The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-18 00:00:00

BETTING AT MANCIIESTER.-FRIDAT.

There were very few members assembled at the rooms
to-day; and, with the exception of Liddington being a
little in demand for the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes,
and Balder declining to 100 to 3 for the Grand National
Steeplechase, nothing occurred worth special notice.
Closing prices :

LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
100 to 8 agst Lightheart (offered)
100 to 8 agst Emblematic (offered)
100 to 6 agst Tony Lumpldn (offered)
20 to 1 agst Jerry (wanted)
20 to 1 agst Real Jam (offered)
25 to 1 agst Emblem (wanted)
100 to 3 agst Balder (offered)
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
100 to 8 agst Thalestris (offered)
100 to 6 agst Lion (wanted)
THE DERBY.
5 to 1 on the field (offered)
TWO THOUSAND.
7to 1 agst Chattanooga (taken )
Bto 1 agst Liddington (taken)
9to 1 agst Bromielaw (nominal)
9to 1 agst Zambesi (offered)
12 to 1 agst Gladiateur (taken)
12 to 1 agst Archimedes (offered)
Offers to take 40 to 1 that Liddington wins both Two
Thousand and Derby.

CHESTER CtiP.
11 to lon the field (offered)
25 to 1 agst Ackworth (taken)
40 to 1 agst La Toucques (taken)

RACING FUCT

rRES FOR 1865.

FEBR
Lincoln Spring 2l

r ART.

MA.
Derby Spring 2
West Drayton
Liverpool Spring 7
Shrewsbury Spring lO
Doncaster Spring l4
Vincennes

1 Nottingham Spring 2B
Leg.

APB
Vincennes
Northampton
Oroxton Park 7
Newmarket Craven
Durham

Warwick Spring
Vincennes
Chelmsford Spring 2B
Grand National limit
Barham 3O
Lewes Spring 3O

I Canterbury Spring
Abergavenny 2O
1 Thirsk 2l
Cardiff 25
Epsom Spring
A.Y.

mil
Newmarket Ist Spring 1
Chester 9
York Spring
Salisbury lB

Vincennes
Chelmsford 7
Manchester Summer 7
Ascot l3
Beverley l4
Liverpool
Alexandra Park 2O

Bath 23
Harpenden 26
Epsom 3O

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13idbury.
Stockbmige

TIIE GEOGRAPHY OF PERFUMES.—Of the different
countries from which we draw materials for making
perfumes, we learn that the south of France yields the
stliaarnv-dnefsalmed attar of roses
most bountifully the sweetest of all flowers—the rose, jessa-
mine,
perfumers' stills--
lavender
to boast of. Our
min e , and orange
:w ifamoussnodobrpgeafai ;msrdaoi;
,sl.
patchouli
orangeh lengthy;
hotel bills and querulous old maids, is also especially cele-
brated
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aviinorlkeetsyccolvttes,ely,
in
nof ofndnnour required for extraction ;
laoinnvuddre inaed own
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aret little
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havet h e
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in fine, our damp climate is initnical,
not possess beautiful
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and the
swerable for our shortcomin r damp is an..
6s.— The queen.

QUALIFICATION FOR OFFICES BILL.—The first bill
to religion. is one that has been
of the session relating
before Parliitment in several sessions. It proposes to relax
the acts which abolished the tests that kept Dissenters and
Jews from intnieipal office, and substituted a declaration
or promise not to exercise official power or influence to in-
jure or weaken the Established Church, or disturb the
bishops and clergy in the possession of the rights and privi-
leges to which they are by law entitled. The bill proposes
that in future the declaration prescribed by these acts shall
not be required on appointment to any office or appoint-
ment, or on the acceptance of any patent, grant, or com-
mission from the Crown.

FISHING EXTRAORDINARY.—The gates of the large
graving dock in the Southampton Docks, which had
been open for two or three tides, were closed on Monday
morning for the purpose of pumping out the dock, when
the water was found to be.swarming with shoals of gray
mullet. In the course of a couple of hours several tons of
fine fine fish were caught, hundreds of men rushing to the
place as soon as the fact was know, and capturing the fish
by hand-nets, baskets, and every species of machine which
could be made available, even brooms and shovels being
called into service.