS FOR THE LIVERPOOL GRAND
NATIONAL, 103 Subs.

st lb
landing° ... 12 10
Penarth ... 12 6
Ivanhoff ... 12 .4
Emblem 12 4
L'Africane 12 0
Jerry 11 12
Flylisher 111`2
Ca.ustic 11 12
Reporter . 11 12
Lord Burghley ... 11 12
Rook the Gardiner ... 11 10
Game Chicken 11 10
Emblematic ... 11 10
Leonidas 11 10
Blood Royal ... 11 10
Globule ... 11 10
Joe Maley ... 11 10
Acrobat ... 11
Creole 11 9
Meanwood 11 9
Arbury 11 8
O'Connell ... 11 8
Lord George... ... 11 8
Rattlesnake 11 8
Wee Nell ... 11 8
Brush... 11 8
Piggy Wiggy ... 11 8
Flybuster 11 '8
Sly Fox 11 7
Express ... 11 6
Oscar •
... 11 6
Sinking Fund 11 6
Alcibiado
•.. 11 4
Cameo
Silver Star
..• ... 11 4
Wilford 11 2
1111
22
Shropshire ... ...
Remedy ••• ... 11 2
Vindictive
11 0
Charity Demon Boy. 11 0
... 11 0
Adrier 11 0
Hall Court ... ••• 11
Wild Chieftain ... 11 0
Portland ... 11 0
2
Lady Godiva, ... 11 0
Agnes ..• ..• 11 0
Merrimac 10 1
Morocco ... 10 12
Bridegroom 10 12
Lightheart 10 12
Echo 10 12

Little Dick
... ... 110
lb
12
Princess Dagniar ... 10 12
Agag ...
•••
~. 10 12
Aggressor
... 10 10
(
Goesr Hawk......
... 10 10
Lady Florence
~. 10 10
Freshman ..
... 10 10
Black Rock ... •.. 10 1(1
Deception .. •• 10 10
Overton ... • •
•• 10 10
Rainer - ... ••• 10 10
Sat a 'tells, ... ••.10 10
Marble Hill ... ... 10 10
Maud ... ... ... 10 9
-Vivaudiere ... ••• 10 8
Iljgll,oa darel
10
5ay...800 ... 10 g

Ballycasvy ... 10 8
Govertior •.• 10 8
Cheerful 80y... •.. 10 8.
Irely
,••• ••• 10 8
Philosopher ... ... 10 8
Stanton
... 10 8
West End 1100 88
Brower
Jacob ... ..• 10 8
Mistake ... lb 8
Tumbler ... ... 10 6
Miss Barbara 10 6
Church Militant ... 10 G
11,3a1 Jana •.. 10 ri
Fenton
... 10 4
Bunbury
... 10 4
Tony Lumkin ... 10 4
Fairy King •.. 10 4
Gamecock 10 4
Meteor
... 10 4
Innellan
... 10
Cockatoo .. ... 10 0
Flying Spur ... 10 0
Black-eyed Susan ... 10 0
Czar .. ... 10 ti
Lord Poulett's Ace of
Hearts ~• 10 0
Chester ... .. 10 0
Sledinere pony ... 10 0
Goldbeck ••• 10 0
Market Gardener ... 10 0
Hawthorne ... ••• 10 0
Dwarf
••• •.. 10 0
Dobbyn
... (dead)

Thomastowu disqualified.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1865.

FEBRUARY.
Birmingham l4 1 Nottingham Spring ...... 28
Lincoln Spring 2l i

MARCH.
Derby Spring 2 1 Warwick Spring
West Drayton
Liverpool Spring 7 Chelmsford Spring 2B
Shrewsbury Spring lO Grand National Hunt ... 29
Doncaster Spring l4 Barham 3O
Vincennes
- -- --

APRIL.

Vincennes
Northampton 4
Croxton Park
Newmarket Craven l7
Durham

Canterbury Spring lB
Abergavenny 2O
Thirsk 2l
Cardiff 25
Epsom Springy

Newmarket Ist Spring 1
Chester 9
York Spring
Salisbury lB
at
Vincennes
Chelmsford 7
Manchester Summer., 7
Ascot l3
Beverley l4
Liverpool
Alexandra Park 2O

Bath 23
Harpenden 26
Epsom 3O

Frampton 2l
Newton . 21
Newcastle
Odiham
Bidbury
Stockbridge

Newmarket July
Carlisle
Worcester
Abingdon
Stamford - l3
Winchester lB

Nottingham
Southampton l9
Chesterfield
Goodwood
Down Royal Corp —

AUG
Brighton 1
Brighton Club
Lewes 4
Huntingdon
Wolverhampton
Reading
Egham l5
Royal Windsor 17 1

'York
Plymouth
Lichfield 2B
Devon and Exeter 29
Derby Summer 30
Weymouth 3l
Baden 3l
Stockton

The Late Dr. Baikie,

At a time when his friends and the many who
are interested in African exploration and discovery
were anticipating with eager interest the arrival in
this country of Dr. Baikie, the sad news has come
giving information of his death, at Sierra Leone, on
Dec. 12, of fever and dysentery. During the past
six years our lamented countryman has devoted him-
self with extraordinary enthusiasm and energy to
African exploration, chiefly along the course of the
Niger, and a part of the time in the interior of the
country, undergoing surprising privations, overcom-
ing the greatest difficulties, escaping imminent dan-
gers, and collecting, during these six years, an im-
mense mass of the most important facts in natural
history and physical science, as well as a large accu-
mulation of specimens, which we trust may be pre-
served as a fitting memorial of the perseverance and
heroism of this gifted Orcadian. Dr. Baikie had
made every preparation for returning to his native
country by the American mail steamer, and had
arrived on Oct. 21 at Lagos, from which place his
friends had received letters from him by the previ-
ous mails. Indeed, had it been possible, he was to
have come home by the previous mail ; but the
labour of arranging his African colleptions occu-
pied longer time than he anticipated. Arriving at
Sierra Leone, " the European's Grave," he was
suddenly seized with illness, and died in a couple of
days. The loss of such a man to science and civi-
lisation is very serious indeed, and while we cannot
but offer our condolence with Dr. Baikie's relatives
in Kirkwall, we cannot but feel that the public loss
is in one sense even a greater cause of sorrow. Dr.
Baikie has for years been in a great measure lost to
his friends, and by his extraordinary devotion to the
mission with which he was intrusted has rendered
himself peculiarly an object of public attention and
affection, and we venture to say there are few public
men who have recently been called away whose death
will be more generally deplored. Dr. Baikie was born
in Kirkwall, and was son of Captain John Baikie,
R.N., long agent for the National Bank of Scotland.
He received his early education in Kirkwall Gram-
mar School, and thereafter studied, with a view to
prosecute the medical profession, at Edinburgh
University, whose diploma he carried. At an early
age he manifested unusual interest in travel and
adventure, and it was not difficult to see that, if
spared, his future life would be distinguished in
that respect. As a medical student Mr. Baikie
gave evidence of singular ability, and it was in that
capacity that he was first fixed upon to undertake
duties that ultimately urged him into the theatre of
African exploration. In that department Dr.
Baikie's history has been full of marvel. He has,
especially during the last six years, gone through
scenes of adventure and escaped dangers which en-
titled him to one of the highest positions in the list
of travellers, and renders his history since the day
he left Kirkwall Grammar School one of the most
wonderful of any age. And there iA no doubt that;
whether Dr. Baikie's papers have been left in such
a state as to justify his friends in giving
tA' the
public a detail of his last six years' adventures or
c
not, enough is known of him to justify us In Placing
I
a.ng
i
his name by the side of the galaxy i
al th tribes and
lighten the world regarding its
i tsowadvance the in-
its physical characteristics,
African travellers who have done so much toe n-
ale'bieo np:
proud
list of otfhan honoured,D r.
nall'ld advancing eivilisa-
boast;'there is none of
in-
terests of scientific discoveryea
civilisa-
tion. And certainly,
whom it has more re „
sons of which Orkney
ex
Baikie, the African Plorer-
anaisooin
oral
ern
Ensign .

THE CAMBRIDGE MATHEMATICAL T RIP OS. —Mr. H.
m. Taylor, the third Wrangler of this year at Cam-
bridge, is the son of the Rev. J. Taylor, M.A., Bead-mas-
ter of the Free Grammar School of Queen Eliza.bcth AtWakefield, where ho was wholly educated. Mr. Taylor
has taken the highest degree that appears ever to haVe been
taken by a scholar froth this school. The celebrated Dr.
Richard Bentley, subsequently Master of Trinity College
and a world-renowned critic, who was from the same
school, appearing in the class lists of 1680 as sixth
Wrangler ; Archbishop Potter and Dr. Radcliffe, to whom
Oxford owes so much, were also from this school, but they
were more distinguished in their subsequent professional
careers, than by their academical and scholastic honours:

THE ROYAL PALACE OF DUNFERMLINE.—The
question of the ownership of the ruins of the an-
cient and historic Palace of Dunfermline was decided in
the First Division of the Court of Session on Tuesday.
Mr. Hunt, of Pittencrief, claimed the ownership, as againSt
the Crown ; but his claim was declared invalid by an in-
terlocutor pronounced by Lord Mackenzie in December,
1863, which found that " The said Royal palace, or ruins.
thereof, belonged to her Majesty and her Royal successors,
and were a part of the patrimony and property of the
Crown." The Judgment of Lord Mackenzie was brought
under the review of the First Division; and On Tuesday
the Court, written cases having been in November sub-
mitted to it, gave judgment to the effect of reversing by a
majority the interlocutor of the Lend Ordinary, and de,
daring the title to the ownership of the palace which had
been advanced by Mr. Hunt sufficieut.—Scotsman.